Leadership is the only tech skill that doesn't go out of style.
Companies need leaders who can navigate the AI era. So do the nonprofits they support. Board.Dev builds both—connecting business leaders across marketing, finance, HR, operations, and technology with nonprofits where strategic decisions matter.
Building the Leadership Nonprofits Need to Make AI Work.
A new co-publication of Board.Dev and Dell Technologies based on a national nonprofit survey—a hard look at why the sector is stuck and what leadership teams can do about it.
Read the reportWhat can my board do that AI can't?
Thirty nonprofit CEOs, funders, and board chairs spent an afternoon in San Francisco on that question.
The first dispatch from our 2026 field research, with Okta and AWS.
92% of nonprofits are already using AI. Only 14% have board-level oversight. That's not a technology problem—it's a leadership problem.
Nonprofits are making irreversible technology decisions—on AI adoption, cybersecurity, vendor risk, and data governance—without anyone in the room qualified to stress-test them. When boards can't lead on technology, organizations look like a risk to funders, miss corporate partnerships, and make expensive mistakes that never get fixed.
Companies face the same gap from the other side. The leaders making AI decisions inside your organization are building judgment in real time—at real cost, and not fast enough.
Structured board engagement changes that. Board service is where leadership gets tested for real. There's nothing else like it.
What we do
Build Board Tech Fluency
Board.Dev trains nonprofit boards and executives on AI strategy, cybersecurity, and digital decision-making—so leaders can guide technology investments, not just approve them. Available as a standalone 90-minute session or as part of a multi-week cohort program. Works for 10 people or 1,000.
Develop Leaders Through Board Service
Through board placements, mentorship, and subject matter expert roles, Board.Dev connects business professionals—across marketing, finance, HR, operations, and technology, not just engineers—with nonprofits where real decisions get made. Real budgets, real risk, real accountability. The judgment leaders build here transfers directly back to their day jobs. This is the development experience internal programs can't replicate.
Partner with Companies
Board.Dev works with companies who want to develop their leaders and strengthen their nonprofit partners at the same time. Through structured board engagement—training, placements, cohorts, and mentorship—we deliver measurable impact with minimal lift on your team. Board.Dev manages delivery end to end.
Through the Nonprofit Tech Governance Congress, Board.Dev convenes the leaders setting standards for AI decision-making in the social sector—and through our annual salon series, brings together nonprofit CEOs, funders, and corporate leaders to design the board nonprofits need now.
See how board service builds leaders and impact
Why Board.Dev?
Board members are essential to moving AI and tech forward. Their primary job in governance is to support the strategic direction. They aren't setting it, but they are making sure it's moving—and AI strategy is no different.
Shannon Farley, Fast ForwardI'm a physician and know nothing about the IT side of things. We need someone not to actually build the technology but to help us visualize how the infrastructure could help us move forward. It's a series of decisions with which we could use tech expertise as we grow.
Aral Surmeli, Founder, HERA Digital HealthIt was just this beautiful gift that we received an email from Board.Dev. You don't have that fulltime, dedicated tech data person on staff—that high-level strategy is expensive. Even for us, with a $160 million budget, it's not really within the realm of possibilities. I gasped to think that there are tech professionals who feel like they would not be a value add to a nonprofit. This is such an enormous need.
Meaghan Jennings, ED, Chicago International Charter School