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Date: September 9, 2026
Time: 1 PM – 2 PM ET (Noon—1 CT, 11—12 MT, 10—11 PT)
A practical conversation for board leaders on ensuring water safety is considered, resourced and risk-ready, whether or not your Club operates a pool.
This webinar will help board members understand their oversight and strategy role in preparing every Club to advance water safety. With guest speaker Karen Cohn, co-founder The ZAC Foundation and BGCA trustee, participants will explore how boards can support planning, investment and readiness for water safety programming. Board members and CEOs are encouraged to bring this conversation into annual planning by asking how their Club will resource and ensure water safety efforts that protect young people in their community.
Karen Cohn
Co-Founder, The ZAC Foundation
Karen Cohn is Co-Founder of The ZAC Foundation, which she established with her husband, Brian, in memory of their son, Zachary, to advance water safety education and drowning prevention. Through its partnership with BGCA, the Foundation has helped provide free water safety and swim programming for nearly 25,000 children in at-risk communities nationwide. Karen is a recognized national advocate for drowning prevention, has testified before Congressional, State and Federal agencies, and has contributed to leading media outlets including CNN.com, USA Today and The Washington Post. She also serves as a Northeast Trustee of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, a Board Member of the California Water Safety Coalition and a blue-ribbon panelist advising the U.S. National Water Safety Action Plan.