IFT Bylaws Revision Recommendations
As a non-profit membership association, IFT’s strength and vitality are directly linked to the expertise, experience, and unique points of view of its volunteer leadership. Each brings different perspectives to help inform and inspire the association’s strategic goals and to advance IFT’s mission and vision. To this end, IFT is committed to attracting, developing, and supporting strong volunteer leaders to drive IFT’s strategic vision.
To support this commitment, a Governance Task Force was formed to further examine board candidate development, nominations, and elections processes to more equitably attract, develop, and strengthen its leadership pipeline as well as provide more balanced expertise to support strategic responsibilities.
The Governance Task Force recommendations were recently brought to IFT’s Board of Directors for consideration and the following recommendations were unanimously approved for a membership vote:
- Transition to a Leadership Development Committee model from the current Nominations & Elections Committee composition and process;
- Adopt an evaluation matrix to move to a competency and multi-representational balance model with the understanding that the Leadership Development Committee would reassess the matrix annually; and
- Transition selection process from popular election to a non-competitive slate to address current difficulty in achieving diversity and balance due to the current methodology for selecting leadership through a popular election.
Membership Vote
An IFT membership vote on changes to the Bylaws will take place from Tuesday, December 1, 2020 through Friday, December 18, 2020.
If you have questions regarding the proposed updates, we invite you to submit them using the form on this page. Answers will be shared in our IFT Connect bylaws vote forum.