About Me
Carol Weisman, President of Board builders, is an internationally known speaker, author, trainer and consultant.
Carol specializes in volunteerism, fund raising and governance. She has worked with a wide range of clients from Sing Omaha to the National Council of Voluntary Organization in London England to the Bermuda Health Care Foundation. She has served on thirty-two boards and has been president of seven.
Carol began her professional career working with gangs, a marvelous background for working with boards.
She found the gangs better organized, with clearer expectations and a solid leadership training program. Although she doesn't recommend any fundraising that would end in incarceration, the gangs certainly had some "creative" ideas.
Carol has published extensively on governance, volunteerism and governance. Her ninth book is Transforming Ordinary People into Fundraising Superheroes... Even those who hate to ask.
Raising Charitable Children, is in its third printing. It has been covered by The New York Times, Parade Magazine, Parents Magazine and was the cover story of Scholastic Parent and Child.
Carol won a Telly Award for her PBS special "Building a Board with a Passion for Mission." She is still trying to figure out how to mount her award on her car.
Carol is currently on the faculty of Everyone Ready. She is a past faculty member of the Learning Institute for Nonprofit Organizations and was an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Carol has a Master's Degree in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. Carol was a pediatric oncology and hematology social worker at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
Carol lives with Frank Robbins, her sweet, long suffering husband of thirty-four years. Their oldest son Frank Robbins lives in the DC area with his life Laura and their two sons, their second son Jono Robbins, who lives in St. Louis, is an art teacher and studio art in ceramics. The dog and cat are long gone, and Carol is thinking of letting the plants die.
Carol serves on the boards of Trailnet and the African Health and Hospital Foundation. When not speaking, writing and traveling, she works out with a group of plus-sized runners called "The Chaffing Dishes."