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- Final Report of the Governance Working Group (January 2025)
- Governance Working Group Interim Report (September 2024)
Excerpts from Relevant Minutes
From Executive Committee, 9/2023
Finance Committee requests that the Executive Committee recommend to Central Committee formation of a group to take on governance review and decision-making on governance change. Making the needed adjustments will require modification of the present structures. This means that financial and governance decisions move from the Central Committee to the Executive Committee.
From Central Committee, 10/2023
Central Committee charges the Executive Committee to form a working group that will receive formal training in good governance, perform an analysis, then bring to the 2024 meeting of the Central Committee its suggestions for governance reforms. Working group membership need not be restricted to Central Committee members.
Principles of Good Practice for Boards and Every Trustee of Quaker Organizations by Arthur Larrabee
Published by the Friends Council on Education for Governance Matters
These principles and queries are meant to serve as a springboard for boards of Friends organizations to inform and deepen the practice of good governance.
This publication is adapted from Principles of Good Practice For Friends School Boards & Every Friends School Trustee, written by Arthur Larrabee in consultation with the Board of Directors of the Friends Council on Education, 2005. Governance Matters! is a collaborative project of Friends Services for the Aging, Friends Council on Education, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Committee on Friends Education.