For the first time ever, the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys will hold its board member training program in Islamorada. The 2024 Leadership Success Academy will be held at the Islander Resort on Tuesday, March 26 and Wednesday, March 27.
Registration is online at cffk.org/LSA. The cost of the two-day program is $149 and includes lunch on both days and a graduation reception.
The sessions will focus on leadership styles, board member roles, nonprofit finance, fundraising, communications and strategic planning. Individuals who participate on both days will receive a certificate of completion.
A special addition this year will be a presentation from AH Monroe’s executive director Scott Pridgen, whose organization merged with the Florida Keys Outreach Coalition effective Jan. 1. He will explain the process his board went through to make this happen, and how they weighed the pros and cons of their options, ultimately choosing a merger for the greater good of the community.
“Since 2008, we have trained more than 600 nonprofit leaders from throughout the Keys from over 100 different nonprofits,” said Jennifer McComb, president and CEO of the foundation. “Board members who have completed our program have learned to ask more questions, think beyond the way things have always been done, and take steps to move the organizations they care about to the next level.”
The training, which has previously been offered in Key West, was expanded to Marathon in 2020 and Key Largo in 2022, McComb said. This will be the first time hosting it in Islamorada.
Coaches include nonprofit expert and consultant Alex Counts of Baltimore. Together with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, Counts co-founded the Grameen Foundation, a global nonprofit which has helped lend over $6.5 billion to the poorest of the poor, while maintaining a repayment rate consistently above 98%. Counts is the author of three books and a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, The Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Other 2024 presenters are Kate Banick, Bob Gold and Martha Roesler.
More information is at cffk.org/LSA or from Kevin Bowes at 305-809-4992.
The Community Foundation of the Florida Keys has granted over $32 million supporting arts and culture, beautification and preservation of the Keys, health and human services, disaster relief, scholarships and youth programs.
The foundation helps individuals and families leave a legacy in the Keys by inspiring giving and by connecting people, resources and needs through philanthropy, More information is available from 305-292-1502 or at cffk.org.
