Noco Nonprofit Sector Partnership
Committee Charter - Improving Your Organization

This Committee is established between the Improving Your Organization Committee and Nonprofit Sector Partnership Executive Committee to structure the process and planned outcomes for the partnership.

Committee Title: Improving Your Organization

Committee Charge
To identify areas for capacity building, collaboration, and overall organizational effectiveness among the membership of the Nonprofit Sector Partnership.

Purpose
To assess current organizational strategies of the nonprofit sector, identify areas for improvement, recommend new approaches, and create action plans to accomplish goals. Committee will make regular reports to the executive committee during leadership meetings to include any financial requests needed to complete committee work.

Strategic Alignment
The overall goal for the work is to make the nonprofit sector in Northern Colorado a strong and collaborative group that improves the wellbeing of our communities while ensuring nonprofit organizations in northern Colorado are strong and sustainable. Alignment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) should be integrated into the committee primary work.

Boundaries/Expectations/Scope
Subcommittee will meet monthly throughout the year through a combination of in-person and online meetings. Meeting times will be determined by polling committee members and selecting time that works best for the majority. Clear and achievable goals will be set by subcommittee and approved by executive committee to ensure alignment with overall mission of the sector partnership. Once approved, subcommittee members will be responsible for proposing initiatives, conducting research, implementing action plans, and evaluating results including timeline for all work. Subcommittee chairs will communicate regularly with other subcommittee chairs to ensure there is no duplication of efforts and collaboration is occurring between groups when appropriate.


Stakeholders, Guiding Principles and Assumptions
Nonprofits are the business leaders of this committee. They drive the discussion, set the agenda, and identify common priorities for action that impact the overall success of the sector. Public partners are the support team made up of funders, education, workforce development, and economic development leaders.

Outcomes
Subcommittee will focus on three imperatives related to improving your organization identified through input from entire sector partnership including:
Collaboration/Sharing Information
Capacity Building/Planning
Infrastructure (HR, Legal, Marketing, Technology, etc.)

For each imperative, subcommittee will:
Analyze and recommend improvements addressing both short-term and long-term strategies
Propose training needed to support goals
Determine measurement tools that will be used to track progress now and in the future
Establish effective communication mechanisms so all members are well informed
Identify opportunities for cost-savings and/or efficiency improvements

Committee Team Members
The committee can be composed of nonprofit leaders, public partners and government/education officials. Nonprofit leaders are the core members with public partners and officials aligning to the nonprofit and workforce communities and providing expertise for and connection to the NoCo Sector partnership work. There is no limit to the number of committee members. There will be two co-chair positions elected from within the committee members. Co-Chair positions will serve a two-year minimum term with no more than three years to allow for new leadership opportunities for members. There is no term limit for committee membership and there will be no penalty for a committee member to step off the committee.

Communication Dissemination
Committee chairs will provide written updates after each committee meeting to the Executive Committee. Committee chairs are invited to attend the monthly Executive Committee meeting and the expectation is that at least one of the chairs attend. Committee members may share information with the sector partners and the community when it has been determined by the Executive Committee that their communication strategies align with the NoCo Sector Partnership goals and direction.