2009-2010 EDUCATION PROGRAM:
Back to Basics
Community Wide Summit on Collaboration:
What Can We Do Together That We Cannot Do
Or Do As Well Alone?
Description: Increasingly everyone in our community is being asked to do more with less. This has given rise to the important role that collaboration can play in bringing together individual community members and business, nonprofit, and government organizations to work on critical local issues. The November 13, 2009, Community Wide Summit on Collaboration is for individuals and organizations who wish to identify our community’s most pressing issues and work collaboratively in resolving them. The Summit is open to any community member who wants to identify, discuss, and take action on issues that they truly care about—and which no single person or organization can undertake alone. Bring your dreams, your challenges and your ideas. Work with leaders from every part of our community to plant seeds, share future visions, and stimulate the creation of new collaborations and partnerships.
Work Shop Level: Introductory
Suggested Audience: All
Date and Time: November 13, 2009, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Cost: $10 (Note: Covers the cost of lunch -No registration fee charged for attendance)
Fundraising Boot Camp: Laying the Foundation
for a Successful Future
Description: Are you in charge of leading the fundraising effort for your organization without any real background in this area? Are you an Executive Director or staff member that needs to work on fundraising without a clue where to begin? Are you a Board Member that has been recruited to the fundraising committee, but doesn’t understand what that means? If you are looking for a very basic approach including definition of terms, choosing the right fundraising strategy, and tips on how your organization can boost your current fundraising program, than this half-day workshop is designed for you.
Work Shop Level: Introductory
Suggested Audience: Executive Directors, Development staff, and Board Members interested in learning more about Agency fundraising.
Date and Time: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:30AM-12:00PM
Note: Attendance at this workshop is required for all Teams who are selected for the CNL Team Leadership Seminars on Fund Development
Cost: $40 CNL Members; $50 Non-Members
Understanding The Roles and Responsibilities of
Board Members and the CEO
Description: This workshop provides attendees with the tools to understand the Thirteen Key roles and Responsibilities of Nonprofit Governing Board. They will understand the Responsibilities of Executive Directors and Board members in leading their respective organizations in Planning, Operations, Community Relations, Fund Development, Personnel, Organizational Structure, and Board Development. They will utilize tools to assess their current achievement and create goals to move their organization to a standard of excellence.
Workshop Level: Introductory
Target Audience: Current Board members, Prospective members, Executive Directors, Aspiring Executive Directors
Date and Time: Saturday, January 9, 2010 8:30AM-12:00PM
Cost: $40 CNL Members; $50 Non-Members
Developing and Reviewing Human Resource Policies,
Administrative Policies and Employee Handbooks
for Nonprofit Organizations
Description:Today many nonprofit organizations are addressing questions regarding which HR and Administrative policies, if any, they should have in place to manage their organization more effectively. Through presentations, discussions and exercises this workshop will begin by addressing these and other fundamental questions regarding organizational policies.
Workshop Level: Introductory to Intermediate
Suggested participants: Executive Directors; other key staff members; Presidents/Chairs of Boards, board members sitting on board compensation or H.R. committees, other board members interested in learning more about H.R. and Administrative policies for their organization.
Date and Time: Friday, March 5, 2010 8:30AM-4:00PM
Cost: $70 CNL Members; $80 Non-Members (registration includes continental breakfast and lunch)
Team Performance and Conflict Resolution:
Build a Mission-Focused Board, Staff
and Volunteer Organization
Description:Learn how you can step-up productivity and sharpen focus on your mission by building and facilitating effective teams. Gain tools to surface and resolve conflicts so they don’t sap energy and sabotage performance. This workshop will introduce a model for team organization and development, decision-making strategies including facilitating consensus, and effective tools for identifying, dealing with and resolving conflicts in a volunteer-driven organization.
Work Shop Level: Introductory to Advanced
Suggested Audience: Executive staff, board members and volunteer leadership; teams are encouraged to attend together if possible.
Date and Time: Friday, April 30, 2010, 8:30AM – 3:30PM
Cost: $70 CNL Members; $80 Non-Members (registration includes continental breakfast and lunch)
How to Manage, Lead and Inspire
Nonprofit Staff and Volunteers
Description: Designed as a “best practices” format that provides strategies for managing, leading and inspiring your nonprofit staff and volunteers. This workshop will distinguish between managing, supervising and coaching people and will help transform your practices to ones that will inspire your staff and volunteers to stay committed to your cause.
Work shop Level: Introductory to Advanced
Suggested Audience: board committee chairs, Officers, and Members, Executive Directors, Volunteer Coordinators and Managers
Date and Time: Friday, June 4, 2009, 8:30AM – 3:30PM
Cost: $70 CNL Members; $80 Non-Members (registration includes continental breakfast and lunch)
How to Plan and Conduct Effective
Board and Committee Meetings
Description: Based on the assumption that good meetings are needed to continuously create and perpetuate strong nonprofit organizations. This highly interactive half-day workshop begins with a group exercise that introduces participants to four different leadership styles that typically are found in meetings. It then proceeds to mini-case studies that describe “sins of deadly meetings” and engage participants in identifying what should be done about each. The workshop concludes with participants working through two checklists to identify the strengths and limitations of their own organization’s meeting practices: Effective Meeting Planning and Conducting Effective Meetings.
Work Shop Level: Introductory to Advanced
Suggested Audience: Board Officers, Board Executive Committees, Committee Chairs, other interested board members, Executive Director and Staff.
Date and Time: Saturday, October 23, 2010, 8:30AM – 12:00PM
Cost: $40 CNL Members; $50 Non-Members
FUTURE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
The Board of Directors will establish annual priorities among the following five program areas in meeting the needs of CNL member organizations:
Education will continue to include half-day and full-day workshops on selected topics and “best practices exchanges.” There will be an expansion of on-site Coaching and Mentoring services on request of the individual member organization, drawing on the full-range of nonprofit topics. New offerings will include Seminars on Executive Leadership and Fund Development, with the possible eventual creation of a Leadership Academy and a Development Institute.
Nonprofit Collaboration will continue to include expanded Affinity Group Exchanges (on-demand meetings of member organizations to share “best practices” insights on topics of common interest—e.g., human resources management) and Function Group Exchanges (on-demand meetings of nonprofit staff members having similar responsibilities—e.g., business officers—to discuss issues, problems, and solutions).
Technical and Other Resources will come to include a greatly expanded Website on CNL programs and services, articles and white papers, sample nonprofit organizational documents, and links to other sites. Other web-based services in time will include a Job Bank Posting, Board/Volunteer Matching Service, a Nonprofit News Service, Research on Nonprofit Funding, and Consultant Referral Listings. Additional resources in non-technical areas will include an Annual Fund Raiser for Member Organizations and Incubator Space (temporary physical space and office services for start-up nonprofit agencies).
Advocacy will include making the case for our nonprofit organizations and their value to our community while promoting the highest ethical standards and public accountability for the individual nonprofit organization. Activities will include a Web-based Community Impact Case Statement, Hosted Public Event-Volunteer Recruitment, Nonprofit Conferences, extensive use of the Public Media, and a Nonprofit Model of Excellence Program (annual recognition of individual nonprofit organizations that demonstrate excellent performance).
Cross-Sector Partnerships will come to include community-wide exchanges and collaborative projects that bring together nonprofit, business, service club, education, media, and governmental organizations to engage critical community needs that no single sector can address alone (e.g., drug prevention education programs; continuing to make our community “an arts destination of distinction”).
PRIOR CNL PROGRAMMING: 2003-07
Since its founding in 2003 CNL has sponsored high quality, low priced workshops for governing board members and executive directors from 48 member nonprofit organizations. Workshops have been supplemented by informal “best practices exchanges” (e.g., finance) and periodic coaching and mentoring of individual nonprofit organizations (e.g. on the five life stages of nonprofit organizations).
Leadership for CNL programming has been provided by highly experienced professionals of unmatched reputation (e.g., Kay Sprinkel Grace—Fund Development; Betty Stallings—Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers; Bill Bergquist—Creating and Managing Organizational Change).
Workshop themes have ranged widely: strategic planning, fund raising, finance, board recruitment and evaluation, building successful boards, board president/executive director relations, planning and conducting effective board meetings, recruiting and training volunteers. Every workshop has been judged “excellent” by participants, affirming the value of CNL programming over the organization’s formative years.
Click here to view a full history of Workshops presented since 2003, as well as attendee ratings of the workshops.
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