Should an Executive Director be a Voting Member of a CAA Board?

m

Composition, CSBG, Governance, Tripartite Board



Board of Directors, Executive Director



2014

If the Community Action Agency (CAA) runs a Head Start program, the answer is no; the Head Start Act prohibits board members serving as paid staff of the organization. Even for CAAs without Head Start, however, CAPLAW does not recommend making the executive director a voting board member.

Related Resources:

Democratic Selection Procedures in a Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a multitude of unprecedented challenges for CAAs. One of the challenges that has spurred CAAs to innovate is the need to recruit and elect representatives of the low-income community to serve on the tripartite board.While serious obstacles...

Raising the Low-Income Voice

Since the inception of the Economic Opportunity Act, a fundamental goal of Community Action has been to provide low-income individuals with a voice in the administration of its poverty alleviating programs. With the Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) Act's call to...

Conversations on Democratic Selection in a Pandemic

This webinar features two of the CAAs recently profiled in Preserving the Low-Income Voice: Snapshots of Democratic Selection Procedures in a Pandemic, a look into creative and innovative democratic selection procedures adopted by CAAs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....