How To Build an Award-Winning Board

How To Build an Award-Winning Board
For Your Nonprofit Organization™



Seminar Description
A great workshop that inspires board members and provides an orientation for new members. Using an interactive format, this workshop is a journey into the responsibilities and the opportunities that being a board member provides. Offers a wealth of practical ideas and strategies to lift your board to new commitment. Covers the basics for board participation and management, and how individual board members can contribute to the overall success of the organization. It teaches your board members how to do a better job and how to make board service more productive and rewarding. The seminar also teaches how to plan a fundraising campaign and provides a philosophy and technique to help board members make a difference! Her seminars are lively and interactive and provide measurable results!

Participants will learn:
· How to utilize your board of directors effectively
· Building better relationships between the board and staff
· How to design your 30 second commercial
· Communicate, communicate, communicate!
· Recruiting for your board and keeping quality people
· Creating media publicity
· Design and strategize fundraising campaigns
· Identify, approach and initiate relationships with prospective donors
· Approach fundraising positively and confidently
· Develop effective skills in working with a team or committee
· The art of successful meetings

Seminar Facilitator and Speaker:
Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA, is a trainer, consultant, an inspirational speaker, and an adjunct professor at Barry University and Nova Southeastern University in Miami, Jamaica and the Bahamas. She speaks about good communication, dealing with change, turning disasters into blessings, and crossing over the wall of fear in fundraising. She helped raise $32 million in the capital campaign for Florida Memorial College from 1999 - 2001 and helped raise $17 million in 1986-1987 for the Combined Federal Campaign in San Antonio, Texas. She has given workshops to the Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations, Miami-Dade County, The Ministry of Transport for Nigeria, The Jamaica Employers Federation, The Center for Positive Connections, and Suited for Success, Inc. She offers board training and fundraising training to nonprofits.