Eric Breiland
Trout Museum of Art, 922 Ministries, Brigade Air
Kim Craddock
Fox Valley Veterans Council; Beaming LLC
Cainan Davenport
People of Progression
Sheri Fetting
Appleton A Better Chance, Inc.
Kelly Hanink
Apple Valley Food Pantry
Sandy Hupfer
Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra
John Koehler
Fox Valley Veterans Council, Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 351, & Others
Holly Kowalski
Xavier Board of Trustees, The Trout Museum of Art
Jodie Larsen
Faith Lutheran Church, Oshkosh Area Community Foundation
Robin Madson
Foundations for Living- Waupaca
Adriana McCleer
Casa Hispana, Imagine Fox Cities
Jennifer McIntosh
Fox Valley Humane Association and Winagamie Golf Course
Lindsay Roake
Northeast Wisconsin Chinese Association
Bill Skarie
Heckrodt Wetland Reserve
Brenda Smongeski
First English Lutheran Church
Rand Swenson
Foundations for Living- Waupaca
Fanni Xie
Northeast Wisconsin Chinese Association
Jen Zenzick
Girls on the Run Northeast Wisconsin
2022
Sridevi Yadlapati Buddi Serving IndUS of Fox Valley, Rotary District 6220, ZikSA
James Frederick Green Serving Fox Valley Literacy
Rachel Hansen Serving Oshkosh Area Community Pantry
Jean Haznar Serving WisconSibs
Andrew Konkel Serving Heckrodt Wetland Reserve
Joe Martin Serving Monarch Society Fox River Valley, Inc.
Kelly Mischler Working with United Way Fox Cities
Paula Morgen Serving advisory boards for Imagine Fox Cities, STAR, Basic Needs Giving Partnership
Jonny Richard Serving Leadership Fox Cities Alumni Association
Shelly Rohde Serving Big Brothers Big Sister East Central Wisconsin
Tiffany Schuette Serving Girls on the Run of Northeast Wisconsin
Heather Sorebo Serving SOAR Fox Cities
Mike Truyman Serving Community Benefit Tree
Terri Wirth Serving Fox Valley Literacy
2021
Lauri Asbury Serving Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley, Neenah Joint School District, and Neenah Arts Council
Amanda Chavez Serving Appleton Bilingual School Governance Board, Building for Kids, Casa Hispana, and Citizen Review Panel
Tim Cody Serving Fox Valley Veterans Council, Inc.
Lindsey Croasdale Serving Jake’s Diapers
Kris Ferber Serving Heckrodt Wetland Reserve and Nature Center
Michelle Frisbie Serving Fox Valley Chapter of Hearing Loss Association of America
Craig Gagnon Serving Heckrodt Wetland Reserve and Nature Center, Fox Valley Literacy
Craig Cloudemans Serving Fox Cities Marathon, United Way Fox Cities Emerging Leaders committee, Girls on the Run, Institute of Management Accountants Winnebagoland
Theresa Hannah Serving Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship planned giving committee and audit committee, Fox Valley Literacy
David Kuchenbecker Serving Paper Industry International Hall of Fame and Paper Discovery Center
Kristin Manney Serving Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley
Laura McCormick Serving SOAR Fox Cities, Outagamie County Department of Health and Human Services
Katie Phalin Serving Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley
Shonna Prickette Serving Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Central Wisconsin
Brian Rhodes Serving Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Central Wisconsin
Wendy Steward Serving Volunteer Fox Cities
Jim Strong Serving Fox Valley Veterans Council, Inc.
Jen Van Elzen Serving Makaroff Youth Ballet
Walter Zerrenner Serving BEAMING, Inc, Fox Valley Memory Project, Fox Valley Veterans Council
“Thank you, Nonprofit Leadership Initiative, for co-hosting the first ever Board Academy workshop for nonprofit board members. It was so energizing to have the opportunity to learn from the experts and to be together with other board members to collaborate and share experiences. The connections I’ve made and the leadership strategies I’ve learned will help me to be a more effective board member, thus promoting more successful agencies and greater positive impact on our community. Thank you for the awesome opportunity, I’d do it again in a heartbeat!”
LAURI ASBURY
Board member and 2021 Board Academy graduate
Samaritan Counseling of the Fox Valley
“The Board Academy far exceeded my expectations and I would recommend the program to any board member, new or experienced.”
Craig Gloudemans
Fox Valley nonprofit board member and 2021 Board Academy graduate
Accessibility
Accessibility modes
Epilepsy Safe Mode
Dampens color and removes blinks
This mode enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode
Improves website's visuals
This mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode
Helps to focus on specific content
This mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode
Reduces distractions and improve focus
This mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode
Allows using the site with your screen-reader
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Font Sizing
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Line Height
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Letter Spacing
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Left Aligned
Center Aligned
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Visually Pleasing Experience
Dark Contrast
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Monochrome
High Contrast
High Saturation
Low Saturation
Adjust Text Colors
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Mute Sounds
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Accessibility Statement
npleadershipfv.org
September 23, 2023
Compliance status
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience,
regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level.
These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible
to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific
disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML,
adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email [email protected]
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with
screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive
a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website.
In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag
for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology.
To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on
as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Disability profiles supported in our website
Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.
Browser and assistive technology compatibility
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Notes, comments, and feedback
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to [email protected]
