Board Governance Dates: April 6 & 7, 2006 Times: 9 am - 4:30 pm each day Location: Community Services Building, 100 West 10th Street Wilmington, DE. Registration Deadline: March 30, 2006 Cost: $200.00 CEUs: 1.5

Board Governance:
The Power & Mission of Stewardship

This workshop will help board officers and members gain new insights and skill sets in Board Governance and Board Leadership and learn strategies and practices to reinvigorate or inculcate into the board members an understanding of the power and rewards of effective, creative stewardship. This institute has been designed to address some of the most important challenges and areas of responsibility facing nonprofit boards of directors today! The field of community development and the nonprofit sector are both experiencing pivotal changes and accountability demands from the communities and people they address and serve and from the public sector and philanthropy. The organizations and their boards of directors can no longer continue to do what they have always done. New outcomes and impacts are being required of them. The management and governance actors in such organizations must determine new ways to develop, sustain and implement shared leadership!

Skill areas to be addressed in the institute include:

• Understanding the three aspects of governance and how to implement each
• Building leadership among the board members
• Learning strategies to build effective board structures
• Distinguishing between strategic and administrative roles
• Determining and constructing board composition that reflects constituents, stakeholders, and those for whom the organization exists
• Learning how to evaluate board performance

The institute will be taught by an experienced team. Rafaela Colon, director of community relations, North Philadelphia Health Systems, is a trainer, and a specialist in volunteerism and governance. Ms. Colon has served on over 10 boards and has been the chair of both nonprofit social service organizations and CDCs. Raheemah Jabbar- Bey, the director of the Community-Based Development Training Program, has nearly 25 years of professional and voluntary experience in community economic development (CED) and community organizing. She has served on the boards of national organizations, local community-based organizations, community health agencies, faith-based organizations, and civic organizations in Delaware , Washington , D.C. , Ohio , and New Jersey.

Registrations are on a first-come, first-served basis and class size is limited to 21. The course fee is $200.00 per person with a 15% discount for organizations who register 3 or more people. A limited number of scholarships are available. For further information or to inquire about tuition scholarships, please contact Raheemah Jabbar-Bey , the director of the Community-Based Development Training Program, at 302/831-6780.