C06 Friday, 10:45am-12:15pm

Executive Transition for Organizations of Color: A "Deep Dive" Peer Exchange

Presenters:

Monika K. Moss, MKM Management Consulting
June Perry, Access to Success

This facilitated peer learning session is designed especially for seasoned consultants who are looking to stimulate each others’ learning by addressing the implications of the leadership transition of the civil rights/Baby Boomer generation who are often the long term founding executive directors of color, leaders of organizations of color or organizational leaders working in communities of color.  How does this phenomenon pose a leadership crisis and an opportunity for transformational change in communities of color?  In addition to increasing our collective awareness about these issues and their implications, we will disseminate key learnings and recommendations resulting from this session through the Alliance network.

Track:  Cultural Competency

Blended Solutions: High-Impact Systems Change for the Nonprofit Sector

Presenters:

Sandy Jacobsen, Fieldstone Alliance
Dianne Russell, Institute for Conservation Leadership

Blended solutions–combining consulting, training, peer support, peer learning, and publications/materials for self-assessment–can greatly multiply the learning, impact and potential for positive change for participants.  In this session, presenters will share lessons learned from several high-impact programs that have utilized blended solutions to maximize systems change at multiple levels, serve unique individual learning styles, utilize differences in the audience as a resource, and connect leaders and groups to each other.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

Collaboration 2.0 - Helping Ordinary Nonprofits Do Extraordinary Things Using a New Generation of Internet-Based Tools

Presenters:

Marnie Webb, CompuMentor
David Geilhufe, CivicSpace

In this highly interactive session, the expert panel will shed light on the buzzwords around emerging collaborative Internet technologies (Web 2.0) and will address some of the common challenges of both online and off-line collaboration.  Using real-life examples, the panel will examine how nonprofits have already put these tools to work to improve networking and partnership work.  Join this session to gain a solid understanding of how the sector can use the power of Web 2.0 to further nonprofits’ missions and will be invited to continue the dialogue beyond the conference.

Track:  Technology

From Preparation to Betterment: A Guide for MSOs Assisting Nonprofits in Times of Disaster

Presenters:

Emily Furlong, Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center, Rollins College
Mark McCrary, Mississippi Center Nonprofits

Just as we encourage nonprofits to have a strategic plan, a fund development plan, a communications plan and a technology plan, we should encourage them to have emergency plans or at the very least, emergency planning is incorporated into all of their existing plans.  This session will draw upon lessons from the 2005 hurricanes and outlines steps MSOs can take to help nonprofits prepare for and respond to disasters.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

Leading Edge Evaluation

Presenter:

Veena Pankaj, Innovation Network, Inc.

This hands-on, train-the-trainer session offers practical ideas, tips and best practices for technical assistance providers who conduct workshops and training programs on evaluation. The session will make curricula suggestions, showcase teaching techniques that break down evaluation concepts, and preview tools and resources that trainers can share with their constituents.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

Lobbying Rules for Nonprofits

Presenter:

Eric Gorovitz, Alliance for Justice

This session will cover the federal tax-law rules governing the lobbying activities of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.  The session will define how much lobbying c3s can do, what counts as lobbying subject to those limits, several specific exceptions to the lobbying limits, and how to keep records of lobbying activity.

Track:  Advocacy and Social Change

Organization Development and Community Organizing: Tensions and Opportunities for Finding and Building Alignment

Presenter:

Lisa Russ, Movement Strategy Center

As capacity builders and organizational development practitioners working with community organizing groups, questions about how the organization’s external practice and beliefs relate to internal communication, policies, race/class/gender, decision making and relationships abound. This session will share an emerging framework for identifying and clarifying these dynamic tensions, as well as tools that can help build common language and shared ground as we explore the relationship between organization development, community organizing, power analysis and spiritual activism.

Track:  Cultural Competency

Strategies for Serving the Faith-Based Sector

Presenters:

Chester A. France, The C. Whitney Group, LLC
Naomi Takeuchi, 1000 Cranes Business Consulting

Faith diversity and freedom of religion are cornerstones of American history.  As a consultant, understanding the needs of faith-based organizations is crucial in better serving nonprofit communities of different cultures, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and theologies.  This session will provide strategies to enhance the consultant’s ability to serve and market to the faith-based sector.

Track:  Cultural Competency

Teaming up to Improve NPOs' Financial Health

Presenters:

Jean K. Ries, Fiscal Management Associates, LLC
Teresa Vazquez, New York Nonprofit Finance Fund

When private funders with a shared interest in the financial health of their grantees approached Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) and Fiscal Management Associates (FMA) in early 2003, an unprecedented collaboration was born. The funders pooled money and expertise in an effort to help New York City workforce development agencies understand and manage the financial challenges underpinning the delivery of quality programs and services. This interactive session, using case study client examples, will explore the success of NFF and FMA's unique partnership to improve the financial health of workforce development organizations throughout New York City.

Track:  Financial Management and Fundraising