Board Retreats

As Corporate DevelopMint’s research has clearly demonstrated, board member involvement in your fundraising program is the single most powerful driver of your success. The more engaged your board, the better your fundraising results.

Not surprisingly, Corporate DevelopMint places considerable importance on board retreats. Designed to aid board members in a wide variety of ways, these retreats seek to improve the quality of the board member experience and to provide board members with all of the training and guidance they need to increase their impact on the non-profits they help guide.

Individual retreat topics include:

• The Nine Little Things that Matter Most: Derived from June Bradham’s groundbreaking new book,The Truth About What Nonprofit Boards Want, this retreat reviews the conditions that must be met to ensure that each board member’s subjective experience is as rewarding and enjoyable as possible. This unique workshop can be the first important step toward transforming a board into a highly engaged, highly effective volunteer leadership team.



• MintAsk Training: Designed to help board members – and campaign leaders – understand the actual mechanics of donor cultivation and solicitation, this popular workshop uses low stress, high enjoyment role play exercises. Blending a concern for donor sensitivities with organizational needs, MintAsk training is a highly effective educational module.



• Visioning Retreats: Too often, vision and mission statements have little real meaning and even less impact on the non-profits they are designed to guide. This innovative workshop helps board members re-examine what they really want the organization to accomplish. That clarification allows them to develop far more inspiring and useful vision statements that can help guide decision making.



• Storytelling - The Gift of Your Voice: In today's economy making sure potential donors know who you are, what you stand for, and how you serve your community is more critical than ever. This means having a stellar--and unique--Case for Support but more than that, it means ensuring that those closest to you can articulate your story. Board members are the champions, the ambassadors of the non-profits they serve but sometimes they need help in finding their voice and sharing the message. This workshop helps boards bind a character-driven story together around a theme, a motivating spirit and leaves them feeling empowered with a unified voice and ready to tell their organization's story in a way that will compel others to give.



• Generational Giving: In these changing times, many "go-to" donors are no longer able to give but young entrepreneurs may be able to help. Younger generations, engaged as volunteers are ready now to be cultivated as the next generation of major donors. Now, therefore, is the time to focus on creating and implementing strategies that will help non-profits connect with and cultivate donors from across the generations. Note that this presentation is available as a retreat or as an interactive workshop that incorporates hands-on exploration of social media applications--including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Blogger--critical to reaching a broad spectrum of donors. Social networking is a relatively new concept in the non-profit world and many who are running non-profits would benefit from a workshop designed to help them understand how to use these sites to achieve organizational goals.

If you would like June Bradham to speak with your group, please contact mshort@corporatedevelopmint.com for requirements and availability.