Legal Webinar: Building a Better Board

Building a Better Board

Wednesday, March 11 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Webinar

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

Moderated by: Melissa Sines, Interim 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.*

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 10, 11:59 PM

Everybody wants a better board.  Whether your board is barely functioning or off-the-charts effective, the work of the board can be better, and maybe even fun.

This webinar will help you build a better board. By focusing intentionally on every step of the governance process, you can improve your organization’s capacity, resilience and effectiveness.

 We will start with understanding “whose organization is it?”  And where is it on the life cycle of organizations?

• 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 their responsibilities on the board?

We’ll have some specific issues to consider.

• Do directors 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?
• Do they understand their duty to ask “dumb questions”?
• Do they want or need term limits?
• Have they built in personal protections from liability? And avoided doing the things that are absolutely prohibited and done the things that are absolutely required?
• Do they understand the role of “the lawyer on the board”?
• 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?
• Do they know how to avoid surprises?
• Do they know who is watching, and who can make their lives miserable or threaten the organization?

We will discuss these topics and more, pointing out subtleties that can make a difference. We don’t promise that you will build a rockstar board (whatever that is). But we do think we can help you make the board better.  We will help you understand why some of the things you are doing now are critical to effective functioning. And we will undoubtedly provide some ideas that you hadn’t fully considered to make your board even better.

Melissa Sines, Interim Standards for Excellence Director for the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations, will join Don Kramer, editor of Nonprofit Issues, for the presentation.

This program is approved to provide continuing legal and continuing professional education credits for lawyers and accountants in Pennsylvania.  We can also provide a certificate of attendance for lawyers in other states who can get credit for a Pennsylvania-approved program.  (Each participant requesting educational credit must be registered for the program.)

Can’t attend the live event?  Register now and listen at your convenience.

*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.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 10, 11:59 PM

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.

Melissa Sines | Melissa Sines is a dynamic leader and strategist and one of the co-founders of Colmena Consulting. Melissa brings deep expertise to her work with public sector organizations, focusing on building collective vision, nurturing emergent strategy, and developing and holding meaningful spaces for building community, learning together, and supporting leadership at all levels for nonprofit and philanthropy boards of directors, executive leadership, and program and operations staff. Throughout her career and her work as a volunteer and organizer in her own community, she has touched every part of nonprofit governance and management structure and processes: as a founder, as a funder, as a board member, a committee member, a programs professional, an event planner, an operations and financial professional, a database administrator, a fundraiser, and a volunteer manager. Learn more about Melissa here.