The CFRE International Committee on Directorship, comprised of one current board member, one out-going board member, one past board member and two CFRE certificants from our Participating Organization Advisory Council, has been deliberating on the twenty-nine nominations received for three open seats on the Board of Directors.
 
The Committee is pleased to announce the slate of candidates for election later in October 2008:
 
CFRE Certificant Board Members-At-Large (Class of 2011)
·        Susan Davies Goepp, CFRE
·        Sharilyn Hale, CFRE
 
Public Member (Class of 2009)
·        Peter Jones, MPA, JD
 
You can read the full bios and statement to CFRE Certificants by linking here (http://www.cfre.org/documents/2009TotalBallot.pdf)
 
The Committee uses a very thorough process to review, screen and interview potential board members to work to select those whose skills best compliment those currently found among board members and those skills most needed.
 
A skill matrix is developed at the beginning of each year to lay out all of the knowledge, skill, abilities, experiences and contacts that CFRE International most needs for the immediate future.  The talents and expertise of current board members is then put into the matrix.  This then provides the Committee on Directorship with a roadmap of most needed attributes against which nominations can be considered.
 
The Call for Nominations goes to the entire CFRE certificant population, as well as additional notices being sent to CFRE International Committee members and the leadership of our participating professional associations for their suggestions.  The attributes identified in the skill matrix are then included in that Call for Nominations in hope of attracting a wide range of nominees with those qualities.
 
Once the Call for Nominations closes, the Committee on Directorship meets to consider all applicants.  Applicants must be currently certified in good standing and have recertified at least once.  In addition, the Committee reviews which applicants have served CFRE International previously, giving them some added insight into the work of the organisation.
 
The group works to consensus on which candidates to select for further interview.  Each of those candidates then participates in a telephone interview, each lasting approximately one hour.  Candidates are asked a variety of questions about their own view on certification, their thoughts on the future direction of CFRE International and what talents they can bring to the organisation.
 
Following the interviews, candidates are then asked to provide volunteer references from other nonprofit organisations, other than their employer, for which they have served. 
 
All of this information is then collected and brought back to the Committee on Directorship as a whole.  Deliberation is then conducted to determine which of the interviewed candidates bet fit the needs of the organisation at this time.  The group selects the slate by consensus.  The slate is then forwarded to the certificant population for ratification.
 
CFRE International conducts electronic voting on-line.  You should look for your ballot in your email in-box during the first full week of October 2008.