"Raising" Your Board

Walk the walk of your organization
Many of your board members probably know someone on another board. They see how their friends act as board members and are unsure if they can do the same. As a board evolves, it will have a mixture of people with wisdom, work, wealth or a combination of the three. All of your board members will know that they are expected to help fund the school, for example, but board members that your institution is born with are very different from board members that you recruit.