Board Retreat Programs
Capacity and leadership development
Motivate and inspire your leaders with the experience of a best-selling author and 24 year coach, Marshall Howard. Eight interactive programs highly targeted to help your board make a lasting difference. Spend 1.5 to 3 hours with Marshall and produce leadership and fund development outcomes right away.
Packed with lots of real-world relationship building techniques and best practices, these interactive programs are for organizations that need the strong partnership of a powerful board to help them achieve their goals.
A fun, interactive day of learning.
Choose From One of the Following Topics
Build a Legacy
Unlock Hidden Development and Leadership Resources
In a team format, board members and staff focus on building powerful collaborative relationships that unleash the full potential of their stakeholders. Board leaders discover how to make a lasting impact and become fundraising champions. The Executive Director develops the skills to uncover hidden resources and engage supporters. Staff learn how to raise more money without pressuring people to give.
Connections to a Council
Build an Influential Team of Leaders and Potential Donors
Within months engage a powerful team of 12-16 new influential business and community leaders. Increase major and planned gifts plus sponsorships, through their connections. With over 24 years of experience helping nonprofits, big and small, nationwide build councils, Marshall shares the secrets and the step-by-step blueprint from recruitment and campaign development to leadership coaching.
Once to Always
Keep and Grow More Donors
Create cultivation strategies that go far beyond the “thank-you” letter or the occasional “ask” visit. People who give you their time, talent, treasury, and reputation all want a positive emotional payoff. They are willing to deliver wins to you, if you can deliver wins back.
Tracking New Treasure
Unlock Hidden Fundraising & Board Building Opportunities
Tune-up your organization’s treasure-hunting skills. Continually uncover countless fund and board development resources beyond the obvious. Then create practical, easy ways to collaboratively develop them with your treasure-holder.
Let's Have Lunch Together
Harness the Power of You
Turn your meetings, calls and emails into triumphs through the power of a genuine connection. Marshall reveals his favorite ways to connect with others in a one-on-one setting: on the phone, at lunch, or over a cup of coffee. He’ll show you how to deepen that connection and build trust with someone who is important to your mission.
Let's Connect
Hello to a Connection in Five Minutes
Have you ever met someone for the first time, and within just minutes you felt a mutual rapport? It wasn’t magic, luck, or something that happened accidentally. Author Marshall Howard reveals the secrets to connecting and quickly creating that genuine rapport time after time.
Please Ask Me
Harness the Power of You
Discover how to make every “ask” easier, more comfortable and produce a bigger impact on your mission. Approach every “ask” as if you’re engaging your own personal genie…you only get three wishes, ask for the right ones. Learn a repeatable, measurable process that eliminates the stress and guesswork...“The Pressure-Free Ask”
Build People Power
Event Supporter to Major Donor
Capture those valuable major gift opportunities that already exist at your doorstep. Identify all the gifts buried within your events. Learn a practical and easy to use, step-by step program to transform event participants into major givers.
