Board of Directors
Board Business
Since 1982, White Plains Children’s Center has been guided by a Board of Directors, comprised of professionals from the surrounding communities. Volunteers, both men and women, come willingly to give
their time, talents and enthusiasm to ensure WPCC is fiscally sound and that it maintains the highest standards in the industry.
Board Members attend a one-hour monthly meeting for only ten months of the calendar year. Members serve on just one committee—Finance, Policy/Personnel, Funds Development or Public Relations/Marketing. Committees meet as often as necessary to manage the business at hand.
If you have a heart for children and a volunteer spirit, membership on this Board may be the service you’ve been looking for? Please email us at board@whiteplainschildrenscenter.org to arrange to visit our next Board meeting.
Monthly Meeting Reports
Reports from the monthly meeting will be posted to the archives reports page. The Center operates on a fiscal year July 1–June 30. The Board does not meet in June or December. There will be no reports posted for those months.
Reports Archives
Current Board Membership
Fiscal Year Budget
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Code of Ethics
White Plains Children’s Center Board of Directors
Code of Ethical Conduct
In a caring, cooperative work place, human dignity is respected, professional satisfaction is promoted, and positive relationships are modeled. The Board of Directors assumes responsibility to establish and maintain settings and relationships that support productive work and meet professional needs of our employees.
We, the Board of Directors, adopt the following ideas and principles:
I. Responsibilities to Employees
- Promote policies and working conditions that foster mutual respect, competence, well-being, and positive self-esteem in staff members.
- Create a climate of trust and candor that will enable staff to speak and act in the best interests of children, families and the field of early childhood care and education.
- Strive to secure equitable compensation (salary and benefits) for those who work at WPCC.
- In decisions concerning children and the program at WPCC, we shall appropriately utilize the education, training, experience and expertise of staff members.
- We shall provide staff members with safe and supportive working conditions that permit them to carry out their responsibilities, timely and non-threatening evaluation procedures, written grievance procedures, constructive feedback and opportunities for continuing professional development and advancement.
The Board of Directors of White Plains Children’s Center, as the governing body, assumes responsibility in this community to provide a program that meets the needs of this community, to cooperate with other agencies and professionals who also share responsibility for children of the community.
We, the Board of Directors, adopt the following ideas and principles:
II. Ethical Responsibilities to Community and Society
- Provide the community with high-quality (age and individually appropriate, and culturally and socially sensitive) education/care programs and services.
- Support cooperation among agencies and interdisciplinary collaboration among professions concerned with the welfare of young children, their families and their teachers.
- Support knowledge and understanding of young children and their needs.
- Support policies and laws that promote the well-being of children and families, and to oppose those that impair their well-being.
- We shall not hire or recommend for employment any person whose competence, qualifications or character makes him or her unsuited for a position at WPCC.
- We shall not participate in practices that are in violation of laws and regulations that protect the children of our program.
- We shall communicate openly and truthfully about the nature and extent of services provided.
We, the members of the Board of Directors of White Plains Children’s Center, individually agree to a high standard of conduct as we perform the duties of governing this organization.
As a member of the Board, I agree to abide by the following ideas and principles:
III. Code of conduct for Board Members
- I will respect each member’s ideas and opinions.
- I will honor and support the decisions made by the Board
- I will honor the confidentiality of discussions and certain decisions made by the Board.
- I will abide by the By Laws of this organization.
- I will participate in making the governing decisions of this organization without conflict of interest, such that all decisions are in the best interest of the families, children, employees and the program of this organization.
- I will represent this organization within this community with dignity.
- I will be a good-will ambassador for this organization within the community.
- I will support the mission of this organization by willingly participating in the activities of the Board of Directors.
These guidelines were adapted from the Code of Ethical Conduct as established by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Board Membership Opportunity
