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- What is Governance?
- to steer, to guide, to direct, to control and to influence
- to ensure organization carries out purposes for which it was established
in a responsible and accountable fashion
- . . . Regulating and governing
all things . . .
The Qur’an
10:3
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- Setting Organizational Direction
- Mission: reason for existing
- concise expression; what,
for whom
- “To serve the religious needs of
Muslims living in metropolitan area”
- Vision: Verbal picture of
desired future
- where we want to go
- “To create a model
Muslim community
- living in
metropolitan area”
- Values: Code of ethics
- “And the servants of (Allah)
Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the
ignorant address them they say “Peace”
The Qur’an 25:63
- . . . therefore, carefully
investigate . . . The
Qur’an 4:94
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- Goals and Strategies
- Set major goals and strategies
to reach there
- Assess organization’s strengths and take advantage of opportunities
- Ensuring the Necessary Resources
- For vision to become reality,
resources are
- needed
- - funds, expertise,
information, leadership and
time
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- Program Monitoring and Evaluation
- • checking that plans are
implemented
- • worth the expenditure
- • donor’s intent respected?
- Legal oversight
- political campaigns, lobbying,
IRS, civil
- rights laws, immigration
laws, safety,
- non-payment of payroll taxes
- “lack of fiduciary
oversight”
- can take Board to the court
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- Evaluation of Chief Executive
- chief staff person
(Director; Imam)
- accountable to Board
- Board Self-Assessment
- how well the Board is
performing
- • effectiveness
- • communication
- • accomplishments compared to plan
- • compliance to budget
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- Role and Responsibilities of individual Board members
- “ambassadors”
- vested with authority to make decisions (Board as a whole)
- Individually - carry no special authority or power
- agree to undertake responsibilities
- . . . but hold a just
(balance) between those (extremes) The Qur’an 25:67
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- Duty of Care
- stay informed, ask questions,
read materials,
- participate in deliberations
- Duty of Loyalty
- be faithful, commitment to
welfare, no gain-personal or someone related to you disclose potential conflict
of interest
- Duty of Obedience
- duty bound to be faithful to
the mission
- . . . let the trustee
(faithfully) discharge his trust,
- and let him fear Allah his
Lord . . . The Qur’an 2:283
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- Chief Executive-Role in Organizational Governance
- administrator, manager, executive director, general secretary
- agree on how to share responsibility for organizational leadership
- micromanagement or detachment
- Board has ultimate power
- Chief Executive has immediate power
- Accountable to the Board
- Has more information
- More day to day influence
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- Well-Functioning Board?
- operate effectively and efficiently
- have the information, knowledge and skills
- Size
- reasonable 5-7
- Composition
- representative of community; talent, commitment
- Need for Continuity
- be balanced, need for fresh insight, new energy, new skills and
connections
- Clearly defined roles and responsibilities
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- Board Meetings
- carefully planned and structured
- efficiently conducted “time well spent”
- agenda, background material
- committees
- access to information and knowledge
- teamwork and communication
- 4-6 meetings a year
- Serve the public good with authority and accountability
- Comments/Questions please contact Dr. Iqbal J. Unus and Dr. M. Yaqub
Mirza
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