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Dr. Tom Miller Dana Vignale

Hosted by Dr. Tom Miller, Leaders Building Leaders
with special guest Dana Vignale, Charter Impact

Tuesday · October20
7:00–8:30 PM ET
Live online · Free

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  1. Find the join link in your confirmation email
  2. Add the session to your calendar
  3. Download and skim the Treasurer’s Toolkit
  4. Invite your Board Chair, Treasurer and Finance Committee
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Financial sustainability isn’t the responsibility of one person. Forward this registration link to your team so everyone gets their own seat—and their own Toolkit.

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Who to invite

01Your Board Chair
02Your Treasurer
03Your Finance Committee
04Your Head of School
05Your CFO or finance partner
Management executes. The Board ensures.
Your hosts

Governance meets financial strategy.

Dr. Tom Miller
Leaders Building Leaders

Dr. Tom Miller

Decades of experience working with charter school boards and leaders to strengthen governance, accountability and organizational sustainability.

Dana Vignale
Charter Impact

Dana Vignale

Dana and the Charter Impact team work with charter schools nationally, pairing deep financial expertise with dashboards, budgeting and forecasting tools, and strategic guidance.

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Together, they’ll help you move beyond reviewing reports to understanding what the numbers are telling you, which questions to ask, and how governance and financial strategy work together to protect—and grow—your school.

Is Your Board Seeing the Whole Financial Picture?

State budgets are increasingly unpredictable. Personnel and benefit costs keep rising. Enrollment shifts can change revenue overnight. Facilities, insurance, transportation, and special education costs keep climbing.

Yet your mission hasn’t gotten smaller.

Money is the oxygen that drives your school’s programs.

It funds your people, your classrooms, your facilities, and your student opportunities—and ultimately your ability to deliver on the promises in your charter. Your financial resources must be analyzed, cultivated, protected, and strategically used to grow your school.

So how does the Board know the school’s financial systems are actually working?

Not whether the budget balances.
Not whether the CFO says, “We’re on track.”
Not whether the audit came back without a major finding.

Many Boards and committees are full of talented people…

…yet meetings get consumed by operational updates instead of strategic conversations. Members aren’t always sure where governance ends and management begins. Reporting becomes information overload rather than meaningful oversight.

Without clear governance systems, even great organizations lose momentum.

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This Is Not a Finance Training.

It’s a governance conversation about the financial future of your school. Dr. Tom Miller and Dana Vignale of Charter Impact will unpack the financial information every charter school Board, Finance Committee, and leadership team should understand—and how each player works together.

 

01  THE BOARD
What should it know, monitor, question, and approve?

02  THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
How does it go deeper without becoming management?

03  THE FINANCE TEAM
What information should leadership provide so the Board can govern effectively?

04  THE AUDIT
Beyond compliance, what key data points and trends are hiding inside it?

05  THE BUDGET
Does today’s budget actually support tomorrow’s strategy?

 

And the most important question of all: What should your Board be seeing now that could prevent a financial crisis later?

Cancel the Board Meeting.

Seriously. If your Board is scheduled to meet at the same time, make this the meeting.

Bring your team:

✓  Your Board Chair
✓  Your Treasurer
✓  Your Finance Committee
✓  Your Head of School
✓  Your CFO or finance partner

Financial sustainability isn’t the responsibility of one person.

Management executes. The Board ensures.

We’ll show you what that distinction looks like when real money, real risk, and the future of your school are on the line.

REGISTER TODAY

Your Governance & Finance Experts

Dr. Tom Miller of Leaders Building Leaders and Dana Vignale of Charter Impact bring two critical perspectives to this conversation: effective governance and sophisticated charter school financial strategy.

Tom brings decades of experience working with charter school boards and leaders to strengthen governance, accountability, and organizational sustainability.

Dana and the Charter Impact team work with charter schools nationally, pairing deep financial expertise with financial dashboards, budgeting and forecasting tools, and strategic guidance that turn complex data into better decisions.

Together, they’ll help you move beyond reviewing financial reports to understanding what the numbers are telling you, which questions to ask, and how governance and financial strategy work together to protect—and grow—your school.

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