07/01/2026
Board of Directors’ Responsibilities
Careline Crisis Services, Inc.’s Board of Directors is legally and morally responsible for all its activities. Board members are responsible for determining agency policy and ensuring compliance in the following areas: Fundraising and Finance, Human Resources, Strategic Planning, Community Relations, and Organizational Operations.
Fundraising/Finance
1. Raising funds and/or ensuring that adequate funds are raised to support the organization’s policies and programs
2. Ensuring financial accountability of the organization
3. Overseeing an ongoing process of budget development, approval, and review
4. Managing and maintaining the properties or investments of the organization.
Human Resources
Board members have three key responsibilities in this area:
1. Board membership (which includes recruiting new board members and providing existing board members with opportunities to grow and develop as leaders)
2. Executive Director accountability (which includes hiring, firing, and ongoing evaluation of the Executive Director)
3. Personnel policies (which include providing policy guidance about salaries, benefits, and grievance procedures)
Strategic Planning
Board members have four key responsibilities in this area:
1. Setting and reviewing the organization’s mission/vision and goals.
2. Planning for the organization’s future on a long-term and short-term basis.
3. Deciding and planning which services/programs the organization provides.
4. Evaluating the organization’s activities for alignment with the organization’s identified goals and objectives.
Community Relations
Board members have four key responsibilities in this area:
1. Ensuring that the organization’s programs and services effectively address community and client needs.
2. Marketing the organization’s services/programs.
3. Ongoing public relations (which includes an awareness that board members are always emissaries of the organization in the community)
4. Cooperative action (which includes occasions when the organization could/should take part in coalitions, joint fundraising, etc.)
Organizational Operations
Board members have four key responsibilities in this area:
1. Ensuring that the organization’s administrative systems are adequate and appropriate.
2. Ensuring that the board’s operations are adequate and appropriate.
3. Ensuring that the organization and legal structures are sufficient and appropriate.
4. Ensuring that the organization and its board members meet all applicable legal requirements.
Board of Directors: Voluntary, legal governing body of a nonprofit.
Core Purpose: Connecting Alaskans, Inspiring Hope, and Saving Lives.
Core Values: Compassion, Connection, Collaboration
Envisioned Future: By the end of this decade, Careline Crisis Service will have made substantial progress in expanding Careline's statewide presence and, through outreach, will be actively encouraging a statewide culture that normalizes reaching out for help and connecting with Alaskans where they are.
818 26th Avenue
Fairbanks AK 99701
Website: https://carelinealaska.com/Website
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carelinealaska/Facebook
EIN:
88-1389782
Year of Incorporation:
2022
Location: Statewide
Focus: Human Services
Operating Budget: $1M-$5M
Number of Staff: 35
Number of Board Members: 4
Guidestar page:
https://app.candid.org/profile/15170404/careline-crisis-services-inc-88-1389782
Primary Contact for Board Recruitment:
Susanna Marchuk
Executive Director:
Susanna Marchuk (she/her)
