The DEC Board

Board Structure

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The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) Board utilizes a structure of Policy Governance to focus their time and effort on ensuring accountability of the organization in fulfilling its organizational purpose.

The Board has three primary responsibilities:

1. Ownership Linkage: Connecting with owners (DEC members and community stakeholders) to learn their values about what outcomes they desire for the organization and what means of reaching these outcomes would be unacceptable to them.

2. Policy Development: Translating into policy what the owners tell the Board they want as DEC outcomes, assigning responsibility for meeting the DEC outcomes and setting the ethical and practical limitations necessary to protect the organization.

3. Assurance of Organizational Performance: Monitoring the DEC Office staff and board behavior to ensure that DEC demonstrates reasonable progress toward desired DEC’s outcomes and reasonable compliance with the policies guiding the means to reach the outcomes.

DEC Board Policies:
The DEC Board recognizes its role in providing vision and leadership for the organization. Policy Governance enables the Board to focus on the larger issues, to delegate with clarity, to rigorously evaluate accomplishments, and to truly lead the organization.  Board Policies - June 10, 2022

DEC Ends:
The Policy Governance structure provides a way for a nonprofit board to develop a vision and future. DEC's Ends Statements were developed by the Executive Board and serve as the strategic outcomes for DEC. Ends are often described as "your organization's destination, its bottom line, the difference your organization exists to make in the world or what your organization is for." (Oliver, 2009, p. 90).    DEC Ends Statements