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Nonprofit Day 2008 Workshop Descriptions
Session 1 Workshops 10:15 - 11:45 am
Diagnosis: Fundraising Success-The Value of Development Assessments
Development assessments are crucial whenever an agency is contemplating significant changes, wants to "kick start" new fundraising efforts or seeks to inject new life into a development program. A good assessment will identify current strengths and challenges in the agency's fundraising program and make practical recommendations for increased effectiveness and success. This workshop will help you decide if your organization would benefit from an assessment, let you know what to expect and help you get the most out of the experience.
Presenters: Cheryl A. Clarke and Susan P. Fox, Fundraising Consultants
Influence without Authority
In organizations, getting things done when you are not in charge requires relationship building, reciprocity, and collaborative skills. This session will address techniques for leading from where you sit to accomplish objectives that will benefit you, your colleagues, and your organization.
Presenter: Elissa Perry, Leadership Learning Community
Networks for Social Impact
How are networks changing social change and what does this mean for today's nonprofits? Networks aren't new. But, new tools and technologies are changing the way we communicate and connect. As a result, we are experiencing fundamental changes in how groups form and work gets done. This session will explore experiments underway in the social sector to tap the power of networks, lessons being learned, and how nonprofits can seize the opportunity to leverage networks for social impact.
Presenter: Diana Scearce & Amita Govindaswamy Monitor Institute
Tools for Teamwork and Collaboration
Effective teamwork is based on trust, interdependence, equal participation, and individual accountability. Whether you are a team leader, team member, or part of a work group, essential teambuilding skills will help you to accomplish tasks effectively. This highly interactive workshop includes fun, active group exercises that help team members learn more about each other, develop trust, and gain insight and skills that can be translated back into the workplace. You will learn how to make work teams more effective to enhance communication skills, knowledge-building, skill-building, creative thinking, and group decision-making.
Presenter: Yael Schy, Dramatic Strides Consulting
Greening Your Organization for People, Planet & Profit
Whether you are just beginning to think about ways to make your organization more environmentally friendly, or looking to expand your current sustainability program, this session will help you understand your options. We'll discuss power, water, and waste conservation, employee programs, green procurement, carbon footprints, certifications, and more.
Presenter: Ken Kurtzig, iReuse
Your Brand IS Your Organization: 10 Things You Can Do Now to Take Control of Your Brand
From your website, to your media coverage, to where and how your executive director speaks in the public...whether you realize it or not, your organization is engaging in a branding campaign every time it engages a public audience. Your brand is the most critical part of how successful you are in conveying your vision, mission and voice of your organization. In this interactive session, learn how to take control of your brand with 10 key tips that will help you get your public to believe not only in your mission, but in your ability to deliver on that mission.
Presenter: Laura Noss, Social Planets
Recruiting & Engaging a Younger Board
How do you successfully integrate next generation leaders onto your board, especially if most current members are approaching, or are beyond, the half century mark? What are some "tricks of the trade" to ensure you make the best use of people's time once you have them? A panel of governance experts will share techniques, resources, and ideas that will help you attract, engage, and retain younger board members.
Moderator: Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Craigslist Foundation
Panelists: Maureen A. Sedonaen, Youth Leadership Institute & Alice Collier Cochran, author and consultant
Evaluation: Becoming a Learning Organization
Evaluation is more than just accountability to your funders. It helps you find out what's working and what's not, how to make changes, and how to continuously adapt to ensure your organization can build and sustain your impact. To truly innovate and adapt, evaluation, assessment, and continuous learning need to be built into the culture of your organization. In this session we'll explore how to build evaluation and learning systems that fit with your organization and culture, and how to develop an organization that incorporates learning as a core value.
Presenter: Justin Louie, Blueprint Research & Design, Inc.
Session 2 Workshops 1:15 - 2:45 pm
How Do You Manage Your Time when Your Job is to Change the World?
Overwhelmed by all you need to do? How do you set priorities when everything on your list is really important? Being asked to do too much by others or is it just you? This session will provide time management skills to help you take control of your workload and support you in getting to those things that matter most. We'll discuss how to prioritize your work as well as how to determine whether your time management struggles are something you can manage and when they point to larger conversations about the culture and systems of your organization and the work you do.
Presenter: Sue Bennett, CompassPoint
Creating a Dynamic Nonprofit: Tools for Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking is the way in which people in an organization think about, assess and create the future for themselves and their constituents. Go beyond rushed reactions to problems and dilemmas by using analysis tools to respond creatively and appropriately in the present-with an eye towards the future. Join us for this session where we'll discuss models that you can apply when developing strategies to take your organization to the next level.
Presenter: Steve Lew, CompassPoint
Using the Web (or technology) for Social Change
Whether it’s blogging, podcasting. MySpace, Facebook, Second Life or mobile phone texting – nonprofits are finding creative and effective ways to use the web to deliver services, build community or expand their outreach. But just because a technology exists doesn’t mean that it’s the right choice for your mission and your audience. Come to this session to find out what’s important to pay attention to and hear some tips about how to decide what might be appropriate for your organization.
Presenters: Nelson Layag, CompassPoint & Marnie Webb, CompuMentor
Next Generation Leaders Speak Out: Is Your Organization Listening?
CompassPoint recently surveyed more than 5,000 next generation leaders across the country to better understand their career paths, what skills and support they need in their jobs, and barriers that may prevent them from committing to a career in the nonprofit sector or aspiring to leadership positions. In this session we will present the results from this study and discuss the implications for you, your staff and your organization.
Presenter: Marla Cornelius, CompassPoint
Preparing for the Inevitable: Short-term & Long-term Succession Planning
Whether you want to prepare your organization for an unplanned absence of the executive director or plan for a departure that will be years off, there are proven best practices for ensuring a smooth leadership transition. In this session you will learn the key steps for creating an emergency leadership plan and for building transition-readiness for the departure that is maybe five years out. We will discuss the role of the ED, staff and the board in both types of succession planning.
Presenters: JR Yeager and Michael Warr, CompassPoint
A Party at the Top: Networked Leadership
Why be lonely at the top when you can have a party? Let's break the spell of solo leadership and do away with sacrifice and burnout. Networked leading is spirited, audacious, and resilient. AND it's not a mystery. In this workshop, we'll dig into the core challenge of networked leadership-recruiting kindred spirits and champions onto your team.
Presenter: Rich Snowdon, Life Coach
How to Hire the Best
This session will provide a broad overview of the recruiting process and hiring best practices, with emphasis on recognizing when to create a new senior role, identifying specific organizational gaps and needs, writing a compelling (and accurate) job description, and developing an outreach strategy. Presented by a seasoned recruiter, this workshop will utilize lecture, role-play with an executive director, and discussion/Q&A to enable all participants to better understand key processes and techniques, and relate and customize those practices to their organizations' goals and culture.
Presenter: Kathleen Yazbak, Bridgestar
Essential Skills for Understanding, Engaging and Developing Millennials
Millennials (born 1982-2002) want to work in friendly environments with positive people, to be challenged and treated respectfully, to learn new knowledge and skills, have flexible schedules and be paid well. An effective strategy is part art and part science, and focuses on workforce effectiveness, managing talent and reinventing the core workforce value proposition in millennial terms. Discover five critical meta-skills to lead the emerging multi-generational workforce.
Presenter: Dawn Andreas, Alan Brisbon & Michael "Coop" Cooper, Lever-Edge
Session 3 Workshops 3:00 - 4:30 pm
One Board's Evolution: A Case Study in Governance, Engagement and Transformation
At this session, you'll hear the story of how one board transformed from a group of good-hearted people who didn't know how to help, into a board whose work is firmly rooted in high levels of engagement, governance and partnership. Staff and board members will reflect on the work it took to transform the board and share practical tips that you can apply to your organization.
Presenters: Anita Addison, Board Co-Chair, Janet Keller, Board Co-Chair, Rik Hansen, former Board member, and Liisa Hale, Co-Director; BlueSkies for Children
The New IRS Form 990: What You Need to Know
The IRS released the new Form 990 in late December 2007, and your organization will be required to file this new form in 2009. This session will give you a head start in preparing for the significant reporting changes required by the IRS and provide background on policy and procedural changes helpful in ensuring compliance with the new requirements.
Presenter: Belinda Johns and Cheryl Teser, California Attorney General, Charitable Trusts Division
Bridging to New Leadership: EDs and Managers Sharing Aspirations and Strategies
Are you an executive director ready to build your organization’s bench strength and want to explore how to share leadership? Or maybe you’re a “next generation” leader ready to take on a larger leadership role in your organization. Join us in this interactive session for EDs and nonprofit managers for a dialogue between seasoned executives and those looking to step into executive roles. Topics to be explored include differences in leadership styles across generations, the support aspiring leaders need to step up, the wisdom to be offered by experienced executives.
Presenters: Tim Wolfred & Natasha D'Silva, CompassPoint
Enhancing Impact through Advocacy
As staff, board, or volunteers of direct-service organizations, you work day in and day out to meet the needs of the people in your communities. But no matter how effective you may be, adding advocacy to your strategy toolkit can increase your effectiveness and help you reach your organizational goals. Advocacy is more than lobbying and your organization is permitted to do far more of it than you may think. In this session, you'll learn how to broaden your leadership, enhance your strategy, and magnify your impact by including effective advocacy in your work.
Presenter: Catherine Crystal Foster, Policy & Advocacy Consulting
The Intersection between Fundraising and Finance
This workshop looks at the evolving partnership between your organization's fundraising and financial functions. Not only will we discuss the dynamic ways in which money flows through your organization, we will also examine the roles and systems that support the connections between fundraising and finance. This session is appropriate for management-level fundraising and finance professionals or executive directors who want a greater understanding of this important organizational relationship.
Presenter: Byron Johnson, CompassPoint
The Nonprofit Dashboard: How to Measure Organizational Performance
Do we measure what's important, or do we make important what we measure? Either way, metrics are numerical measures of quantity, quality, and performance that can be used to track organizational impact, efficiency, governance, and other factors. You will leave with a strong start on determining the metrics that are right for your organization and how to implement an effective tool so that your organization can more easily track and assess organizational performance and health.
Presenter: Marissa Tirona, CompassPoint
What Great Managers Do
Using the best of the best practices from leadership experts, find out how to change mere supervision into something much more impactful-capitalizing on your employees' unique talents and mobilizing the leadership talent that already exists within them. We'll discuss practical changes you can make right now to make every supervision opportunity count towards helping your organization make a bigger impact.
Presenter: Nelson Layag, CompassPoint
Cultural Competence and Organizational Effectiveness: Building Your Organization's Multicultural Capacity
Cultural competency refers to the ability of organizations and individuals to work effectively in cross-cultural or multicultural interactions. For both individual and organizational effectiveness, systems and practices are addressed that go beyond programs or front line service delivery. In this session, you will see how cultural competence can be addressed in core leadership and management, information systems and organizational policies, and how groups are building their capacity to work with different communities and a diverse work force.
Presenter: Anushka Fernandopulle, CompassPoint
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