Nonprofit Board Leadership Institute

Posted by on November 19, 2012

Nonprofit Board Leadership Institute
Trains Board Chairs and Executive Directors
Also Provides Grants To Advance Your Nonprofit’s Goals

Leadership development and the needs of nonprofit boards remain hot topics in the nonprofit sector. The Nonprofit Board Leadership Institute (NBLI), launched earlier this year through a partnership between the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and The Philadelphia Foundation, addresses that gap. On the heels of a very successful pilot debut, we are pleased to announce that the NBLI will be offered again in Spring 2013.

The NBLI provides nonprofit board chairs and their executive directors with some of the knowledge, tools, and support they need to better lead their organizations. Some of the topics we’ll cover include:

Cultivating the relationship between the Executive Director and Board Chair
Financial sustainability and fund development
Organizational assessment
How leaders can help their organizations have impact.

This opportunity is available to nonprofits based in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey with annual budgets between $1 and $5 million.

The United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and The Philadelphia Foundation will also award a limited number of $10,000 grants — designed to support organizations in implementing institute learnings — through a competitive application process.

We invite you and your board chair (incoming or incumbent) to be a part of this exciting new program. Due to the limited number of seats available, interested organizations must apply to participate. Applications are due by the close of business on Friday, December 14, 2012. Organizations selected for participation will be informed in early February 2013.

The NBLI will be offered as four unique sessions that will be combined into two mini-conferences, one month apart:

Thursday, March 14, 2013, 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Friday, March 15, 2013, 8 a.m. to noon
Thursday, April 18, 2013, 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Friday, April 19, 2013, 8 a.m. to noon

Please note: Both the executive director and board chair of the organization must commit to attending each session for the entire program.

We hope you will join us as we work together to strengthen and support the nonprofit sector in our region. Please view and complete the application here:

https://secure.uwsepa.org/extranet/login.asp.

[Users will need to follow the link on the log-in page for creating an account if they do not already have a username and password.]

Should you have any questions about the application process or the program, please send an email to [email protected].