In-person program: Everything You Wanted to Know About Nonprofit Board Service* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)…
Hosts: Clare Rager, Co-chair TPC Governance Committee, and Penny Weeks, Co-chair TPC Education Committee
Featuring: May Vaughn, TPC Board member and Executive Director of Girl’s LEAP, and Heather Wightman, Executive Director of RIA, Inc.
Are you curious about nonprofit board service? If board service is one of your future aspirations, if you may be a board candidate in the near term, or if you represent a nonprofit looking for informed future board members, you will want to join this interactive workshop. We will cover the essentials of board governance and some of the best practices around board service.
On Tuesday, May 5, Registration opens 6:00PM, Program and Q&A 6:30 - 8:30 Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge Two current Board members from The Philanthropy Connection, Inc. (TPC) will present this training, while Executive Directors from two TPC grantees will share stories from the field along with their perspectives on nonprofit leadership.
Come with your questions. TPC friends and guests are welcome.
Participating Grantee Organizations
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RIA, Inc. (RIA): Our mission is to stand with and support adults with experience in the commercial sex trade, and its associated exploitation, trafficking and prostitution. RIA provides a range of community-based services including peer outreach and trauma-informed relationship building supported by clinical care, intensive case management and groups.
Grantee Speakers
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Heather Wightman, Executive Director of RIA: Heather founded RIA in 2012 and has more than 25 years experience managing multifaceted federal, state and local human services programs. Entrepreneurial change-maker hired to design, implement and develop new programs with timelines as tight at two weeks to as visionary as three years. Recognized for judicious skill branding and developing sustainable projects while understanding when and how to take necessary risks. Successfully built coalitions to accomplish strategic goals with limited resources and support. Proven leader in recruitment, training and development of culturally and racially diverse staff.
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May Vaughn, Executive Director of Girl’s LEAP: May joined Girl’s LEAP in February 2024. She has a Masters in non-profit management and brings over 25 years of nonprofit leadership experience from her previous roles at YMCA of Greater Boston, Sitters for Scholars, and Roxbury Tenants of Harvard. She sits on the Boston Children’s Hospital Community Advisory Board, the Board of The Philanthropy Connection, and is a Site Visit Leader for Cummings Foundation. She is deeply rooted in the community, raised in Roxbury as the daughter of Honduran immigrants, and involved in all aspects of community safety.