BOD/ED
They set and review over-arching personnel policies.
Who is the Board of Directors (BOD)?
This MCCA value is about cultivating an environment where hard work is nurtured with positive energy, creativity, and encourages mutual joy and laughter.
What is Loyalty?
This involves the BOD reviewing reports like balance sheets, income statements, changes in financial position, and approving the budget.
What is Finance and Accounting?
This position maintains all board records and ensures their accuracy and safety.
Who is the Secretary?
They assess compliance/progress in achieving program/service outcomes.
Who is the BOD?
This MCCA Value is about actively questioning assumptions, explore unconventional perspectives, championing bold experimentation and cultivating a fearless pursuit of knowledge and innovation that aligns with cultural values and sparks transformative change.
What is Radical Curiosity?
Board members should not disclose information about the organization's activities unless the board decides to make the information public, or unless the information is a matter of public record.
What is Confidentiality?
This concerns the approval and monitoring of contracts with respective entities.
What is Contracts?
Who is the Treasurer?
They signal to the other party if any situations are likely to occur or have occurred that jeopardize the legal status of the organization.
Who is the EDs?
This value is about approaching challenges with compassion and sincerity, beginning with ourselves and extending this to the world, where our practices enhance our ability to empathize and respond to others' suffering.
What is Heart-Working?
Board members are expected to investigate any claims of wrongdoing by any director, officer, employee, or volunteer fully and fairly, and that there is no retaliation against anyone bringing a claim in good faith.
What are Board Ethics?
This concerns a key role by the BOD in the development of grants and other funding applications, fundraising events, and entering business ventures to support MCCA's mission.
What is Fund Development?
Who is the Chair?
They develop specific program goals and objectives based on the mission.
Who is the ED?
MCCA's Vision Statement.
What is envisioning a healthy, thriving Micronesian society empowered and rooted in indigenous Culture, where all peoples and environment are cared for with just, equitable, and regenerative systems?
Board members are expected to stay informed on the Alliance's business affairs, so Board members can request reasonable contact with the Alliance's administrative team as well as inspect the books and records of the organization.
What are Director's Rights?
This area of responsibility lies within the co-EDs to make all decisions except those explicitly reserved by the Board.
What is Decision-Making?
This position reviews the annual audit and answers BOD questions about the audit.
Who is the Treasurer?
They promote cooperative action with other organizations in alignment with the mission, vision, and overall program direction of the agency.
Who is the BOD?
MCCA's mission statement.
What is uplifting and uniting Micronesian communities to create culturally-centered solutions that protect and heal our sacred islands, waters, and peoples?
"Insiders" within MCCA must not receive favorable treatment as the tax-exempt organization must be operated for the benefit of the public and not for the benefit of "insiders".
What is Private Inurement/Private Benefit?
This is about establishing clear expectations of board directorship, board communication, effective participation and an annual board self-review process.
What is Board Accountability?
They serve on the executive committee.
Who are the Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer?