Building Your Unicorn Board

In March, Heart Gift's board helped clear $1.2 million at one gala. She's telling you exactly how she built it, and how you can build yours. Every nonprofit leader says the same thing about their board: "I wish they fundraised more." Christy Casey-Moore doesn't have that problem. Ten years running HeartGift — a nonprofit that flies kids from countries without access to pediatric cardiology into the U.S. for life-saving heart surgery — she's built what she calls a "unicorn board": 100% give-or-get, zero resume-builders, and every single member bought into the mission before they ever got the ask. Steal this from Christy: The give-or-get structure Christy uses to keep every board member fundraising, not just showing up Why she won't put a single resume-builder on her board and what she screens for instead The "people exercise" that turns a board meeting into a live prospect pipeline How she deploys her board night-of at a gala, table by table, so nothing gets missed