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✨✨ Visit www.grantwritingandfunding.com/131 to join Sean's FREE Webinar: How to Transform Your Board of Directors in 90 days✨✨ If you are a nonprofit leader, freelance grant writer, or nonprofit consultant than you know that the role and efficiency of a healthy board of directors are vital for nonprofit health! That’s why I brought on Sean Kosofsky from Nonprofit Fixer to share with you how to improve a nonprofit’s board of directors. If you resonate with not knowing how to ask your board to financial contribute, what their expectations are of showing up, or how they can be the most effective, then this episode is for you! Also, we talk about how freelance grant writers and nonprofit consultants can add a board of director training to their services and how this can help nonprofits get MORE funding. Sean Kosofsky is the NonProfit Fixer! He has worked in nonprofits for more than 27 years, including as executive director for five organizations. He has worked in policy, communications, grassroots advocacy, direct service, development, management and served on numerous boards. He has raised millions of dollars for causes, candidates and campaigns. His work has appeared in news stories around the world, and he has offered webinars or blog posts through AFP, Candid, Idealware, Bloomerang, Wild Apricot, and Pamela Grow’s Motivate Mondays. He has worked on a wide range of issues including LGBTQ equality, reproductive justice, voting access, bullying prevention, climate change, and more. He offers coaching, consulting, training and free tools at his website Nonprofitfixer.com and courses at http://Learn.MindTheGapConsulting.org. In today’s episode, we discuss the following: ✔ How to help recruit, retain, and grow a board of directors ✔ How a freelancer/consultant can conduct board of directors training for nonprofits as a side income or main income ✔ Sean’s colorful story on why he became involved with nonprofits ✔ How you can use your passion to do good in the world ✔ How Sean moved to a new city and started a freelance nonprofit consultancy ✔ How to leverage your relationships in your geographic area to get new leads ✔ What freelancers need to focus on that will lead to a full-time hustle job ✔ The huge space available for nonprofit consultants ✔ How to test your services to see which ones will sell the most ✔ The key elements in why a board of directors is inefficient and how to fix it ✔ 80% of what You do - Recruit, Retain, Remove board members ✔ The 3 M’s: Members, Meetings, and Money ✔ The Board Agreement: How to have a board of directors actually commit to bringing in funding every single year ✔ The Fundamental Change to Uplevel a Nonprofit: Flipping the Mindset of Board Members Links Mentioned From the Episode: ✔ Join the August 6th FREE Webinar: How to Transform Your Board in 90 Days. Click here ✔ Find out more about Sean, get a free consultation, or see FREE resources at: nonprofitfixer.com ✔ Find out more about Sean’s courses at: http://Learn.MindTheGapConsulting.org If you have any questions, feel free to email holly@grantwritingandfunding.com I’d love to connect with you! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWzIfwJt0az9KKwKz1Uc8vg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hollyrustick LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-rustick-0765b817/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grantwritingandfunding/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/grantwritingandfunding/ Thanks for listening! Holly Rustick Expert Grant Writer & Bestselling Author

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