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How to Overcome 4 Key Challenges to Diversifying Your Nonprofit Board
Free for members
How do you recruit new board members authentically and avoid tokenizing candidates? Nicole Jacobs Silvey, President and Founder of Connection Coach KC, shares what changes you need to make to truly transform your board.
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Description
Your board has recognized the need for diversity and inclusion. So how do you recruit authentically and avoid tokenizing candidates and new members? What changes do you need to make to truly transform your board? And is your organization ready?
We opened up discussion -- with the opportunity to remain anonymous -- at multiple points in the webinar for questions, challenges, and anecdotes. Get serious about what your board can achieve in the next year and beyond!
Please join Nicole Jacobs Silvey, President and Founder of Connection Coach KC, to discuss:
- How to find board candidates outside your typical circles, and how to recruit and include them authentically Why many boards have trouble acting on diversity and inclusion initiatives
- How to move past real or conceived compromises in prioritizing board diversity -- the notion that you must sacrifice "influence and affluence," for example
- Resources to help you integrate diversity and inclusion into your strategic decisions, rather than feel competition between the two
We opened up discussion -- with the opportunity to remain anonymous -- at multiple points in the webinar for questions, challenges, and anecdotes. Get serious about what your board can achieve in the next year and beyond!
Presenter
Nicole Jacobs Silvey has over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector as the center of her career and her multifaceted volunteerism. As a consultant, coach, and trainer, she helps organizations and professionals become stronger, more strategic, and more inclusive.
Included
- How to Overcome 4 Key Challenges in Diversifying Your Nonprofit Board 1-hour webinar
- Presenter slides
- Nicole's recommended national and local resources
Category: Board Development, Diversity + Inclusion
Notes from webinar participants
"We have a strong diversity statement within our new organization but this webinar helped me (as Exec Director) to shape it more clearly and to be able to see it through all aspects of all activities."
"I thoroughly enjoyed Nicole's thoughtful insight into this topic and found her method of clarifying and explaining to be inspirational and eye-opening without any judgement."
"I really enjoyed the candid approach to this difficult topic. It helped me see the issue from different eyes than my own."