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C07 Affinity Group Meetings

Alliance 2007 Annual Conference
July 18-20, 2007   Atlanta, GA

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Affinity Group Meetings

 

POC Affinity Group Meeting

Date: Tuesday, July 17
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Price: No additional charge; Alliance membership and sign-up required
Facilitators: Monika Moss, MKM Management Consulting
Gita Gulati-Partee, Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
Barbara Sugland, CARTA, Inc.
Diana Lee, National Community Development Institute
Description:

Success is about making connections. Ready to raise your profile, sharpen your skills, increase the solidarity, and ramp up the resources? The Annual People of Color Gathering is the place to be! This year, the POC uses an “open space” design concept to bring focused discussion to hot topics—such as cultivating nonprofit sector talent across generations, advancing social change through capacity building, and change agents in the American South. Bring your ideas and generate action-oriented peer exchange. Newcomer orientation at 11 am. Regular session starts at 12 noon.

MSO ED Affinity Group Meeting

Date: Wednesday, July 18
Time: 8:30am - 3:30pm
Price: No additional charge; Alliance membership and sign-up required
Facilitators: Dianne Russell, Institute for Conservation Leadership
Alan Brickman, Consultant
Deborah Strauss, IT Resource Center
Judith Alnes, MAP for Nonprofits
Description:

Executive directors of management support organizations (MSOs) are invited for a day of peer sharing and dialogue designed to help support MSO leaders in this very demanding role.  The meeting will have an open space format to discuss issues important to senior management professionals, such as fundraising, the competitive landscape, market demands, sustainability and intellectual property.

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"Moving the Board Governance Field Forward—A 2nd Working Session on Developing New Governance Models": Board Governance Affinity Group Annual Summit

Date: Wednesday, July 18
Time: 9:00am - 3:30pm
Price: No additional charge; Alliance membership and sign-up required
Facilitators: Judy Freiwirth, Psy.D., Affinity Group Founder & Coordinator
Terrie Temkin, Ph.D., CoreStrategies for Nonprofits
Description:

An urgent need for new, alternative governance models remains. This facilitated Working Session is designed to further the work towards developing alternative governance approaches and models begun at last year's conference.  Through a series of facilitated, participatory exercises, the group will discuss implications of new research, and work together to deepen and expand the alternative approaches and move them to the next level of model development. It will be a working session where every participant will have equal responsibility for the ideas and knowledge base that emerges.

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Conditions for Success: An Open Space Dialogue of Executive Transition Management and Succession Planning

Date: Wednesday, July 18
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Price: No additional charge; Alliance membership and sign-up required
Facilitators: Margaret Donohoe, Leadership in Transition
Lynne Molnar, Third Sector New England
Tim Wolfred, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Tom Adams, TransitionGuides
Description:

The fields of executive transition management and succession planning are booming in the nonprofit world. After years of avoidance, the baby boom exodus and the positive benefits from well-planned and executed transitions have colluded to jump start our profession. Join our Affinity Group session intended for active ETM and Succession Planning practitioners to explore together what’s working, what’s not and how our collective wisdom can inform the conditions for future success of ETM and Succession Planning.

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Young and Emerging Affinity Group Meeting

Date: Wednesday, July 18
Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Price: No additional charge; Alliance membership and sign-up required
Description: Young and Emerging Professionals (YEP) will hold a meeting for networking and sharing among those who are under 35 years of age or are new to capacity building and grantmaking.  The meeting will cover ways to broaden career growth in capacity building to also include philanthropy, to strengthen the YEP professional development activities.