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Workshop: Transformative Board Governance, Milwaukee

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:09:37 -0700

Start: 08/03/2010 - 11:30am

End: 08/03/2010 - 1:30pm

Transformative Board Governance

Tuesday, August 3 / 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

A light lunch will be provided.

Transformative Governance is your commitment to revitalizing the role of your board and establishing a new framework for board leadership. Engage in breakthrough thinking that embraces emerging trends and developments in board governance. Designed especially for the Executive Director and the Board President. Come as a team and save!

Presenter: YLONDA D. GLOVER, Organizational Development Consultant, Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee

Fee: $50; $35 Nonprofit Center members and CDBG agency attendees.

Location: the Nonprofit Center, 2819 West Highland Blvd.

For more info/to register:
www.NonprofitCenterMilwaukee.org

Workshop: Effective Strategies for Increasing Your Earned Income, Duluth MN

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:27:57 -0700

Start: 08/05/2010 - 9:00am

End: 08/05/2010 - 4:00pm

Should our nonprofit get into the business of earning money? Do we have the expertise and capacity to sell any products or services? What kind of business activities would make sense for us? Will this help us diversify our funding?

This interactive workshop addresses these and other questions about social enterprises, also known as nonprofit ventures, earned income projects, and social businesses. This session will include case studies of social enterprisers who have developed successful (and not so successful) social enterprises, provide an overview of best practices, and will include an exercise to help you determine whether social enterprise makes sense for your organization.

This session will also deliver some of the “nuts and bolts” of how to “do” social enterprise/earned income activities. We will discuss where to look for good venture ideas, how to test feasibility, and how to do “just enough” business planning to launch a social enterprise. Come prepared to learn how to apply this to your organization, when to say “yes” and when to say “no” to suggestions to grow earned income in your nonprofit. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves!

Rolfe Larson, is a nationally known author, trainer and consultant. His book Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting A Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization, has been widely recognized as the most practical, useful guide on how to develop successful earned income strategies. Venture Forth! was endorsed by Paul Newman of Newman’s Own.

Workshop: Ethics and Boundaries for Direct Social Service Providers, Kenosha

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:47:22 -0700

Start: 08/05/2010 - 1:00pm

End: 08/05/2010 - 4:30pm

Ethics and Boundaries for Direct Social Service Providers, Thursday, August 5, 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm, located at UW-Parkside's Tallent Hall (Orchard Room), 900 Wood Road, Kenosha, WI (Presenter: Matthew Gebhardt)- Nonprofit organizations, who have direct social service providers face tremendous challenges. Providing services to their clients in an often high-paced, stressful environment can leave the most competent professionals feeling overwhelmed. In the midst of this environment, fundamental questions concerning how we relate to others as professionals become increasingly important to consider:

How do I build trusting relationships with clients while maintaining healthy personal boundaries?
How do I foster a healthy work self, and what are signs that my personal boundaries interfere or inadvertently influencing my professional decisions?
Why do boundary violations occur? How can I support a healthy professional work environment?
What is meant by "professional" and why should we care anyway?
Can I look at a client's Facebook page?

Workshop: Reading and Interpreting Nonprofit Financial Statements for Board Members, Kenosha

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:45:47 -0700

Start: 08/16/2010 - 5:30pm

End: 08/16/2010 - 7:30pm

Reading and Interpreting Nonprofit Financial Statements for Board Members, Monday, August 16, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, located at UW-Parkside's Tallent Hall (Orchard Room), 900 Wood Road, Kenosha, WI (Presenter: Andy Holman)-Understanding nonprofit financial information can be challenging. This workshop will cover basic concepts in reading and reviewing nonprofit financial statements, and th ekey questions board and management need to consider. It will include practical tips and tools for helping your organization, directors, board and staff address financial matters more effectively.

Cost: $40; includes materials and light dinner (Scholarships available to CAN & CAN Works participants) Click to view flyer

REGISTER by emailing ccpinfo@uwp.edu or contact Felicia Stallworth at 262-595-2312. QUESTIONS? Contact Randy Bennett at 262-595-2754 or email him at bennettr@uwp.edu

Workshop: BoardStar's Orientation Express: Introduction to Board Governance, Milwaukee

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:58:15 -0700

Start: 08/17/2010 - 5:30pm

End: 08/17/2010 - 7:30pm

Orientation Express
Introduction to Board Governance

Board Orientation returns its investment many times over for the organization, the Board, and the community. This essential workshop serves as a starting point or a refresher course for anyone who serves on a nonprofit Board, and the manual provides a valuable ongoing reference. Participants learn the fundamental roles and responsibilities of Board service, with emphasis on fulfilling the Board’s governance function.

Webinar - One Change + One Change = > Two Good Results

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:04:15 -0800

Start: 08/19/2010 - 2:00pm

End: 08/19/2010 - 3:00pm

The National Human Services Assembly, a nonprofit association of the nation's leading human service and community development organizations, is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to an extraordinary series of high-quality webinars--Thursdays at Three: Knowledge for Nonprofit Sector Leaders.

One Change + One Change = > Two Good Results

Paula L. Dressel Ph.D., Vice-President of Just Partners, Inc.

Thursday, August 19, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT

The fallout from the financial crisis cuts across virtually all community realities and will not end soon.

Non-traditional thinking about responses to ever-increasing human needs is paramount. Paula will de-

scribe the whitewater in which we swim: a changing landscape of available resources, climate changes

that demand changes in the ways we live, the changing faces of our communities. This program also

comes out of the Just Partners, Inc. (described above) Viable Futures Center.