Recruiting a Diverse Board: Strategies for Success

About this event

Cliff Jones, Senior Consulting
Nonprofit Association of Oregon

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Pizza, Salad, No-host Bar & Networking at 5:00
Presentation at 5:30

Help your board recruit and engage new members that have the skills your organization most needs. A diverse board supports an organization’s success with a wider pool of strategies, thinking, experience, contacts, and resources. Creating a welcoming and inclusive environment is central to tapping these resources, and benefits the entire organization. This session of the Nonprofit Board Network will not only provide an overview of board welcoming and inclusion, but also suggest specific steps and strategies for building an open board culture where greater diversity can take root.

Learn to:

• Connect greater board diversity to greater organizational diversity
• Identify what cultural practices within your board may be exclusive
• Strengthen the board’s skills in practicing inclusiveness
• Identify areas of diversity most needed and prospective board members that bring that diversity

About the Presenter

Cliff Jones is a human rights activist with over 30 years’ experience in social services, community education, and human rights advocacy. He has experience as a frontline staff, supervisor, project manager, and executive director, as well as, board member board officer. He is co-founder of Tools for Diversity, a comprehensive curriculum led by a multi-cultural team that addresses problems caused by discrimination and prejudice, and supports building culturally competent organizations.

About the Network

The Nonprofit Board Network offers regular opportunities in a relaxed atmosphere for you to learn about nonprofit governance, network with board members from other organizations, and meet the experts. Nonprofit Board Network gives you a chance to interact with respected thinkers and practitioners in the nonprofit world and to share information and experience.