Board Development, Engagement, and Governance

This webinar is led by Anne Marie Burgoyne, Emerson Collective’s managing director of philanthropy, who has served on over 30 nonprofit boards. During this session, Burgoyne will explore learnings, insights, and frameworks related to board stewardship, developed both from her own experiences and from experts in the board-governance space. This webinar will explore questions, such as:

• What are the core ways in which a board can play an important role in an organization?

• How might leaders consider curating their boards to provide maximum impact?

• What enables board effectiveness?

About the Speaker

Anne Marie Burgoyne is the managing director of philanthropy at Emerson Collective, where she leads the organization’s philanthropic investment process across a wide array of sectors, including education, immigration, environmental justice, and health equity. Throughout her career, Burgoyne has served on the boards of over 30 organizations. Before joining EC, Burgoyne had been a managing director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a nonprofit executive director, an investment banker, and an executive leader of a technology-services company.

Presentation Materials

• Webinar Presentation Slides

• "Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards" (by Bill Ryan)

• BoardSource Roles & Responsibilities Resource Center
  (including Ten Basic Responsibilities of Board and Checklist of Board Roles and Responsibilities), which shares more the core responsibilities of board members (not covered in the webinar)

Related Resources

Articles

• 8 Best Practices of Nonprofit Boards (by Anne Marie Burgoyne of Emerson Collective)

• A Better Board Will Make You Better (by Kim Jonker and William F. Meehan III, in Stanford Social Innovation Review)

• The Dynamic Nonprofit Board (by Paul J. Jansen and Andrea R. Kilpatrick of McKinsey & Company)

Other Resources

• Nonprofit Playbook: Board Governance: Fast Forward’s Nonprofit Board Building Playbook

• BoardSource: Board Governance Resource Library

• Grantspace: Developing Your Nonprofit Board

• Bridgespan: Board Resource Center

• CompassPoint : Nonprofit Board Basics Online Tool