The Rainbow Board of Directors support the staff, led by the Executive Director and staff leadership team, in providing a wide range of services, outreach, and programs to address community needs for LGBTQI+ persons and our allies in Contra Costa County and beyond. Collectively, the Board of Directors are tasked with fulfilling the organization’s strategic plan and ensuring consistent work toward meeting our mission and vision. We believe that individual Board Members must actively work to collaborate, continuously identify ways to improve themselves and the organization, celebrate wins small and big, and help implement plans to move the organization forward through challenges.  We ask that each member lead with accountability, transparency, integrity, humility, and compassion. 

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A Rainbow Community Center Board Member is part of the governing body, oversees the organization, and is responsible for its overall success. There are legal, ethical, and social responsibilities that each Board Member commits to meet and to act, always, in the best interest of the organization and its many stakeholders. Every member of the board of directors of a nonprofit has “three primary legal duties known as the ‘duty of care,’ ‘duty of loyalty,’ and ‘duty of obedience’, which are described below: 

• Duty of Care: Take care of the nonprofit by ensuring prudent use of all assets, including facility, people, and good will;

• Duty of Loyalty: Ensure that the nonprofit's activities and transactions are, first and foremost, advancing its mission; Recognize and disclose conflicts of interest; Make decisions that are in the best interest of the nonprofit corporation; not in the best interest of the individual board member (or any other individual or for-profit entity).

• Duty of Obedience: Ensure that the nonprofit obeys applicable laws and regulations; follows its own bylaws; and that the nonprofit adheres to its stated corporate purposes/mission.

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However, a board of directors does not exist solely to fulfill legal duties and serve as a fiduciary of the organization’s assets. Board members also play very significant roles providing guidance to nonprofits by contributing to the organization’s culture, strategic focus, effectiveness, and financial sustainability, as well as serving as ambassadors and advocates.” (www.councilofnonprofits.org/)