Powerhouse Boards Training 2025

Powerhouse Boards is a 2-part online class designed to leave you ready to serve with more joy, confidence, and results.

By the end of our four hours together, you will have:

• A strategy for recruiting diverse, mission-aligned people to your board
• A clear sense of what the job is (and an excitement to do it!)
• A recipe for committees and meetings centered on purpose and results
• Practical ways to involve board members in fundraising

COST

Use our discount code inlandnwboards to register for only $30. Our sponsorship of the series will save you $29 on the regular cost of the course, including all course materials. Learn more about the course here.

A summary of the two sessions:

January 8: Build a powerhouse board of members who know the job

Let’s start at the beginning to understand the core purpose of your organization and how you can assemble the right people to achieve your goals. When you have a clear sense of what you do and why, you can explain this purpose to people outside your organization—like potential funders, policymakers, and board members. You will understand how a diverse board sets you up for success and how to achieve greater diversity on your board. You will have a compass in hand to make decisions that will sustain your organization over time.

The right people will be ready to serve if they know the job and basic skills needed to do it. This includes the roles and responsibilities of any board member, as well as ways to customize the role to the people ready to serve. Board members who stand with two feet on the job are better able to achieve a mission.

January 15: Work well together

Boards have a lot on their plate, so let’s talk about tips and tools to help your board work well together. The number one barrier cited by board members is time, so let’s unpack how to be more effective, efficient, and expansive with the time you have! Since so much work happens at meetings, we’ll unpack the core elements of an effective meeting. You’ll learn how to use committees to make good decisions. And our favorite topic of all: how to get every board member involved in raising money for your organization. You’ll leave with “ready to go” ideas on how to bring in more money to better achieve your mission.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Nancy Bacon has trained thousands of board members and those who work with them. She is an educator who has served in the nonprofit roles of executive director, founding program director, board member, and volunteer since 1996. She created the portfolio of nonprofit classes and resources available to all nonprofits in Washington State, including Boards in Gear, Finance Unlocked for Nonprofits, and Let’s Go Legal. In 2022, Nancy launched the Nonprofit Learning Center to make sure all nonprofit leaders anywhere in the country have access to outcome-based learning: www.nonprofitlearning.center. Nancy is known for delivering highly engaging online learning that rivals being together in a room. www.nancybacon.com