Board Chairs Academy is a six-month online learning program to help board members of charitable organizations, associations and congregations excel at providing strategic governance to their favorite causes.

Each monthly session is accompanied by a participant guide of handouts, readings and exercises, and features expert presentations as well as small and large group interaction for participants to share their learning.

Organizations may register as many persons as they wish, and the total fee is determined by how many are enrolled. (Registering more people generates greater savings per person!) Organizational registration also includes two hours of complimentary board consultation, and each participant receives 150 pages of resource materials, access to six Board Chairs Academy Roundtables for additional discussions with other Academy participants, and invitation to a private LinkedIn group.

Individual registration is also available, either for the full series (by clicking the Register button) or for individual modules (by clicking on specific links below). If you are registered for the full series, no separate module registrations are required.

Sessions for Class #26 are presented one Friday per month, 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time:

April 1 - BOARD GOVERNANCE: Advancing the Art of Governing a Community Cause
May 6 - BOARD DEVELOPMENT: Evolving a Board to its Potential
June 3 - THE BOARD AND FUNDRAISING: Building Community Equity for Sustainable Community Impact
July 8 - LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION: Assuring a Continuity of Leadership to Advance the Cause
August 5 - THE BOARD & EXECUTIVE RELATIONSHIP: Leveraging a Partnership for Community Results
September 9 - THE GENERATIVE BOARD: Fostering Innovation to Advance the Cause

For more detail about each session, view the Fact Sheet. The Board Chairs Academy is a cohort learning program introduced by Third Sector Company in 2006. Over 400 organizations have participated in the United States and Canada.

Third Sector Company, Inc. is committed to advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as foundational to its programs.

We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all people; and we pledge our individual and organizational efforts to build respect, dignity, caring, and equitable treatment for all. As an organization, we are committed to transforming the world into one that promotes social justice and freedom from oppression, including but not limited to, racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, ageism, and ableism.

Thus, we aim to be adaptable, actively anti-racist, embracing cultural differences, and to be accessible for people who are differently resourced and differently abled. Since we do not want financial hardship to be a barrier to participation, there are several seats reserved in each of our fee-based programs for confidentially awarded scholarships. We encourage those from historically underserved communities to apply.

Board Chairs Academy (Class #26) - Full Series