AMPT Build Your Board Cohort
Build the board that you need to help move your mission forward.
Hear from our 2022 Nonprofit Board Training Cohort Members:
Questions:
What approach did you take to recruit for your board, and how have you developed the makeup of your board, and defined its role?
How have you embraced antiracist values and principles to manage decision-making processes or accountability within your board?
How do you engage your board in championing your org mission? and/or in helping raise resources through creative collaboration, an abundance mindset, and/or a strengths-based approach?
What were the first steps that you took around your board after your participation in the cohort? What do you recommend, or what do you wish you would have done differently?
Panelists:
Robin Boyd, she/her/yall, Board President at Dr. John Carlos Movement Center -Chicago - Shenika Jackson, She/Her/Hers, Chief Operating Officer at MY Foundation: Street Smarts To Great Starts Corp - Tameka Lawson, She/Her, Executive Director at Restored Hope
The goal of this panel is to help provide some insight on how previous cohort members in AMPT's Nonprofit Board Training Cohort have put the curriculum theory into action so far as they continue developing their board.
To watch the full panel, watch it on our Youtube channel with this link!
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AMPT is prioritizing Black and Latine-led nonprofit organizations on the south and west sides of Chicago, with an organizational budget of $2 million or less, who have not previously participated in this cohort.
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6 highly interactive, virtual sessions that focus on the knowledge and tools that will support your board development.
Content areas include:
Reimagining the board that you need
Building goal-driven boards
Shaping board decision-making
Practicing accountable and principled board leadership
Redefining strength-based resource development
Strategic Leadership - Board impact and beyond
We strongly suggest that you attend these Zoom sessions from your desktop computer or laptop to receive the full benefits of participation.
We also strongly encourage you to participate with your camera on, if possible, as part of the community building component of this cohort experience.
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This cohort meets biweekly on Zoom for 6 sessions on the following Thursday mornings from 10am to 12pm:
April 20th, 2023
May 4th, 2023
May 18th, 2023
June 1st, 2023
June 15th, 2023
June 29th, 2023
Applications are now closed for our 2023 Cohort.
AMPT’s Nonprofit Board Training Cohort, in collaboration with Chicago Cares Inc., aims to prepare Black and Latine -led nonprofit organizations on how to build the board members and champions they need to help move their mission forward. By the end of the program, participants will have a draft action plan, based on their organizational needs.
This 6 session virtual experience provides executive directors:
Tools, skills, and competencies necessary to build and develop a board.
Space to contribute to the collective reimagining and manifestation of governing boards that effectively serve your organization.
Opportunities to build strong organizational relationships with other nonprofit leaders across Chicago.
2 one-on-one coaching sessions with a Chicago Cares team staff.
Certificate of completion for attending all 6 sessions of this training.
Testimonials
Our Impact
Words from one of our Fall 2022 Nonprofit Board Training Cohort Member
“[The Nonprofit Board Training Cohort] has helped me think of different ways to do governance so that board members are connected to the work and can make empathetic decisions based on what is actually happening; but also stay high-level on strategy/vision as well. For example we are thinking of sociocracy and talking with other cohort members helped me to refine exactly how that plays out.”
Words from one of our Fall 2022 Nonprofit Board Cohort Members
“There wasn't just one moment, activity, or topic that was most impactful. For me, it was all impactful. I feel more confident in putting together a collaboration session with my team to fine tune our future Board.”
Past Nonprofit Board Training
Cohort Members
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People Matter
STOMPING GROUNDS LAI
Kenwood Oakland Comm. Org
Restored Hope
dr John Carlos Movement Center -Chicago
Action Now Institute
Darren B Easterling Center for Restorative Practices
En Las Tablas Performing Arts, NFP
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment
Illinois CHW Association
MY Foundation: Street Smarts To Great Starts Corp.
Chicago Freedom School
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BA NIA
Centro Sanar
Chicago Volunteer Doulas, Inc.
Distinctively Me
Grace Sister to Sister Organization
Life Changing Family Services
Outreach Chicago
Pink Lemons, Nfp
Railroad Tracks Music Academy
St. Paul Community Family Services