Legal Webinar: Getting Beyond a Semi-Functional Board

Getting Beyond a Semi-Functional Board

Wednesday, May 14 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Webinar

Presented by: Don Kramer, Esq., Of Counsel, Montgomery McCracken, and Editor, Nonprofit Issues

AND: Ashley Suhler Tobin, Standards for Excellence Director, PANO

Offered in Partnership with: Nonprofit Issues

*NOTE: PANO does NOT offer CPE & CLE credits for accountants and lawyers. You MUST REGISTER HERE via Nonprofit Issues if you are interested in these credits. You can reach them at info@nonprofitissues.com.*

None of the information in this webinar should be deemed legal advice or should be acted upon without prior consultation with appropriate professional advisors.

Do you have a rockstar board?

Or does it limp along performing the minimum necessary to keep the organization going? Driven by the CEO because no one on the board wants to be responsible for leadership.

Most boards are somewhere in between. Functional perhaps, but not fully functional – more what you would call semi-functional.

This webinar will help you get beyond a semi-functional board. By acting intentionally at every step of the governance process, you can improve your organization’s capacity, resilience, and effectiveness.

We will start with understanding whose organization it is and the org’s position on the life cycle of organizations. From there, we’ll get into:

• How do you build a board for what you need? 
• Should you have an orientation for all new members? And a refresher for others?
• Do the directors understand the responsibilities of the board? (We’ll have a short but specific list to consider.)
• Do they understand their own responsibilities, and how their personal responsibilities differ from the board responsibilities? Do they enjoy serving on the board? How can you get the best from the most?
• Have they built in personal protections from liability? Avoided doing the things that are absolutely prohibited? Done the things that are absolutely required?
• Do they understand how the conduct of board meetings can make a difference?
• Is adopting a consent agenda enough?
• Do they understand the role of committees? And advisory committees?
• Do they know how to improve the partnership with the CEO?

We will discuss these topics and more, pointing out subtleties that can make a difference. We don’t promise that you will develop a rockstar board, but we do think we can help you move toward a more fully functional board to improve the organization.

This webinar is presented by nonprofit attorney Don Kramer and PANO Standards for Excellence Director Ashley Suhler Tobin.

*NOTE: PANO does not offer CPE & CLE credits for accountants and lawyers.

You MUST REGISTER HERE via Nonprofit Issues if you are interested in these credits.

You can reach them at info@nonprofitissues.com.*

SINGLE LOGIN COST:
$45 per person for PANO Members | $100 per person for Not-Yet Members

Terms of Participation
Your purchase entitles you to a single login. Please do not share the login information with others, as it may interfere with your ability to join. If multiple individuals from your organization would like to view the webinar, please purchase separate tickets for each person or consider a group screening ticket (below).

GROUP SCREENING COST (4-10 individuals):
$150 per group for PANO Members | $333 per group for Not-Yet Members

Terms of Participation
If you have 4-10 individuals interested in attending the webinar, please have one person register selecting one group ticket. You can then enter the names and email addresses of up to 9 other individuals to add to your group ticket. Each person registered will receive their own unique login instructions and may join from wherever is most convenient for them.

This option makes the most sense when you have 4-10 individuals interested in viewing the webinar. For fewer than 4 attendees, a single login ticket for each person is the most cost-effective option. For more than 10 attendees, please email Christina at christina@pano.org to discuss options.

MATERIALS AND LOGIN INSTRUCTIONS:
Materials (PowerPoint and other handouts) and instructions on how to login will be emailed to attendees a few days prior to the date of the webinar.

PANO uses Zoom as our webinar platform; you can familiarize yourself with Zoom and/or join a test meeting prior to these sessions.

All PANO registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Donald W. Kramer, Esq., Nonprofit Issues & Montgomery McCracken

Donald W. Kramer serves as chair of Montgomery McCracken’s Nonprofit practice group. Don has more than 45 years of experience dealing with the concerns of nonprofit organizations, not only as a lawyer, but also as a teacher, writer, publisher, and board member.

He has worked with nonprofits of all types and sizes, helping structure startup situations and restructure multiorganizational health and educational systems. He counsels on a wide range of nonprofit corporate structure and governance, private and community foundations, continuing care retirement communities, exempt organization taxation, low-income housing tax credit transactions, real estate, charitable giving, and other nonprofit issues.

Don serves as the editor and publisher of Don Kramer’s Nonprofit Issues®, a national newsletter of “Nonprofit Law You Need to Know,” which he founded in 1989.

Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken in 1972, Don served as deputy development coordinator and assistant to the mayor of Philadelphia.

Ashley Suhler Tobin, PANO Standards for Excellence Director

Ashley Suhler Tobin is a strategic nonprofit professional with over 16 years of experience in program development, program management and relationship management. As a Licensed Consultant for the Standards for Excellence in Pennsylvania and nationally, she brings deep expertise in nonprofit governance and management for PANO’s Standards for Excellence program.

Ashley’s career includes roles such as Program Development Director at Turning Points for Children and as a consultant for a variety of nonprofits in Pennsylvania. Ashley also ran a nonprofit networking program in Philadelphia called Connecting Coffee.

With a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from The George Washington University, Ashley is dedicated to fostering transparency, upholding ethical standards, and delivering high-impact results.