Advisory Board Development - Tools from the Territories
This section contains resources for your local advisory board, developed by local board members, officers, and staff to meet the ongoing needs and issues of sustaining an engaged advisory board membership.
Advisory Organizations provide valuable assistance and advice. Local community leaders volunteer their efforts to help the Army in maintaining good business and professional relations.
Different types of advisory organizations have developed over the years: the advisory board, the association, the women's auxiliary, advisory council, service unit committees and state advisory conferences.
The advisory board is charged with the responsibility of advising and assisting The Salvation Army in all its activities in a particular community. The community may have a corps community center as the only Salvation Army facility, or it may have many corps community centers, a divisional headquarters, a rehabilitation center, or other centers of operations.
Where there is an association, a women's auxiliary or an advisory council in the community, the advisory board is considered the parent body, coordinating the activities of the other advisory organizations; and where representation on their rosters is required, the advisory board provides from its membership persons familiar with all Salvation Army activities in the community.