Nonprofit Roundtable: Building and Retaining a Highly Functional Board - 04/19/2021- C0405
Join your peers for a roundtable discussion on building and retaining a highly functional board. The purpose of this roundtable is for nonprofit Executive Directors/CEOs, board chairs and board members to meet and exchange ideas and experiences with their peers:
- Strategies and tactics for building a high-functioning, engaged and supportive board that strengthens the organization and its mission impact;
- Thoughts on effective board recruitment, orientation and training;
- Tactics for maintaining a healthy board-executive director relationship.
Join your fellow board members for a robust roundtable discussion of those challenges, how they can be met, shared lessons learned, successes, and missteps.
The roundtable will be facilitated by Susan Hayes.
Registration Information
Registration Fee: $10.00
This roundtable will be by video conference. Participation will be limited to a small number to allow for dialog among all who join. The password protected link to join is included in your registration confirmation email. Please do not share this link.
If you have trouble registering, send an email to info@svscore.org
Facilitator:
Susan W. Hayes:
From 1996 to 2015 Susan Hayes served as president & CEO of ReSurge International (formerly Interplast, Inc.) where she ushered ReSurge through a strategic evolution from a direct service organization to one also educating overseas medical professionals and building permanent surgical capacity in developing countries.
Hayes came to ReSurge with 16 years of management, fundraising and media experience in public broadcasting and previously was a political science instructor at Syracuse University and the University of South Carolina and a policy analyst at think tank Syracuse Research Corporation.
She has served on a number of nonprofit boards throughout her career and currently serves on the boards of the SPOON foundation, the National Captioning Institute, and Good Karma Bikes. Her honors include a 1998 Outstanding Women of Silicon Valley award, a 2002 Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award, a 2012 Silicon Valley Business Journal Health Care Heroes Award; and the 2015 William C Lazier Leadership Award from ReSurge International.
Hayes holds BA and MA degrees from the University of South Carolina in government & international studies, an MA in political science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and completed PhD coursework in political science at the Maxwell School. She is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders.
Hayes was actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa from 1973 to 1990, and has pursued a lifelong commitment to eliminating racism and promoting women’s rights. In retirement she provides pro-bono counsel to a variety of domestic and international nonprofits