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C05 Fri 4:15pm-5:30pm

Friday, July 15

4:15pm - 5:30pm

Building Advocacy Campaigns: Beyond the Usual Strategies

Presenters: Erica Greeley, National Council of Nonprofit Associations; Mauricio Vivero, The Vivero Group

From the civil rights movement and membership drives to environmental battles, nonprofits regularly take the lead in all kinds of campaigns. While each cause has its own characteristics, they're tried and true strategies that can be used to enhance almost any campaign. Drawing from political campaigns and a social marketing framework, this session will provide tools and strategies that nonprofits often overlook in their campaign planning. These lessons are relevant to anyone working with nonprofits on fundraising, public education, community organizing, marketing, legislative, or other issue-driven campaigns.

Building Capacity of Nonprofit Organizations: The Role of Readiness to Change

Presenters: Joanne Sobeck, Elizabeth Agius and Vanessa Mayers, Wayne State University; Sonia Plata, New Detroit, Inc.

How do we know when organizations are ready to fully participate in capacity building? Organizational change requires readiness on many fronts including executive director preparedness, board support, and an organizational culture that has a commitment to growth, willingness to seek help and a responsive approach to change. This session will focus on issues of readiness as examined through a recent study on urban nonprofits. Participants will share their experience in addressing motivation and barriers to change and explore how the research findings translate into planning and practice for building nonprofit capacity.

Effective Board/Executive Director Relationship as the Keystone to Sustainable Organizations

Presenters: Margaret Donohoe, In Transition; Mary Hiland, Hiland & Associates; Molly Polidoroff, Center for Excellence in Nonprofits

This session will explore the importance of an effective Board/Executive Director relationship as primary to organizations' success and the foundation for sustainable capacity building and organizational resilience. The Board must hire wisely and work constructively with the Executive Director from initial employment through leadership development and eventual transitions. The Executive Director must exert leadership and take shared ownership of the governance relationship. Session content will include antidotal evidence, emerging qualitative research, and practical strategies from the perspectives of the Executive Director, Board Chair, and consultant.

Ethical Standards in Capacity Building: Dialogue Session

Presenters: Members of the Alliance Standards Committee: Florence Green, California Association of Nonprofits (CAN); Inca Mohammed, Management Assistance Group; Gerald Solomon, PHFE Management Solutions; Kennard Wing, Kennard T. Wing & Company

The role of the capacity builder is complex and often fraught with ethical dilemmas. Over a one-year period, the Alliance Standards Committee delved into tough issues, addressing questions such as conflict of interest, clients' rights, confidentiality, cultural competency, who is the client? and more. Join this dialogue session to learn about the case examples and dilemmas behind the principles in the Draft Standards of Ethics in Nonprofit Capacity Building, and to pose questions and provide input on the Draft.

Got Cultural Competence? Beyond the Dreadful Diversity Training

Presenter: Anushka Fernandopulle, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services

In this workshop, presenters will share an innovative approach to working on cultural competency issues in an organization with a focus on organizational effectiveness. If you are interested in going beyond those often unsuccessful and stressful one-day diversity trainings, frequently requested just to check a box for compliance reasons, come hear about a process that will challenge you to think differently. This method, developed in a pilot project working with HIV prevention organizations around the state of California, takes a capacity-building approach to cultural competence that supports ongoing attention and development in this area even after the consultant leaves. The approach puts the emphasis on helping the organization have the community impact it is seeking through its mission and program by improving in its cultural competence.

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