Coaching, Developing, and Evaluating Staff & Board
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About the event
This session invites you to learn how to coach your staff and board members and help them grow and excel; create a development plan for yourself, your staff, and your board members; and evaluate your staff and board members’ performance and feedback.
Additional Information
This event is part of the Learning Hub program Executive Director Learning Circle. Since 2015, this program has provided space for learning and peer dialogue specifically among nonprofit executive directors. Serving as a nonprofit executive director is a great privilege and a particular challenge. You wear many hats, from holding your organization's vision, to minding the daily details, fostering partnerships, and generating financial support. Join this series to connect with fellow directors for support and engagement. Session topics have included board diversity, federal tax changes, organizational growth, marketing, finance, and personal resiliency.
The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers the Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Marsie Silvestro
Marsie Silvestro
Marsie Silvestro brings four decades of expertise to her roles as an intuitive and dynamic Executive Director, Board and Staff Trainer, Group Retreat Facilitator and Mentor. Her leadership experience spans work on both the local and national levels. She is proficient in the Appreciative Inquiry Strategic Model which focuses on identifying an organization's strengths through individual and group interviewing progresses that honors what has been done, creates transformative collective dreaming and creating effective solution based and accomplishable work plans that will move an agency toward growth and a new pathways toward a successful mission.
Marsie believes that no matter what someone’s position is in an agency or the community, all are needed to steer towards a future that elevates the voices and needs of those they serve, as well as ensures that staff and board members feel heard, listened to, included, and appreciated as a thread in the web of service and safety.
Ross Chaney
Ross Chaney
Ross Chaney is a seasoned nonprofit and business consultant who specializes in strategic planning, writing, executive coaching, and applications of AI for nonprofits and small organizations. He has 20 years of experience in northern New Mexico nonprofit and public service, working across different leadership roles and diverse sectors. Ross’ experience includes:
- Coaching for ED’s and program staff for leadership development
- Governance, organizational development, operations and strategy
- Policy issues, program/operations expansion or reduction
- Budgeting and finance coaching
- Reviewing grant proposals, reports, and other documents
- Exploring the potential of AI for your organization
- Extensive knowledge of Native American and NM culture
Desiree Robledo
Desiree Robledo
Desiree Robledo believes in providing everyone with an opportunity to heal and thrive, regardless of their origins or backgrounds. She has a profound capacity for empathy and an unwavering commitment to assist those in need. Desiree’s expertise in program development is complemented by a personalized approach.
Throughout her tenure in policy advocacy and restorative justice with organizations such as Dream Org, Community Not Cages, AVP, LARRP, The Ella Baker Center, and RDFE, Desiree has made significant contributions to the conceptualization and execution of pioneering reentry programs. Among Desiree’s notable achievements is the establishment of a bespoke case management system. This initiative reflects her understanding of the importance of support systems, as she witnessed firsthand the dedication of her father, a lifelong field worker, and her mother, who has spent her career cleaning houses. As a single mother of three, Desiree’s resolve is to dismantle the unnecessary obstacles facing those who earnestly seek a second chance.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Marsie Silvestro
Marsie Silvestro
Marsie Silvestro brings four decades of expertise to her roles as an intuitive and dynamic Executive Director, Board and Staff Trainer, Group Retreat Facilitator and Mentor. Her leadership experience spans work on both the local and national levels. She is proficient in the Appreciative Inquiry Strategic Model which focuses on identifying an organization's strengths through individual and group interviewing progresses that honors what has been done, creates transformative collective dreaming and creating effective solution based and accomplishable work plans that will move an agency toward growth and a new pathways toward a successful mission.
Marsie believes that no matter what someone’s position is in an agency or the community, all are needed to steer towards a future that elevates the voices and needs of those they serve, as well as ensures that staff and board members feel heard, listened to, included, and appreciated as a thread in the web of service and safety.
Ross Chaney
Ross Chaney
Ross Chaney is a seasoned nonprofit and business consultant who specializes in strategic planning, writing, executive coaching, and applications of AI for nonprofits and small organizations. He has 20 years of experience in northern New Mexico nonprofit and public service, working across different leadership roles and diverse sectors. Ross’ experience includes:
- Coaching for ED’s and program staff for leadership development
- Governance, organizational development, operations and strategy
- Policy issues, program/operations expansion or reduction
- Budgeting and finance coaching
- Reviewing grant proposals, reports, and other documents
- Exploring the potential of AI for your organization
- Extensive knowledge of Native American and NM culture
Meet the people leading the conversation
Desiree Robledo
Desiree Robledo
Desiree Robledo believes in providing everyone with an opportunity to heal and thrive, regardless of their origins or backgrounds. She has a profound capacity for empathy and an unwavering commitment to assist those in need. Desiree’s expertise in program development is complemented by a personalized approach.
Throughout her tenure in policy advocacy and restorative justice with organizations such as Dream Org, Community Not Cages, AVP, LARRP, The Ella Baker Center, and RDFE, Desiree has made significant contributions to the conceptualization and execution of pioneering reentry programs. Among Desiree’s notable achievements is the establishment of a bespoke case management system. This initiative reflects her understanding of the importance of support systems, as she witnessed firsthand the dedication of her father, a lifelong field worker, and her mother, who has spent her career cleaning houses. As a single mother of three, Desiree’s resolve is to dismantle the unnecessary obstacles facing those who earnestly seek a second chance.
Funder Panel
facilitated by Marsie Silvestro and Ross Chaney. Panelists include Sylvan Argo, LANL Foundation; Linda Candelaria-Dodd, Con Alma Foundation; Diane Hamamoto, Santa Fe Community Foundation; Elsa Lopez, NewMexicoWomen.Org; Carla Romero, McCune Charitable Foundation; and Philip Varnum, New Mexico Foundation.
In this session, hear from local funders about their missions, priorities, and funding opportunities; learn how to build and maintain relationships with funders and communicate your impact; and ask questions and get feedback from funders.
Cohort Introductions & Nonprofit Governance Essentials
This Fall 2024 program is designed specifically for current nonprofit board members. Over the course of six sessions, our goal is to provide an overview of the nonprofit sector and its structure as well as support, knowledge, and skill-building around the fundamentals of board participation. The program includes guest speakers from the community to address the day-to-day details and real-life responsibilities of board service. Whether your board is 3 years old or 30, with a large staff or no staff, serving as a board member is a specific responsibility.
Strategic Thinking and Decision-Making
This Fall 2024 program is designed specifically for current nonprofit board members. Over the course of six sessions, our goal is to provide an overview of the nonprofit sector and its structure as well as support, knowledge, and skill-building around the fundamentals of board participation. The program includes guest speakers from the community to address the day-to-day details and real-life responsibilities of board service. Whether your board is 3 years old or 30, with a large staff or no staff, serving as a board member is a specific responsibility.
