Inspire others to join in your cause! Capture imagination! Connect to your audience through personal, engaging, entertaining, and refreshing approaches! Everyone can learn to use the power of storytelling. You can, Do It Yourself. We will show you ways to tell your organization’s stories in a compelling way using multimedia, engaging youth and... READ MORE
Participants will learn to reach current and/or future clients by employing community organizing in a new way. Over two years, we successfully reached our future target clients (boomer-age people), learned what they will want from their communities when they begin to age and helped them take action to get what they want by building community for all. ... READ MORE
Volunteers are “social capital” for your organization and become the “human resource” that you cultivate and manage. From an active board of directors to community members who sell raffle tickets at a special event, involving volunteers in your work can be either rewarding or draining. Hear from an expert panel about successes and challenges... READ MORE
Is your board performing its fiduciary duties to its fullest potential? Do they understand the importance of financial oversight? In many cases, the answer may have serious implications on your organization’s financial health. Developing a set of processes to increase board involvement in financial matters is a great solution no matter how... READ MORE
This two-part session explores the work of generative governance and shared leadership. We go beyond structural solutions to the leadership behaviors and practices essential for a successful board-executive partnership. Join us and learn what it takes for the board and executive to govern and lead together in a world where roles and responsibilities... READ MORE
Today’s economic realities are prompting many nonprofits to consider changing their organizational structure or business model. Change may mean investing in new ways to deliver programs; restructuring operations; collaborating more formally with partners; or even trimming staff, programs, and activities. NFF will introduce the many types of capital... READ MORE
Does your organization already have a handle on social media basics? Are you ready to move beyond asking “what is social media?” and start asking “what are effective strategies for creating engagement and measuring impact?” This interactive workshop will share real examples of effective campaigns and strategies and allow some time to work... READ MORE
Gone are the days when leaders provided the roadmap and others followed, when things were clear and predictable. Today’s leaders must engage people in making meaning of the continuously changing landscape surrounding their organization. If we approach our own future, and that of our organizations, intentionally and with commitment, we can influence... READ MORE
Participants will engage in a series of meaningful conversations invited by questions related to adaptive leadership and systems thinking. These questions and conversations will help participants appreciate the nature of an adaptive challenge and the role of leaders in this context. Emerging leaders must discern between technical problems and adaptive... READ MORE
Everyone knows they should have an internal control system that works effectively, but what is the relationship between those controls and fraud? Relying on your past control system, or the current environment, without any evaluation of the future can leave your educational environment at risk. Come learn what the road blocks to success are in an... READ MORE
This presentation is designed for you, as a person and as a leader. You will learn about how to be in charge of your organization’s future in a rapidly changing world; how to utilize a holistic model for change; what to expect from each stage of the change process; define effective next steps for working with change instead of against it and activities... READ MORE
Every non-profit leader asks: How do I raise enough money to achieve my mission? How do I grow this organization to fulfill its full promise and potential? Using three real world examples of breakout non-profit success stories this workshop will use the simple frame of “product, market, management” to examine what specific steps three organizations... READ MORE
