Access Ventures · The AV Foundation · The Leadership Experience
Joint Board Retreat
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Posture
Come candid. This is a working room, not a review.
Discuss over present
Materials go out ahead. Time here is for dialogue and decisions.
Shape of the day
Decisions in the morning, vision in the afternoon.
8:0030 min
Coffee & connection
8:3030 min
Welcome
Bryce
Morning
Decisions9:0065 min
Session 1 · Leadership & Governance
Open the LX board report
Part 1
Brian & Bryce on the structural evolution and the stability it creates.
Part 2
Working-group recommendations: Q&A and adoption. Roll-call vote by board. Bylaws redline
10:0555 min
Session 2 · Membership & Budget
Part 1
The four-tier structure and the endowment / year-end push.
Part 2
FY 2026/27 Budget Vote
Revenue assumptions and outlook. Roll-call vote by board.
11:0015 min
Updates & consent
OKRs and program headlines taken as read in the pre-read; questions only.
11:1545 min
Lunch
Afternoon
AVF, then AV12:0015 min
AVF update & celebration
AV Foundation
The foundation's year and its path forward, quick and celebratory.
Open the AVF board deck
12:1590 min
AVF · The Pathways Decisions
AV Foundation
The critical discussion. Each pathway goes out ahead as a pre-read and comes to the room with a clear decision to make, guided by the AVF Fiscal Sponsorship Policy and AVF Single Investment Approval. A quick stretch inside as needed.
Overlapping communities & giving circles
Kids DAF
LX Reconstruct model
Closing customers
Legacy member
Open the decision pathways
1:4550 min
AV rounds it out
Access Ventures
The AV year in review across our programs, then three ideas we want your read on: an LX-powered Reconstruct pilot (likely on homelessness), Know Homelessness reimagined as a national platform, and the AV Fellowship going place-based in Denver. Consent approval: Travel Policy, Accounting & Internal Controls Manual, and AV Investment Policy Statement.
Open the AV board deck
2:3525 min
Synthesis & close
Bryce
The interconnections across the day, decisions and owners captured, closing commitments.
3:00
Adjourn