In order to help address the widespread need for board development among community organizations working in the South, SRDI developed and implemented a program that trained board members of community organizations as peer trainers on the roles and responsibilities of board members. These peer trainers have fanned out to train boards in organizations similar to theirs. The training model uses “a tightly packaged set of concepts and materials, a highly participatory training process, the injunction to share knowledge, and a regional approach to training.”