Community leadership volunteers can provide significant leverage in advancing philanthropy, advocacy and governance for the health care foundation. However, many foundation boards and councils not only fail to add value commensurate with the time it takes to manage and engage them but also struggle to fulfill their core responsibilities.
Our comprehensive program, BoardAdvance, provides practical and actionable training and tools to empower board leaders in the following areas:
Board Training & Development
Through workshops, retreats and our proprietary BoardAdvance training, Accordant works with organizations to ensure engaging philanthropy and advocacy to elevate organization mission. Organizations choose from a deep bench of content areas and interactive elements to create a unique event tailored to specific needs and opportunities. Accordant leaders offer engagements from 30 minutes to 6 hours.
Design, Structure & Function
Accordant advances board evaluation, facilitates board design and creates an infrastructure with organizations that support board leaders in effectively and confidently leading in this complex environment. Accordant collaborates with leaders to ensure board responsibilities align with the organization as well as the fiduciary and legal regulations. We collaborate with health care leaders to create structures, role descriptions, values-based culture, meeting agendas and calendars that ensure a positive board experience.
Selection, Recruitment, Orientation and Onboarding
Identifying the right board members and supporting them in their role is paramount for success in board leadership. Accordant works with health leaders not only to ensure the best strategic approach to recruitment, keeping in mind organization-specific DEIB priorities, but also to prioritize strategic approaches to onboarding, orientation, and beyond. Our proprietary tool, CoreCentric® enhances the onboarding processes by identifying board members’ talents and preferences that prompts philanthropy leadership to best utilize and align board member service, while building confidence in engagement and mission elevation.
Evaluation & Accountability
Committing to a routine board evaluation is a hallmark of a healthy governance organization. The intentional board embraces evaluation as a positive and proactive process to uncover opportunity and refine performance. Accordant collaborates with organizations to customize our board evaluation survey tool to align with organizational values, and extend our services to include survey analysis and prioritized recommendations for the board development action plan.
Leadership Support & Collaboration
An engaged and committed board starts with the philanthropy team that guides them. Accordant provides education and training not only for board members but also for executives and philanthropy teams. We collaborate to develop strategies and education that align team members, leadership, board members and organizational values.