Founding board
This is not a ceremonial board.
Founding directors will help determine how Just The Bones validates need, protects donor intent, works alongside existing institutions, and earns the trust required to move meaningful capital.
What directors will be joining
Prospective directors will not be joining a finished organization with a predetermined program. They will help turn a clear mission into a credible, independent, and durable nonprofit institution.
The board will hold fiduciary responsibility, adopt the governing framework, establish policy, oversee leadership, protect mission discipline, and help determine the organization’s early priorities and operating model.
Questions the founding board will help answer
- How should infrastructure needs and risks be validated?
- Which hospitals and projects should receive priority?
- How should restricted funds and donor intent be protected?
- How should Just The Bones work alongside hospital foundations, public programs, and professional associations?
- What evidence and controls must be in place before the organization asks others to entrust it with significant capital?
- What standards must the organization meet to earn and retain national trust?
Experience that would strengthen the board
- Healthcare operations, facilities, engineering, or infrastructure leadership
- Nonprofit governance, law, compliance, or fiduciary oversight
- Finance, audit, banking, investment stewardship, or philanthropy
- Healthcare administration, public policy, research, or institutional partnerships
- Manufacturing, utilities, construction, energy, or infrastructure delivery
- Communications and public credibility around complex technical issues
No single director is expected to cover every area. The aim is a balanced board whose members bring different forms of judgment and credibility to the same mission.
Qualities that matter
- Stewardship over personal control
- Independent and ethical judgment
- Respect for operational reality
- Comfort with thoughtful disagreement
- Long-term institutional perspective
- Willingness to do foundational work
No single board member is expected to solve a problem measured in hundreds of billions of dollars. The opportunity is to help build an institution capable of bringing credible evidence, responsible governance, new relationships, and meaningful capital to a problem that has remained mostly invisible outside facilities circles.