Building Your Best Board: Structure and Process

This program has been cancelled.

Is the structure of your board and committees designed to support your strategic plan and your diversity, equity, and inclusion goals? Are your board and committee meetings driving board members away? Do meetings produce board actions that drive the organization forward, or is the board stuck on minutiae that staff can handle?

A well-designed board and committee structure and meeting agenda with the right leaders can make the difference in an organization’s ability to move ahead on transformational change. In this workshop, participants will learn to:

• Deconstruct the structure and processes that may be holding your board back from being more effective and inclusive
• Structure committees for greater leadership, impact and engagement
• Redesign meetings for greater effectiveness, inclusivity and engagement
• Develop an action plan for injecting new energy into your board’s work that helps members reengage and recommit

This workshop is ideal for nonprofit board members and nonprofit staff who engage with the board.

Program fee: $35 Members of Forefront / $160 Non-members (Members must log into the Forefront website to obtain their discount. Create a new account here.)

Forefront is offering additional board-related programs in 2020 focused on recruitment, diversity and inclusion, fundraising, and performance and culture.

Reminder! Forefront is moving!
This program will be held in the Forefront conference room at our new office in the FBRK Impact House:
200 West Madison, 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60606

*Please note! Registration is required for this program and a government-issued I.D. is necessary to gain access to the building.  Please allow extra time to clear the security desk.*

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