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C07 Thursday 4:15pm

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

Main Page Program Keynotes Sponsors Exhibitors Participants

 

Thursday, July 19 from 4:15pm - 5:45pm

 

Advocacy Evaluation…Lessons for the Field

Presenters: Ehren D. Reed, Innovation Network, Inc.
Lily Zandniapour, Innovation Network, Inc.
Track: Practical, Public Policy and Ethics, Hot Topics
Level: II

Description:

Evaluating advocacy and public policy initiatives can be a difficult undertaking. This session focuses on the challenges involved and their implications for evaluators, advocates and funders.  Outside of long-term success, how do you assess progress? What are some key questions you can ask to gauge progress?  Drawing from a research project funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this session will offer practical steps for planning and implementing advocacy evaluations.

Assessing Financial Sustainability

Presenters: Gerald Solomon, PHFE-Public Health Foundation Ent
Rod Allen, PHFE-Public Health Foundation Ent
Track: Techniques and Technology, Practical, Leadership, Advanced Practitioners, Business Development and Management
Level: II & III
Description:

Come journey down the pathway of detailed examination of an organization's financial capacity through the use of a proprietary tool that examines issues such as longitudinal comparisons, ratio analysis, liquidity ratios, and other means to assess true organizational viability – What every nonprofit should strive for!

Building Better Boards: A Multifaceted Approach to Learning

Presenters: Melissa Breach, Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership
Linda Davis, Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership
Track: Practical, Leadership, Business Development and Management
Level: II
Description:

Designed for experienced MSO practitioners or consultants supporting board development, we will focus on the use of varied and intersecting training modalities to provide comprehensive board development.  We'll explore the pathways of benefits and challenges of combining core competency curriculum, issue-based training, peer learning models, consultancy, and practical toolkits.  Together let’s identify common obstacles to supporting successful board development and share experiences and solutions.

Coaching and Capacity Building: CompassPoint Best Practices

Presenter: Michelle Gislason, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Track: Leadership, Hot Topics
Level: II & III
Description:

Coaching and Capacity Building?  Most definitely!  Inspired by studies on executive leadership in the nonprofit sector that underscore the need to develop various strategies for supporting and retaining leadership talent in the nonprofit sector, CompassPoint’s Executive Coaching Project, (completed in 2002) uncovered the demand for coaching throughout the sector and the need to incorporate coaching into capacity building programs. This session shares insights from CompassPoint's various coaching approaches (one-on-one coaching, peer coaching, training, and referral) and facilitates a dialogue around best practices for integrating coaching into training, consulting, and program work.

Deliberating Differently: How Can Boards Make Better Decisions?

Presenter:

Susan S. Meier, BoardSource

Track: Practical, Leadership, Hot Topics
Level: I & II
Description:

This interactive and dynamic session explores why highly disciplined processes may not be conducive to great decision making if they do not allow boards to thoroughly explore important issues. We all wonder how it is that some boards defy conventional wisdom and make poorer decisions collectively than they each would individually. How can boards deliberate differently, and structure their meetings differently to allow board members to learn more and to make better decisions? How can nonprofit organizations support genuinely engaging, interesting, and lively board interaction that will contribute to better board decisions? This session will recalibrate your expectations of board dynamics.

MSO Sustainability: Shoeing the Cobbler's Children

Presenters: Dianne Russell, Institute for Conservation Leadership
Alan Brickman, Consultant
Description:

While many MSOs work with their clients or members to develop revenue strategies and sustainability plans, MSOs themselves often struggle with issues of niche, revenue generation, and long-term sustainability. In times of limited resources for the nonprofit sector as a whole, capacity building can be a difficult sell, and can be seen as competing with direct services for the sector's scarce resources. In this session we will examine the true  meanings behind sustainability while asking tough questions like: Is it revenue and business planning? Marketing and visibility? Mission fulfillment and programmatic effectiveness? All of the above?   Come learn from practitioners who have developed successfully sustainable MSO models. If you believe that effective nonprofit capacity building requires a long-term commitment and robust and sustainable MSOs are a key ingredient, then this session is for you!

The Nonprofit Branding Exercise

Presenter: Joel Zimmerman, CDR Fundraising Group
Track: Techniques and Technology, Practical, Business Development and Management
Level: II & III
Description:

Nonprofits are challenged more than ever in creating a new brand, modifying their existing brands, or evaluating how well their program activities support their brand identity. The methodology used in this session is based on a 'brand exercise template' for nonprofit organizations. The session considers actions to take after a branding exercise to reinforce the branding identity you are seeking, such as using logos, distribution materials, communications messages, media exposure, brochures, web sites, public events, etc.

The Permeable Membrane Between Board and Staff: Keys to a Healthy Relationship

Presenters: Allen Bromberger, Perlman and Perlman
John Corwin, John Corwin Consulting
Track: Practical, Leadership, Advanced Practitioners
Level: III
Description:

Can there be a balanced diet between the board and staff?  Examine several challenges within the dynamic relationship between a nonprofit organization's board and its staff, including balancing the need for rules with the need for improvisation; discrepancies between the Board's power and the staff's expertise; differing assumptions held by the Board and the CEO about their respective roles; and, avoiding the "MM" word – micromanaging.

The Three R's of Fundraising Success:  Relationships, Research, and Recordkeeping

Presenter: Rob Martin, eTapestry
Track: Techniques and Technology
Level: I & II
Description:

This session explores three key factors of fundraising success.  They are donor Relationship Building, Prospect Research, and efficient Recordkeeping.  The three R's directly impact every fundraiser's results.  Each of the factors can be easily implemented and/or expanded via Jay's common sense approach.  You will be surprised at how simple it can be!  Drawing upon his experience as a trusted partner to the non profit sector for over 23 years as well as his service with numerous non profit boards, he outlines various steps each of us can pursue.  Come listen to someone who helps enable nonprofits everyday cut through the hype and explain what does and does not work.  Actual examples of each of the Three R's in daily action are illustrated.  Many of the examples reflect the latest breakthroughs in technology and communications.