Are You Bored With Your Board?
These individuals should attend and participate in meetings, serve on committees enthusiastically, and embrace their roles as key ambassadors for the organization. To minimize burnout, have the board make a personal commitment to serve for a specific period of time, not forever.
In summary, as a staff member and leader of a foundation or fundraising board, take responsibility and be proud of your board. Take members on road trips to see similar, best-of-class organizations, and have your board members meet their peers from other organizations to share successes. And while you are a paid staff member, volunteer in other organizations to acquire greater insight on what volunteers need and want.
Duke Haddad, Ed.D., CFRE, is currently associate director of development, director of capital campaigns and director of corporate development for The Salvation Army Indiana Division in Indianapolis. He also serves as president of Duke Haddad and Associates LLC and is a freelance instructor for Nonprofit Web Advisor.
He has been a contributing author to NonProfit PRO since 2008.
He received his doctorate degree from West Virginia University with an emphasis on education administration plus a dissertation on donor characteristics. He received a master’s degree from Marshall University with an emphasis on public administration plus a thesis on annual fund analysis. He secured a bachelor’s degree (cum laude) with an emphasis on marketing/management. He has done post graduate work at the University of Louisville.      Â
Duke has received the Fundraising Executive of the Year Award, from the Association of Fundraising Professionals Indiana Chapter. He also was given the Outstanding West Virginian Award, Kentucky Colonel Award and Sagamore of the Wabash Award from the governors of West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana, respectively, for his many career contributions in the field of philanthropy. He has maintained a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) designation for three decades.
