Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001401914-25-000014
Chunk: 19

Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 meet with members of our management team and other key leaders to gain a deeper understanding of our business and operations. Our director orientation program is also designed to assist newly elected directors in developing the skills and knowledge required to serve on our Board and any assigned Board committees, including through attending outside director education programs sponsored by professional associates as appropriate.

To facilitate the continued educational development of our directors, our Board regularly meets with management and is given periodic presentations throughout the year on our business and recent business developments. Directors regularly engage, formally and informally, with other directors and our management and other key leaders to share ideas, build stronger working relationships, gain broader perspectives and strengthen their working knowledge of our business and strategies. In addition, on an annual basis an external expert meets with the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee to discuss best practices and new developments relating to corporate governance and the operation of public company boards. Our directors also attend outside director continuing education programs sponsored by educational and other institutions to assist them in staying abreast of developments in corporate governance and critical issues relating to the operation of public company boards.

2025 Proxy Statement | Page 11

#### Board and Committee Evaluations
Our Board is committed to continuous corporate governance improvement, and Board and committee self-evaluations play an important role in ensuring the overall effectiveness of our Board and its committees. Our Board and each of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee perform an annual self-evaluation to assess their performance and effectiveness and to identify opportunities to improve. The Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee oversees the Board annual self-evaluation process, reviews and analyzes the results of the self-evaluation with our outside corporate counsel, and presents the results to our Board for discussion, including as to whether changes to our Board’s processes, procedures, composition or Committee structure should be considered. As appropriate, the self-evaluations result in enhancements or changes to our practices as well as commitments to continue existing practices that our directors believe contribute positively to the effective functioning of our Board and its committees.

#### Additional Policies and Practices
Equity Award Grants

We have an Annual Equity Award Granting Policy that sets forth the process and timing for us to follow when we grant annual equity awards to our employees, including our executive officers, pursuant to our equity compensation plans. Under the policy, annual equity awards granted to existing employees must be approved by our Board or the Compensation Committee and will generally be granted, if at all, on the date our Board approves the annual stock option award to our Chief Executive Officer