Take your board to the next level!
These four classes offer a closer look at some of the most common problems to plague a nonprofit board, offered in afternoon and evening hours to accommodate your busy schedule.
Classes are $40 each, or $125 for all four. Please include the name and email address for each board member you are planning to bring in the “notes” section of the registration page.
Class 1: Harnessing the Potential of Your Board: Big Dollar Donors
Wednesday, October 17 from 4 – 6 p.m.
Are you ready for your board members to introduce you to their top relationships? Are you ready to ask for $1 million? More importantly, does your board member believe you’re ready? In this session you’ll learn a strong fundraising process that will help you communicate effectively during your presentations in order to make your board member look like a genius for making the introduction.
Instructor: Joel Burstein, Keep it Simple Training and Development, LLC Nonprofit
Class 2: Financial Oversight: What’s New?
Wednesday, October 24 from 4 – 6 p.m.
Monitoring a nonprofit’s financial health and performance has long been a key oversight function, but major changes to financial accounting and reporting for nonprofits will impact the board’s role in doing so. Bring your most recent audit or annual financial reports to the session, and join us as we review what’s new in financial oversight, such as changes to asset classification and liquidity reporting.
Instructors: Evie Gardner, Bayer Center and Joe Zovko, Louis Plung & Co.
Class 3: The Board’s Role in Leadership Growth and Transition
Wednesday, November 7 from 4 – 6 p.m.
The role of the board in a nonprofit’s employment practice is crucial. This class will unpack the board’s role as employers beyond just oversight of the ED. We’ll take a look from the board perspective at how our own HR practices reflect on the value placed on employees including salary and benefits, growing the capability of the staff and a commitment to growth and development. Inspired by the Bayer Center’s “What Now” research, this class will give a hard look at the ramifications of the retirement of Baby Boomers on the organizations that serve our communities, the need for better preparation of the next generation of nonprofit leaders.
Instructor: Peggy Morrison Outon, Bayer Center
Class 4: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 4 – 6 p.m.
Board disputes and interpersonal conflicts can lead to serious legal problems for nonprofits. In this session, you will learn how your organization can be impacted when people can’t work together, when members are removed from the board, or when the board becomes involved in litigation. We’ll discuss ways to prevent these conflicts and propose ways to manage them if they do occur. She will walk attendees through the possible consequences for the organization and its finances, and discuss the ways the court system deals with these situations.
Instructor: Abigail Salisbury, J.D., MPPM, Salisbury Legal, LLC
