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This session covers the following topics:
OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
LIFECYCLES
This session covers the following topics:
OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
LIFECYCLES
Courtney Roberts, president of Ivy Tech Foundation, will moderate. Learn from grantmakers and thought-leaders as they share their insights and experience that has led them to incorporate and center community voice in their work. Walk away with ideas of how to adapt their experiences and lessons learned into your own grantmaking and community leadership efforts.
Learn about a unique initiative in Flint, Michigan that brought residents to the table to voice their needs, share their concerns and craft a path beyond the city’s water crisis. Focus on Flint offers an intriguing study of community engagement and place-based philanthropy. Hear from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation about lessons learned and their ongoing efforts to improve quality of life in Flint.
Take the stage with confidence and conviction. Learn the art of public speaking from industry experts to present your message with clarity, authority, and impact.
You'll have the option to sign-up for a 10-minute time slot to prepare a 1-minute presentation on one of the following:
Struggling to articulate the great work you're doing? Award-winning consultant and executive trainer, Michael Marker, guides you through the critical first step of understanding your message and audience. He'll help you lay the foundation for impactful communication.
A productive, equitable, internal culture aligned with a foundation’s mission and goals is essential to support nonprofit resilience and success. In other words, if we are striving to have more impact, we should look not just at our external strategies and theories of change but also at how our organizational behaviors, assumptions, and values either support or potentially undermine what we are trying to achieve.