Boards in Crisis: The Impact of Communications and Governance
Product This webinar teaches strategies for preparing communications offices, boards and presidents to communicate well with the media: how to handle everyday opportunities and once-in-a-lifetime crises with an institution’s best interests and reputation in mind. This multimedia file is a recording of a webinar presented Oct. 25, 2012.

Motivating Your Community College Fundraising Board
Product This webinar teaches ways to motivate board members (as well as administrators, staff members and volunteers) to greatness. Topics include positive psychology, diverse learning styles and cognitive shifting. This multimedia file is a recording of a webinar presented Nov. 6, 2012.

Lessons Learned: Shifting Your Volunteer Board Composition
Product During this webinar, a foundation executive director examines the dynamics and challenges involved in changing the composition of a volunteer board. She talks about the lessons she learned during this highly contentious undertaking. This multimedia file is a recording of a webinar originally presented Feb. 14, 2012.

Winning Words: A Volunteer's Guide to Asking for Major Gifts_Single copy PDF
Product Winning Words helps your trustees, alumni, and friends prepare for prospect calls. Along with explaining the duties of the asker and the civic obligations of the prospect, it shows them how to handle the most commonly asked questions and most commonly offered excuses..

Winning Words: A Volunteer's Guide to Asking for Major Gifts_Packet of 25
Product Winning Words helps your trustees, alumni, and friends prepare for prospect calls. Along with explaining the duties of the asker and the civic obligations of the prospect, it shows them how to handle the most commonly asked questions and most commonly offered excuses.

Winning Words: A Volunteer's Guide to Asking for Major Gifts_Packet of 10
Product Winning Words helps your trustees, alumni, and friends prepare for prospect calls. Along with explaining the duties of the asker and the civic obligations of the prospect, it shows them how to handle the most commonly asked questions and most commonly offered excuses.

Strategic Board Recruitment and Involvement to Dramatically Increase Giving
Product This webinar looks at strategic board recruitment and offers tips for identifying and engaging board members in meaningful ways to increase giving. This multimedia file is a recording of a webinar originally presented April 14, 2011.

Best of the Board Cafe: Hands-on Solutions for Nonprofit Boards
Product This collection of most-requested articles from CompassPoint’s Board Café online newsletter offers insights on board responsibilities, executive directors, fundraising, finance and more.

Assessment and Evaluation of Trustees
Product This webinar helps participants learn about various strategies for measuring the effectives of a board as a whole and of individual board members. This is a recording of a webinar originally presented April 8, 2010.

Recruitment and Orientation of Trustees
Product The proper recruitment and orientation of board members is of critical importance to the overall effectiveness and success of the board, the president or head, and the management and health of the institution in which these key leaders serve. This webinar covers the identification, cultivation and selection of trustees and the preparation, transition and education of this primary governing body for an institution. Covers specific recruitment strategies. This multimedia file is a recording on a webinar originally presented Nov. 5, 2009.

Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards
Product This book is aimed at developing board members who are effective and successful in raising the financial support for their mission.

Alumni Administration
Product Selected chapters from the Handbook of Institutional Advancement (3rd ed.) cover key topics related to alumni administration: board relations; alumni involvement in fundraising; communications; program funding and legal issues. Also discusses how to structure alumni association board reporting relationships, recruit board members, define board positions, outline responsibilities and communicate effectively with a board.

Winning Words: A Volunteer's Guide to Asking for Major Gifts_Packet of 50
Product Winning Words helps your trustees, alumni, and friends prepare for prospect calls. Along with explaining the duties of the asker and the civic obligations of the prospect, it shows them how to handle the most commonly asked questions and most commonly offered excuses.