WE’RE HERE FOR YOU

• BoardBuild is an innovative platform for emerging and established leaders and nonprofit organizations to connect and form board-level relationships. Through engaging board governance training and an algorithm-based matching system, individuals are trained and optimally paired with nonprofits to serve as qualified board members. BoardBuild strengthens organizations with the skills of diverse leaders, and in turn, helps to further community development.
• Our scope is national. Nonprofits in 27 US states and 7 countries have posted open board positions to BoardBuild.
• BoardBuild is structured as a 501(c)3 nonprofit supporting United Way of Tarrant County.
• The Morris Foundation is our Founding Sponsor. Additional visionary supporters include the Amon G. Carter Foundation, the Sid Richardson Foundation, and Texas Health Resources.

• BoardBuild serves two populations - individuals who want to serve on a nonprofit board of directors (and do it well) and bonafide nonprofits with open board positions. If you're one of these, welcome to BoardBuild!
• Our courses are constructed to governance regulations in the United States. Nonprofits in 27 US states and 7 countries have posted open board positions to BoardBuild.

BoardBuild’s self-paced, online, on-demand Essentials course consists of 6 lessons and 22 topics:

You’ll learn:

• Board Member Basics
• Essential Guiding Documents
• Nonprofit Financial Essentials
• Evaluating Agency Programs and the CEO
• Board Meetings and Committees
• On Your Way to Being a Great Board Member

The course also provides essential information for organizational sustainability:

• The importance of financial support by each board member
• The complexity of CEO/staff relationships
• Strategic planning
• The value of a reserve fund

The course takes about 4 1/2 hours to complete, but could be completed much sooner if you are an experienced nonprofit board member and validate modules by taking the quiz in advance.

• Each module is approximately 20 to 30 minutes in length.
• There is a short quiz after each lesson, as well as a worksheet to help reinforce what participants are learning.
• Throughout each module, a nationally known comedy troupe is featured for a lively learning experience.
• At the end of the course, participants who pass a final test will earn a BoardBuild Qualified badge and will be registered in BoardBuild’s online matching system.

After course participants successfully complete the training, they are automatically enrolled in the online matching system.

• Course participants will fill out a profile that lists their skills and areas of interest.
• Nonprofit organizations will post listings for prospective board members. Listings will specify mission, board size, program areas and organizational age among other identifying characteristics.
• The program will automatically match suitable candidates with nonprofit agencies.

No. Completion of Essentials is required to be eligible for matching. It's how our nonprofits can be confident they're recruiting candidates who know what they're doing, and know what they're getting into. 🙂

Yes! In fact, it works great!
An algorithm sorts through an individual’s reported interests and skills and matches those with nonprofits looking for similar board candidates.  The system will generate a list of nonprofit board openings that are ranked to align from high to low with an individual’s identified skills and interests.  A search function will allow an individual to learn more about each nonprofit and the contact person at the nonprofit.

BoardBuild does not verify the background information provided by prospective board candidates.  Parties are advised to conduct their own due diligence.

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