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Board of directors

Saved by the Saddle is building its founding board, and these are unpaid governance seats. This is not a ceremonial role. We are looking for directors who will read the materials, show up, ask hard questions, and put their name behind the work.

Time: four to six hours a month
Seats: five, unpaid
Checks: background and reference check before appointment
Process: several weeks

What you would do

  • Set the mission, strategy and annual priorities

  • Approve the budget and review financial statements

  • Oversee and evaluate executive leadership

  • Adopt governance policy: conflict of interest, whistleblower, document retention, gift acceptance

  • Ensure legal, tax and reporting obligations are met

  • Open doors to donors, partners and funders

  • Serve on at least one committee

Background we need

Nonprofit governance and 501(c)(3) compliance; accounting, audit or CFO-level oversight; nonprofit or equine law; fundraising and major gifts; veteran services; youth services, education or child safety; equine welfare, rescue or therapeutic riding.

You do not need all of these. You need one of them, and the judgment to know where your expertise ends.

Time commitment

Quarterly board meetings of about two hours each; one committee, roughly monthly; preparation time before each meeting. Four to six hours a month on average. Fixed, renewable terms.

What we ask of every director

  • Sign our conflict of interest policy every year

  • Make a personally meaningful financial contribution each year, at whatever level is meaningful for you. There is no minimum. We ask for full board participation because funders ask us whether we have it.

  • Act in Saved by the Saddle's best interest, not your own

  • Complete a background check and reference check before appointment

If you want to give professional expertise without taking on a board seat, apply as a skilled professional volunteer instead.

What happens after you apply

We review your application, then set up a conversation with our board chair and corporate secretary. If there is a fit on both sides, you meet the full board, we complete background and reference checks, and the board votes on your appointment.

Expect the process to take several weeks. We would rather take our time than get this wrong.

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