Nonprofit Tech Board Leadership 101:
with Board.dev CEO Alethea Hannemann
Wednesday, June 18, from 3-4pm Eastern, Noon Pacific
Board.dev Co-Founder and CEO Alethea Hannemann on how to recruit tech leadership to join your nonprofit board, and why you should have tech leaders an/or a tech committee on your board helping your organization to grow and thrive.
Do you have tech expertise on your nonprofit board?
Board.dev was founded to help nonprofits recruit and engage tech leaders for your board—so you can fully and responsibly harness the power of technology to maximize your impact. Board.dev also helps educate tech leaders from the for-profit world on the benefits of joining a board, and helps train them to help them be effective quickly in the nonprofit world.
Alethea Hannemann is the co-founder and CEO of Board.dev and an architect of the pro-bono service movement, with a career in nonprofits, investing, and advising. She will share Board.dev’s insights into the necessity of having board members fluent in tech and nonprofit needs, and how to build tech expertise on your board.
Why tech board leadership? Why now?
Technology is increasingly a key differentiator for nonprofit performance, from operational efficiency to better service of the community. Yet too few nonprofits have the technology resources they need to achieve their missions.
Board service is a high-potential lever for tech capacity-building in social sector organizations. By placing a tech leader on your board, you bring a unique technology perspective to board conversations, add to your general business knowledge, and engage a valuable strategic technology planning partner to the CEO. Making technology risk and opportunity a regular topic at the highest levels of leadership can transform an organization, driving mission success and building greater support for the community.
As with all our webinars, this presentation is appropriate for an audience of varied IT experience.
Community IT is proudly vendor-agnostic and our webinars cover a range of topics and discussions. Webinars are never a sales pitch, always a way to share our knowledge with our community.
Presenters:
Alethea Hannemann is the Co-Founder and CEO of Board.dev, a new social enterprise working to develop the field of social sector technical governance. Board.dev places corporate technology leaders on nonprofit boards in tech-focused roles to help transform and power missions that matter. A Strategic Advisor at Jobs for the Future, COO at God’s Love we Deliver, VP for National Programs at the Taproot Foundation, and a Social Impact Consultant, Alethea serves on three nonprofit boards. Alethea has degrees from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business LEAD program in corporate innovation.
Carolyn Woodard is currently head of Marketing and Outreach at Community IT Innovators. She has served many roles at Community IT, from client to project manager to marketing. With over twenty five years of experience in the nonprofit world, including as a nonprofit technology project manager and Director of IT at both large and small organizations, Carolyn knows the frustrations and delights of working with technology professionals, accidental techies, executives, and staff to deliver your organization’s mission and keep your IT infrastructure operating. She has a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Johns Hopkins University and received her undergraduate degree in English Literature from Williams College. She is happy to have this conversation with Alethea Hannemann from Board.dev on nonprofit tech board leadership 101.
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