Reaching Out: Board Ambassadors for Growth in Community Foundations

Source: The James Irvine Foundation 03/14/2011

It’s commonly known that board members can help community foundations grow assets and impact. But the trick is to help them engage fully -- and confidently -- as ambassadors who connect their community foundation to new donors and other key audiences.

This paper, written by Williams Group, presents five essential elements in nurturing board ambassadors, and provides examples as well as tested exercises and tools to help strengthen board ambassadors in any community foundation.