Whether you work for a nonprofit or you’re on the board, you know nonprofits usually have more going on than people to do it. So chances are you haven’t been trained in the appropriate roles of the board.

In this energetic training, you’ll learn the roles a board is supposed to play and ways to increase effective communication with the board and the nonprofit staff. This seminar can be given in half-day or full-day formats and is great for both board members and employees of nonprofits.

While this training will be customized for your specific situation, in each training we’ll cover:

• Board Basics
  1. the 2 major jobs of the board
  2. tips to help board meetings be more productive [In the full day training, we'll customize an agenda for your next board meeting.]
  3. 4 major mistakes board members make
  4. simple tools to help the board chair communicate with the executive director
• Vision & Marketing
  1. Determining your organization’s most important attribute
  2. Creating a strategy for all board members to easily articulate the nonprofit’s mission [In the full day training, we'll create a marketing strategy for your board and nonprofit.]
• Training in asking for money
  1. An overview of where money comes from
  2. The general areas nonprofits raise money for
  3. An common sense approach to fundraising that will make it easy for your members to ask
  4. How to overcome objections [In the full day training, we identify the 5-7 most common objections for your nonprofit.]
• Strategy & Goal-Setting
  1. A suprising way to identify goals
  2. A simple way to create road maps to accomplishing any goal you set [In the full day training, we map out real goals for your nonprofit.]

At the end of this training, each participant will have a concrete action item and a date to get it accomplished.

To schedule this training for your board, contact Marc at marc@fundraisingcoach.com!