Trainers: Jill
Sheldon & Angela Powell
Jill Sheldon has
been helping Puget Sound area nonprofits reach greater levels of impact and
service for 18 years. For the past five years, Jill has offered the
nonprofit and philanthropic communities executive coaching and
results-focused consulting through her company Open Road Coaching and
Consulting. She has facilitated numerous strategic planning efforts and
board retreats, helped a number of organizations create effective long-term
fundraising plans and worked as a leadership coach with many executive
directors in the foundation and nonprofit communities.
Angela Powell
has been organizing effective change efforts since the 3rd grade, when
she instigated a school-wide anti-smoking campaign. After a substantive
career working in nonprofit organizations, foundations, and community
organizing, she launched Imago Organizational Design in 2002. Angela has had
the honor of working with many amazing leaders and organizations over the
past six years through Imago, with activities ranging from executive
coaching and board and staff development, to strategic planning and research
design. She has particular interest and expertise in supporting people and
organizations to navigate the nuances of cultural difference well and in the
service of their essential work.
Using Creative Practice to Turn Up
the Vitality Dial on Board Dynamics*
The capacity of any board to direct resources--financial, intellectual or
emotional - to help a non-profit achieve its vision depends on the depth of
engagement of every board member, not just the few who carry the most
water. This training will focus on developing our "creative practice" for
the purposes of deeper board engagement, during a single meeting and across
a member's tenure. Across the spectrum and throughout the range of our
experience, creativity is the touchstone for success in all human endeavors.
It is the essential force behind dynamic change, organizational
transformation and can be broken down into several cognitive and
non-cognitive creative habits we can learn and become fluent in.
In this training with the support of three facilitators, participants will
experience an extensive series of self-reflective and interactive exercises
to showcase the whole range of creative habits, as well as witness and
reflect on the effect they have on individuals, as well as the group
dynamic. Our learning objectives for every participant are:
- Greater understanding of what creativity is and why it's relevant
for organizational transformation.
- New skills to access creativity directly and put it to use in group
processes and convenings.
- A much expanded tool kit for
engaging a diverse board of directors more deeply and authentically in
the most important work of the organization.
Trainer: Lisa Fitzhugh
has spent the last 20 years accessing and building a strong practice of
creativity in all aspects of her work and life. She is the founder and
former executive director of Arts Corps, a national model for combining the
arts and social change. Before starting Arts Corps, Lisa's background was in
politics, both on the inside for elected officials and as a consultant.
Today she is sought after as a "creativity catalyst" through her company
Creative Ground and, with the help of several collaborators, is
helping organizations in every sector integrate active creative practice for
robust growth and transformation.
Boards and Fundraising: What Every
Board Member Needs to Know*
A critical governance responsibility of the board as a whole is to ensure
that the organization has a realistic strategy for raising funds. As
individuals, board members usually help implement that plan in various
ways. In this workshop participants will further understand the role of
the board as a whole as well as the role of individual board members. We
will focus on:
- The importance of board giving
- The board's role in fund development activities, planning, and
monitoring
- Fundraising methods and philanthropic resources.
Trainers:
Ruby Love is the Chief Development Officer for College Success Foundation.
Prior to CSF she was Director of the Gates Challenge with United Way of King
County and worked for more than 15
years as a consultant to not-for-profit organizations.
She is an active lecturer and trainer on topics of board governance,
leadership development, diversity and racial justice in the non-profit community
and philanthropy.
Adrienne Caver-Hall is the Volunteer Coordinator for the Seattle
Parks and Recreation Department. Prior experiences include serving as Managing Director of Langston Hughes Performing Arts
Center, consulting for the African American Elders Project, and serving for
three years as the Director of Festival Sundiata. Ms. Caver-Hall has sixteen
years of experience in fundraising, event management and organizational
development through her work and membership in various political and civic
organizations in the community.
Advanced Board Leadership
October 21 and 28, 8:30am-12:30pm
A partnership between
ArtsFund
Social Venture Partners
United Way of King County &
University of Washington's Evans School's Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy
Outstanding board members are effective individual contributors who also
contribute to the performance of the entire board team. Strong board
leaders catalyze exceptional performance by the group, allowing the board -
and the organization - to soar. They also create the conditions for a
resilient board - one that can effectively govern during a crisis.
A committee of seasoned nonprofit professionals searched promising practices
across the country and interviewed some of our region's most outstanding leaders
to distill the key characteristics of people who consistently move their boards
to higher levels of performance, achievement, and governance. The result is an
advanced course outlining and nurturing the competencies that were identified.
This course goes beyond the standard orientation to board roles and
responsibilities. In two half-day course sessions, participants will explore a
variety of leadership challenges. The sessions will cover the context of
leadership; adaptive leadership; elements of effective board leadership; leading
change; generative governance; effective partnerships between board members and
with the organization's CEO; and the application of concepts to participants'
specific leadership work in the community. Course sessions will be reinforced
with reading assignments.
This course is designed for people who have three to ten years experience on
a nonprofit board, have taken a leadership role on a board, and have completed
basic board training courses. A desire to be more engaged, intentional, and
effective as a board member is also essential. This course is for board
members only. Enrollment is limited to 40 participants, with a maximum of four
board members from any single organization.
Board Roles and Responsibilities*
Are you considering board service, or desiring to be more effective in your
current role as a board member? This workshop will help new and prospective
board members gain an appreciation for the roles and responsibilities of
nonprofit boards, individual board members, board officers, and board
committees. Other topics will include: legal issues for nonprofit boards,
organizational life cycles, and effective meeting
tactics.
The workshop will be engaging and interactive, and will include opportunities
for participants to apply the concepts and models to their own organizations.
Trainer: Cory Sbarbaro is founder and principal of Turnpoint
Consulting, an independent firm dedicated to guiding nonprofit organizations
through change and transition. His areas of expertise include interim
leadership, organizational assessment, planning and strategy formation,
executive coaching, and board development. Cory holds an MPA from the Evans
School of Public Affairs. Cory is a past Board President of Solid Ground
(formerly the Fremont Public Association), and currently serves on the board at
New Beginnings.
It's Your Turn: The Role of the Board Chair*
Participants will learn about the role and responsibility of the board chair
in strengthening and improving the leadership work of the board as a whole. This session is particularly designed for executive directors and new chairs or chair-elects.
If you have a lot of
experience as a Chair, this may not be for you. Please note: We have designed this session to focus specifically on the role of the Board Chair. This session will not cover overall board roles and responsibilities, board development, recruiting, orientation, and other
board-related
issues.
This
session will provide participants with the information they need to:
- Understand their role as board chair
- Run effective meetings
- Manage conflict and group process
Trainer: Amanda Madorno, owner of Roam Consulting LLC, coaches and consults
with executives and boards of directors, boosting organizational and
leadership performance throughout the country. Amanda speaks nationally and guest lectures at Leadership Institutes around
the country and serves as lead faculty for the University of Washington’s
Advanced Fundraising Management Certificate Program. She is a preferred
consulting provider to the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.
In 2007, she received the 2007 Volunteer of the Year award from United Way
King County in recognition for her popular and well-received trainings and
workshops. In a former life, Amanda sang professionally.
Board Recruitment*
One of the most important responsibilities of nonprofit boards is board
development: renewing and strengthening the board through skills
development and recruitment of talented new members. In this workshop,
participants will focus on the recruitment side, learning:
- The three life stages of nonprofit boards and what
type of board members are needed at each stage of development
- A six step process for board recruitment
- How to identify board members with the skills and
experience your organization needs
Trainer: Laura Pierce founded Laura Pierce Consulting in 1998. She assists nonprofit clients with
strategic planning, board development and capacity building. In addition, she
has served as Interim Executive Director for seven area nonprofits. Over the
past ten years, LPC has providing consulting services for more than 100
nonprofits, including social justice, human service, advocacy and arts
organizations. Laura also teaches nonprofit management at the UW Evans School
and the UW Certificate Program in Nonprofit
Management. She earned her Masters in Public Administration from University of
Washington in 1996.
