Understanding the Legal Responsibilities of Nonprofit Board Members
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About the event
As a nonprofit board member, you play a vital role in your organization's success. But are you aware of the legal obligations that come with your position? Understanding your duties is essential to protecting yourself and your organization.
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This event is part of the Learning Hub program On the Ground. The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers the Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth.
As a nonprofit board member, you play a vital role in your organization's success. But are you aware of the legal obligations that come with your position? Understanding your duties is essential to protecting yourself and your organization. There is no cost to register.
Workshop objectives:
• To encourage an understanding of the meaning of board members’ duty of care and the obligation to act in good faith.
• To acquaint board members with the breadth and complexity of legal issues confronted by nonprofit organizations.
• To encourage the development of policies and procedures to assist in making decisions with legal implications.
Equip yourself with the knowledge you need to lead with confidence. Register now at no cost for this essential workshop.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Marcia Swain
Marcia Swain
Marcia Swain retired from her practice as a lawyer and mediator in2010, having spent her career in Colorado. Throughout her career, she served on boards of directors of numerous community-based nonprofit organizations with diverse missions. She joined SCORE Santa Fe & Northern New Mexico in 2012, where she mentored both small businesses and nonprofits and served the chapter in a leadership capacity. Believing passionately in the power and potential of nonprofit organizations to deliver programs that benefit all people and the planet we share, she withdrew from active SCORE mentoring in 2020 to found her own business, Social Profit Advisors, whose mission is to provide information, inspiration, and support to nonprofit organizations and their leaders through education, mentoring, and consulting.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Meet the people leading the conversation
Marcia Swain
Marcia Swain
Marcia Swain retired from her practice as a lawyer and mediator in2010, having spent her career in Colorado. Throughout her career, she served on boards of directors of numerous community-based nonprofit organizations with diverse missions. She joined SCORE Santa Fe & Northern New Mexico in 2012, where she mentored both small businesses and nonprofits and served the chapter in a leadership capacity. Believing passionately in the power and potential of nonprofit organizations to deliver programs that benefit all people and the planet we share, she withdrew from active SCORE mentoring in 2020 to found her own business, Social Profit Advisors, whose mission is to provide information, inspiration, and support to nonprofit organizations and their leaders through education, mentoring, and consulting.
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