Community-Engagement Governance

This article presents models for governance by stakeholders in contrast to traditional board model. In the Community-Engagement Governance™ framework, responsibility for governance is shared across the organization, including the organization’s key stakeholders: its constituents and community, staff, and the board. Community-Engagement Governance™ is based on established principles of participatory democracy, self-determination, genuine partnership, and community-level decision making. It can be explored as a way to ensure that engagement is integrated into daily practice.

• community engagement
• community impact
• governance
• NPQ
• practices
• stakeholders
• transparency