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How To Get Your Board
Fired Up About the
Cause
“No Problem Can be
Solved From the
Same Level of
Consciousness That
Created It.”
Albert Einstein
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Change YOUR Perspective
1. Take responsibility.
2. Ask them what they
think and listen.
3. You’re in the
motivational business.
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The Fired-Up System
1. Fire-‐Up Your Board!
2. Redefine Fund-‐raising
3. Easy NO ASK Jobs
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Board Members Need A Story to Tell
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. . . because they don’t know
what to say.
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#1 Re-Ignite Their Passion
Discover Their Personal Story
Why Do You Care About
Your Organization?
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1. What you say
2. How you say it
3. Get a reaction
4. Request for followup
Mingle Exercise = The Elevator Speech
“Gail, I am putting some of your ideas into action….
At our last Trustee meeting, I asked, “What legacy do you want to leave from serving on this board?”
Well, you would have thought I had opened the flood gates. One man told us about his cousin in hospice . . . and how we helped his family through that terrible time.
This turned out to be the best meeting we've had so far on with this group in the last 3 years!
This is a wonderful and satisfying change for the better.” Laurie Taylor, Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation
Great Results!
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SNEEZE (the viral message) Wherever You Go!
A Deep Discussion
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A Deeper Discussion
Bring Your Fundraising
Program Alive
Panel Discussion: #2 What Are We Raising Money
For?
#3 Give Board Members a
Direct Personal Experience
of Your Impact in the World
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#3 Mission Moments for Board Members
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A Word About
Nonprofit BOARDS
Is This Your Board?
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Is This Your Board?
Is This Your Board?
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Is This Your Board?
High Level People
Doing Low Level Work?
Is This Your Board? Is This Your Board? Is This Your Board?
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Is This Your Board? Boring Meetings = A Bored Board
#4 Liven Up Your Board Meetings
Liven Up Your Board Meetings
1. Fireside chat with the ED. 2. Blow up the agenda. 3. Focus on problems, challenges, or broad
issues.
12 WAYS TO LIVEN UP A BOARD MEETING
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Is This Your Board?
Is This Your Board?
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Reasons to Return to a Meeting
1. Learning 2. Recognition 3. Efficient 4. Effective 5. Irritants deal with 6. Have fun!
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A Board Member Deserves
a TERRIFIC Experience!
What Do Board Members Want? • Board members they want to meet • Admire the CEO • NOT All work and no play • Trust • Bonded team • Stimulating meetings • REAL work
What Nonprofit Boards Want June Bradham
Motivate Board Members:
• Is it personally satisfying? • Do I like the group? • Am I passionate about the cause? • Do I respect the CEO? • Is my time respected? • MONEY FOLLOWS EXPERIENCE
What Nonprofit Boards Want June Bradham
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Don’t Burn Out Your Board Members!
10 Basic ResponsibiliCes of Nonprofit Boards 1. Determine the organizaKon’s mission and purpose 2. Select the chief execuKve 3. Provide proper financial oversight 4. Ensure adequate resources. 5. Ensure legal and ethical integrity and maintain accountability. 6. Ensure effecKve organizaKonal planning. 7. Recruit and orient new board members and assess board
performance. 8. Enhance the organizaKon’s public standing. 9. Determine, monitor, and strengthen the organizaKon’s
programs and services. 10. Support the chief execuKve and assess his or her performance.
- Boardsource quoted in GPA blog post
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Is Your Board Focused on
MANAGING your organization
Or
ADVANCING THE MISSION?
Group Process
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A Nonprofit Board as a “Group”
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The Solution?
Don’t Forget!
Peer pressure
Drives
Performance ���
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#5 Give Them Social Time #5 Give Them Social Time
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Social Time For Board Members
Builds Trust and
Collegiality
7 Insider Secrets of High Performing Boards
1. Ground rules. 2. Clear expectations. 3. Team spirit. 4. Trust. 5. Partnership with CEO. 6. Commitment to action. 7. Social Time.
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#6 Specific Action Items
What do they need TO DO in the next three months?
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A Fired-Up Board:
#1 Re-Ignite their passion
#2 What are we raising $ for?
#3 Mission moments
#4 Interesting meetings
#5 Social time
#6 Focus on action items
Last Word on the BOARD
“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”
Jack Welch
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Next Webinars
Dec. 7: Last Minute Strategies to Raise The Money You Need Jan 12: 2011 Trend Outlook:
Seven New Rules for Fundraising in Changing Times Feb: Create an Engaged, EnthusiasKc Board Full of Passion for
the Cause
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