SEMESTER: Fall 2018

COURSE NUMBER: MBA292B.11

This course is dual-listed with the EWMBA Program.

COURSE TITLE: Nonprofit Boards

UNITS OF CREDIT: 1 Unit

INSTRUCTOR: Lynne LaMarca Heinrich

E-MAIL ADDRESS: lynnelh@comcast.net

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION:  bCourses

Please note the format of this course, which meets on two full Sundays. You must attend both sessions in their entirety in order to earn a passing grade.

PREREQUISITE(S): Core

CAREER FIELD: The course is recommended for students assessing their options for social impact, wishing to learn about the nonprofit sector, and those who will likely be called upon to serve on a board during their successful business, public sector or nonprofit careers. It will provide theoretical context, and practical and applied tools, for nonprofit board service. It will also focus on current trends in the nonprofit sector, and feature leaders from all sectors of the nonprofit world in conversation with the class.

CLASS FORMAT: Lecture, panels, discussion, team engagement, class project

REQUIRED READINGS: There will be a course reader with practical, current and historical articles and cases.

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Class attendance, participation, and class project. There is no midterm or final exam.

ABSTRACT OF COURSE CONTENT: This one-unit course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the role of boards of directors in the nonprofit sector. Specifically, the course will explore the following aspects of boards: Ø

Students will have the opportunity to meet prominent members of the Bay Area nonprofit sector, including current board members, chief executives, and development directors, to discuss their roles and learn firsthand the challenges facing these different groups in an increasingly competitive and uncertain nonprofit marketplace. The class will consist of lectures, case studies, speakers, exercises, and a project.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Lynne joined Marts & Lundy, a premier for-profit consulting firm serving the nonprofit sector, as a senior consultant in 2000 with more than five years of consulting experience in her own practice and with another national consulting firm. She was the founding co-leader of the firm’s Arts & Culture Practice Group and has served in staff and consultant roles to the nonprofit sector for more than 36 years. Her varied client portfolio includes performing and visual arts organizations, educational institutions, hospitals and medical centers, health and human service agencies, museums, environmental organizations, foundations, corporations, venture philanthropists, and numerous public-private partnerships. Lynne provides strategic consulting services in fundraising, capital campaigns, nonprofit management, board governance, strategic planning, leadership coaching and development to nonprofit organizations. Along with her Marts & Lundy client work, Lynne serves as a member of the advisory boards of the Center for Social Sector Leadership and Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley. She also teaches in the Getty Leadership Institute and is a former member of the Board of Directors of Marts & Lundy.

Ms. Heinrich's recent consulting clients include Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, San Francisco Symphony, PBS, Sundance Institute, Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution, Juilliard, California College of the Arts, Rutgers, NRDC, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Earth Justice, Public Radio International, National Gallery of Art, Southern California Public Radio, Save The Redwoods League, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cal Performances, Smith College, Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, University of Utah, Morton Arboretum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, Planned Parenthood, and the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked closely with faculty, boards, staff, and donors to provide strategic planning and philanthropy consulting, board leadership training, and counsel for organizational change.