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Developing an Organizational Structure for the Initiative

  • The Community Tool Box

The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.

The Developing an Organizational Structure for the Initiative chapter provides guidance in these areas:

  • Creating and gathering a group to guide the initiative
  • Developing multi-sector task forces or action committees for the initiative
  • Developing an ongoing board of directors
  • Welcoming and training new members to a board of directors
  • Maintaining a board of directors
  • Writing bylaws
  • Including youth on a board, commission, or committee
  • Understanding and writing contracts and memoranda of agreement
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