The Board Tune-up Kit provides guidelines to help your board fulfill its leadership and governance responsibilities.

Begin with the guide that addresses your most immediate needs, such as:

• recruitment
• board meeting effectiveness
• financial management
• fundraising

The value of Tune-up Kit is two-fold:

• The board must have in-depth conversations that are themselves of value in order to reach shared agreements on the answers to the questions posed.
• The document emerging from the conversations will guide change.

It is critical that members of your board work collaboratively with staff to develop tools that best fit the needs, capacities, history and culture of your organization.

All boards have similar responsibilities but there is no one "right" way for a board to meet these responsibilities. Each board must find its own way. Samples of possible answers to the questionnaires are given in this tune-up kit but these are only samples, not templates.

Caution: While developing these tools, you may find that the process itself leads to unexpected improvements in other areas of board governance and leadership.