Session 4: Engineering the Foundation Board for Fundraising Success

A diverse, engaged foundation board can be a force multiplier for a college, leveraging needed perspectives, experience, expertise, and relationships to advance the college’s mission. This Webinar On Demand provides an overview of the governance practices needed to engineer an engaged board aligned with an eye toward advancing the strategic priorities of the foundation and the institution. The session provides guidance on developing a foundation board composition matrix, ensuring board diversity, building a pipeline of board candidates, developing board orientation and education, and maintaining board engagement—in short, engaging the right people and providing them with the tools to lead and succeed.

Viewers will explore:

• Board engagement
• Board responsibilities and priorities
• Board composition and succession planning
• Board assessment

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Series Facilitators:

David Bass, executive director, philanthropic governance, AGB
Betheny L. Reid, consultant, AGB; CEO and principal, Betheny L. Reid & Associates LLC

Speakers:

Katherine Sawyer, executive director, Oakton Community College Educational Foundation; chief advancement officer and associate vice president of marketing and communications, Oakton Community College; member, AGB Board of Directors
Lynnette Heard, consultant, AGB