Committees & Task Teams

COMMITTEE

TASK

AUDIT COMMITTEE

• Hires and consults with the independent auditor
• Recommends the annual independent audit to the board for approval
• Monitors the implementation of any recommendations on internal controls from the auditor’s management letter
• Conduct annual due diligence and risk management inventory

COMMITTEE ON TRUSTEES

• Cultivate and search for future board members
• Maintain Board Profile and succession plan
• Nominate new members, second terms, and officers
• Oversee training  for new board members as well as their continuing education
• Oversee annual board evaluation
• Make recommendations about committee membership and chairs to the Executive Committee and the President

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

• Serves as the Board management unit
• Reviews  the strategic plan annually
• Develop the annual Board agenda
• Develop committee structure and functions
• Select committee leadership, and, with that leadership, determine committee membership and oversee committees’ progress toward their agreed upon charges
• Propose the Head’s compensation to be approved by the Board

FINANCE COMMITTEE

• Assist in preparing  the preliminary and final budgets and in their review before presentation to the board
• Propose tuition and fee schedules
• Oversee the financial functions of the corporation as assigned by the Board including investments
• Create and maintain long term financial plan
• Track  financial stability markers

FUND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

• Supervise all normal fund raising activities of the school
• Plan additional events as necessary to fulfill the strategic plan 
• Set policies for receiving gifts and conducting fundraising 
• Plan the annual fund raiser and all capital campaigns 
• Actively cultivate and solicit major donors and train the board members in the art of donor solicitation

HEAD EVALUATION COMMITTEE

• Conduct annual performance review
• Submit report to the Board