Social Impact Leader

Pro Tip #2: How to Build a Better Board

Episode Summary

Today we are bringing you another Plywood Pro Tip. We are getting into How to Build a Better Board. In this conversation, Jeff, Tuere, and Jim Dudley talk about all things board of directors. You’ll hear advice on how to bring together a board, managing board culture, setting board expectations, and how and why we foster actual friendships with our board. They discuss their own experiences with Plywood’s board and stress why it is important to keep it evolving. There is so much packed into this episode. This is a must listen for nonprofit leaders out there. Let us know what you think. Share this episode with your board. Let it give shared language, spark conversation, and inspire your work forward!

Episode Notes

Today we are bringing you another Plywood Pro Tip. We are getting into How to Build a Better Board. In this conversation, Jeff, Tuere, and Jim Dudley talk about all things board of directors. You’ll hear advice on how to bring together a board, managing board culture, setting board expectations, and how and why we foster actual friendships with our board. They discuss their own experiences with Plywood’s board and stress why it is important to keep it evolving. There is so much packed into this episode. This is a must listen for any nonprofit leader out there.

 

Let us know what you think. Share this episode with your board. Let it give shared language, spark conversation, and inspire your work forward!

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Welcome to the Plywood Podcast: Real talk for social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders.

Plywood is a nonprofit in Atlanta leading a community of startups doing good. Over the past 12 years, we have worked with over 800 startup founders and nonprofit leaders wrestling with the tensions of starting, growing, and sustaining.

Think of The Plywood Podcast as a kitchen table conversation debating the pros and woes of running a business and sustaining a nonprofit. We dive into building business plans, sustaining relationships (personal and professional), diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, forming values while being a part of true cultural change for good, and so much more.

Learn more about Plywood at PlywoodPeople.com