Community Ventures
2005 Program |
AGENDA
FOR THE DAY
"Making a Nonprofit Work: Extreme
Challenges"
An extreme event targeted at fundraising and technical
assistance for the Nonprofit Community
7:00
a.m. - 7:30 a.m.
Registration
and Breakfast Buffet
7:30
a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Board & Staff Breakfast
How to be and EXTREMELY Effective Board
Kim Klein
Board members have an essential role in the success of
a nonprofit organization achieving new goals. Learn how
to strive and excel in the extreme game of fundraising.
9:00 a.m. - 9:30
a.m.
Registration for Nonprofit Workshops
9:15 a.m.
Welcome and Overview of the Day
9:30 a.m. - 10:30a.m.
Extreme Team Recruitment
Kim Klein
This session will emphasize reaching across age, ethnic,
and economic gaps to increase donor base and awareness.
A high touch approach to organizational development.
Kim Klein is internationally
known as a fundraising trainer and consultant. She is
the Chardon Press Series Editor at Jossey-Bass Publishers,
which publishes and distributes materials that help to
build a stronger nonprofit sector, and the founder and
publisher of the bimonthly Grassroots Fundraising Journal.
She is also the author of Fundraising for Social Change
(now in its fourth edition, 2003), Fundraising for the
Long Haul (2000), which explores the particular challenges
of older grassroots organizations, and Ask and You Shall
Receive: A Fundraising Training Program for Religious
Organizations or Projects, Raise More Money (2001) which
she edited with her partner, Stephanie Roth, and Fundraising
in Times of Crisis (2004). She is the featured writer
for the e-newsletter of the Grassroots Fundraising, with
her column of answers to questions posed by readers called
"Dear Kim." She is a member of the Building
Movement Project and a regular contributor to their website
column, “What Your Nonprofit Should Know”
at www.buildingmovement.org.
Widely in demand as a speaker, Kim Klein has provided
training and consultation in all 50 states and in 20 countries.
She is an adjunct faculty member at the Haas School of
Business.
10:30
a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Extreme Skills-
Concurrent Sessions:
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Tools
You Need: Demystifying Non
Profit Financials and Accountability
Peggy E. Topel, CPA, Director of Audit-Gordon, Hughes
and Banks, LLP
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The challenges of
nonprofit financials can seem extreme. In
this session, we address the importance of
financial statements and some underlying concepts,
as well as how your financial statements can
be used as an asset in development and accountability. |
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Forming a Team
for Survival: Increasing Revenue
and Awareness through Corporate Partnerships
Kelleen Zubick, Director of Consulting,
Community Resource Center
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This interactive session will
teach you how to take a partnership approach
in working with corporations to develop alternative
sources of revenue. |
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Crossing the
Finish Line: Entrepreneurial
Strategies
Constance Spheeris, Attorney and Business
Development Advisor
Nancy Cebula, Organizational Development Specialist,
People In Charge, Inc.
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This session will address creative
and innovative ways to raise money via social
enterprise endeavors. Techniques on how to
use income-generating activities that are
within the bounds of your mission will be
highlighted. |
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12:00 p.m. -
1:30 p.m.
LUNCH
Keynote
Speaker:
Rodger McFarlane, Executive Director,
Gill Foundation
Extreme Enthusiast
Rodger
McFarlane was appointed Executive Director of the
Gill Foundation in March 2004. Rodger was one of the original
volunteers and first paid executive director of Gay Men's
Health Crisis, Inc. (GMHC), the nation’s first and
largest AIDS service organization, founded in 1981. He
is president emeritus of Bailey House, the nation's first
and largest provider of supportive housing for homeless
people with HIV. Rodger is a founding member of ACT UP,
the now legendary protest group responsible for sweeping
changes in drug research and health care access. He was
also executive director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights
AIDS, one of America's most successful and influential
AIDS foundations. Rodger has received many awards, including
the Patient Advocacy Award from the American Psychiatric
Association, New York City Distinguished Service Award,
Presidential Voluntary Action Award, Eleanor Roosevelt
Award, the Emery Award from the Hetrick Martin Institute
for the Protection of Lesbian & Gay Youth, as well
as Tony and Drama Desk honors. He is the co-author of
four books, including The Complete Bedside Companion:
No Nonsense Advice on Caring for the Seriously Ill (Simon
& Schuster 1998), and most recently, Larry Kramer’s
The Tragedy of Today’s Gays (Penguin 2005). Trained
as a nuclear engineer, Rodger is a former world champion
Ironman tri-athlete. He is a veteran of seven over-ice
expeditions to the North Pole, three solo, and was captain
of Team Eco-Subaru in the 2003 Eco-Challenge Fiji Islands.
1:30 p.m. -3:00 p.m.
Extreme Challenges- Concurrent Sessions:
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Crossing the
Crevices: Online and Internet
Fundraising Enhancing Donations
Brinah L. Acton, CFRE, Effective Fundraising
Management
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This session will address the
integration of an online donation component
to your current fundraising activities. Highlighting
how to use e-philanthropy as a major part
of your funding strategy. |
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Free Falling:
Advocacy and Non Profits
Kevin Paul, Attorney
Ellen Brilliant, Consultant, Stratecom
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In this session,
presenters will address issues regarding what
advocacy and lobbying means for nonprofits
and what activities they may legally participate
in. |
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Headed for
the Peak: Bold Ideas and Growth
Kim Klein, Moderator
Panel of Local Nonprofits
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This session will
highlight innovative efforts in which local
non profits are taking action, from the big
ask to organizational changes for development. |
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3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Not Your Basic Carbo Load!
An opportunity to network and share insights from the
day – as well as enjoy an afternoon sweet treat!
"...Until one is committed there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning
all acts of iniative (and creation), there is one elementary
truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and
splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits
oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things
occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising
in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and
meetings and material assistance, which no man could have
dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep
respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
--W.H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition,
1951
Murray excelled in hard Scottish climbing, and writing
about it; explorations in the 'greater ranges'; the understanding
of landscape quality; and in expressing the spiritual
side of wild places.
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Kim Klein |
Rodger McFarlane |
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