Sample of 2006 Breakfast Roundtables
Achieving Strategic Goals through Operations Planning
Facilitator: Daryl L. Thompson, Thompson Network Consulting
We will discuss the process steps for developing an effective operations plan from an organization's strategic plan. Operations planning usually involves the usage of technology at some level. For operations planning to be successful, it is essential that both management and technical staff have a common understanding of the technological requirements for a successful implementation that meets expected outcomes. This roundtable will discuss how a shared criteria for evaluating technological implementations can be constructed.
Can Our Workers Still Live in Our Communities?
Facilitator: Bill Hettinger, The Wyndham Financial Group, Ltd.
Housing prices have escalated dramatically nationwide in the last five years. Even the middle class is having difficulty finding housing they can afford. Come participate in a lively discussion of the affect the growing lack of workforce housing is having on our communities and discuss ways our communities and our nonprofits can address the crisis.
Community-Based Capacity Building and Community Impact – Powerful Lessons for Leaders
Facilitator: Tisa McGhee, The Children's Trust
This roundtable will share lessons learned from a community-based capacity effort in one major metropolitan city. Other community leaders are encouraged to attend to discuss how those lessons can be turned into powerful lessons applicable to any community and share lessons of their own.
Consulting Pools: Meeting the Challenges of Recruitment, Screening, Diversity, and Quality Control
Facilitators: Anne Glendon, Glendon Associates, LLC and Lisa Russ, Movement Strategy Center
Join the BEST Project in Flint, Michigan and the Just Consulting project of Movement Strategy Center in a conversation about lessons learned, successes and challenges in creating and maintaining consultant pools and learning groups.
Creating a Resource Center from Scratch
Facilitator: Frank Lopez, Nonprofit Enterprise Center
This breakfast roundtable will include aspects of starting a new organization from scratch. The roundtable will include an overview of the market study, drafting legal documents, tax-exempt application process, social enterprise, fundraising and grant writing components, relationship building and infrastructure development. I will share lessons learned from working with various nonprofit organizations, including the new Nonprofit Enterprise Center of El Paso Texas, which began with no budget and within 2 years has developed various resources and a budget of over $400,000.
Creating Opportunities Through Employment
Facilitator: John Hess, Employ America
Employ America is a Community Development Entity that provides administrative cost efficiencies, employee benefits a new source of revenue to not-for profit organizations. This breakfast roundtable will discuss the universal principals that support the Employ America business model as well as the programs it has developed to increase retention and assist low-wage earners. The roundtable will seek to facilitate a better understanding of alternative staffing models as a strategy for engaging employers and better serving the needs of the working poor.
Is Your Non-Profit Web Site An Asset or Liability? Proven Web Strategies That Work for Non-Profits
Facilitator: Mary Couse, Red Dog Software
This discussion will help nonprofits realize the value of their web presence in terms of community building, information distribution, membership management and non-dues revenue generation. All strategies discussed will be based on real nonprofit case examples. Topics covered will include such areas as developing chapters/affiliate sites, introducing web sponsorship programs, understanding content management, and generating online membership interactivity.
Measuring Social Impact: Technology-based Information Management Designed to Support an Outcomes Framework of Service and Funding Provision
Facilitator: Kathryn Engelhardt-Cronk, Community TechKnowledge
The nonprofit community, both service providers and funders, are in the midst of a seminal shift in information management and reporting -- moving from "soft" or anecdotal results to "hard" or quantitative results. Demonstrated program and justifiable investment success in reaching outcome goals represents an important and valuable, but sometimes challenging, movement toward nonprofit mission clarity and impact. This round table will explore the drivers contributing to outcomes-driven community investment and discuss how technology tools can assist nonprofits in successfully implementing an information strategy to meet that challenge.
Using Documentaries as a Tool for Community Engagement and Activism
Facilitator: Patty Oertel, The Oertel Group
Nonprofit organizations alone cannot resolve all of the social issues negatively impacting our communities. We need to engage the community to support our work, elect officials committed to the issues and hold officials accountable to policies and use of our tax dollars in ways that effectively produce solutions. Issue-based documentaries are an excellent tool for community education especially when followed with conversation and resources for people to take action. During this breakfast roundtable, I will discuss how I became involved in a growing movement in cities across the nation using documentaries in this manner.
Volunteer Background Screening: NonProfit Due Diligence or Invasion of Privacy?
Facilitator: Barbara Fuente, USIS
Gone are the days where any volunteer is a good volunteer. In the past, nonprofit organizations that struggled for the manpower they needed to help them achieve their missions would never have considered turning down a willing soul. But today, it's different. Nonprofits, especially those working with vulnerable populations such as children, the sick or the elderly, understand that just one incident could shut their doors and halt their good works forever. Join us for a timely discussion about the delicate balance between appropriate and effective volunteer screening as part of an overall volunteer management program and the possible invasion of personal privacy.
What's In a Degree
Facilitator: Mark Rosenman, Union Institute & University
The Union Institute & University is developing a new Ph.D. program cluster on Nonprofits and Philanthropy under its Public Policy and Social Issues concentration. The roundtable discussion will be about what should be included under that rubric – what do you think ought to be required and what ought to be encouraged. What's important academically and in your worlds of practice?
White Privilege: Be More Effective in Community Building through Understanding
Facilitators: Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates, Inc and Sally Leiderman, Center for Assessment and Policy Development
Learn about what white privilege is and it's role in nonprofit effectiveness. This breakfast roundtable will introduce participants to the concepts of white privilege, which will be discussed in-depth during the presenters' session "Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building" on Friday, August 4, 2:15pm - 3:45pm.
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