Board Ready 101: Finding and Joining Your First Board with Monisa Mason
February 9, 2027 / 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
$50.00
A one-night workshop on how to find, pursue, and join your first nonprofit board, for students and young professional alumni.
Serving on a nonprofit board can be a meaningful way to support a cause you care about, grow your network, and develop valuable leadership experience, even early in your career. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to take the first steps toward finding and joining a nonprofit board. Explore where to find opportunities, what organizations look for in prospective board members, and how to communicate the skills and perspective you can bring to the table. You’ll also get an inside look at the typical recruitment, interview, and vetting process, including the questions you should ask and potential red flags to consider before saying yes. Along the way, you’ll build an understanding of board governance and leave with practical next steps for pursuing a board opportunity that aligns with your interests, values, and goals.
Commitment
Level
One Night, 2 Hours, Tuesday, Online
Measured vs.
Learning
This one-night, hands-on workshop will show students and young alumni how to find, pursue, and join their first nonprofit board. Participants will learn where to look for opportunities, what organizations want in new board members, and how to share the skills and perspective they bring. Students will also get an inside look at the recruitment and interview process, including smart questions to ask and red flags to watch for, and will leave with a working knowledge of board governance and clear next steps toward a board role that fits their interests and values.
*Affiliated Universities: Bluffton, Capital, Heidelberg, Kenyon, Marietta, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein Wittenberg, Wooster, Baldwin Wallace, Ohio Northern.
Earn Your Badge
of Completion
Workshops range from 2-4 hours of contact time, depending on the topic and content. To earn your badge of completion, you must attend the entire session.
Meet Your Instructor
Monisa Mason is a capacity building consultant and program architect with more than 15 years of experience helping mission-driven organizations design impactful programs, develop emerging leaders, and build the governance structures needed to lead with confidence. As founder of Monisa Mason LLC, she partners with institutions to prepare the next generation for board service.
Register for Board Ready 101: Finding and Joining Your First Board
A one-night workshop on how to find, pursue, and join your first nonprofit board, for students and young professional alumni.
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