C06 Session: Two Case Studies of MSO Business Models

Two Case Studies of MSO Business Models

Thursday, August 3, 11:00am - 12:30pm

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

Presenters

Description

CompassPoint and the Institute for Conservation Leadership (ICL) are two successful MSOs with many similarities as well as differences.  Both combine earned and contributed income, and deliver their work largely through staff, but they are wildly different in identified constituencies, revenue development structures, and business strategies.  The two executive directors will share their business models and answer questions.

About the Presenters

Jan Masaoka, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services

Jan Masaoka is Executive Director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, one of the nation's leading management consulting firms to nonprofit organizations—and a nonprofit itself with 34 staff and offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Jan herself consults to nonprofit organizations in CEO transitions, nonprofit business planning, and boards of directors. She authored "The Best of the Board Café" (published by the Wilder Foundation) and she writes the "Board Café," a national newsletter with more than 39,000 subscribers. Her research work includes recent studies on women executive directors of color, executive director tenure, all-volunteer organizations, and nonprofit space & occupancy needs. For the last six years she has been named by NonProfit Times as one of the "50 Most Influential People" in the nonprofit sector nationwide, and in 2002 she was named "Nonprofit Executive of the Year." Jan's community activities include serving as Founding President of the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds and current Board President of the Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center.

Dianne Russell, Institute for Conservation Leadership

Dianne J. Russell serves as Executive Director of the Institute for Conservation Leadership (ICL), a national nonprofit MSO that builds leaders, organizations and alliances to protect the Earth. Dianne leads the fundraising, financial management, and oversight of program design and delivery at ICL. Dianne has worked with local, state and regional activists and groups in the environmental and conservation community since 1985. In her seventeen years at ICL, she has worked with over 1,000 groups across North America on leadership, organizational development, strategic planning, network and coalition development, campaign development and fundraising.  Dianne's previous staff positions include work with Americans for the Environment, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE).  A native of the Great Lakes region, Dianne earned a double degree in Religion and Sociology from Wittenberg University (Ohio).