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C05 Track: Succeeding in Capacity Building

Succeeding in Capacity Building

Building Your Consulting Practice for Positive Impact in the Community

Friday, July 15, 2:15pm - 5:30pm (Half-Day Workshop)

Presenter: Janine Vanderburg, JVA Consulting, LLC

Consultants play a critical role in the success of nonprofits, often working with nonprofits to maximize community connections in order to enhance impact. Our critical vantage point allows us to see trends and recommend collaborations that may not have been apparent to someone working at the level of a single issue or single organization. How does growing your firm and consistently providing the highest quality services help you produce greater community impact? This session will help you link your clients’ goals with your goals as a growing firm to exponentially increase community impact.

Creative Tools for Membership Recruitment

Saturday, July 16, 11:30am - 12:30pm

Presenters: Jennifer Ross, Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations (PANO); Kathy Crabb, California Association of Nonprofits

Are you struggling to capture a fair share of your membership market and/or moving past your current concentration? Panelists will share creative campaigns they employed to meet their goals. Designed for nonprofit state associations, this will be an interactive session where participants will be invited to discuss what has and has not worked in their state.

Ethical Standards in Capacity Building: Dialogue Session

Friday, July 15, 4:15pm - 5:30pm

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.

Independent Consulting: Establishing a Viable Practice

Friday, July 15, 11:00am - 12:30pm

Presenters: Terrie Temkin, NonProfit Management Solutions, Inc.; Elizabeth Sadlon, Sadlon & Associates, Inc.

Are you thinking about starting an independent consulting business? Did you recently start one and wonder if you made the right choice? This interactive workshop is designed for you. We’ll talk about the realities of consulting in the nonprofit arena, raising the pros and the cons. Based on the group’s interest, we’ll cover what you need to get started, defining your niche, finding those first clients, marketing, setting your prices, working with clients to meet their expectations, running the back office, finding insurance, identifying resources and more.

Managing a Training Program

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

Presenters: Hedy Helsell and Sharon Bailey, Center for Nonprofit Management, Dallas; Denise Harlow, Council of Community Services of NYS, Inc.; Mike Corbin, Michigan Association of Nonprofits

This session, presented by three experienced training directors, will describe: current trends in nonprofit training, successful innovations, great ideas that didn't work, public seminars vs. custom trainings and challenges in marketing. Appropriate for both the new and seasoned education director.

Designing Training for Consultants in the Nonprofit Arena

Saturday, July 16, 2:15pm - 3:45pm

Presenters: Nancy Fuhrman, Charlotte Fiechter, Jackie Gilbert and John Rosenheim, Executive Service Corps of Chicago

Executive Service Corps of Chicago (ESC) is the largest nonprofit provider of consulting to nonprofit organizations in the Chicago area. More than 250 volunteer consultants from a wide array of business and professional careers staff almost 200 consulting projects each year in areas ranging from board development to fundraising to human resource issues and more. We believe strongly that a comprehensive training program for the volunteer consultants is fundamental to consistent successful outcomes for clients. The workshop session will cover the evolution of ESC’s comprehensive volunteer consultant training program and, through group interaction drawing upon the wisdom of the participants, will inform the design of a new element to enable former executives and professionals to build their capacity to meet the consulting needs of ESC’s clients consistently and effectively.

Two Stories of MSO Evolution

Friday, July 15, 11:00am - 12:30pm

Presenters: Carol Lukas, Fieldstone Alliance (formerly Wilder Center for Communities); Denice Williams, Community Resource Exchange

This session will explore the mutations and choices that management support organizations (MSOs) need to make to stay relevant. Wilder Center for Communities, in its 22-year history, has moved through four phases: improved management, mission and impact, vital communities, and sector impact. Community Resource Exchange evolved over 25 years from its founding focus on strengthening community-based organizations in poor communities, to a more robust program agenda to ensure impact at the community level. This session will explore how goals changed over time, the new strategies each MSO adopted, and the lessons learned during these evolutions.