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Overview:
Advisory boards can be productive and helpful entities, but they often fail to reach their full potential due to one or more obstacles, including an ill-defined mission, unclear or poorly defined membership roles, ineffective group interaction, and uninspired or uninspiring leadership. This webcast will help you avoid these pitfalls to create a high-impact board.
This on-demand webcast will help you begin to evaluate and reapproach your advisory board to maximize its potential. Along with tips on how to get started, you will learn how to:
- Avoid comingling advisory and fiduciary boards
- Settle on a board structure appropriate for your institution
- Clarify duties and responsibilities to advisory board members
Target Audience:
This event is designed to help bring together academic leaders (including presidents, provosts, and deans) and development managers to form on-going successful partnerships.
Program Agenda:
| ON-DEMAND Presentation |
| Live Session Took Place On June 22, 2009 |
- Distinguishing between an advisory board and a fiduciary board
- Defining an advisory board
- The three questions every advisory board must answer
- Deciding on an advisory board structure appropriate for your institution or school
- Pros and cons for different advisory board structures
- Kitchen cabinet
- Network alliance
- Overseers council
- Board of visitors
- Missteps in clarifying board member duties and expectations
- Evaluating and recalibrating board involvement
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Instructor:
Darrow G. Zeidenstein, Vice President, Resource Development, Rice University
Darrow oversees all aspects of Rice's fundraising, alumni affairs and development services functions. Prior to his current role, he served the institution as an associate vice president in charge of individual fundraising programs and capital campaign strategy. Before arriving at Rice, Darrow was a managing director with Marts & Lundy, leading the firm as a campaign consultant, head of its "Digital Solutions" practice, and member of its planned giving practice group. Previously, he was executive director for strategic planning and marketing strategy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he facilitated the design and implementation of the University's advanced development strategies and played a key role in planning the University's successful $1 billion comprehensive campaign. Before coming to Austin, Darrow was director of planned giving and director of research and systems at the Stern School of Business at New York University. A Ph.D. in economic anthropology, he is a past Fulbright scholar, National Science Foundation fellow, and Social Sciences Research Council post-doctoral fellow.
Ordering Information:
Ordering
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Shipping
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