“But,” explains Liz Natter, “you can’t just pull people in and have them take power. It takes time
. . . . At the beginning it was still mostly the staff deciding priorities. Once we formed the board and ran decisions by the board, it took a while until board members had enough experience with the organization to really jump in . . . but we now have become more board driven.” It takes a lot of time and training to build a working board and there are big challenges along the way, according to Ms. Natter: “You can’t overload people. You have people who work and have kids and have to travel to get to board meetings. You can’t do too much at once.”