Bridges Pointe, Inc. Facts
Board Roles & Responsibilities
Board Documents & Practices
100
The Bridges Pointe mission statement.
What is to provide educational and supportive services for individuals with sickle cell disease (SCd): to empower them for independent living: and to enhance the quality of their social and economic lives.
100
This is the number of staff the board is responsible for hiring.
What is one?
100
This exists when a board member or employee has a personal interest that may influence him or her when making a decision for the organization.
What is a conflict of interest.
200
These are the 3 current grant programs Bridges Pointe administers.
What is the newborn screening grant, the CAARE grant and the PCORI grant?
200
This is the frequency for the board to receive agency programmatic and financial reports.
What is at each regularly scheduled board meeting.
200
This board-approved document contains procedures for covering an emergency/unplanned, short-term absence as well as outlines the process for filling a permanent vacancy.
What is a succession plan?
300
This is the year Bridges Pointe, Inc. was founded.
What is 1996.
300
This document governs your board and organizational operations and framework.
What are bylaws?
300
This is a organizational venture a nonprofit can operate that advances a social mission through market-based strategies. These strategies include receiving earned income in direct exchange for a product, service, or privilege.
What is a social enteprise?
400
This is the the first housing program in the U.S. to be developed specifically for individuals with Sickle Cell Disease.
What is the Bridges Pointe Apartments?
400
Name 3 primary responsibilities of nonprofit board of directors.
What is fiscal oversight, what is fund development, what is hiring/evaluating the executive director, what is governance, what is advocacy, what is raising awareness, what is organizational oversight, strategic planning, partnership development.
400
Each year, this should be presented/approved by the board as an external assessment of the organization’s financial records and internal control systems.
What is the audit.
500
During this holiday, Bridges Pointe provides gifts to children and families.
What is Christmas.
500
Name the 3 fiduciary responsibilities of nonprofit boards.
What the Duty of Care, Duty of Loyalty, Duty of Obedience?
500
This is a systematic process of identifying the needs or gaps in service of a neighborhood, town, city, or state, as well as the resources and strengths available to meet those needs.
What is a Community Needs Assessment?
