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Your Project Leadership Committee
How should you choose leadership?
You want people who are invested in your project and have time to participate in periodic decision-making conversations. If your project serves multiple constituencies, you probably want to pick folks from multiple constituencies for your leadership too. There's a lot of academic evidence that diverse groups tend to make better decisions and are less likely to be surprised by their work's interactions with other systems.
Composition
You want your Project Leadership Committee (aka PLC) to be enough people that you have more than one perspective on your project but no so big that you never can get everyone on a call. We will also ask that you do not choose too many people from one company or who represent the same financial interest. This might be expressed in your Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement as a either a number or a percentage.
When people resign
For record-keeping purposes, we'd like the person leaving to write to us to say, "I am resigning." If there was an election and some folks left and some folks joined, just forward us the results of the election along with any supporting material.
Adding new folks
You might do a vote amongst your current PLC, decide by consensus or have your wider community vote on your leadership. Whatever method you choose, please let us know when you are adding or subtracting new PLC members. We appreciate you sending along any kind of supporting information, like a blog post about the new board members or the discussion that lead up to the change on your PLC.
Your PLC alias
Each Conservancy project has project leadership committee alias, project@sfconservancy.org that includes your current PLC members and at least two Conservancy staff members. If you have an employee or contractor, we can set up another alias for communications that you want to share with Conservancy and those folks.
Meetings
We recommend that your PLC meet on a regular schedule. This could be weekly, monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly. If you like, you can invite a Conservancy staff member to these meetings. We might not be able to attend a meeting every week, but if you let us know when you would like our input then we'll certainly try to attend those meetings.