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How to Build a Fundraising Board

Author Darian Rodriguez Heyman

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Is your nonprofit struggling to secure donations from your board of directors? Are you having a tough time getting them to open doors to potential donors, funders, and partners? Listen to our dynamic presenter, Darian Rodriguez Heyman, for his latest tactical tips and practical tools to help your organization get more dollars in the door.

We discuss how to engage your board in a process that clarifies exactly what’s expected of each member, creates consensus around board expansion priorities, completely transforms your board meetings to be more productive, and helps gracefully transition off the “dead weight.”

Listen as Darian shares:

  • How to transition legacy inactive or “working” board members into engaged fundraisers.
  • How to ensure all incoming and existing trustees know exactly what’s expected of them.
  • How to get your board into lockstep around your top 3-5 recruitment priorities.
  • An easy-to-implement tip for moving board meetings from boring updates to dynamic discussions.

Once you have completed this webinar please email webinars@foundant.com to receive your CFRE certificate of completion. We will send your certificate after we have confirmed your participation.

About the Author

Darian Rodriguez Heyman is an accomplished fundraiser, nonprofit consultant, philanthropic advisor, and best-selling author. He began his life’s work “helping people help” during his five-year tenure as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation, where he founded their hugely popular Nonprofit Boot Camp and grew it to the largest nonprofit gathering in San Francisco Bay Area history after only one year. In an effort to build the capacity of even more leaders, Heyman then authored the Nonprofit Fundraising 101 and edited the best-selling Nonprofit Management 101 (now in second edition, with a new foreword from Van Jones), in addition to serving as Editor-in-Chief at the free online nonprofit magazine, Blue Avocado. Heyman specializes in helping companies, philanthropists, and nonprofits maximize impact. Beyond his active consulting practice and frequent keynotes around the globe, he also selectively assumes leadership roles when launching new initiatives. He recently served as the part-time Executive Director of Numi Foundation, where he led their clean water and environmental education work, and Co-Founder of GenderSmart (now 2X Global), an effort to funnel billions to women-led and -serving businesses. A champion of both racial and gender equity, Heyman recently completed his board service at International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere (now Fòs Feminista), is actively working for reproductive justice, and has overseen more than $20M in grants to Black-led and -serving nonprofits through his philanthropic advising practice.

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