It’s the Essential Foundation: Building the Board Your Organization Needs

GRHF: Beyond the Grant - Is your board equipped to support the organization you are today-and the one you want to become?
About this Event

It’s the Essential Foundation: Building the Board Your Organization Needs is an in-person event.

The Greater Rochester Health Foundation’s in partnership with Breakthrough Leadership Consulting helps nonprofits strengthen financial management, governance, and organizational capacity through individualized support and shared learning.

Through a guided board assessment, practical scenarios, and peer discussion, participants will identify gaps and begin an action plan for strengthening their board. Leave with tools to clarify responsibilities, guide recruitment, and establish governance practices that support accountability and long-term sustainability. This three-hour, interactive session extends that learning opportunity to additional nonprofits, focusing on practical questions about building and sustaining an effective board:

• Do we have the right mix of skills, perspectives, and relationships for our organization’s next stage?
• How do we recruit, onboard, and develop board members with clear expectations?
• How do we plan for board leadership transitions, develop future officers, and preserve institutional knowledge?
• How do we strengthen participation and address members who aren’t following through?
• Where do board responsibilities end and the Executive Director’s begin?
• What should our board routinely review, ask, and act on to provide meaningful financial and organizational oversight?

Executive Directors and board chairs or members are encouraged to attend together.