Serving as a board member is an incredible opportunity to lead within the nonprofit sector and put your passion for a charitable cause into practice. Along with an affinity for the mission, effective board members must possess a clear understanding of roles and responsibilities to keep your...
Your board has tremendous potential power. It can move your mission forward with focus and intention if it is set up for success. Too often boards don’t tap into their full power because their members don’t know what the job is, aren’t prepared to do the job, or aren’t effectively supported....
This two-hour, in-person session will be held at Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) Training Room, 2600 Grand Avenue in Des Moines.
Serving as a board member is an incredible opportunity to lead within the nonprofit sector and put your passion for a charitable cause into practice....
The Latin root word for governance is gubernare, which means to guide or pilot a ship. Governance is typically demonstrated by a collective group of people tasked with guiding an organization in alignment with its mission, vision, and values. Social movements are also a type of group action...
During this session, we will explore these questions and provide practical guidance and tools to help nonprofit board members (and the staff who support them) strengthen a key governance function: decision-making. We will help you assess the “data culture” of your board and organization and...
The $10 fee includes PDF workbook and hard copy mailed post-event. Serving as a board member is an incredible opportunity to lead within the nonprofit sector and put your passion for a charitable cause into practice. Along with an affinity for the mission, effective board members must possess a...
This overview of organizational assessments concludes with part three which focuses on the Executive Director Performance Review. The session offers a framework for participants to consider the key elements of a reasonable review and have a discussion with their own associations, congregations,...
This overview organizational assessments continues with part two of this three-part series. The topic for the 90-minute January 20 session is The Board Assessment. The series offers a framework for participants to consider the key elements of a reasonable review and have a discussion with their...
This overview of organizational assessments offers a framework for participants to consider the key elements of a reasonable review and have a discussion within their own association, congregation, or charitable cause about what constitutes a reasonable evaluation of the key indicators of their...
The $10 fee includes a PDF download workbook and hard copy mailed post-event.
The event is designed for newly elected board members, volunteers interested in board service, seasoned board members seeking to re-familiarize themselves with the role and responsibilities, executive directors...
