Annual UW-Parkside Nonprofit Board Development Conference, Kenosha

UW-Parkside Nonprofit Board Development Conference, Tuesday, September 22, 2009 from 3:00pm to 8:30pm, UW-Parkside, Student Center, Kenosha, WI-
Presented by UW-Parkside Nonprofit Development, this year's conference will feature keynoter, Bliss Browne, addressing "Growing the Strengths of Nonprofit Organizations."  Bliss describes herself as "a contagiously hopeful mother, priest, former corporate banker and President of Imagine Chicago, an organization she founded in 1992 to create an economy in which nothing and no one is wasted." Her strengths-based approach to organizational and community development work has inspired social innovation projects on six continents. Bliss is a graduate of Yale University, Harvard University (Masters of Divinity and Theology) and the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. She was a Rockefeller Fellow from 1974-75 and a Kellogg National Leadership Fellow from 1989-91. She is the author of numerous journal articles and three books.
 
Other featured topics for the conference will include fundraising, the roles and responsibilities of board members, sustaining and growing your organization, working with consultants, reading and understanding financials, technology, and much more!
 
For more information or a full brochure, please visit http://www.uwp.edu/departments/community.partnerships/BoardConf2009.cfm, or contact Anna Clementi at clementi@uwp.edu or (262)595-2498.