C05 Session: Building Successful Cohorts to Create Optimal Community Impact

Sponsored by Corporate Alternatives

Building Successful Cohorts to Create Optimal Community Impact

Friday, July 15 9:00am - 10:30am

Track: Financial Management and Information Technology

Presenters

Marnie Webb, CompuMentor; Emily Bancroft, NPower; Amy Luckey, Blueprint Research & Design, Inc.

Brief Description

A single nonprofit can achieve measurable and meaningful goals. But for the larger issues that we are working toward — a clean environment, a lower crime rate, and an educated urban population — nonprofits that work as a group can often create greater and more lasting impact.  This highly interactive session focuses on what a cohort of nonprofits needs to work together in achieving community goals.  Experts will address crucial questions around cohort management, share lessons learned from working on cohort projects, and report on the latest research around this topic. Participants will gain a solid understanding of how to successfully plan, manage and evaluate the many facets of a cohort project.

About the Presenters

Amy Luckey, Blueprint Research & Design, Inc.

Amy Luckey is a Senior Analyst at Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. (www.blueprintrd.com), providing program design and evaluation assistance to philanthropic foundations and nonprofit support organizations. Her research and consulting at Blueprint has focused on nonprofit capacity building programs, especially in the area of information technology (IT). Prior to joining Blueprint, Ms. Luckey provided Internet grassroots organizing assistance to progressive nonprofits while working at the Rockefeller Family Fund's Technology Project, later known as TechRocks. Previously, while at the Environmental League of Massachusetts, she directed a nonprofit coalition focused on improving state environmental policies and laws - and became the organization's accidental techie, promoting the use of IT to enhance the coalition's political advocacy capacities. Ms. Luckey holds a Masters degree from Harvard University and a B.A. from Indiana University. Relevant Publications: "From Improving IT Infrastructures to Achieving Social Good: Outcomes of Nonprofit Technology Assistance Providers." (10/03), available at http://www.blueprintrd.com/pubs.htm

Marnie Webb, CompuMentor

As the Director of Consulting Services, Marnie Webb oversees the direct-service delivery at CompuMentor (www.compumentor.org), one of the nation's oldest and most comprehensive nonprofit technology assistance organizations. She manages a team of 20 technology activists delivering ten hands-on consulting programs for Bay Area nonprofits. Ms. Webb has worked on many cohort projects, ranging from county-wide, state mandated initiatives to collaborative that provided technical support for all state funded Domestic Violence organizations in California. In addition, she was one the architects for the CompuMentor model that allows the organization to assess prospective partnerships. Ms. Webb is also a frequent speaker on topics involving nonprofits and technology.

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