Board of Directors

Recruitment

To ensure cohesion and promote efficiency, the Iowa Balance of State CoC Board consists of 11 - 15 voting members. The Board is representative of the relevant community partners involved in preventing and ending homelessness within the CoC and includes at least one homeless or formerly homeless individual. Given the broad geographic area of the Balance of State CoC, special attention is paid to ensure that Board membership includes community partners from across Iowa. Seats on the CoC Board are reserved, as follows: 

• Homeless or Formerly Homeless Individual (1 seat) 

• Government (up to 2 seats)

• Subpopulations

  • Veterans (1 seat)

  • Youth (1 seat)

  • Survivors of Domestic Violence (1 seat) 

  • LGBT (1 seat) 

• Health and/or Disability Services (1 seat)

• Mental Health (1 seat)

• Substance Abuse (1 seat) 

• Education (1 seat) 

• Criminal Justice (1 seat) 

• Other funders (up to 2 seats) 

• Faith-based community (1 seat)  

• An open invitation for Board membership is done annually to prepare to fill terms set to expire in March for an April 1st term start date. Applications are not currently being accepted.

  • We respectively request any Board member, Task Group members, or CoC Volunteer document their donated time with the Continuum of Care to assist in showing the match our CoC is investing into this work. Requests from Board & Task Group members will be done monthly. If you have any questions please reach out to Courtney Guntly. See the recruitment forms and in-kind information by using the links below in the drop down folders.