Southfield, Mich. – “Boardmanship Essentials,” the first in a series of seven BoardWALK workshops on building the capacity of current and prospective nonprofit board members and executive staff, will be held Friday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to noon at Lawrence Technological University.

BoardWALK is a collaborative program of the United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Detroit Executive Service Corps and Lawrence Tech’s Center for Nonprofit Management, and is sponsored by Cendrowski Corporate Advisors.

The other workshops in the series are:

• “Making Your Strategic Plan Work,” Dec. 7.
• “Fund Development for Board Members,” Jan. 4.
• “Financial Responsibilities of the Board,” Feb. 1.
• “Building Your Board,” March 7.
• “The Effective Board Team,” April 4.
• “Executive Director as Leader,” May 2.

The cost is $35 for individual workshops, or $225 for the series of seven. Continental breakfast is provided. All workshops will be held in room 336, Buell Management Building, Lawrence Technological University, 21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield.

Register online at www.uwsem.org under “Register for BoardWALK,” or contact Patricia McCann at (313) 226-9416 or patricia.mccann@uwsem.org.

Lawrence Technological University, www.ltu.edu, offers more than 60 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs in Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management. Founded in 1932, the 5,000-student, private university pioneered evening classes 75 years ago, and today has a growing number of weekend and online programs. Lawrence Tech’s 102-acre campus is in Southfield, with education centers in Livonia, Clinton Township, Traverse City, and Petoskey. Lawrence Tech also offers programs with partner universities in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia.