Boards and Executive Directors often struggle to work in true partnership with each other. As a result, boards are rarely used to their full potential on behalf of the missions they seek to serve. Please join us for a conversation about how each party can show up ready to share power and create a healthy, high performing culture.
Board Bits are designed by MCN’s Greater Minnesota team to frame trending nonprofit topics across the state and to spur dialogue amongst peers. Each session will offer learning from subject matter experts along with time for Q & A and discussion on the designated topic.
Event Details
This virtual event will take place on the Zoom platform. Your access link will be emailed to you the day before the event after 12 p.m.
This session will be recorded. The recording will be made available to registrants for 14 days after the live event.
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Speaker Information
Kim Snyder founded the Excelsior Bay Group in 2007 to help nonprofits across the state build their capacity to fully deliver on their missions. Kim began her career in higher education and healthcare philanthropy. Prior to founding the Excelsior Bay Group, she served as the Vice President of Children’s Hospitals Foundation and in leadership roles at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Ridgewater College, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System and the Minnesota Community College System.
Today, she leads the firm’s work in the areas of philanthropy, strategy, and governance and has provided counsel to scores of clients across the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. She has consulted with nonprofits of all sizes and stages of maturity, always working in partnership with staff and board members to develop their skills and confidence to lead, govern and take effective action. Additionally, Kim provides coaching to dozens of nonprofit staff and board members across the State every year on topics ranging from major gift solicitation to good governance. She is also the Mankato Area Foundation's Consultant in Residence—a role that allows her to provide free, targeted consultation to qualifying nonprofits in Blue Earth and Nicollet counties in order to build their internal capacity to advance the pace of change.
Kim was educated at the University of Minnesota, earning a BA in history and an MA in Public Policy from the Humphrey Institute with emphases in non-profit management and education policy.
Presently, Kim serves as a volunteer for her local food shelf and a mentor at the Carlson School of Management. Throughout her career she has served on the boards, development, or advisory committees for: Charities Review Council, Dress for Success Twin Cities, MN Adoption Resource Network, MinnPost, MN Indian Women’s Resource Center, Minnetonka Public Schools Foundation, Southwest Minnesota Initiative Fund, and Willmar Area Community Foundation.