Welcome to another season of the North Penn Nonprofit Academy!This year the Academy will present another series of workshops based on your expressed interests, thanks to your terrific response to our Summer Workshop Topic Survey. Remember, if your organization meets our requirements for attendance, up to 5 members of your management-level staff, as well as Board members, are eligible to attend the high-quality Academy workshops FREE OF CHARGE, thanks to the generous support of the North Penn Community Health Foundation. Please read descriptions below for our upcoming workshops and REGISTER NOW!
THE NORTH PENN NONPROFIT ACADEMY
invites Executive Directors and Board Members
to its next professional development event:
PUTTING REGIONAL RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE:
RESULTS FROM THE SECOND CCAT AND HOW NONPROFIT LEADERS ARE MAKING DATA MATTER
An Executive Master Class offered free of charge to North Penn Nonprofit Academy participants*
TUESDAY, MARCH 2nd from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
(Registration at 3:45 PM, program begins promptly at 4:00 PM. Light snacks served.)
LOCATION:
Community Partners Center for Health and Human Services
2506 N. Broad St., Colmar, PA 18915
Walton Meeting Room
(see www.npchf.org for directions)
FORUM DESCRIPTION:
Background: In 2008 the North Penn Community Health Foundation underwrote the cost for approximately 40 nonprofit agencies to take the CCAT self-assessment tool, which measures nonprofits’ strengths, weaknesses and capacity-building needs. Through the North Penn Nonprofit Academy’s Executive Master Class forum, the Executive Directors of those 40 agencies came together in September, 2008 to discuss the aggregated findings and consider the implications on both an organizational and a regional basis. In May, 2009, that group met again, this time in the company of grantmakers from the region, to consider the implications of the CCAT findings on funding opportunities for capacity building grants and support. The CCAT was re-administered between December, 2009 and January 2010, to provide a second snapshot of the North Penn region’s core capacities as identified by the CCAT tool.
Goals: On March 2nd we will consider the aggregated results of that second CCAT administration, but we will also expand the conversation beyond the data in order to capture how nonprofit leaders in greater North Penn are using regional research, such as the CCAT, the BoomerANG study, Montgomery County Community Needs Assessment, and others to practical effect in their organizations. How is regional research influencing planning, strategy, board leadership, partnership opportunities, capacity building efforts, staffing and other management issues? How do we take those reports “off the shelf” and apply this research in real ways to help move our organizations forward?
As a part of this forum, participating nonprofit Executive Directors and board members will:
- Receive a copy of the aggregated CCAT report findings from winter 2009-10 developed from the self-assessment data of 40 participating nonprofit agencies. This report will provide a broad overview of some of the areas of strength and challenge among nonprofit providers that work in Montgomery County and/or Bucks County;
- Analyze highlights of the 2008 CCAT findings versus the 2009-10 CCAT findings in a comparative view;
- Experience the stories of leaders in the North Penn nonprofit community who have successfully employed regional research in their organizational planning and management;
- Participate in a group discussion and share how regional research such as the CCAT and other studies might influence your managerial, partnership, and leadership choices.
Moderating the discussion will be DOUG ESCHBACH, Executive Director of Generations of Indian Valley, who is also a Board member of the North Penn Community Health Foundation. ROBIN BURSTEIN, Executive Director of Encore Experiences at Harleysville, and BOB GALLAGHER, CEO of the North Penn YMCA, will offer examples of how they have each employed regional research into their planning and growth efforts, to kick-off the group discussion on the topic.
*WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Executive Directors and CEOs of participating nonprofit agencies are welcome free of charge. Board members who took the CCAT are also encouraged to attend along with the Executive Director of their agencies.
REGISTER: By FEBRUARY 19th to Diana Doherty at npnonprofitacademy@hotmail.com, or 215-696-9336. Please include NAME, TITLE, and EMAIL ADDRESS. Note: Early registration is recommended.
SEEKING CREDITS? If you are a Licensed Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, or Licensed Professional Counselor, you may be eligible to receive 2.0 Continuing Education Credits for participating in this session, through a partnership with Family Services of Montgomery County. Please contact Diana Doherty for details.
THE NORTH PENN NONPROFIT ACADEMY invites you to its next professional development event:
The North Penn Development Directors Roundtable
Facebook and Twitter and Blogs, Oh My!
Using the New Social Media for Fundraising
A roundtable forum offered free of charge to North Penn Nonprofit Academy participants
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24th from 9:00 to 11:00 AM
LOCATION:
Community Partners Center for Health and Human Services
2506 N. Broad St., Colmar, PA 18915
Walton Meeting Room
(see www.npchf.org for directions)
DESCRIPTION:
Following the rousing success of our first two Development Directors Roundtables whose themes were, “From Competitors to Allies: How Can Development Personnel Learn from Each Other?” and “Linking Outcomes Measurement to Fundraising,” the Academy is proud to present the next Roundtable dedicated to the notion that networking, sharing information and building relationships are all critical keys to successful development work. The goal of this roundtable forum is to help forge a network of development personnel who can meet periodically to discuss challenges, offer solutions, and build important relationships that might yield mutual benefit in this uncertain economic climate.
If you are primarily responsible for Development/Fundraising with your organization, you are encouraged to attend this roundtable forum, where topics for discussion will include:
1) A description of social networking tools currently being used in the landscape
2) Examples of how one agency is harnessing the power of social networking tools to enhance fundraising
3) Developing a social media calendar, and content generation strategies for social media
4) Realistic ideas of cost/benefit (in terms of time and money), how these tools affect organizational culture
5) How-to’s for getting started with using social media to impact your organization’s fundraising
This session’s Theme Coordinator is MELISSA FIRMAN, Director of Development and Public Relations, Laurel House, who will share her first-hand experience using a variety of social networking tools in her development work to kick-off our group discussion. Facilitating the discussion will be JONATHAN HARMON, Director of Development, Family Services of Montgomery County, who will guide our group through the conversation and help us develop next steps for our burgeoning network of Development personnel.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Persons who bear primary responsibility for fundraising/development at their agency. Up to 2 representatives from each organization welcome free of charge. A small number of non-development personnel may be permitted to attend this session. Please note that the discussion will focus on using these tools FOR DEVELOPMENT only; this is not intended as a general overview of all of the various applications of these powerful technological tools.
REGISTER: By MARCH 10th to Diana Doherty at npnonprofitacademy@hotmail.com, or 215-696-9336. Please include NAME, TITLE, and EMAIL ADDRESS.
SEEKING CREDITS? If you are a Licensed Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, or Licensed Professional Counselor, you may be eligible to receive 2.0 Continuing Education Credits for participating in this session, through a partnership with Family Services of Montgomery County. Please contact Diana Doherty for details.
ABOUT THE ACADEMY The North Penn Nonprofit Academy is a series of workshops and events aimed at building the capacity of health and human service nonprofit leaders in the greater North Penn region, as defined by the North Penn, Souderton Area and Wissahickon school district boundaries. The Academy is an effort of the North Penn Community Health Foundation and is administered through the Greater North Penn Regional Collaborative for Health and Human Services. The 2009-10 Academy curriculum is based on the recent book The Charismatic Organization: 8 Ways to Build Buzz, Energize Employees and Delight Donors by Shirley Sagawa and Deborah Jospin. The roundtable held on March 24th addresses the practices in the book described as “Purposeful Innovation,” “Active Outreach,” and “Compelling Communication.” For more information on the basis for the Academy curriculum, see www.charismaticorganization.com.
The North Penn Nonprofit Academy… Building Capacity Through Learning.
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