A Board to Achieve Your Mission Potential

MDP Strategies can help you create a dynamic board and staff partnership to achieve the mission potential of your organization. We work one on one with Board Chairs, Executive Committees, and Executive Directors/CEOs of nonprofit organizations to provide the following services. Upon completion, organizations have a strategic system for ongoing board development that promotes a productive partnership between board and staff.

Assessment of Board Requirements

• Leadership resource inventory
• Board profile grid

A Board Structure Designed to Achieve Mission

• Board role clarification
• Committee structure
• Nontraditional structures

Recruitment

• Nomination process
• Prospect identification and cultivation

Orientation and Training

• Executive director support
• New board member orientation
• Board retreat

Ongoing Board Support

• Meeting engagement strategies
• Communication systems to increase participation (such as consensus agendas)
• Annual meeting/retreat facilitation