VI. The Structure

• Support the mission and beliefs of Common Sense California
• Have significant experience in start up organizations
• Have a record of civic engagement and public-spirited leadership
• Willingness to work as an equal partner
• Willingness to work in a timely, responsive efficient and cooperative manner
• Represent a variety of professional backgrounds relevant to the work of the organization
• Provide gender balance as well as racial and ethnic diversity
• Provide geographic balance from across the state
• Have experience in business, labor, government, non-profit civic and religious organizations
• Embody a bipartisan spirit

• Assume fiduciary responsibility for Common Sense California
• Decide on the critical agenda that the organization will pursue
• Endorse the common sense solutions as identified by the dialogue process
• Endorse local organizations to partner with to advance common sense solutions
• Select and supervise the founding executive director
• Select new members of the board
• Approve new members of the Organizing Committee
• Actively raise funds for CSC

Organizing Committee

(40 people in January 2006
50-100 people by January 2007)

• Support the mission and beliefs of CSC
• Motivated by a vested interest in the future of California rather than a single issue
• Represent a variety of professional backgrounds relevant to the work of the organization
• Provide gender balance as well as racial and ethnic diversity
• Provide geographic balance from across the state
• Have experience in business, labor, government, non-profit civic and religious organizations

• Conduct outreach to key civic leaders in the various regions of California
• Serve as a "megaphone" for issues endorsed by the Board of Directors
• Represent the views of Common Sense California to both print and electronic media
• Provide advice to the Board of Directors and staff on policy matters
• Recruit additional members of the Organizing Committee subject to approval by the Board of Directors
• Raise funds to support Common Sense California from both organizations and individuals
• Meet periodically on both a statewide and regional basis to further the work of the organization