Event Details
Monday, April 13, 2026
12:00PM – 12:45PM PT
Online via Zoom – This webinar will be recorded
Join Third Sector Company for a NAWA Lunch & Learn on April 13.
Getting Back to Why: Governance as Community Stewardship
Your board exists for a reason bigger than your organization. It exists because your community has a need, and your cause was built to meet it. But somewhere between the financial reports, the committee updates, and the consent agendas, it’s easy to lose that thread.
Too many nonprofit boards are so focused on what they do that they’ve lost sight of why they exist. This 45-minute lunch and learn invites board members and organizational leaders to step back from the day-to-day and reconnect with governance as an act of community stewardship. Using a practical framework, we’ll explore what high-impact boards actually look like, where most boards get stuck, and what it takes to move from simply being funded to being truly resourced by your community. You’ll leave with honest self-assessment, peer conversation, and one concrete commitment to bring back to your board
Cost
Recording
Registrants will receive the webinar recording by email after the event. If there are breakout rooms, they will not be included in the recording. If you can’t attend the training but you are interested in learning about this topic, please register so we can send you the recording and materials.
Accessibility
Captioning: We will have automated captioning enabled.
Interpretation: Please indicate during registration if you have an interpretation request. Typically, we need at least two weeks prior notice in order to schedule an interpreter.
Visual Descriptions: Presenters will include visual descriptions of themselves and the slides to give a person who is low-vision, blind, or calling in without video a sense of space and place.
If you have additional accessibility requests, please let us know when you register.
About the Speaker
Erick Seelbach (she/her)
Senior Program Strategist, Third Sector Company
Erick graduated from The Evergreen State College with a Master of Arts in Teaching. For over 20 years, her work in HIV led her to many different corners of volunteer, nonprofit and government settings: as a participant in HIV vaccine and prevention research studies, a leader of various research community advisory boards, a graduate of several leadership institutes, an outreach worker, a technical assistance and training provider, a grant writer and reviewer, a conference planner, and more. Erick served as the Executive Director of PCAF (Pierce County AIDS Foundation), chaired the Pierce County Human Services Coalition, and served as the President of the Board and later as the Interim Executive Director of the Nonprofit Association of Washington. Currently Erick owns and operates The Liminal Mirror, a coaching and consulting business, and works with Third Sector Company on nonprofit leadership continuity solutions.
Thanks to Our Partner
Presented by Nonprofit Association of Washington in partnership with Third Sector Company.
