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8771 College Parkway, Building 2, Suite 201<\/p>\n
Fort Myers, FL\u00a0 33919<\/p>\n
239-274-5900<\/p>\n
Fax 239-274-5930<\/p>\n
FORT MYERS, Fla.\u2013The Southwest Florida Community Foundation will bring nationally renowned author and TED talk speaker Dan Pallotta to town on Saturday, November 3 for a one-day Board training seminar for nonprofit leaders and their board members.<\/p>\n
Designed specifically for nonprofit boards, The Bolder Board Training\u2120<\/a>\u00a0teaches how to work with CEOs to create possibilities for impact.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not<\/strong>\u00a0a traditional training on governance and finance,\u201d said Sarah Owen, president and CEO of the Southwest Florida Community Foundation. \u00a0\u201cThis one-day event will bean immersion in possibility and aspiration<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>that positively disrupts traditional ways of thinking. It is part lecture, part workshop.\u201d<\/p>\n Owen added that organizations are encouraged to bring as many of their board members as possible. The training can also serve as a powerful first day to a board retreat.<\/p>\n The Bolder Board Training\u2120<\/a>will mark the first public event to be held at the Community Foundation\u2019s new Collaboratory located at 2031 Jackson Streetin downtown Fort Myers. The event will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n Pollotta\u00a0is an American entrepreneur, author and humanitarian activist who invented the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days, which raised over half a billion dollars in nine years and were the subject of one of the first Harvard Business School case studies on social enterprise. His 2013 TED talk on philanthropy is one of the 100 most-viewed TED talks of all time. Pollotta\u2019s book Uncharitable<\/em>is the best-selling title in the history of Tufts University Press. He is also a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review online and is widely credited with changing the national conversation about impact and overhead in charity in America.<\/p>\n Early Adopter advance tickets are now on sale for $99 at https:\/\/floridacommunity.com\/bolder-board-training\/<\/a>Tables of eight are also available and allow for nonprofits to be seated with their fellow board members. Seating is limited and the event is expected to sell out.<\/p>\n The Southwest Florida Community Foundation, founded in 1976, cultivates regional change for the common good through collective leadership, social innovation and philanthropy to address the evolving community needs in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades counties. It partners with individuals, families and corporations who have created more than 400 philanthropic funds. Thanks to them, the Foundation invested $5 million in grants and programs to the community last year. With assets of $93 million, it has provided more than $67 million in grants and scholarships to the communities it serves since inception. The Community Foundation is the backbone organization for the regional FutureMakers Coalition and Lee County\u2019s Sustainability Plan. Based in Fort Myers, it has satellite offices located in Sanibel Island, LaBelle (Hendry County) and downtown Fort Myers.<\/p>\n The Southwest Florida Community Foundation, founded in 1976, cultivates regional change for the common good through collective leadership, social innovation and philanthropy to address the evolving community needs in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades counties. The Foundation partners with individuals, families and corporations who have created more than 400 philanthropic funds. Thanks to them, the Foundation invested $5.4 million in grants and programs to the community. With assets of $115 million, it has provided more than $71 million in grants and scholarships to the communities it serves since inception. The Foundation is the backbone organization for the regional FutureMakers Coalition and Lee County\u2019s Sustainability Plan. Currently, the Southwest Florida Community Foundation\u2019s regional headquarters are located off College Parkway in South Fort Myers, with satellite offices located on Sanibel Island, in LaBelle (Hendry County) and downtown Fort Myers. For more information, call 239-274-5900 or visit\u00a0<\/em>www.floridacommunity.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8771 College Parkway, Building 2, Suite 201 Fort Myers, FL\u00a0 33919 239-274-5900 Fax 239-274-5930 FORT MYERS, Fla.\u2013The Southwest Florida Community Foundation will bring nationally renowned author and TED talk speaker…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"