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Geoff Nicholson 		policies:director [2024/10/09 14:00] (current)
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 As the corporation holds insurance indemnifying the directors, directors shall not be personally liable for the debts, liabilities, or other obligations of the corporation. As the corporation holds insurance indemnifying the directors, directors shall not be personally liable for the debts, liabilities, or other obligations of the corporation.
  
-In practice, the Directors are the strategic navigators for the lab,  empowering the officers and the members to do all the day-to-day  operational stuff.  They go out into the wider community, looking for  ideas and projects to bring back to Quelab and integrate them into our  specific community.  They have to balance the desires of the membership  with finding the funds to pay for their feasible yet moonshot ideas.   The annual card-storming process run by the President is a major input  into the Director's program-decisions. \\  \\ Non-member directors bring to Quelab  ideas that we as a group would never have thought of, while  member-directors can reinforce the desires of the members to a board of  directors who are purposely hands-off.  All the Directors are tasked  with finding grants, programs, and ideas that can make Quelab an even  better place for the Albuquerque area to explore and create  STEAM-focused learning. \\  \\ The directors are not omniscient,  so they convene task-forces (short term) and committees (no fixed term)  to research ideas more thoroughly, so they can discuss program  proposals, rather than nebulous ideas which don't have a business plan  behind them.  These working groups solicit further concrete ideas from  the community at large, formulate a plan, and return their findings to  the directors for further discussion. In general, the proposal from the  task-force gets accepted, and the new program or policy is passed to the  officers for implementation.+In practice, the Directors are the strategic navigators for the lab,  empowering the officers and the members to do all the day-to-day  operational stuff.  They go out into the wider community, looking for  ideas and projects to bring back to Quelab and integrate them into our  specific community.  They have to balance the desires of the membership  with finding the funds to pay for their feasible yet moonshot ideas.   The annual card-storming process run by the President is a major input  into the Director's program-decisions.  \\  \\ Non-member directors bring to Quelab  ideas that we as a group would never have thought of, while  member-directors can reinforce the desires of the members to a board of  directors who are purposely hands-off.  All the Directors are tasked  with finding grants, programs, and ideas that can make Quelab an even  better place for the Albuquerque area to explore and create  STEAM-focused learning.  \\  \\ The directors are not omniscient,  so they convene task-forces (short term) and committees (no fixed term)  to research ideas more thoroughly, so they can discuss program  proposals, rather than nebulous ideas which don't have a business plan  behind them.  These working groups solicit further concrete ideas from  the community at large, formulate a plan, and return their findings to  the directors for further discussion. If the proposal from the  task-force gets accepted, the new program or policy is passed to the  officers for implementation.
  
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-[[:policies:bylaws#article_4_-_directors|Bylaws Article 4]]+[[policies:bylaws-010514#article_4_-_directors|Bylaws Article 4]]
  
 It shall be the duty of the directors to: It shall be the duty of the directors to: