Effective Nonprofit Governance:  How Boards Should Work

Date and Time: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 09:00 am to 04:00 pmLocation: Bucks County Community College - 275 Swamp Road, Newtown, PA 18940

$159.00

Registration for this course is through Bucks County Community College. For more information visit their website - http://www.bucks.edu/businesscareer/pro-dev/browsebyindustry/nonprofitmanagement/

Effective board membership requires more than good intentions and meeting attendance. This impactful board training is the first step in appreciating the objective and true roles and responsibilities that the job of board member requires. Attendees will come to comprehend the full responsibilities of board membership, in both the context of being part of a larger whole, as well as an individual. In addition, this course will show how to maximize the all important partnership of board and executive director.

Participants will develop a deeper understanding of key elements of board responsibility, such as the law’s performance expectations of nonprofit board members, strategic planning, fundraising, financial management, and the care and feeding of the board. Participants will leave knowing that they can now cement their good intentions in best practices, including being able to apply standard tools for board
assessment and governance and sample essential policies to their organizations.

Category: Tags: , Audience: Board members, executive directors Certificate Programs: Nonprofit Management

Event Location

Date: March 20th, 2019

Location: Bucks County Community College

Address: 275 Swamp Road

Newtown, PA 18940

Fee $159

Instructors

  • Laura Otten, Ph.D.

    Laura Otten, Ph.D., has been the director of The Nonprofit Center since 2001. She began her affiliation with The Nonprofit Center shortly after it was formed in the early 1980s, working as a consultant and trainer, primarily in the areas of board development, strategic planning and program evaluation and she continues to play these roles, in addition to providing direction and leadership to The Nonprofit Center’s educational, consulting, and leadership development programs.  In 2013, she helped launch and became the first director of the Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership at La Salle University.  Laura  is a national expert in numerous aspects of nonprofit