Next Session is Saturday, April 13th, 2024

10:00 am – 1:00 pm
A meal will be provided.

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All Aboard: Board Leadership in Motion is a three-hour workshop ideal for individuals who have a desire to serve on a not-for-profit board but want to learn more about what serving as a board member entails, and how to find the potential board opportunity that suits their interests and skill sets.

Community Panel Discussion

The program will feature a panel discussion of current nonprofit board members discussing their experience moderated by Dr. John Anderson.

Frank Scott
Panelist

Bryan Ayars
Panelist

C.S. Hendershot
Panelist

Ryan Hunter
Panelist

About Our Co-Facilitators:

Our co-facilitator and panel moderator Dr. John Anderson is an educator, mentor, and thought leader with over 25 years of experience and impact, working with people from all walks of life. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Anderson has taught in higher education for the last 12 years. His own educational path in higher education has meant that he has studied at every level and has completed seven programs of study. He holds an EdD in Adult, Higher, and Community Education from Ball State University.

Dr. Anderson is the inaugural Director of the Ryan Family Navigators Program in the Teachers College at Ball State. As a faculty member in the Department of Sociology, he has been the recipient of several teaching and mentoring awards. He was the recipient of a teacher-scholar grant award which gave him the opportunity to train undergraduate students from Ball State in advanced research methods. This experience culminated with him and his students presenting their research at the National Council for Black Studies 2020 conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Prior to his career in higher education, Dr. Anderson served as a director at the Western Addition Beacon Center. As director, he coordinated and supervised staff and programming that was part of a multi-agency partnership to deliver services to youth and families in the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco. He has also worked with youth and families in a variety of other settings, including schools, family court, juvenile detention, the YMCA, parks and recreation, and AAU club basketball. Dr. Anderson currently resides in Muncie, Indiana.

 

 

Our co-facilitator is Dave Sternberg, Senior Partner of the Indianapolis and Ft. Lauderdale based firm of Loring, Sternberg & Associates, provides fundraising and governance consulting services to nonprofits.  

Dave Sternberg has been a nonprofit professional since obtaining a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. Today, he is a member of the faculty at the Lilly School of Philanthropy’s Fund Raising School, a BoardSource senior governance consultant, and an independent consultant with Loring, Sternberg and Associates.

For The Fund Raising School, Dave teaches “Developing Annual Sustainability, Principles and Technique of Fundraising” and “Developing Major Gifts,” as well as numerous customized training programs nationally and internationally. As a BoardSource consultant, Dave provides counsel on such topics as strategic planning and fundraising. His clients describe him as a gifted strategist, adept at assessing and identifying solutions for organizational and board challenges, and brutally honest.

He is the only person in America to hold a position with both Board Source and the Fund Raising School.

Participant Takeaways

  • An understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a not-for-profit board member
  • How to determine board opportunities that match interests, skills, & desired level of commitment
  • Guidance on how to be an effective board member
  • Insight on how to find potential board member opportunities
  • Descriptions of board member opportunities currently available in the area

Who Should Attend?

All Aboard is ideal for individuals who have a desire to serve on a not-for-profit board but want to learn more about what serving as a board member entails and how to find the potential board opportunity that suits their interests and skill sets.

Tuition:

Thanks to our generous sponsors, All Aboard is available for free.

Location:

Muncie YMCA Building
YWCA of Central Indiana
Community Room
310 E Charles St
Muncie, IN 47305 (map)

Partners:

The Board of Directors of
Bridges Community Services

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