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RFP: Nonprofit Board Training for LeadingEdge Cohort

September 8, 2025 | By LFW
Project Description

Leadership Fort Worth seeks professional services from qualified individuals or teams to conduct nonprofit board service training for participants in the LeadingEdge 2026 cohort. The selected firm will be facilitating training for 35-45 members of our emerging leaders cohort between January-June 2026.

Organization Background

Leadership Fort Worth (LFW) was established in 1972 as a resource for community leadership succession planning, with the first Leadership Class graduating in 1973. The five founding organizations were the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, Fort Worth Junior League, Texas Christian University, Texas Wesleyan University, and the University of Texas at Arlington. Texas Electric, now Oncor, provided needed in-kind support.

 

Since 1973, LFW has graduated more than 4,100 participants across all programs with 1,200+ of those being LeaderKids. Many LFW Alumni are leaders not only in government but a wide variety of volunteer and appointed roles. LFW is among the oldest community leadership development organizations in the country and consists of four programs: LeadershipClass, LeadingEdge, LeaderKids, and LeaderPrime. LFW is a proud member of the Association of Leadership Programs (ALP) and was recognized with its Excellence in Innovation award in 2015.


In recent years, LFW welcomed it’s third Executive Director, Jennifer Treviño in 2021, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, and hosted the 2025 national conference for the Association of Leadership Programs.

 

Mission: To educate, empower, and connect diverse leaders who serve as catalysts for a vibrant and sustainable community.


Tagline: Providing Fort Worth with diverse and enlightened leadership
Vision: A community where everyone has the opportunity to be a leader and to serve the greater good.


Values: Trusteeship, Diversity, Integrity, Vision and Innovation

 

Additional organizational information may be found at www.leadershipfortworth.org.

Objectives
  • Implement a training program to prepare emerging leaders for nonprofit board service that can be held on an annual basis. Training should be 4-6 hours long and split over 2 days; dates to be determined with LFW program team. Ideal format would be 2 hours in-person, 2 hours virtual/ self-paced online and 2 hours in-person.
  • Serve as a trusted partner to the leadership of LFW including the Executive Director and Senior Program Director who has direct oversight of the LeadingEdge program.
  • Partner with LFW team to host a “speed matching” social between LeadingEdge graduates from 2026 and prior years with participation preference given to current members of the LFW Alumni Association. Selected partner and LFW will determine the number of nonprofit organizations to invite to the event along with the overall structure of the event to be held in June 2026.
Firm Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in delivering nonprofit training sessions and services in Tarrant County.
  • Demonstrated work experience with nonprofit organizations and alignment with LFW’s values of trusteeship, diversity, integrity, vision and innovation.
  • Experience with membership organizations and/or alumni associations preferred.
  • Fort Worth and Tarrant County based firms preferred.
Milestones & Deadlines


The selected firm would be required to attend initial project kickoff and project wrap-up meetings in
person.

  • Submissions due by October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
  • Vendor selection by November 21
  • Kickoff meeting by December 19
    • Determine training schedule
    • Review training sections
  • Monthly touchpoint meetings as required from January-June 2026
    • Review final training materials
    • Plan logistics
    • Coordinate nonprofit “speed matching” event to be held by July 15, 2026.
Project Budget

A maximum budget of $5,000 has been established for this nonprofit service training and “speed matching” event.

Required Proposal Information
  • Summary of services that demonstrates alignment with LFW mission
  • Outline of proposed project approach, timeline and budget, including outline of project hours
  • Experience level of professional team with brief bios including certifications and qualifications
  • At least three past client references
Submission

All proposals are due by 5:00 PM on October 14, 2025 via email to Jennifer Trevino at [email protected]. Questions may also be directed to Jennifer