Nonprofit Management Forum
Strengthening the Capacity of Nonprofit Organizations
Friday, April 13, 2012
The Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
Texas A&M University
Keynote Speaker:
David Renz
Director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit
Description
Registration
Agenda
Forum Speakers
Workshop Presenters
Biographies
Parking
Contact Information
Sponsors
Description
The Nonprofit Management Forum provides an opportunity for nonprofit staff, board members, students, and volunteers to come together for a day of learning, refreshment, and networking. Participants reflect on the work of the nonprofit sector and gain practical skills that will improve the effectiveness of nonprofits in our community. Bringing together academic researchers, consultants, industry professionals, and aspiring leaders, the forum is a unique learning opportunity.
Registration
Fee includes parking, morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon refreshments.
Registration
Registration is NOW OPEN!
Purchase Tickets Online
Student Rate - $25 (until March 16)
Early Bird Rate - $50 (closes Feb. 29)
Regular Rate - $75 (closes April 1)
On-Site Registration - $100
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Tentative Agenda
8:30am-9:00am
Registration and Networking
9:00am-9:15am
Welcome Remarks - Hagler Auditorium
9:15am-10:15am
Opening Plenary Session - Hagler Auditorium
David Renz, Driector~Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
10:15am-10:30am
Break
10:30am-12:00pm
Concurrent Workshops
Session 1 - Presidential Dining Room
Marjorie Clifton, Principal~Clifton Consulting, LLC
10 Steps of Advocacy
Session 2 - Room 1011B
Francisco Gónima, Owner & Principal~Arquero Consulting, LLC
The Mentalist: Leading & Managing Change from the Inside Out
Session 3 - Room 1011C
Francesca Rattray, Vice President~San Antonio Area Foundation Center for Nonprofit Support (CNS)
Capacity Building: What It Is, What Do You Need, & How Do You Get It?
12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch - Room 1011C & Presidential Dining Room
1:00pm-1:15pm
Transition to Keynote Address
1:15pm-2:00 pm
Keynote Address - Hagler Auditorium
Sonya Ware, President~Blue Beagle Consulting
Qualities of Successful Leaders
2:00pm-2:10pm
Break
2:10pm-3:30pm
Concurrent Workshops
Session 1 - Presidential Dining Room
Melissa Shehane~Texas A&M University, Romona Curtis~Baylor University, and Shirley Langston~Restoration Haven
Fostering Service-Learning Partnerships: Engaging the Community and the Academy in Significant Learning
Session 2 - Room 1011B
Ronnie Hagerty, Assistant Vice President of Community Relations~ United Way of Greater Houston
Adjunct Faculty Member~ The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Bringing Out the Best in Your Board
Session 3 - Room 1011C
Will Dickey, J.D., M.S.W., General Counsel~Executive Service Corps of Houston
Nonprofit Start-ups
3:30pm-4:00pm
Break - Room 1011C
4:00pm-5:00pm
Bank of America Program on Volunteerism - Hagler Auditorium
Sponsored by The Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy
Robert W. Pease, President and CEO~ Motiva
5:00pm-5:30pm
Reception
Keynote Speaker
David O. Renz
Beth K. Smith/Missouri Chair in Nonprofit Leadership
Director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
Chair, Department of Public Affairs
Biography
David Renz is the Beth K. Smith/Missouri Chair in Nonprofit Leadership and Director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. A nationally-noted expert on nonprofit governance and effectiveness, David writes, teaches and conducts research on public service governance, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. He is especially interested in helping organizations and their boards build their capacity and effectiveness. David writes frequently for both the academic and practice communities, and has produced more than 110 chapters, reports, and articles published in journals such as Nonprofit Management and Leadership, The Nonprofit Quarterly, Strategic Governance, Public Administration Review, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. He also is the editor of the 2010 edition of The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management.
David helps public service organizations in many capacities, including organization development, board and executive leadership development, and related consulting and advising. Over the past ten years he has had the privilege of working with more than 120 nonprofit and community organization boards, commissions, and leadership networks. Among national initiatives, he helped found the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (a network of university-based nonprofit centers) and the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers. His career also includes senior executive positions in government, including Executive Director of the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities and Assistant Commissioner of Administration for the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. David earned his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Minnesota with a concentration in Organization Theory and Administration.
David Renz’s contact information:
Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
University of Missouri- Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road, Bloch 310
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
816-235-2342
renzd@umkc.edu
Lunchtime Speaker
Sonya Ware
President of Blue Beagle Consulting
Qualities of Successful Leaders
1. Fearless Leaders are Brave! – the foundational characteristics of fearless leaders, those who face challenges straight-on, embrace change and leave our world better than they found it.
2. You Must Be Present to Win – bold ideas for showing up in life present and engaged.
3. Game Changers: Leading at the next Level – everyone has the potential to lead and it’s the game changers that challenge our thinking, give us a bold new vision and consequently rock our world. Practices that can shore up your ability to game change.
I will speak on leadership, the inherent characteristics of successful leaders and how successful leaders impact their businesses, their industries, and the world.
Biography
Sonya Denise Ware is an entrepreneur and President of Blue Beagle Consulting a coaching and consulting firm committed to developing custom coaching solutions that deliver break through results. Her clients include executive boards, leadership teams, emerging leaders, executives and entrepreneurs. Services include career and business coaching, leadership retreats and workshop facilitation. Blue Beagle Consulting dares you to lead your life fearlessly! Sonya earned a BBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the University of Houston and a Masters of Liberal Arts from the University of St Thomas. She is an ICF Associate Certified Coach. With over fifteen years’ leadership experience working for Fortune 500 companies with leaders all over the world, Sonya is a partner in possibilities, authentic leadership and courage. She is a member of Silverlake Church, Lead teacher for the Young Adult Sunday school and Deaconess. Sonya & her husband have two sons Martin Christopher, 13, and Bryce Daniel, 8.
Workshop Presenters
Workshop 1
Marjorie Clifton
Principle of Clifton Consulting LLC
10 Steps to Advocacy
10 Steps to Advocacy will provide a pathway and framework for building an effective and memorable campaign or advocacy effort. The steps will include detailed information about the key planning tools necessary to create reach target audiences and build larger support for whatever your organization is trying to accomplish.
Biography
Marjorie Clifton is principal of Clifton Consulting LLC and the National Independent Editor for GoVote.com and has over 16 years of media, communications and public affairs experience. As a consultant, Marjorie helps build and lead advocacy campaigns, planning and executing every facet from fundraising, partner development and government affairs to grassroots and grasstops strategy. In addition, she creates large scale press events, develops messaging and communications strategy and coaches spokespeople for national media and speaking platforms. As part of these efforts, she also custom designs and delivers training programs dedicated to building professional and leadership skills for individuals in the private and public sector both in the United States and internationally.
Marjorie has worked with a range of clients including C-level executives of Fortune 100 companies, Members of Congress, presidential campaigns, political pundits, faith leaders and advocates. Her clients have included the US Department of State, the Federal Reserve, the US Department of Energy, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Booz Allen Hamilton, Verizon, Boeing, Ebay, the American Red Cross, Teach for America, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Women’s Media Center, Harvard University, and the Nature Conservancy.
Marjorie is also a published author and is actively involved in several not-for-profit ventures. She is a board member of the Women in Politics Institute’s WELEAD program at American University and an executive board member of Running Start, a non-profit focused on training women for political leadership; she is also founder and director of their new program, Next Step, which trains professional young women in politics. She is also a fellow for the University of Texas’ Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation where she trains Texas non-profits in communications and advocacy.
Marjorie received her bachelor’s degree in Communications and Spanish from the University of Texas and her master’s in acting from Drama Studio London. Marjorie currently lives in Washington, DC.
Workshop 2
Francesca Rattray
Vice President of San Antonio Area Foundation Center for Nonprofit Support (CNS)
Capacity Building: What it is, What Do You Need, and How Do You Get It?
The San Antonio Area Foundation launched its Strengthening Nonprofits Initiative in June 2011.
This two-part grant process begins with nonprofit organizations applying for a grant to take the
Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT), an assessment tool developed by the TCC Group, which helps organizations identify their needs and build a training plan to address those needs. The Area Foundation’s Center for Nonprofit Support (CNS) has been training the community on the CCAT, what it can demonstrate to nonprofits that they need, and a full description of the types of capacity building services that “capacity-building” includes.
This session will include definitions of “capacity” and “capacity-building,” a description of nonprofit lifecycles and the types of capacity-building to be applied at each stage, core capacities of organizational effectiveness, how to take and interpret CCAT results and the types of capacity-building activities to maximize organizational effectiveness. As part of this session, CNS will provide its directory of capacity-building providers in Central and South Texas who offer a range of capacity-building services.
Biography
Francesca Rattray, Vice President of the San Antonio Area Foundation Center for Nonprofit Support (CNS), leads efforts to educate nonprofit professionals and build the excellence of nonprofit organizations throughout San Antonio and South Texas. She has developed her expertise through more than 20 years of experience in a diversity of nonprofits, with a particular focus on fundraising, resource development, and training.
Ms. Rattray developed a customized training program for the grant recipients of the Area Foundation’s TRIAD (Texas Resources for Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment) Fund Program designed to strengthen organizations serving veterans and their families. This training program, which provided technical assistance and training to sustain TRIAD Fund grant recipients beyond their grant funding, has become a model for strengthening other nonprofit grant recipients of the Area Foundation.
Prior to joining the Area Foundation, Ms. Rattray directed the undergraduate, graduate and continuing education nonprofit management program at UTSA, and taught fundraising. Active in the San Antonio community, Ms. Rattray currently serves on the board of City Year San Antonio
and volunteers for various nonprofits in town. Ms. Rattray holds an MBA in nonprofit management from Boston University and an undergraduate degree in international affairs and Asian Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Workshop 3
Francisco A. Gónima
Owner & Principal Arquero Consulting, LLC
The Mentalist: Leading & Managing Change from the Inside Out
The phrase “adapt or die” is common sense to just about everyone. Why is it then that when an organization is undertaking a major change that many staff seem bound and determined to choose the latter of the two? This workshop will unlock the neuroscience of change management and help you learn how you can lead change effectively through coaching and Socratic methods that work. While most leaders and administrators focus on business planning and structured staff interactions around change management, it is those who effectively understand how to use their influence, relationships and creating buzz at the water cooler and in the informal networks of the organization who will succeed at moving an organization's culture and paradigm. By giving your people’s brains what they need to feel safe and empowered in the midst of change, you’ll not only get compliance, you’ll get entrepreneurship.
Biography
Francisco A. Gónima is an experienced community facilitator, executive coach and social sector strategist with a passion for supporting innovation and social enterprise. Nearly a decade in leadership development and disaster management with the American Red Cross in Colorado and at their National Headquarters in Washington, DC provided a unique laboratory for Francisco to build his skills as a community builder and leadership coach. During that time, he not only led community problem solving under the most intense of circumstances but also did so while working across highly diverse segments of society, from the wealthiest of donors to the most economically challenged members of local communities and the government officials that served them at all levels. Francisco is a 2009 Marshall Memorial Fellow through the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a month long comparative policy tour of European Union member states for emerging U.S. leaders. He holds a BA in Latin American Studies/Government from The University of Texas at Austin. He is a first generation immigrant and a bilingual native Spanish speaker with a strong commitment to promoting Latino leadership in a central role for our community and our country’s future.
Workshop 4
Fostering Service-Learning Partnerships: Engaging the Community and the Academy in Significant Learning
Institutions of higher education are charged with developing students to be active citizens who address critical issues that move local, national and global communities forward. This session will explore theoretical frameworks that will advance service-learning in and outside the classroom. Educators will address critical issues in building community partnerships, profiles of student behaviors regarding community service, and the impact of active citizenship at the undergraduate level on the greater community.
Outcomes:
- Learn theoretical frameworks to advance service-learning in higher education in order to build sustainable partnerships.
- Learn techniques to educate students about the significance of civic engagement
- Learn how to overcome barriers in university and community relationships.
- Review a case study and apply the Active Citizenship Continuum in a service-learning project.
- Engage in an interactive conversation with a community partner
Melissa Shehane, M.Ed.
Department of Student Activities Leadership & Service Center, Texas A&M University
Melissa Shehane serves as the Senior Advisor in the Leadership and Service Center at Texas A&M University. Melissa coordinates community engagement efforts within her department as well as service-learning opportunities with faculty and other stakeholders. Her primary focus is to develop civically minded leaders. She earned a master’s degree in College Student Affairs from The Pennsylvania State University in May 2007 and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications at Texas A&M University. Melissa also serves as the Student Leadership Programs Knowledge Community Co-Chair within NASPA.
Ramona Curtis, M.A.
Director, Academy for Leader Development and Civic Engagement, Baylor University
Ms. Ramona Curtis earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Prairie View A&M University. She is the Director of Leader Development and Civic Engagement. In this capacity, Ms. Curtis and her staff develop leadership programs that foster synergy among "leadership thinkers." The Academy provides a meaningful forum for talented students to develop their strengths in preparation for answering a call to sustained leadership in whatever their chosen vocations. She currently serves on the Editorial board of the John Ben Shepperd Journal of Practical Leadership. She is adjunct faculty at Baylor University, Tarleton State University and McLennan Community College. She also serves as campus advisor of the Baylor Collegiate Chapter of the NAACP and Rho Eta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta.
Ms. Curtis was awarded the Waco chapter of the National Association of Social Workers' 2004 Public Citizen of the Year and has been named a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Central Texas.
Shirley Langston, M.A.
Founder and Program Director of Restoration Haven, Waco, Texas
Shirley Langston, a strong team leader is gifted with a powerful breakthrough, deliverance, healing, and restorative anointing. With over fifteen years ministry experience, her pioneering spirit is evident through her intercessory prayer and community involvement that releases God’s purposes. Shirley has been a part of apostolic teams into nations for the purpose of spiritual and social transformation.
Since the early 1990’s, Shirley has been involved with the strategic prayer movement all over the nation. She has served as an intercessor for businesses, conferences, and prayer gatherings. She has been active in prison ministry in Marlin, at Texas Youth Council for adolescents and Hobby Unit for women.
Shirley is the Founder of Restoration Haven, Inc., a 501 (c) (3) ministry which focuses on restoring at risk communities. The Haven connects with other community services creating a loving environment where mercy triumphs over judgment and lives are restored by the power of God, through biblical studies, vocational training and life-skills.
Shirley is a member of International Breakthrough Ministries, an apostolic network that unites business leaders with church leaders for opportunities in the Kingdom of God. She is also a licensed and ordained minister. She is a member of Christ The King Church.
Shirley has a BA in Psychology and Business and a MA in Counseling; both degrees are from Dallas Baptist University, in Dallas, TX. She has two adult children and eight grandchildrenWorkshop 5
Ronnie Hagerty
Assistant Vice President, Community Relations, for the United Way of Greater Houston
Adjunct Faculty Member at The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Bringing out the Best in Your Board
This workshop will outline board roles and responsibilities, and offer suggestions for development of effective board recruitment and retention strategies. It will highlight key issues such as conflict of interest, fundraising, and board commitment. It will also offer guidelines for setting expectations and managing performance in a positive and productive way.
Biography
Ronnie Hagerty is responsible for community outreach initiatives including the Management Assistance Program (MAP), Information and Referral Services, Project Blueprint, the United Way Community Resource Center and Gifts In Kind. Hagerty holds a B.A. in Journalism from St. Mary’s College/Notre Dame, an M.B.A from the University of Houston Graduate School of Business, and is a doctoral candidate at Antioch University. She is credentialed by the Association of Fundraising Professionals as a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE).
Workshop 6
Will Dickey, J.D., M.S.W.
General Counsel~Executive Service Corps of Houston
Nonprofit Start-ups
Professional Background: Will G. Dickey is an Attorney at Law Offices Of Will G. Dickey, P.L.L.C. In this capacity, Will G. Dickey holds a law degree from University of Texas. He recently obtained a Master In Social Work from the University of Houston. Will has lived in Houston since 1973. Will also volunteers and is on the Board of Trustees for the Homeless Youth Network of Houston/Harris County, Texas. Will sits on the Graduate College of Social Work Alumni Association of the University Of Houston and is a past President thereof.ESCH Experience: Will joined ESCH in 2003 and since then has helped many nonprofits through training and/or management consultation services. Will's particular areas of expertise are: starting a nonprofit, grass roots organizing and advocacy. Will is also the on the Board of Trustees for ESCH. He gives regular seminars to people or organizations in how to start a nonprofit and obtain tax exempt status With respect to his ESCH experience, Will says "it has been the most rewarding nonprofit service I have been involve in my life and the consultants and men behind it are true professionals with a passion for giving back and supporting the growth of the nonprofit community in our area."
Parking
Parking is restricted to Lot 43 and requires a hang tag that will be provided via mailed confirmation or on the day of the event to all registered participants.
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