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How Children’s Minnesota Makes DEI Efforts a Priority

Through leadership and board support, Children’s Minnesota is making DEI efforts a strategic priority.

AHA’s Trustee Match Program

The AHA has partnered with UnidosUS and the National Urban League to create a program that matches member hospitals with community leaders to increase diverse representation on hospital and health system boards.

Exploring Ways to Reinvent Generational Recruitment

An emerging group of future health care leaders are ready to take on the challenge of health care board service.

11 Principles for Health System Governance

A WellSpan Health task force developed meaningful principles that signaled a changed approach to governance at the health system.

10 Questions Boards Can Answer to Advance Equity

COVID-19 has served as a wake-up call to the inequities experienced by underserved and historically marginalized populations.

The Leadership Audit

Evaluations and Assessments
To understand how the organization really functions on a day-to-day basis, boards need to gauge the hospital’s work life and its efficacy. Board responsibilities include: (a) understanding the hospital’s operating model and whether it actually performs in that mode, how critical decisions are made, and the hospital’s ability to recognize its own problems and “self-correct”; and (b) ensuring that it happens.

Two-Part Discussion on Diversity and the Future of Boards

Three trustee leaders answer questions about advancing board diversity and how governance may evolve in an ever-changing health care environment.

Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Articles

A collection of articles an toolkits on health equity, diversity and inclusion.

Roles & Responsibilities of the VP of Philanthropy

Trustee Articles
The VP of Philanthropy’s overarching responsibility is to promote philanthropic investment by donor partners in the health care organization in order to advance the mission. However, the role encompasses far more. Together with the foundation board and health care CEO, this individual works with internal and external constituencies to build a culture of philanthropy that goes beyond transactional fundraising to build lasting, fruitful relationships rooted in a shared vision.