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Business Development & Management
Can Nonprofits Get More Bang for the Buck?
Presenter: Alex Neuhoff and Carol Trager, Bridgespan
How can you cut overall costs, while maintaining services and quality? This is an issue for many small nonprofits. Bridgespan has organized a research project to explore how three nonprofits were able to do just that. Using several years of cost and outcomes data and conducted detailed analyses to determine how the cost per outcome had changed over time, the research team discovered that nonprofits can indeed get more bang for the buck. Come and review the findings and, in particular, the role of "managing" in "managing costs” and see how you can get more bang!
Evaluating MSO Program Effectiveness to Maximize Learning, Strengthen Programs and Improve Business
Presenters: Peter York and Jared Raynor, TCC Group
Management Support Organizations are often asked by their funders, constituents and themselves, “are we making a difference/having an impact? If so, how? If not, why not?” MSOs face unique challenges evaluating their capacity building work. This session, led by TCC Group, will present tried-and-tested evaluation strategies, designs, methods, tools and examples for MSOs to use to evaluate their capacity building to maximize learning, strengthen programs and improve business.
Funding Small Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons Learned in Accountability, Sustainability & Impact
Presenters: Tisa McGhee, Cassuandra Wimes, Blanch Johnson and Cravel Holmes, The Children's Trust
This interactive group presentation will highlight the key lessons learned when a major nonprofit funder sought to meet the application and capacity building needs of small organizations. The goals of capacity-building opportunity included the strengthening of fiscal, administrative, reporting and operational functioning, resulting in the organization being able to compete in standard application processes, as well as for other local, state and national public/private grant funds.
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Presenters: Amy Celep, Community Wealth Ventures; Charlotte Keany, Center for Nonprofit Management in
MSOs are no strangers to earned income. However, many have not fully realized their potential for revenue generation via social enterprise. This session will help organization leaders identify and decide whether or not to move forward with new earned income opportunities. The hands-on session offers exercises and activities that will be valuable to experienced entrepreneurs and newcomers alike.
Peer Learning Clusters: High Impact,
Peer learning clusters and professional networks are becoming more popular as methods to support nonprofit learning and resource exchange. A peer learning cluster can also be a low cost way of delivering training and technical assistance to nonprofits that cannot afford the full services of a capacity building consultant. This workshop will explore various models of peer based learning programs and share some of the surprising discoveries that could contribute to new thinking about capacity building program design.
Hot Topics
Presenters: Russell Roybal and Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, NGLTF; Robin Katcher, Management Assistance Group; Beth Zemsky, One Ummah Consulting
There is no one way approach to building capacity – especially working within a movement for social justice. Adding a layer of complexity and context to capacity building work that consistently changes because movements (and the issues they address) always change, LGBT people have historically, and currently, are leading social justice organizations and movements. In this highly interactive workshop, we will offer and seek to identify key concepts for how practitioners might think about capacity building within a movement building context and discuss specific lessons learned from the LGBT movement (the movement for equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people).
Change:
Presenters: Sonia Plata, New Detroit, Inc.; Elizabeth Agius,
With federal funding from the Compassion Capital Fund, New Detroit recently completed a three-year capacity building initiative. This best practices session will illustrate the changes generated and how to implement capacity building to impact small community and faith-based organizations. Through interactive discussions, participants will have the opportunity to share their insights on how change is created and sustained based on their own experiences.
E-Governance: Technology Trends Affecting Nonprofit Boards of Directors
Presenters: Dottie Schindlinger and Leanne Bergey, Verve Internet Solutions; Martha O'Connor, The Center for Advocacy for the Rights & Interests of the Elderly (CARIE)
From emails to online portals, nonprofits are beginning to use online technologies to improve communications with the board of directors, while streamlining information management, promoting engagement, and increasing knowledge. Join us to learn more about “E-Governance” and the profound impact online technologies are having on the board’s ability to govern well. This session will help you and your board to use technology strategically to achieve your mission and goals.
Enhancing Systemic Capacity for the Elimination of Disparities
Presenter: Jannina Aristy, Fieldstone
The infusion of cultural competence values and principles using Fieldstone Alliance's organizational assessment model is very promising for helping organizations to better prepare themselves to service diverse stakeholders, address issues of disparities, social equity, and potentially develop multicultural reform efforts. Participants with have a framework for understanding the role of systems in the nonprofit sector to effect sustainable change that benefit ethnically and racially diverse communities.
From Mercenary to Missionary: Achieving Sustainability with For-Profit Converts
Presenter: Scott B. Leff, M.S.,
With the concern over widespread retirements across the nonprofit sector and a potentially insufficient supply of new leaders, the
Generations: The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit
Presenter: Peter Brinckerhoff, Corporate Alternatives, Inc
Are you knowledgeable about generational trends and the impact on nonprofits? With Baby Boomers leaving nonprofit leadership positions, and the next generations coming into a full spectrum of roles, what are you doing right now to support organizational change in programs, outreach, even mission? Based on the book of the same name, Peter Brinckerhoff guides participants in identifying trends and responses. As a result, you will explore approaches to turn generational challenges into opportunities. Leave this session better prepared to assist nonprofits as they meet the changing needs of staff, volunteers, donors, and the community.
Organizational Capacity Assessment - The First Step in Building Capacity
Presenter: Dr. Christine Ameen, Ameen Consulting & Associates
A nonprofit’s board, executive director and staff – all play a key role in building and maintaining sustainability. Learn now to use an organizational capacity assessment process which uses a multiple perspective approach and how it leads to effective capacity building., Participants will complete an assessment for their agency and use their own results to learn how to identify capacity building needs and create strategies to address those needs.
Leadership
Kellogg Action Lab: One Model of Foundation Commitment to Grantee Capacity
Presenters: Ron McKinley, Fieldstone
The Kellogg Action Lab (KAL) is an approach by one funder to strengthen the overall effectiveness and sustainability of its grantees by connecting them with access to comprehensive capacity resources and services. Learn more about KAL model, early signs of impact and the development of new tools to improve the access and/or delivery of capacity building resources throughout the sector.
Leadership Development in Communities of Color
Presenter: Mai Moua, Ph.D., Leadership Paradigms, Inc.
This session looks at the challenges and strengths facing nonprofits as they seek to be more inclusive to different forms of leadership, particularly from immigrant communities. Discussions will include sample case studies and models of leadership in diverse communities including what works, what doesn’t, and what is needed to help facilitate leadership development growth. Leave with an understanding and recognizing different cross cultural leadership styles and their importance when working with diverse communities.
Resident - Driven Neighborhood Quality of Life Planning
Presenters: Annie Hernandez Varbanov, Leadership Ventures; Josh Bowling,
Join this panel discussion to learn more about an interactive neighborhood quality of life planning process in
"We're in the Money" – New Approaches to Nonprofit Income Strategy
Presenter: Richard Brewster,
This session will explain how a nonprofit can root its income strategy in its mission and programs while making decisions about its investments and income sources that will produce the highest returns. The session will engage participants in applying the concepts introduced in the first half to a case study followed by some basic tools used to determine a nonprofit's income strategy.
What It Takes for the Founder to Stay
Presenters: Mark Leach and Inca Mohamed, Management Assistance Group
Conventional wisdom and succession planning suggest that when a founding or long-term CEO steps down, they must leave the organization altogether lest they undermine their successor and hold the organization back from needed changes. Examine original case-research and successful examples where the departing CEO stayed around and made significant and positive contributions—revealing the personal and organizational factors behind these successful transitions.
Practical
Building MSO Sustainability: The Evaluation and Marketing Connection
Presenters: Dianne J. Russell, Institute for Conservation Leadership; Judith Alnes, MAP for Nonprofits
Management Support Organizations’ (MSO) impact and sustainability hinges on having a solid “product” that strengthens the effectiveness of those served. Explore the intersection of evaluation practices and marketing practices within MSOs. Based on two examples and roundtable discussions with session participants, we will create a roadmap of current practices that link evaluation and marketing in service to MSO effectiveness and sustainability.
Collaboration: Getting Everyone at the Same Table
Presenters: Marta Fetterman and Emily C. Rouge, Indiana Youth Institute; Dennis Banas, Praxis Strategies and Solutions
Using a case study of a community agency that was in danger of being closed due to severe financial mismanagement coupled with the assistance of a nonprofit consultant, the organization was able to build a partnership, secure funding and support of local government, a private foundation, as well as funding from private industry. Join us at the table and learn how you can use collaboration to save an organization.
Cracking the Code: Transitioning from Ministry to Effective Organization
Presenter: Cheryl M. Francis,
Discover an approach used by Chicago Area Project in the implementation of a Compassion Capital Grant focused on Communities Empowering Youth. A practical approach to employing traditional and cutting edge interventions this session is designed around the cornerstones of program, organizational, and leadership development in a community-building community.
Organizational Key Turning Points: Recognizing and Managing
Presenters: Susan Gross and Inca Mohamed, Management Assistance Group
As nonprofit organizations mature and grow, – as their staffs, programs, and budgets expand, as their operations and dynamics become more complex – the leadership structure, management, governance, operating style and norms that worked during development no longer work. If the organization is to remain strong, effective, and sustainable, it will have to make wide-sweeping changes and adjustments. Explore the characteristic problems that arise when an organization has reached any of seven key turning points, the main adjustments that need to be made, the counter tensions that typically emerge and how to address them.
Organizational Success in
Presenters: Elizabeth George and Jane Donahue, Deaconess Foundation
What does it take for a nonprofit to progress to the “next level”? Through its multi-year, multi-million dollar capacity building initiative, Deaconess Foundation has learned it takes willing leaders, excellent consultants, adequate funds and time—among other things. Share learnings and engage with participants in exploring strategies for successful capacity building; and introduce an unconventional way foundations and nonprofits can partner. Participants will leave with new ideas to helping nonprofits better achieve their mission and move to the next level.
Public Policy & Ethics
Amplifying Impact through Public Interest Lobbying
Presenter: Gita Gulati-Partee, Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
Nonprofits that want to achieve lasting impact must engage in public policy advocacy. In this interactive session, capacity builders of all experience levels will build their comfort and skills with public interest lobbying, a leadership capacity necessary for advancing nonprofit missions. Using CLPI’s new “smart and ethical practices for public interest lobbying,” participants will strengthen their toolkit with a range of advocacy options that fit nonprofits at various levels of capacity.
Civic Participation Made Easy – and Effective in 2008
Presenters: Bridgette
For nonprofits and the country, 2008 is yet another historic election. But have nonprofits been heard? With an open seat and more at stake than ever for the sector, nonprofits and consultants will want to learn easy and effective ways to incorporate encourage their many constituencies to vote - and build capacity for themselves, their community and the nonprofit sector.
Senior Practitioners
Extreme Makeover: Nonprofit Edition Rescues Revisited: Lessons from the
Presenters: Maria Gutierrez, CamBia Associates; Jan Glick, Jan Glick & Associates; Patrick Corvington, Annie E Casey Foundation
Rescues Revisited builds upon the
Moving the Board Governance Field Forward—A Working Session
Presenters: Judy Freiwirth, Nonprofit Solutions Associates; Terrie Temkin, CoreStrategies for Nonprofits;
Responding to the urgent need to develop new, alternative governance models, over the past two years, the Alliance Governance Affinity Group has been engaged in “out-of-the-box thinking” and has developed a new governance framework, entitled, “Community-Engagement Governance”. Through a series of facilitated, participatory exercises, participants will focus on co-designing the specific steps for helping nonprofits transform and adapt this framework to their organizations.
The Capacity Partnership: A Municipal/MSO Model
Presenter: Liz Heath, The Nonprofit Center
The Capacity Partnership is an unusual capacity building model between three cities, a local MSO and six small nonprofits in the
Techniques & Technology
A Native American Guide to Nonprofit Strategic Planning
Presenter: Joel Zimmerman, CDR Fundraising Group
Leading a school for Native American children through a 12-month strategic planning process is no small task. From these experiences learn how all nonprofit organizations can adopt the planning framework used at the school, based on the Native American medicine wheel and use as a tool for their own planning. This session will also explain a “strategic planning – strategic doing” approach.
Field of Dreams – Survival and Growth in the Nonprofit Sector
Presenter: Nancy Hall,
In the movie, Field of Dreams, the protagonist, Ray Kinsella, hears a voice that says, “If you build it, he will come.” In response, Kinsella creates a baseball diamond and Shoeless Joe Jackson appears. Is this true for nonprofits? Each year, hundreds of caring, well-meaning citizens hear a similar call, “If you build a nonprofit, money will come.” Many nonprofits are created and the reality is many do not attract the level of funding needed to survive and thrive. This session will detail the findings and implications of the report and provide guidance on how you can replicate the report.
Fiscal Sponsorship
Presenters: Gerald Solomon, Samueli Foundation; Bonnie McFarlane; Jane Levikow, Tides
The National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, a group of 100+ fiscal sponsors from throughout the nation, will provide a panel discussion/presentation on the various methods of fiscal sponsorship, and how fiscal sponsorship improves accountability, builds capacity and sustainability which positively impacts the sector.
Rural Leadership Laboratory: Building Nonprofit Capacity for Stronger Regions
Presenters: Michelle Jones and Doug Jackson, Office of Community Capacity Building, VA Department of Housing and Community Development
Strong regional economies depend on flexible leadership able to bridge communities, organizations and less formal groups. Yet the nonprofit organizations that might best give structure to these alliances often lack the local resources, peer network, and training opportunities to support their unique role. Building on the challenges and lessons learned from regional investments, this facilitated session will engage participants in building a best-practice resource for nonprofit leadership capacity in rural regions.
Using World Café and Graphical Facilitation to Hear Your Audience
Presenters: Joel Zimmerman and Andrea Apshago, CDR Fundraising Group
World Café is a newly emerging technique for engaging input from large groups of people. Graphical facilitation increases understanding and memory for meetings by supplementing traditional left-brained (verbal) information with right-brained (graphical) information. The presenters will explain these techniques by sharing their experiences of using them to assist nonprofit organizations with strategic planning, visioning, and leadership evaluations.
Web Project Management: Planning Your Next Project
Presenter: Jordan Dossett, Antharia
Redesigning or developing a website is no walk in the park. Many nonprofits today are faced taking on the Web with little to no experience. Learn the ups and downs in Web project management, planning, budgeting. Create time lines and discover how your organization can benefit from implementing them.
Young & Emerging Professionals
Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out!
Presenters: Marla Cornelius, CompassPoint; Patrick Corvington, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Do you aspire to lead a nonprofit? What skills and support do you need to do so? What barriers prevent the next generation from becoming leaders? Are some challenges more significant for people of color? And how can capacity builders and funders develop and support the next generation of leaders? Using findings from a recent national survey of 5,000 young nonprofit professionals, learn the answers to these important questions and how you can help the sector strengthen and sustain leadership in nonprofit organizations.
Taking Theory to the Ground:
Presenters: Kelley D. Gulley and Omowale Satterwhite, National Community Devleopment Institute; Tonya Allen, The Skillman Foundation; Maria Anita Salinas, GNI
Based on more than 25 years of experience providing capacity-building services to more than 1,000 organizations, the National Community Development Institute will present its building capacity for social change in communities of color framework and methodology. In this interactive session, both grantmakers and practitioners will share their experiences with this framework while engaging participants in a dialogue about capacity-building resource investment to create enduring impact in communities of color.
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