Board, officers, and staff

TASFGA is pre-incorporation. Neither planned entity has been filed, no board has been seated, nobody is employed, and no advisor has accepted a seat — recruitment conversations have been non-binding letters of intent, conditioned on incorporation and a determination of tax-exempt status. The research published to date is the work of its founder.

Who is doing the work now

One person, working in the open. That is a real limitation and worth stating in the same breath as the ambition: a single researcher cannot provide the second-reader review the methodology commits to, which is exactly why systemic claims are held back rather than published on one person’s judgement. Founder biography and background are in the press room.

The design being built toward

1. Two boards, kept apart. Under the planned dual-entity structure, the Education Fund (research and publication) and the Action arm (advocacy) each carry their own board. Overlap between them would be capped and disclosed, because the whole point of the split is that one arm cannot quietly fund the other’s work.
2. Composition across sectors, not just housing. Legal, academic, public-service, journalism, and advocacy backgrounds drawn from across the areas of focus. A board that only understands the founding focus will steer everything back to it.
3. Nobody from the sector under review. The Independence Policy that governs funding governs seats too: no managing-agent firm, no law firm that represents one, no brokerage operating in that market.
4. Fixed, staggered, limited terms. Including for the founder. A founder with an indefinite seat is a governance failure of the exact kind this organisation exists to document.
5. Conflicts in writing; recusals on the record. Every board member discloses affiliations and financial interests in writing, and recuses from matters in which they hold one. Recusals are logged.
6. The Council can overrule the board on defined matters. Publication of systemic claims, adoption of standards, and activation of a new focus area sit with the Accountability Council, not with the people who run the organisation.

What gets published on the day anyone is seated

• Every name, with affiliation and the conflicts disclosed at seating — not a photograph and a job title.
• Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Conflict-of-Interest Policy, and Whistleblower Policy, in full.
• Which entity each person sits on, and any overlap between the two boards.
• Any compensation, including reimbursed expenses. The expectation is that there is none to report.

Those commitments are tracked as undelivered artifacts on the Formation Ledger, which is where to check whether they were kept.

Interested in a founding seat, or in the Accountability Council? The honest position is that nothing can be offered until the entity exists — but the conversations that shape the design happen before that, not after: contact@tasfga.com.