Equip board members to lead with impact from day one.
Onboarding new board members shouldn’t feel like starting from scratch every time. But without a clear system, that’s exactly what happens.
New board members step in with good intentions but no real understanding of their role—but it doesn't have to be this way.
What if every board member walked in fully prepared, aligned, and ready to lead from day one?
With the Five Ives Board Onboarding Toolkit, you get a plug-and-play system that eliminates confusion, sets clear expectations, and ensures your board is focused, mission-driven, and effective.
✔ No more wasted time
✔ No more last-minute scrambling
✔ No more carrying the entire load yourself
Instead, you'll feel confident, equipped, and ready to onboard the best talent onto your board of directors.
This ready-to-use toolkit gives you everything you need to streamline board onboarding, strengthen governance, and set your organization up for long-term success. This toolkit saves you 20+ hours and ensures alignment from day one.
Stop the frustration—get the toolkit now and transform your board today.
What's included?
This is a done-for-you system for onboarding confident, mission-aligned board members!
The Five Ives Board Onboarding Toolkit gives you a structured, plug-and-play approach to onboarding new board members—so they step in confident, informed, and ready to lead from day one.
With editable templates, step-by-step instructions, and expert guidance, this toolkit saves you time and ensures a seamless transition for every new board member.
Inside your toolkit, you'll find:
- Detailed onboarding checklist that outlines key steps for a smooth transition
- Board candidate interview guide to help assess alignment with the organization’s mission.
- Clear board member role descriptions define expectations for board members and officers
- A memorandum of understanding formalizes the commitments and expectations of board members, ensuring alignment with the organization’s goals.
- A confidentiality agreement, an ethics agreement, and a conflict of interest policy to uphold legal and ethical standards as you operate with integrity.
Each template is fully editable—just drop in a few key details like your logo and organization name, and you’ll have professional, polished documentation ready to use.
Whether you're bringing your current board up to best practices or onboarding new members, this toolkit ensures clarity, accountability, and alignment from day one.
Use these documents to:
✔ Eliminate potential ethics violations and protect your nonprofit from legal risks
✔ Set clear expectations for board members, reducing confusion and misalignment
✔ Streamline decision-making with structured agreements and governance policies
✔ Strengthen board engagement by defining roles and responsibilities upfront
✔ Save hours of administrative work with pre-built, plug-and-play templates
Together, these resources equip boards with the necessary tools to foster informed, engaged, and effective leadership.
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You don't have time (or money) to waste.
We spent thousands of hours learning and making mistakes and loads of time researching and creating this template so you don't have to!
Creating these resources from scratch would take hours of research, writing, and refining—time you don’t have.
Hiring a consultant to create these documents would cost thousands of dollars that you would wish you could spend on programming.
But you don’t have to spend that kind of money—or time.
You can get everything you need right now:
✅ Instant access to professionally crafted, board-ready documents
✅ No guesswork—just plug in your nonprofit’s details and start using them today
✅ A complete system to get your board aligned, engaged, and governing effectively
Why waste hours or overpay when you can get everything done in minutes? Get the Board Onboarding Toolkit now.
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Still thinking?
That's okay. In crisis mode, it can be hard to make big decisions.
But picture what life will be like next year if you don't make a change, if things stay the way they are.
Board meetings will still feel unproductive. Decisions will still get delayed. And the challenges facing your nonprofit aren’t going away anytime soon, so hoping things get better isn’t a strategy.
You need a solution that cuts through the confusion and actually helps your board govern—not just gather. And you need resources designed by experts who get it. That’s us.
You need a solution that can meet you in the crisis and not be just one more thing. And you need experts who get it. That's us.
Take a look at the FREE resource we provide here.
This guide is just a small glimpse into the kinds of simple and yet profoundly helpful resources we provide to make people's lives easier in the midst of the chaos and hamster wheel of life. Use this guide for the spaces around the office and see a difference!
