Annual Celebration of the Sector

About this event

We cordially invite you to join us once again for our annual gathering of the region’s nonprofit sector. We anticipate more than 200 attendees including local nonprofit leaders, prominent philanthropists, and our generous community of members and donors.

At this year’s Annual Celebration of the Sector, we welcome Anne Wallestad, the president & CEO of BoardSource, as our guest speaker.

BoardSource is the recognized leader in nonprofit board leadership. It supports, trains, and educates nonprofit leaders from across the country and throughout the world. With almost three decades of experience, BoardSource serves as the national voice for inspired and effective board leadership.

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Meet the speaker

Anne Wallestad serves as president and CEO of BoardSource, a globally recognized nonprofit focused on strengthening nonprofit leadership at the highest level — the board of directors. Recognizing the critical partnership between boards and executives, and the impact of that partnership on overall organizational success, BoardSource helps nonprofit leaders invest in their leadership partnership by providing research, thought leadership, and practical supports that help transform board structures, dynamics, and perspectives.

Wallestad was appointed to her position in 2013, after having served on BoardSource’s leadership team for nearly five years. She has overseen a period of remarkable growth and change, helping BoardSource expand its leadership voice and build a scalable model of program delivery that has resulted in a more than 200 percent growth in the number of leaders served. She has played an instrumental role in the launch of several new leadership initiatives including the Stand for Your Mission campaign, which challenges board leaders to play a stronger role in advocacy and public policy.

With 20 years of executive leadership experience in the nonprofit sector, Wallestad has worked closely with boards of directors and volunteers in a number of national and local organizations, and has cultivated deep expertise in fundraising strategy and leveraging the board’s fundraising role. She has served on a number of advisory committees and panels, including the Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations Panel on the Nonprofit Sector and Independent Sector’s 2014 Ethics & Accountability Advisory Committee. Under her leadership, BoardSource has been recognized as a finalist for the prestigious Drucker Prize for innovation, and named a Best Nonprofit to Work For in 2016 and 2017. Wallestad has been honored as one of The Nonprofit Times’ “Power & Influence Top 50.”

She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Drake University, with degrees in both sociology and English. She also is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders.

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