Engaging Millennial Board Members

In her book, Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening nonprofits by engaging businesses, Alice Korngold shares effective strategies for engaging young corporate leaders in nonprofit volunteerism and governance. Not surprisingly, it's a true win/win. Businesses win by encouraging and supporting nonprofit Board service that directly builds good governance skills in its emerging leaders. Nonprofits win by leveraging the "service learning" background of rising "millennial generation" leaders who, according to Korngold, also happen to represent the best-educated generation in U.S. history.

Is your Board dominated by power brokers, heavy hitters, and "chiefs"? Couldn't you use some fresh, young leadership on your Board? If so, make sure that you're looking at the millennial generation when working to build a healthy, diverse and contemporary Board. You'll be glad you did.