Course Details

This course is targeted to both new and experienced board members, as well as to nonprofit CEOs and executives who interact with board members. Working together with your peers in an interactive approach to learning, participants will walk away with valuable new information, strategies and tools to maximize board impact, including:

• Basic responsibilities of nonprofit boards and individual board members.
• How to set up structures, including committees, that truly work.
• Tools to build and maintain relationships among board members, the board chair, the executive director and staff.
• How to measure the effectiveness of the board and the organization.
• How to select, evaluate, support and, if necessary, replace the executive director.
• The board development cycle, including succession planning.
• Financial oversight.
• How to develop and conserve the organization's resources, both funds and property.
• Leading and engaging an equitable and inclusive organization.
• How to set the organization's mission and overall strategy, while including key stakeholders.
• How to be an effective ambassador to the community.

Course Length: 2 Days

Tuition: $770.0

Course counts toward a professional certificate (PCP): Yes