Grow Your Vision
At Better Boards, we believe our best days are ahead of us.
Partner with us to drive lasting impact and achieve your goals with confidence and success.
Empowering Schools. Inspiring Growth. Building Leaders.
Your Partner
What We Do
Better Boards is a leading consulting firm dedicated to empowering nonprofit and school leaders, boards of directors, and advancement staff to reach their full potential. Specializing in training, development, and ongoing support, we provide the tools and strategies needed to overcome challenges, grow enrollment, increase fundraising, and strengthen organizational impact. Our experienced consultants work closely with boards and advancement teams to drive success and create lasting change in the communities they serve. With a commitment to excellence and collaboration, we partner with you to unlock your organization’s full potential and build a brighter future.
Who We Serve
Cultivating Excellence: From First Steps to Mastery
We partner with boards at every stage—from those just getting started to those with years of experience. Like us, boards are always evolving. Consider us your board’s personal trainer, helping guide its growth and development.
A start-up board typically takes on initiatives like revising and strengthening the school’s Unique Value Proposition (UVP) and branding, implementing early re-registration, organizing open houses and other key events, developing recruitment pipelines, and launching or revitalizing the Annual Fund.
A more experienced board typically focuses on policy development, refining strategic planning processes, and setting annual goals with measurable impact for initiatives in enrollment management and development. In collaboration with School Leadership, the Board is instrumental in shaping student retention and recruitment efforts, as well as fostering donor engagement and involvement.
Our Services
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Advancement Coaching
Receive personalized guidance and counseling in all areas of advancement, including the following and other support services:
- orientation and training for new staff
- advancement staff searches
- evaluation of advancement operations
- enrollment and development goal setting
- work plan development and accountability
- fundraising audits, strategy and brainstorming
- volunteer and board engagement
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Board Development
Whether you're looking to elevate from good to great or need a reset, we offer: - personalized guidance
- facilitated board retreats
- assessment of board and committee effectiveness
- development of a board matrix
- support with board recruitment and orientation
- guided self-assessment and goal setting
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Advancement Webinars and Workshops
Learn proven fundraising and enrollment strategies and actionable insights through in-person and virtual advancement workshops and webinars led by best-in-practice school leaders.
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Board Webinars and Workshops
Workshops and webinars cover topics in board member giving, developing a board orientation program for new members, developing high-functioning committees, enhancing the board chair/principal partnership, and leading the school’s development of a Unique Value Proposition.
About
My name is Megan Famular
For ten years as the Healey Education Foundation’s Vice President, I created and delivered Catholic school development and governance learning content to a national audience. I mentored heads of school, directors of advancement, board leaders and pastors to build, onboard and coach Boards of Specified Jurisdiction in implementing data-informed cultures of accountability and transparency in their schools. I coached school leaders in advancement, enrollment management, governance and business operations.
For eight years, I served in major gifts and alumni relations leadership roles at St. Joseph’s University, the Fox Business School at Temple University, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
