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The BoardCorps™ Suite of Leadership Development Programs for High Performing Boards

BoardCorps™: Bootcamp
A full-day immersion into the roles, responsibilities, liabilities, and rewards, Bootcamp is the definitive path to high impact, meaningful board membership. Our "blue chip" program is for the individuals who are truly serious about excellence in board service and those organizations committed to professional nonprofit board development.

This acclaimed full-day session, is ideal for:

  • individuals considering joining a board to fulfill their interest in community service 
  • current board members with less than two years' experience
  • longer-serving board members who want a formal reminder of best practices
  • civic-minded corporations that value community service by their employees

Bootcamp is currently offered as a customized on-site group training, as the consummate orientation for a nonprofit board, or for savvy businesses for personnel being groomed for leadership roles (see below).

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BoardCorps™: Beyond Bootcamp: Board Officers and Committee Chairs
Beyond Bootcamp is an advanced step in board leadership development

This full-day experience is designed for currently serving board members who are in, or moving toward, leadership roles on nonprofit boards as officers or committee chairs. Preparing you to make an even greater impact as a leader, Beyond Bootcamp delves into modern governance models to enhance committee structure, demonstrates how to design and run effective meetings, hire and evaluate the executive director, prepare for succession and transition, recruit and retain board members, etc. Just as you bring a high level of skills to your personal life and work, this program enables you to perform at the highest levels in your community service.

Beyond Bootcamp is currently offered as on-site training for the convenience of an organization's board leadership, with a curriculum built around your agency's unique culture, values, mission, and structure.

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BoardCorps™: Achieving Board Excellence through Best Practices -- MEMBERPLUS BENEFIT
 You can take a giant leap forward for free by joining The Nonprofit Center at the MemberPlus level, which entitles you to an approximately 2.5 hour on-site "Achieving Board Excellence through Best Practices" presentation by one of our governance experts.  This session gives insight into effectively performing the roles and responsibilities of board members, including legal liability, strategic planning, financial management, chief executive assessment and organizational performance evaluation.  Any board committed to excellence, as well as those beginning a major undertaking such as strategic planning or a fundraising campaign, will be more effective as a result of this presentation.  For MemberPlus members who renew their membership, we offer advanced trainings in fundraising, board recruitment and retention, finances, succession planning, and more, building on the skills you've already acquired.

 

"The Board raved about the program.  They seem truly grateful for the guidance and kind of shocked that they have underplayed their roles for such a long time.  We are at a tipping point to become a more sustainable organization and hopefully this training will be the push in the right direction."
-Kim Andrews, Executive Director, Friends of the Japanese House and Garden

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Customized On-site Corporate Board Leadership Programs
Fulfilling a commitment to corporate social responsibility involves training leaders within your company to serve your community representing your business, your image and your philosophy to the outside world. This program, tailored to your corporate goals and mission, prepares this core of current and future leaders to bring the same high standards of professionalism that they do to their work to the nonprofit organizations they serve on your behalf.
“PECO has utilized The Nonprofit Center’s BoardCorps leadership development program for four years. They’ve done a wonderful job of working with PECO officers to prepare them to be effective board members and to ask the right questions. The program is so popular that we have created a “Board 201” for the “101” grads who want to come back to discuss their current issues and challenges in their board service.”

-Jeff Gordon, PECO Manager of Corporate Relations

 

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