Be a star on your Board!
February 2009 Archive
Time: 8:31
Board Directors scattered across the country or around the world often employ creative methods for conducting Board business, developing the Board, and advancing the knowledge and interests of the organization’s membership. Soil and Water Conservation Society, founded in 1943, is an international organization serving more than 5,000 members. Board President Peggie James talks with Pat Wyzbinski of the Nonprofit Management Fund about the Society’s experiences with teleconferences, blogs, electronic publications, and other ways it engages leaders, shares information, increases efficiency, and reduces costs.
Time: 8:48
Using skills developed over a lifetime to help a nonprofit organization is deeply satisfying for Sarah Dean, whose distinguished career in health administration, regulation, policy development, and analysis in the public and private sectors spanned 45 years. She talks with Pat Wyzbinski of the Nonprofit Management Fund about decisions she made as a retiree that laid the groundwork for her active re-engagement in community issues and offers advice to retiring executives who are considering community service.
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