SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

In celebration of our second anniversary on October 1, 2004, BoardWalk Consulting is pleased to announce a new governance fellowship at Harvard Business School, designed specifically for board members of nonprofit organizations. We also hope you have or will sign up for the First Annual "Change the World Conference" on Tuesday evening, October 12th at Oglethorpe University.

Cordially,

To celebrate the start of BoardWalk's third year, we are pleased to announce the BoardWalk Governance Fellowships, two half-tuition scholarships to the highly acclaimed program, Governing for Nonprofit Excellence ("GNE"), offered each fall by Harvard Business School. This year's program is conducted November 10-13, so applications for the fellowship need to be submitted quickly.

Drawing on experienced faculty from several graduate schools at Harvard, GNE offers nonprofit and foundation board members an unparalleled opportunity to explore strategic trends and best practices with some forty participants from 25 states and half a dozen countries.

Journalist David Bornstein has written a most captivating book, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, in which he profiles nine individuals from around the world-- "driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better." As Ashoka notes, "What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change." Bornstein has studied the best and they get exposure.

If your nonprofit or foundation is thinking about recruiting new leadership, adding energy to its board, or enhancing the connections among board, staff and mission, we invite you to contact Sam Pettway or Margaret Dickson for a confidential exploratory discussion.