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Margreet de Vries, Director)
Team
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Board
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Supervisory Board
The foundation consists of a permanent staff, a Board and works with several freelancers as well.
Management
Secretariat
Theme Managers
Theme Officers
Communication
Freelancers
Board
The Board decides on the policy and the financial framework and bears ultimate responsibility for the day-to-day running of the foundation. The composition of the board ensures that its tasks are performed in an independent manner. As the Reading & Writing Foundation is a relatively small organisation, its management and supervision are not undertaken by separate organs. In order to guarantee the separation of functions, the foundation has set up an executive board and a management board. The ‘management’ function is performed by the executive board, while the management board fulfills a supervisory role.
The Director is responsible for the day-to-day running of the foundation and can perform tasks delegated by the board. Formal managerial responsibilities rest with the board rather than the Director.
Board
H.R.H. Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (Chair)
Désirée M. van Gorp (Secretary)
Floris Recourt (Human Resources)
Herbert Seevinck (Treasurer)
Margreet de Vries (Director)
Supervisory Board
Alexander H.G. Rinnooy Kan (Vice-chair)
Wim Deetman (Member)
Linda Hovius (Member)
Marianne van Leeuwen (Member)
Lodewijk de Waal (Member)
Good Governance for Good Causes Code
In June 2005, the Committee on Good Governance for Good Causes Code (Wijffels committee) presented its opinion on ‘good governance’. This opinion sets out essential building blocks for maintaining and reinforcing public confidence in charitable organisations. The foundation agrees that there is a need to satisfy the standards of ‘good governance’ that have evolved in society, which are commonly referred to as ‘corporate governance’.
The Wijffels Committee has proposed a transitional period that runs until the end of 2006 for the introduction of the Code. The Reading & Writing Foundation also intends to embed those parts of the Code of relevance to it in its policies. In concrete terms, this means determining and publicising the manner and means of management, supervision and accountability, by publishing the management regulations.
Furthermore, the foundation has also taken a number of other measures. For instance, given the size of the foundation, it has been decided not to create a new supervisory organ for the foundation but to confer this role upon the management board. The Ten Principles of The Reading & Writing Foundation (in Dutch only) are available to the public, and all Board members, employees and freelancers have signed an internal Code of Conduct related to the management of the foundation.
