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		<title>Executive Coaching &amp; Nonprofits- What is It?  What Can it Do? Current Practice, Potential, and Possibilities</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coaching Works!!  Coaching is a learning and development process for helping leaders explore alternatives, find their own solutions, and take new actions.  Fully 52% of American private sector companies provide coaching services for managers and leaders, and coaching is an emerging practice among nonprofits. Grant-makers for Effective Organizations (GEO) says: “No other intervention can strengthen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Your Story: The power of Multimedia, Multigenerational, and Multicultural Storytelling for your cause!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 educating across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secure Your Future – Grow your Community!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dream Team: Recruiting and Maintaining a Strong Volunteer Fundraising Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 “Best of the Best” Practices: A Board Member Makeover that Strengthens Financial Oversight and Produces Healthier Nonprofits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 seasoned its members, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shared Leadership: Reframing the Board-Executive Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remaking Your Business Model: The Case for Change Capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 in our sector—and explain the need for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the “New” Back in New Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 through how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading at the Cusp of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.  They must design new ways of working together in the unknown, ways that reward safe-fail risk taking, address “both/and,”  harness the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Habits of Mind for Emerging Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 challenges in order to create [...]]]></description>
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