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2025 GBI Board of Directors Application

General
Commitment & Interests
1.Contact Information
2.Please share what makes GBI's mission meaningful to you.
3.Can you participate in four remote, 90-minute board meetings plus one in-person, two-day Board meeting annually (typically in central USA)?
4.Board members are asked to serve on at least one of GBI’s organizational committees, task groups, or councils. Please indicate the committees you are most inclined toward for participation. Select all that apply.
5.Board members typically dedicate one to three hours per month to GBI activities over a year, sometimes more if they are serving as an elected leader. How comfortable are you with this commitment? (This question pertains not only to your interest level but also to ensuring you have the support of your primary employer.)
6.Would your organization be willing to financially support GBI with an organizational membership?
Roles & Responsibilities
Fiduciary duty requires board members to be objective, unselfish, responsible, honest, trustworthy, and efficient. Board members, as stewards of GBI’s members’ and stakeholders’ trust, must act for the good of the organization and exercise reasonable care in collective decision making and avoid placing the organization under unnecessary risk. Board members also have a duty of loyalty, and this means that a board member must never use information learned as a member of the board for personal gain and must act in the best interests of GBI. Lastly, board members have a duty of care, which means they take care of GBI as a nonprofit by ensuring prudent use of assets, including facility, people, and goodwill.

Please review GBI's Meetings Code of Conduct for additional details.
7.As a Board member, we encourage active involvement, respectful dialogue, openness, and trust. Please select below as is most appropriate for you. Select all that apply.
Bringing Your Unique Value
8.Please share the specific value you'd like to contribute as a GBI Board member (e.g., perspective, skills, connections, resources, expertise). Select all that apply.
9.How will your background/experience help us achieve our organizational goals?
10.What challenges do you anticipate GBI and its Board may face in the next three years?
GBI's Place in the Market
11.GBI desires diverse perspectives on where GBI fits in the market. Which of these statements describe you?  Select all that apply.
GBI's Markets
12.GBI desires diverse perspectives on where GBI fits in the market. Which of these statements describe you? Select all that apply.
Board Demographics
A primary principle for GBI is fostering respectful and inclusive communities. We invite you to share the ways that you self-identify so that we may respect and honor your unique perspective in creating a balance of viewpoints through our Board recruitment efforts.
13.Of what country/region are you a resident?
14.Do you speak any languages in addition to English?
15.With what gender do you identify?
16.Which of the following are your preferred pronouns?
17.Please select the age group that applies to you.
18.Please select the racial or ethnic categories that best describe you.
19.Do you identify with any of these terms?
20.Please select the position level that is most equivalent to your employment or role.
21.Please list any other aspects of your preferences or self-identification you would like to share.