C01: How Can Foundation Boards Reach Their Peak Potential? (Trustees Only)
Track
Leading Change in Philanthropy
Session Designer
Kristen Scott Kennedy, GEO
Session Description
What does it take for foundation boards to be at their best? And how is that connected to the foundation’s performance overall? In a guided peer-to-peer conversation, Carrie Avery (board president of the Durfee Foundation) and Kathleen Enright (president and CEO of GEO) will help foundation trustees think deeply about their role and talk through the insights they may need to generate or the muscles they may need to build in order to perform at their best. Participating trustees will benefit from insights from several years of national work and have the opportunity to engage in small group discussions with fellow trustees around areas of shared interest.
Session Designers
Speakers
![[photo]](https://8ca84662c5b8f0cff50d-4baaaf97d63fd7b01243e1b1c57f0cc1.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/28/profile_1493bf447208cb6bcd6d2158e0f93475.png "Kathleen P. Enright, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations")
Kathleen P. Enright, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Biography
Kathleen P. Enright is the founding executive director of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. A national coalition of grantmakers, GEO’s mission is to maximize philanthropy’s impact by advancing the effectiveness of grantmakers and their grantees. Previously, Enright served as the group director, marketing and communications for BoardSource, a project manager for the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation and communications specialist for Lexmark International. She holds a bachelors’ degree in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s of public administration from The George Washington University.
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Carrie Avery, The Durfee Foundation
Biography
Carrie Avery is President of the Durfee Foundation in Los Angeles, California, which focuses on leadership by providing fellowships, grants to new grassroots organizations with dynamic leadership and sabbaticals to long-time nonprofit leaders. She serves on the boards of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations in Washington, D.C., the RGK Foundation in Austin, Texas and the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California. She is a past board chair of the National Center for Family Philanthropy and Northern California Grantmakers, and co-chaired the board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.