Breakout Sessions Round C 

1. Strengthening the Core: Exploring Strategies for Developing Second-Tier Leaders. Like in other parts of the nonrpofit sector, Bay Area community development organizations face turnover among executive directors as long-term leaders prepare to retire. Through its Community Development Leadership Institute, Bay Area LISC is implementing a strategy to enhance second-tier leadership within the field. This session will look at CDLI and other strategies for "strengthening the core" of nonprofit organizations.
   Session Designer: Cathy Craig, Bay Area LISC
   Speakers: Linda Wood, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund; Catherine Merschel, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation; Renee Okamura, organizational development consultant
   
   
2. Philanthropic Strategies for Racial Equity. With 100 million Americans of color, philanthropy can no longer ignore its responsibility to employ a racial equity lens to its work. This session will expose participants to the wealth of resources available to help them move their organizations and their grantees toward greater racial equity in everything they do. Participants and knolwedge leaders in the field will venture beyond current thinking to explore strategies to reshape how philanthropy — individual donors, grantmakers, nonprofit and other community leaders — thinks about, practices, and sustains equitable practices that lead to social transformation.
   Session Designer: Ronald A. McKinley, Fieldstone Alliance
   Speakers: Brigette Rouson, Alliance for Nonprofit Management; Lori Villarosa, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity; Diana Marie Lee, National Community Development Institute
   
   
3. What Difference Are You Making? A New Culture and New Tools for Knowing the Results of Your Grantmaking.  This session will help those curious to answer the question, "As a result of your grantmaking, is anyone better off?" Participants will practice using a results framework that can help them understand the impact of their grantmaking strategies, learn from a grantee how the results framework has impacted the way they do their work, and explore how a commitment to a results framework impacts the culture of a grantmaking organization.
   Session Designer: Donna Stark, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
   Speakers: Donna Stark, Tom Kelly, The Annie E. Casey Foundation; Debra Montesinos, Making Connections Oakland.
   To download session handouts, follow the links below.                                                                                           Perfomance Accountability, Population Accountability, Results Accountability Resources, Whole Distance Exercise
   
                                              
4. Stepping Out of the Maze: Private Investment Practices Applied to Effective Grantmaking. Venture capitalists support their investments to create profits. Grantmakers support their grantees to produce positive community services or change. REDF has conducted a study to identify venture capital practices that can be adapted to improve nonprofits' funding environment. This session will focus on co-funding: a comparison of grantmakers' and venture capitalists' goals, challenges, and successes. Participants will hear from venture captial and philanthropic-giving experts and have the opportunity to test a tool that guides nonprofit grantmakers as they explore and set their own co-funding strategies. REDF will incorporate feedback from this session into the final study results.
   Session Designer: Cynthia Gair, REDF
   Speakers: Carla Javits, REDF; Thomas E. Backer, Human Interaction Research Institute; Chris Eyre, Legacy Venture; Fatima Angeles, The California Wellness Foundation
   
   
5. The Power of Convening: A Small Investment with a Big Impact. This session will explore how grantmakers can convene leaders from different nonprofits to improve cross-organization learning and opportuniteis for collaboration. Speakers will describe three convening approaches that seek to increase collective learning and collaboration. Participants will receive first-hand experience with methodologies that can help build relationships, foster collective learning and increase collaboration.
   Session Designer: Deborah Meehan, Leadership Learning Community
   Speakers: Margaret O'Byron, Consumer Health Foundation; Dianne Yamashiro-Omi, The California Endowment; Don Lauro, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
   
   
6. Leading to Management: The Nonprofit Performance Challenge. The greatest act of leadership in nonprofit organizations is introducing management, and grantmakers (and boards) play a crucial role in that transition. While for-profits are often over-managed and under-led, nonprofits are commonly the reverse--over-led and under-managed. Highly effective nonprofits need both, but it is hard to strike the right balance. This session will describe the challenges and the opportunities encountered by organizations that have done so successfully.
   Session Designer: Jeff Bradach, The Bridgespan Group
   Speaker: Jeff Bradach

7. What's Love Got to Do With It? Sustaning Nonprofit Performance Through Reflection and Relationship. There are many pressures on nonprofit leaders to apply businesslike practices to their work, and there is less interest among grantmakers to support the human side of grantee organizations and leaders. This session will question the current paradigm and hypothesize that we are not fully tapping the power of inner resources and human relationships for social change. In this session, we will describe how two programs were designed to incorporate pure relationship building in the context of fundamental values like trust and love, and how participants are responding. Through the use of networking mapping and other impact data, speakers will introduce indicators of success and raise questions for participants.
   Session Designer: Patricia Brandes, The Barr Foundation
   Speakers: Patricia Brandes; M. Elena Letona, Centro Presente, Inc.; Cynthia Chavez, LeaderSpring; Barrie Hathaway, Street Tech
   

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