The “owners” of SaskCulture are defined as the people of Saskatchewan. The Board shall be accountable for the organization (SaskCulture) to its owners as a whole. The Board shall act on behalf of the owners as a whole, rather than being advocates for specific geographic areas or interest groups. 

 The job of the Board is to represent the ownership in determining and demanding appropriate organizational performance. The Board will govern with an emphasis on outward vision (rather than an internal preoccupation), commitment to obtaining community input, encouragement of diversity in viewpoints, strategic leadership more than administrative detail, clear distinction of Board and CEO roles, collective rather than individual decisions, future rather than past or present, and proactivity rather than reactivity.

 General Criteria: 

• Commitment to linking with the ownership. 
• Understanding that they stand in for an ownership of diverse people; willing to actively seek to access and understand that diversity. 
•  Commitment to the ongoing development of cultural literacy. 
•  Ability and willingness to deal with vision and the long term, rather than day-to-day details.
• Interest in and capability to discuss the values underlying the actions taken in the organization, and to govern through the broader formulations of these values. 
•  Willingness to delegate the implementation of values to others. 
•  Ability and willingness to participate assertively in deliberation, while respecting the opinions of others. 
•  Willingness and commitment to honour Board decisions once they are made. 
•  Commitment not to make judgements in the absence of previously stated criteria. 
•  Ability to start and end every analysis and evaluation with the standard of what is right. 
•  Willingness to serve as part of the Creative Kids Canada (CKC) charity for which SaskCulture is responsible.