C06 Friday, 2:15pm-3:45pm

Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building

Presenters:

Collaborative Leadership: Building Clinic Capacity for Quality in Southern California (BCCQ)

Shaheen Kassim-Lakha, UniHealth Foundation
Judith Zitter, Kaiser Permanente
Richard Seidman, L.A. Care Health Plan
Julie Murchison Vaughan, Object Health

The Building Clinic Capacity for Quality in Southern California project (BCCQ) is a collaborative effort of three Southern California funders and over 50 community clinics/health centers.  This session will provide an overview of the program, including the five key dimensions of organizational capacity that are addressed: vision and leadership; quality improvement; people, process and financial preparation; and technical capacity and market environment, including the potential for collaboration.  The panel will share recommendations and lessons learned on: best practices for organizational effectiveness, criteria and models for collaboration among groups of clinics; and customer-service oriented models and strategies for consortia to support their member clinics in the adoption and use of technology-enabled quality improvement.

Track:  Leadership and Governance

Facilitative Leadership: Skills for Collaborative Leaders

Presenters:

Cynthia Parker, Interaction Institute for Social Change
Robert King Kee, Interaction Institute for Social Change

The latest developments in leadership practice and theory compel both formal and informal leaders to view leadership as service, respect the unique value that each person brings, and share power and decision-making. Facilitative Leadership operationalizes these developments by offering participants an opportunity to explore specific practices, skills, and tools that support the new thinking.

Track:  Leadership and Governance

Governance for Community Impact

Presenter:

Hildy Gottlieb, Help 4 NonProfits & Tribes

This session introduces the Community-Driven Governance Model, focusing board accountability on what really matters - the impact your organization has on the community they serve.  How does the board ensure impact?  How does the board ensure adequate means to provide that impact?  How do they ensure that values and ethics guide their decisions?  This session will cover the essential principles of community-driven governance and how capacity builders can assist boards in achieving extraordinary results.

Track:  Leadership and Governance

Digital Barn-Raising: Working Together to Make Community Knowledge Accessible and Support Advocacy

Presenters:

Peter Manzo, UCLA Center for Civil Society
John Kim, Healthy City

This session will feature the development and success of the Los Angeles based HealthyCity.org, an internet-based tool that maps community resources, services and needs.  The tool is designed (1) to help nonprofits better serve their clients by making referrals easier, (2) to help nonprofits advocate for increased services to neglected areas, (3) to help local funders get a better handle on the match, or mismatch, between available nonprofit and government services and neighborhood needs, and (4) to encourage more data-driven decisions by policy makers.  The session will cover how the tool was developed and how other capacity builders can help bring government and nonprofits together to create better data and information for collaboration, advocacy and decision- making.

Track:  Technology

Lessons from the Nexus Project: Success Factors and Promising Practices in Capacity Building with Immigrant- and Refugee-Led Organizations

Presenters:

Sarah Gleason, Fieldstone Alliance
Sida Ly-Xiong, Fieldstone Alliance
Barbara Fane, Nonprofit Assistance Center

In the recently completed Nexus project, experienced capacity builders from across North America teamed up to capture the approaches and strategies that have helped them be successful in working with refugee- and immigrant-led organizations.  Participants will learn about and discuss the results of research with capacity builders and immigrant leaders; factors for success in capacity building with immigrant-led organizations; and examples of promising practices used by the Nexus partner organizations.

Track:  Cultural Competency

The Audit Firm: A Nonprofit's Partner in Financial Communication

Presenter:

Jennifer Lammers, Fiscal Management Associates, LLC

A nonprofit's ability to both understand and convey its financial condition clearly and confidently is increasingly important to its on going programmatic success, its public reputation, and ability to raise funds. Yet, few nonprofits have the tools and understanding necessary to make the most of their primary financial documents or their relationship with their audit firm.  Moreover, the consultants that serve them - whether they see themselves as fundraisers, grant writers, board trainers, management or marketing consultants, often fail to make the link between the audit the services they provide.  This interactive session, developed in conjunction with the accountants at ERE, a New York accounting firm with a significant nonprofit practice, was designed with Technical Assistance Providers in mind. Attendees will be given insight into the audit process, from the auditor's point of view and this session will look at how fundraising, management, and marketing can be improved by a "good audit".  Attendees with also be provided with practical tips and reusable tools to share with the nonprofits they serve.

Track: Financial Management and Fundraising

Strengthening Stewardship and the Impact of Peer Dialogue: Themes from Leadership Caucuses

Presenter:

Jean Lobell, Community Resource Exchange

This session will share experiences from three year-long leadership caucuses for nonprofit leaders.  The session will focus on:  1) stewardship themes of nonprofit leaders; 2) the impact of the caucus methodology; and 3) a composite profile of nonprofit leadership practices based on 360-degree feedback surveys.  The session will include a lively exchange about vital leadership issues facing the nonprofit sector and effective methodologies for sharpening leadership practices.

Track:  Leadership and Governance

Using Difference as a Resource: Cultivating Leadership for a Changing Agriculture

Presenter:

Barbara Rusmore, Institute for Conservation Leadership

What happens when leadership and organizational development are addressed in a room with organizations who have histories of conflict based on very different worldviews and different organizational roles and niches in a sector?  This session will explore the learning that has emerged during a three-year collaborative project between the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and the Institute for Conservation Leadership.  The session will tell the story of this unlikely project, highlight the project’s methodology and focus on building shared leadership teams, and will include data from the formal project evaluation.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies