- Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out. In 2007, CompassPoint, the Meyer Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation and Idealist surveyed more than 5,000 25- to 40-year-old managers with at least five years of nonprofit experience to better understand their career paths and barriers that may prevent them from becoming executive directors. Their responses address several key questions: Do younger leaders currently aspire to lead nonprofit organizations? What skills and support do they need? What barriers prevent them from becoming executive directors? Are some challenges more significant for people of color? And how can grantmakers develop and support the next generation of leaders?
Session Designer: Richard L. Moyers, Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
Speakers: Richard Moyers; Marla Cornelius, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services; Patrick Corvington, Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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- Race and Gender Diversity: What Difference Does it Make for Foundation Effectiveness? What is the relationship between race and gender diversity and foundation effectiveness? Research from the Center for Effective Philanthropy has shown that male grantees have more interactions of an interpersonal nature with foundation staff during the grantmaking process than do their female colleagues. Additionally, CEP’s governance research has shown that foundation trustees who identify as racial minorities perceive there to be more equality on the board only when the board has more than two trustees who identify as a member of a racial minority. Drawing on this and other research on foundation effectiveness, this session will engage participants in a discussion on the relevance of race and gender diversity and how these social constructs can impact the effectiveness of foundations and the relationships between foundations and grantees.
Session Designer: Lisa Jackson, Center for Effective Philanthropy
Speakers: Lisa Jackson; Theresa Fay-Bustillos, Levi Strauss Foundation; Victor DeLuca, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
- Facilitative Leadership in a Networked World. If we are to believe that the world is flat and interconnected and that the "unit of action" is shifting from organizations to networks, this has implications for the way we lead as grantmakers and change agents. Increasingly, there is a call for more collective, participatory and collaborative approaches to change. In this workshop facilitators will explore elements of a collaborative model of leadership, Facilitative LeadershipR, including a framework and lanugage to understand, design and apply the collaborative change process.
Session Designer: Curtis Ogden, Interaction Institute for Social Change
Speakers: Marianne Hughes and Daryl Campbell, Interaction Institute for Social Change.
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- Assessing the Effectiveness of Core Support: A Grantmaker/Grantee Dialogue. Through a candid exchange of perspectives betwen grantee and grantmaker, participants will appreciate the potential of core support, the importance of negotiating measurable outcomes for the grantee, and the necessity of periodic assessments of organizational health, progress, and programmatic alignment. Grantmakers will then describe their strategies for assessing results across their grantmaking portfolios and the role that core support to grantees plays in achieving those results. The session will be highly interactive and will use the practitioner/funder conversation as a springboard for participants to examine their own experiences making and evaluating core support grants, as well as next stpes for individual and collective action.
Session Designer: John Weiler, FB Heron Foundation
Speakers: John Weiler; Lynette Lee, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation; Nancy Burd, The Burd Group
- Movement Capacity Building. This session will focus on movement capacity building, that is, how nonprofits can work with groups and individuals to engage in collaborative decision making and community building to restructure power relationships. Presenting case examples and tools for funders, the panelists will engage the audience in a conversation about the qualities of movement-building organizations and the goal of making larger, systemic sustainable change. Some fo the issues that will be discussed include the meaning of movement, ways local communities can solve local problems and direct national policy, development of unlikely alliances, and how to address race, structural arrangements and power.
Session Designer: Frances Kunreuther, Building Movement Project
Speakers: Frances Kunreuther; Alta Starr, Ford Foundation; Maya Wiley, Center for Social Inclusion; Sylvia Yee, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund.
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- The Art of Managing Assessments. Assessments are a common component of many funder-led capacity-building programs, but all too often grantees shudder in horror at the thought of a funder-led diagnostic process, and just as often the outcome of the process does not achieve the desired impact. Investing in a successful organizational assessment requires more than just a checkbook — it usually takes a good bit of highly engaged management. Through mini case studies, role play and other peer learning approaches, this session will build on content from the GEO-Fieldstone Alliance book A Funder's Guide to Organizational Assessments to explore methods for managing assessment processes that optimize the value to both the grantmaker and grantee.
Session Designer: Carol Lukas, Fieldstone Alliance
Speakers: Maria Gutierrez, CamBia Associates
- Web 2.0 for Grantmakers: Using New Internet Technology to Increase Philanthropic Effectiveness . Like any new tool, information and communications technologies have early adopters, and then there are the rest of us. Find out how intrepid technology philanthropy players are using blogs, tagging, wikis and social networking sites to do their work better — and how you can follow their lead. Presenters will share the benefits and limitations of using new technologies for facilitating collaboration and communication and for organizing and disseminating information. Participants will then have a turn exploring how they might put to use some of the more promising tools.
Session Designer: Amy Luckey, Blueprint Research & Design
Speakers: Amy Luckey; Suki O'Kane, Northern California Grantmakers; Eric Nee, Stanford Social Innovation Review.
See below for session handouts.
Web 2.0 Session Handout, Web 2.0 Getting Started Worksheet
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