Create a Community Advisory Board, and Watch Your Nonprofit Programs Flourish

A great way to ensure having essential and quality programs for your community, is to create a Community Advisory Board, with residents that represent the area of the programs. A specific example, such as for serving youth, is to form and lead a Parents’ Advisory Committee. Parents have the best interest of their kids at heart, and can be good sources of input regarding the classes, activities, and events that they want for them.

You can have periodic meetings, possibly monthly, to discuss the programs, and go over evaluations of them, as well as possible improvements. Parents’ input can be invaluable in this regard.

They can also come up with ideas for new programs, based on their children’s interests, which can make life easier for a youth director.

Also, a Parents’ Advisory Committee can fulfill an important role in discussing any issues that may come up, including problems with the way programs are led, procedural issues, difficulties encountered with the youth, and a lack of resources, among other possibilities.

A Community Advisory Board, such as the Parents’ Advisory Committee described above, though it can be formed with the age or demographic group that best represents the community programs, can be a great resource for the program director, in developing current classes, activities, and events to be better, coming up with ideas for new programs, and solving any recent issues with the programs, facilities, resources, leaders, or participants.

Start putting together a Community Advisory Board today, and watch your programs flourish.