While facilitating a recent session on how to have an engaged board of directors, it was clear, yet again, how nonprofit leaders often struggle with identifying and attracting the right people to join their boards. Not only do you need to find someone dedicated to your organization's mission, but the board candidates must have the skills, expertise and interpersonal skills necessary to round out your board of directors. Also very important is that they want to join a nonprofit board. One option to add in to your recruitment strategy is to use LinkedIn Board Connect. Read below for a description of this process.
Here's to happy board recruiting!
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 Find Your Next Board Member Through LinkedIn
Most people are familiar with LinkedIn serving as a platform dedicated to helping people leverage their personal contacts for professional gain. What seems to be less known is that LinkedIn can be a great source for seeking out qualified, appropriate new nonprofit board of director members for virtually any type of agency.
Nonprofit leaders often find that looking for board members can be a time-consuming and often frustrating experience. Launched in 2012, LinkedIn's service, LinkedIn Board Connect, aims to help streamline this recruitment process. Board Connect helps nonprofit leaders to leverage their own networks and their board members' networks to find the right skilled professionals to join their boards. Read more...
"Accreditation in Action" Blog - ICAN
Read how our most recently highlighted agency, ICAN in Chandler, AZ, has benefited from being accredited by Council on Accreditation (COA) for After School Youth Program. Being accredited has not only supported ICAN's recent revenue growth, but has also enhanced their reputation in the community. ICAN's full article can be found here. 
To have your agency spotlighted in the "Accreditation in Action" blog series, please email us. Note: you do not need to be an Accreditation Guru client to have your agency featured.
Training Courses & Conferences
Thank you to all who participated in a dynamic discussion at the Illinois Conference on Volunteer Administration in our session "Develop and Maintain an Engaged Nonprofit Board of Directors!" For anyone who wishes information on having this topic facilitated within their organization or upcoming conference, please contact us.
Come visit our exhibit booths at upcoming conferences and talk to us about accreditation, strategic planning and board development!
California Alliance 2014 Fall Executives' Conference
September 10 - 12, 2014 - Dana Point, CA
http://www.cacfs.org/event/Conferences
2014 Alliance National Conference
October 15 - 17, 2014 - Pittsburgh, PA
http://alliance1.org/nc14
Long-term Strategic Planning
Does your nonprofit have a long-term strategic plan? Are you effectively implementing the strategic plan as a road-map for the future? Or is the thought of strategic planning too mind boggling?
All successful nonprofits have the long-term goals and strategies for hitting those goals laid out in a strategic plan. If you are a member of or know of a nonprofit board of directors that could use assistance developing a strategic plan, we can help! Please forward this newsletter to your contacts or we will be happy to follow up directly. For more information, please email us.
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