The Fundamentals: Nonprofit Lifecycles and Assessment: Measuring What Matters! (Bordentown, NJ)

 Workshop Faciliated by David Grant

This full-day workshop combines two of the Dodge Foundation’s most popular workshop offerings, and will provide a critical foundation for the rest of the Board Series curriculum. Using the seminal concepts presented in Susan Kenny Steven’s award-winning book, Nonprofit Lifecycles, we will examine the predictable challenges and capacity benchmarks that nonprofits and their board members can expect to face at different stages of organizational development. The workshop will also shatter your pre-conceived ideas about assessment and provide invaluable tools to help you incorporate assessment into planning and feedback processes by focusing on improving your work, not merely auditing it. Participants will learn the basics of how to develop their own assessment rubrics and then apply the techniques to develop rubrics about Board-related priorities for subsequent workshop offerings. Each participating nonprofit organization must bring a team of up to five people and a minimum of two which includes the Executive Director (or comparable staff) and Board Chair. Other attendees may include the Treasurer, Fundraising Committee Chair, and/or Governance Committee Chair. In addition, the Chair of the Personnel Committee and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee will benefit from later sessions and may want to attend as part of the team.