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This webinar has been designed in response to the expressed concern that
it can sometimes take new board members several months or more to fully
understand their roles and responsibilities. Just-In-Time Board
Orientation will provide a clear, crisp picture of your board member’s
responsibilities in policy development, strategic planning, fiduciary
duties, fundraising, and oversight functions. This session will provide
information, tools and techniques needed to bring new board members up
to speed quickly. It will increase their confidence and their
productivity in board and committee meetings right from the start. As a
result, new board members will be better able to “hit the ground
running.” Just-in-Time Board Orientation can even be offered to
prospective board members to assist them in making an informed decision
about whether to join your board. The session can also help current
board leaders re-focus their efforts. Attendees will receive a board
orientation resource packet. The Just-in-Time Board Orientation program
will be held on a regular basis during the coming year in order to
provide nonprofits with a dependable high quality resource they can
count on as they integrate new board members into active board service
on an ongoing basis.
Special Features: Attendees will receive a board orientation
resource manual in advance of the webinar. After the session, they will
receive the PowerPoint presentation file used in the webinar as well as
access to answers to future questions, leads on additional capacity
building resources, and more.
Who Should Attend: New board members, prospective board
members, individuals thinking of joining a board and looking for a
convenient way to find out what board service entails, executive
directors, chairpersons of board nominating, governance, and training
and development committees.
Attend As A Team: This webinar can be viewed by several board
members from the same organization using one computer making your
investment in Just-in-Time Board Orientation even more cost effective.
Presenter: Frank Martinelli
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2011
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CST
Introductory Price: $49
Session Agenda
Overview of Board Roles
- Collective board responsibilities
- Individual board member responsibilities
- Legal standards
The Board at Work
- Strategic planning
- Policy making
- Board/Staff relations
- Meetings
- Committees
- Decision-making flow
Other Resources for Board Member Training and Development
- Print and web-based resources
- Organizations
Presenter Bio:
Frank Martinelli, The Center for Public Skills Training Frank
Martinelli has over 35 years of work, training and consulting experience
with a variety of nonprofit and public sector organizations. He is
president of the Center for Public Skills Training where he specializes
in strategic planning, governing board development, volunteer
management, and community partnership and alliance building. Since 1976
over 25,000 professional staff, board and other volunteer leaders have
benefited from Frank's practical, results-oriented training and
consultation.
Frank served as a member of the national faculty of The Learning
Institute, a joint venture of the Society for Nonprofit Organizations,
PBS, United Way of America, and the University of Wisconsin-Extension
designed to deliver training through a range of emerging technologies.
The Learning Institute, faculty and partners were the recipient of the
American Distance Education Consortium 2000 Award for the “Certificate
of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management Satellite Series”.
He has provided training and consultation to over 1800 organizations in
the US including Peace Corps, Head Start, The Points of Light
Foundation, Association of Volunteer Administration, the American
Camping Association, Wisconsin Association of Homes and Services for the
Aging, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Medical College of
Wisconsin, Greater Milwaukee Committee, American Lung Association and
others. From 1981-1992, Frank served as Coordinator of THE RESOURCE
CENTER, a major provider of training to nonprofit groups in the Greater
Milwaukee area.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin with an M.S. in Urban
Affairs, Frank has done numerous workshops on nonprofit management
topics with special emphasis on involvement of the Board of Directors.
Frank has written extensively about the management of nonprofit
organizations and is a contributing author to the New Directions
publication by Jossey-Bass, "Small Nonprofits: Strategies for Fund
Raising Success." He has been trained by the Peter F. Drucker Foundation
in the use of the Organizational Self-Assessment Tool. Frank has
completed the Advanced Board Consultant Training Program offered by
BoardSource, formerly known as the National Center for Nonprofit Boards.
Frank has recently completed the Distance Education Professional
Development Certification Program offered at the University of Wisconsin
and is presently developing a number of web-based and other distance
learning offerings for nonprofits. Frank also publishes the Strategic
Thinking and Planning Blog offering his reflections on strategic
planning in the nonprofit sector.
Frank served as a community organizer for the Citizen Action Program
(CAP) in Chicago and as a founding organizer and staff director of the
Milwaukee Alliance of Concerned Citizens. He also served as Senior
Training Consultant to ACTION/VISTA from 1977 to 1981.In addition to his
professional work, since high school days, Frank has played key roles in
founding and leading a number of nonprofit organizations. In 1993, the
Wisconsin Association of Nonprofit Organizations established The Frank
Martinelli Volunteer Achievement Award. The award recognized excellence
in voluntary service to the nonprofit sector in Wisconsin.
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