Considering A Position On A Nonprofit Board? Here’s What You Need To Know
PLI is offering a half-day program providing practical tips for joining a nonprofit board and an understanding of the important ethical considerations.
Many lawyers find themselves contemplating taking a position on the board of a nonprofit at some point in their career. Whether you’re a new attorney or you’ve been practicing for a while, joining a nonprofit board can be not just personally rewarding, but it can help you enhance your career by deepening your skills, allowing you to make valuable connections, and helping you further a cause that’s personally meaningful to you.
With these rewarding aspects, though, come certain practical and ethical considerations. PLI is offering a half-day program, Serving on a Nonprofit Board 2022: Practical and Ethical Considerations for Attorneys, which will help lawyers learn how to identify opportunities for board service, as well as the practical and ethical decisions that will help them maximize the value of their board roles.
Specific topics to be covered include:
- How to identify your best opportunities for serving on a nonprofit board
- What due diligence you need to do, including identifying the questions to ask and documents to request and review before you join a nonprofit board
- How to bring maximum value to your role by using your legal skills and experience to assist the board
- How to use diversity as a lens through which to make board and staff decisions
- The basics of nonprofit financial statements and how to recognize potential red flags
- Identifying and addressing key ethics issues and concerns for attorneys who serve on nonprofit boards
Attendees will leave the program with practical tips for joining a nonprofit board and an understanding of the important ethical considerations for attorneys serving on nonprofit boards now or in the future. Register today.
If you want to learn more, you can also listen to program chairs Judy Siegel, of the Pro Bono Partnership, and Raphael Stern, of Lawyers Alliance for New York, discuss the benefits of board service with Alicia Aiken on PLI’s podcast, Pursuing Justice: The Pro Bono Files.
