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Free Info Session: What It Means to Be a Board Member

Swim Manitoba

April 7, 2025

What It Means to Be a Board Member presented by Taylor McCaffrey

With great power comes great responsibilities. In this session, you’ll learn about:

  • Legal responsibilities and liabilities of being a director
  • Statutory duties to act in best interests of organization to which you are a board member
  • Statutory liabilities – summary of relevant liabilities
  • Role of the Board vs staff (for those Provincial Sport Organizations that have staff)
  • Difference between operational and governance boards
  • Importance of bylaws and policies
  • Financial accountability (budgets, statements, compliance)
  • Practical problem solving

This session will be a hybrid held both in person and virtually.

  • When: Tuesday,April 22 from 7:00 p.m – 8:15 p.m. 
  • Where:
    • In person at Sport Manitoba in Conference Room B&C
    • Virtually on Zoom (virtual meeting details will be emailed prior to the event)
Register