Board Roles and Responsibilities Training 

Board service can be incredibly valuable to young professionals, and young professionals can be just as worthwhile to nonprofit boards.

Here are three things you can gain:

1. Develop skills that you may not have the opportunity to develop at your job. You will have the opportunity to select the committees and activities that you want to dedicate your time to, allowing you to develop new skills and utilize other talents you have.

2. Build your professional network. Being on a nonprofit board allows you to interact with individuals who likely aren’t in your current professional network.  By expanding your network in this way, you’ll discover that you have access to mentors and professional opportunities you otherwise wouldn't.

3. Develop a deeper understanding of what it takes to run a successful organization. Serving on a board allows you to experience, first-hand, the operations of an organization at a high-level. Whether or not you strive to be a leader of a nonprofit organization, learning about and making decisions on governance, financial/accounting, ethics and legal issues is not something that most of us have the opportunity to do at our places of employment. 

The Center for Nonprofit Stewardship will be speaking to Emerging Leaders about board member roles and responsibilities, how to prepare before accepting a position, and what to expect while serving.