Mission Accomplishment and Your Governing Board

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 9 a.m. - Noon

Registration is closed for this workshop. Thank you for your interest.

Hosted by North Park University, Chicago, IL

Half-Day Workshop: $90

3 CEUs

About this Session:  Do you ever wonder what your board is contributing to the accomplishment of your organization’s mission? Do members of your board ever ask? A top-notch board of directors does more than simply provide resources in the form of time, talent and treasure; they ensure that your organization stays in alignment with its mission. This workshop will reveal how to turn your board’s energies into a lean, mean community-engaging machine. Equally important, it will help you identify the ways your board might accidentally be interfering with mission accomplishment, and help you determine safeguards to put in place so everyone stays on the same page.

Who Should Participate: Executive directors and fundraising staff

About the Presenter: Kelly Kleiman, J.D. is Principal of NFP Consulting.  Kelly provides board development, strategic planning and fundraising advice to the nonprofit community through her Chicago-based practice, founded in 1987. Kelly was Assistant Dean of Chicago-Kent College of Law and Executive Director of the Chicago Children’s Choir, and earlier in her career, she practiced real estate and zoning law with the firm of Rudnick & Wolfe and served as Deputy Director of the advocacy group Public Funding for the Arts. She co-founded and served for two terms as president of the Association of Consultants to Nonprofits. Kelly holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago.

Kelly is also a freelance journalist whose work on social policy, women’s issues and the arts has appeared in dailies including the New York Times (Chicago edition), Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor; in magazines including Chicago and In These Times; in the alternative press and on-line; and on radio for the BBC, WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio and WDCB Public Radio.