November 3, 2016: Why Board Development Matters – Joanna Gillespie, Executive Director, Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation
Individuals serve on nonprofit boards for a wide variety of reasons. No matter how much experience your board members have, you can help them better understand their role by ensuring that board development is part of every regular meeting. Beginning with recruitment, Executive Directors have the ability to guide strategic direction while growing board members, smoothing out rough relationships and making the management of programs mutually satisfying for board and staff alike.