Nonprofit Center Offers Webinar to Help Boards Strengthen and Succeed

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires has partnered with Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation to host a webinar series entitled "Empowering Berkshire Nonprofit Boards for Success." 
 
The sessions take place virtually on Fridays from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Sept. 5, 12, 19 and Oct. 3. The cost is $150 per organization with unlimited participation by staff and board.
 
This training series is designed to strengthen nonprofit leadership and governance. Topics include: board roles & responsibilities, financial oversight and fiscal accountability, recruitment, nominations and retention, fundraising and development, orientation and training for new board members, alternative governance models and nonprofit life cycles. There will be opportunities to exchange ideas, explore best practices, and build connections with other nonprofit leaders—helping organizations create strong and effective boards. Participants will leave with several practical tools and actionable steps to increase the effectiveness of their boards.
 
Presenter Andy Robinson provides training and consulting for nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies. Over the past 30 years, Andy has worked with clients in 47 US states and across Canada. He is the author of six books, including Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money. He lives in Plainfield, Vermont.
 
For more information and to register, visit npcberkshires.org.
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South County Farm Grows Community

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
TYRINGHAM, Mass. — Woven Roots Farm offered the ideal venue for the message Massachusetts' commissioner of agriculture wanted to deliver: the barn.
 
That is where Commissioner Ashley Randle addressed a group of about two dozen attendees at Berkshire Grown's Berkshire Farm Tour.
 
"With everything that is happening around us, it can feel very disheartening and very heavy," Randle said Wednesday after the group shared a meal in Woven Roots' community gathering room. "And two things that I've talked about have been leading in community and with compassion.
 
"And, certainly, Woven Roots has embodied that every day."
 
Jen and Pete Salinetti founded Woven Roots at the turn of the 20th century on a quarter acre of land they owned in Lee.
 
Today, they have almost 850 garden beds on 2 and a half acres in Tyringham, where they moved full-time in 2014.
 
The community-supported agriculture farm produces 70 crops and produces enough food for 1,600 people per week, Jen Salinetti said while leading a tour of the property the couple leases on McCarty Road.
 
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