Building a Robust Board Volunteer Leader Pipeline
As the OSU Foundation prepared for the launch of the public phase of our campaign, we saw an opportunity to ensure that we were building a robust pipeline of potential board volunteers that reflected our community, promoted diversity, and targeted the skills necessary to be successful in our campaign. To achieve these goals the presenters worked with senior leadership to develop a volunteer profile to model what a strong pipeline would look like. This profile was then used to review the current board member skills and demographic attributes to better understand areas of opportunity and growth. Once new volunteer candidates were identified, we worked with our analytical team to develop a pipeline Tableau dashboard with information regarding candidate education, skills, location, and engagement to better see the pipeline in its entirety. We also created a dashboard that provided current board members a view of how the demographic makeup of the executive committee would change as candidates from the pipeline are added. During our presentation, we will discuss our process for creating our pipeline of candidates with diverse skills and backgrounds and how we have been working with the current board to bring diversity to the executive committee and subcommittees.