Board/Staff Decision-Making Matrix

Jun 9, 2025 | Collaboration, Uncategorized | 0 comments

This decision matrix tool is designed to help clarify and delineate the roles and responsibilities between a nonprofit board of directors and the executive director or staff. By identifying who is responsible, accountable, consulted, or informed in key organizational decisions, it supports clearer governance and more effective collaboration. Download and review with your board chair or executive director.

This matrix is partially filled in to only provide an example. The Board and Executive Director should work on this together to define specific guidelines for decision making.

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This version of the Decision-Making Matrix was created by Anne Jin Soo Preston for Creation in Common.

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