Tech board leadership is a new way to engage
We work with technology, talent, and social impact teams to design and manage programs that maximize the impact of your tech leaders in the community and in your business.
We support you at each step in the journey
1. Program Design
We work with social impact, tech, and talent teams to design a tailored technology governance leadership program. Our focus is on achieving your goals, whether it's leadership development, driving social impact, or building strategic partnerships.
2. Nonprofit Readiness
We provide your nonprofit partners with the training they need to identify or activate the right tech leader for their board, setting them up to maximize their impact.
3. Certification Program
We ensure technology leaders serving on boards know how to best partner with nonprofit leadership to ensure the organization has the tech strategy and resources they need to achieve their mission. Leaders learn how to assess the current state of tech gov at the organization, prepare recommendations, and work with the board and CEO to plan for next steps.
4. Community of Practice
Certified board members gain access to our community of their peers who support each other to find resources and solve problems. They also gain access to our library of tools and best practices.
Services
Tech leader board placement
We help place tech leaders with your nonprofit grantees or community organizations, aligning programming with your social impact and business goals. Our turnkey solution includes outreach, training, matching, placement, and ongoing support, enabling big impact with lean resources. Our full program solution includes tech leader and nonprofit outreach and training; matching and placement; and onboarding, coaching, and support for leaders during their first months of board service.
Through tech board leadership, you’ll:
- Engage leaders in high-impact board service and learning opportunities.
- Drive digital transformation for nonprofits.
- Support nonprofit leaders in turning on tech governance for mission achievement.
- Increase overall tech effectiveness in the nonprofit sector.
Tech leader training
Our custom tech leader trainings will prep and power your team members who are already in board seats; energize your tech leaders for social impact engagement; or create a pipeline of board-ready candidates.
Live or virtual, we’ll help leaders:
- Increase their understanding of the nonprofit sector.
- Learn the critical role tech plays in the nonprofit sector and on boards.
- Understand the benefits of board service, and what the role involves.
- Identify the right type of board for them and how to find it.
Many trainings incorporate the voices of nonprofit grantees on tech challenges and needs, and company leadership on the benefits of board service.
Nonprofit training
With Board.Dev tech governance training, we’ll help your grantees or community partners explore or implement tech governance, including learning how to activate or engage tech leaders more effectively as board members. Tech board leadership can be a lever to make a board more active and engaged and transform how organizations use technology; it can also amplify your existing investments, such as product or donations.
Many nonprofit CEOs have tech-skilled leaders on their boards but are unsure how to activate them; others need their boards to level up on tech overall. Our board trainings will give CEOs a common language and framework to talk about tech ensuring board members are tackling the right questions and staying at the strategic level when talking tech.
Event-based engagement
We host marquee events, the Tech Resource Boosts, connecting tech leaders with nonprofits for impactful consulting on tech governance. Using proprietary tools, participants assess key priorities and identify actionable next steps, including strategies for securing funding. Nonprofits leave with a clear tech governance plan, while tech leaders gain confidence in applying their expertise to drive nonprofit success.
With a Tech Resource Boost, you can engage tech teams or leadership for employee engagement milestones, leadership retreats, or client events.
Advisory services
Engaging tech leaders in social impact is challenging, and nonprofits often lack the tech-savvy leadership needed to fully leverage donations, pro bono work, or funding. At the same time, finding and supporting the right nonprofits to align with your goals can be complex.
Board.Dev bridges these gaps. We help design programs that meet your social impact and talent needs, from engaging employees to driving nonprofit digital transformation. Whether you're a seasoned tech-for-good leader or just starting out, we’ll help you build tailored programs to better engage your top talent and strengthen nonprofit partnerships through impactful tech leadership.
Cross-Sector Leadership
Our services were designed by Aaron Hurst and Alethea Hannemann, pioneers in pro bono and purpose-driven leadership development. In partnership with the Nonprofit Tech Governance Congress, we tune our work to the true needs of the nonprofit sector and developing technologists who learn to lead with purpose.
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