COURSE
NUMBER:
MBA292B.11
This
course is dual-listed with the Evening-weekend MBA Program.
COURSE
TITLE:
Nonprofit Boards
UNITS
OF CREDIT:
1 Unit
INSTRUCTOR: Lynne LaMarca Heinrich
E-MAIL
ADDRESS:
lynnelh@comcast.net
PREREQUISITE(S): None.
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 practical and
applied tools for board and nonprofit service and also present relevant context
for current trends in the nonprofit sector.
CLASS
FORMAT:
Two all day lectures, with speakers from the Bay Area’s varied and most
prestigious nonprofit organizations – CEO’s and board members, and class group
exercises.
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'S 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:
Students
will have the opportunity to meet prominent members of the Bay Area nonprofit
sector, including current board members and chief executives, 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 35 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 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, both at the Haas School of Business, University of California,
Berkeley, and on the board of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. 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 PBS, Library of Congress, San
Francisco Symphony, 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, Oakland Museum of California, 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.