Win Win Strategies for Parent Organization Dynamics
To transform steering committees, you need two basic things. First, you need a parent organization that understands the benefit of a strong committee and empowers the steering committee to play that role. The second prerequisite for evolving a steering committee is that its members must be able to see past the formality of the legal distinction and envision a sophisticated “board-like” role for itself. Read more on the potential of steering committees in this piece from The Nonprofit Quarterly.