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A voluntary role serving as a board member in your homeowner association does involve work but you would be surprised by the great impact you can have on your community

Board members are elected officials who are responsible for an association affairs and running the community

Co-operative businesses are governed and run by boards of directors. They manage the staè, create policies and procedures, and make decisions that beneét the business. Their job is to make sure the co-op is healthy and functioning well. A co-op board is made up of members of the co-op, who are elected

Boards are not — and should not — be static. To be effective, they must change and evolve as their organizations change and grow. Many years ago, Karl Mathiasen III wrote a paper for BoardSource in which he identified three different and quite distinct types of nonprofit boards that develop as their organizations grow and change. While recognizing that various permutations of the three exist, that the board maturing process is not inevitable — organizations may develop differently or boards may stop at one stage or another — and that each board is unique, he noticed that these three very broad types of boards appear and reappear on a regular basis in the nonprofit world

Understanding the relationship between a community association manager and associations board members can be tough