Nonprofit Management Institute 2009: October 6 - 7!
Shaping Effective Organizations During Tough Times
Now more than ever, you need innovative ideas to help you move your organization forward. Come to the Nonprofit Management Institute and learn creative new strategies for running and growing your organization during tough economic times. Challenge your assumptions, test out new ideas, and go home with concrete plans to improve your organization’s effectiveness.
All sessions are taught by world-renowned faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University and by leading practitioners in the field of nonprofit management.
The Nonprofit Management Institute, an annual 2-day conference, is brought to you by the
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) and Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).
- What You Will Learn
- Who Should Attend
- What Last Year's Attendees Are Saying
- Program
- What Your Conference Fee Also Includes
- Facilities and Location
- Lodging
- Registration
- Contact Information
- About AFP and SSIR
What You Will Learn
We know how difficult it is to spend money on a conference and take time out of the office. The goal of these intensive two-days is to give you concrete, innovative ideas for shaping and growing your organization during this painful economic downturn, ideas that you can take home and put into action. This year’s conference will help you:
- Understand the new fundraising and philanthropic landscape so you can bring more dollars into your organization
- Change the way you lead when change is hard
- Learn ways you can describe your funding model and improve your ability to fundraise
- See how nonprofits are finding success in cross-sector collaboration
- Assess opportunities for strategic restructuring – from cross organizational collaboration to mergers
- Use the growing volunteer workforce much more effectively and successfully
- Take away lessons from activists and social movements that have caused radical innovation
- Find out how social media tools are actually part of a new networked mindset and how to take advantage of it
Who Should Attend
The Nonprofit Management Institute is for senior-level nonprofit executives including CEOs, executive directors, board members, and others with significant leadership responsibilities. Every year the Nonprofit Management Institute features an all-new program, so many attendees come again and again.
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What Last Year's Attendees Are Saying About Our Program
“In my 25 years of ‘professional life,’ this was the best, most-thought producing, educational training I’ve attended. Great ROI!”
“The quality of programs/speakers has been outstanding. I’m going home with many ideas and to-do’s. Well done!”
“Great experience. Mind-blowing lectures. Very high caliber of speakers. Organizers did a great job.”
“I am continually impressed by this conference. Thank you! It will help me be a stronger leader.”
“As a funder, these sessions were extremely valuable to me.”
“Overall quality of speakers was VERY high – thanks for putting together a really worthwhile event. P.S. Conference food and facilities were lovely!”
“This is my first time – I expect to be back the future!”
“Your partnership [SSIR and AFP] addresses relevant, timely issues coupled with best practices and supported by research. As a seasoned fund-raiser, this has been a refreshing, thought-filled institute!”
“Brilliant, thought provoking, and very useful for strategic leadership!”
Program
The evening before the conference, October 5, attendees are invited to a Welcome Reception from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Details will be available shortly.
The Nonprofit Management Institute takes place from October 6-7. Conference is from 8am to 4:30pm. There will be a networking reception at the end of the first day.
Program for the Nonprofit Management Institute 2009
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
Chip Heath, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Changing behavior is hard, as evidenced by anyone who’s ever tried to start an exercise program or train a teenager. This session will present a framework for changing how people act, even in the toughest circumstances. Case studies include a man who helped solve the malnutrition problem in the poorest of poor Vietnamese villages (without a budget for food), a short intervention that reversed the decline in math scores among junior high students at an academically underperforming middle school, and a simple intervention that dramatically increased food drive donations among a population that had been specially nominated as least likely to donate.
New Paths to Social Innovation
Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Today’s innovative social solutions cut across the traditional boundaries separating nonprofits, government, and for-profit businesses. Ideas, values, roles, relationships and capital flow more freely between the sectors. In principle, many people accept the trend: In practice they continue to toil in silos. In the current economic climate, the need to work outside silos and evolve is greater than ever. Through examples and case studies, Deiglmeier will help define social innovation and help participants identify ways their organization might be able to take advantage of the blending of market and nonmarket approaches to achieve social change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
William Foster, Partner, Bridgespan Group
For-profit executives use business models – such as “low cost provider” or “fast follower” – as a shorthand way to describe and understand how companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives, to their detriment, are not as explicit about their funding models. Too often, unproven conventional wisdom substitutes for clear planning. Foster, using new Bridgespan research, identifies 10 nonprofit models commonly used by the largest nonprofits in the U.S. with the goal of helping leaders articulate more clearly the models they believe could support the growth of their organizations. By improving the clarity and communication of their long-term funding strategy, nonprofits of all sizes have the opportunity to improve their ability to fundraise for and manage their organizations.
Leading the New Volunteer Workforce
Robert T. Grimm Jr., Director, Research and Policy Development, Senior Counselor to the CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service
Susannah Washburn, Senior Advisor, Corporation for National and Community Service
The downturn of the US economy is severely taxing the capacity of the social sector to respond to increased need. Simultaneously, there has been a “compassion boom” of individuals who want to donate their time to help their neighbors – but the jury is out on whether this resource has been put to good use. The presenters discuss the opportunities offered by the Kennedy Serve America Act (2009) and explore how social leaders can develop a more strategic and creative approach to managing this rich talent pool.
Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation
Hayagreeva Rao, Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Professor Rao’s talk will draw on his new book, Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation. The session will look at the role of “market rebels” – activists who defy authority and convention -- and social movements in bringing about (or preventing) change in markets. Professor Rao introduces the concepts of "hot causes" and "cool mobilization" to suggest how leaders at for-profits and nonprofits can apply lessons from activists and social movements to their own innovation efforts.
Partnering in Tough Times: Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations
David La Piana, Founder and President of La Piana Consulting
Strategic Restructuring is a continuum of partnership options ranging from strategic alliances to joint ventures to full-scale mergers. In this session, participants will discuss the range of options, motivations that bring nonprofit leaders to choose them, roadblocks potential partners often encounter, and the potential of SR as either a collaborative or a competitive strategy. La Piana will bring in case material from his consulting experience (he has facilitated more than 100 partnerships) as well as a national perspective on the role of strategic restructuring in the nonprofit sector’s response to the current economic crisis.
Beyond 2009: Emerging Trends in Philanthropy in an Era of Economic Dislocation
Peter deCourcy Hero, Senior Fellow, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
The two years 2008 to 2009 have been a time of severe economic turmoil. This session will take a close look at significant recent trends in philanthropy as they have begun to broadly affect the nonprofit sector. Based on Peter's 18 years in Silicon Valley, leading one of the largest community foundations in the country, as well as on research, the session will discuss evolving attitudes, motivations, behaviors of the new "self-made" wealthy donor, blurring lines between nonprofit and corporate models of social change, new developments for online philanthropy, lessons/opportunities for nonprofits in scarce economic times, and how foundations are responding to new economic realities.
The New, Networked Mindset
Heather McLeod Grant, Consultant, Monitor Institute
Social sector leaders are using Web 2.0 tools, but these tools are only the beginning of the story. The deeper news is how social media tools are engendering a new, networked mindset characterized by openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action. Nonprofit organizations that are adapting the networked mindset are finding exciting opportunities to expand their leverage and impact. Using new research from the Monitor Institute, in partnership with the Packard Foundation, McLeod Grant will offer a strategic framework to help nonprofit leaders assess the effectiveness of their networks and will share illuminating case studies of nonprofits’ experiences operating with the new networked mindset.
What Your Conference Fee Also Includes
- At the conference you will enjoy delicious, primarily organic and locally grown food at the:
- Welcoming courtyard reception the night before the conference opens
- Networking reception in Ford Gardens after the first day
- Breakfast both conference days
- Delicious lunches in the outside garden
- Free nearby parking or free shuttle from hotel to conference center
- List of conference attendees with contact information
- A thick binder with the presentations and other useful information
- A post-conference website for additional resources, photos, and podcasts
- Opportunities to buy books written by speakers and get them signed
- For AFP members, attendance qualifies for CFRE credits
- Free internet service at conference center and access to business center
- Certificates of completion at the end of the conference
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Facilities and Location
The program will be held at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, a state-of-the-art facility located on Stanford University's campus. Lunches, breaks, and the October 6th networking reception are held in beautiful Ford Gardens next behind the conference room. The Alumni Center serves locally grown organic food.
Stanford is located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley. The campus' 8,100 acres reach from the rural foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto. Stanford is conveniently located between two major airports—25 miles south of San Francisco International Airport and 20 miles north of San Jose International Airport.
The campus and surrounding areas offer a myriad of opportunities for recreation and sightseeing. World-class shopping and dining are located only a mile away. A half hour drive north brings you to San Francisco. A two hour drive south brings you to Carmel, where you can take in breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean. To find out more, visit Stanford’s Visitor Information Services.
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Lodging
The Nonprofit Management Institute has reserved a block of rooms for attendees at The Sheraton Palo Alto for October 4-8. Rooms are provided at a discounted rate of $189 until September 18. After September 18, you may still book a room, but the discounted conference rate is not guaranteed. To reserve a room, please click here. The Sheraton Palo Alto is conveniently located at a Caltrain stop. The Arrillaga Alumni Center is a 20 minute walk or a short, free shuttle ride away.
Please click here for a list of other nearby lodging with a variety of price ranges. We do not have room blocks at these locations.
Registration
For the third year in a row, we have kept our rates flat. This year we are also offer a “recovery special” (see below).
Early Bird Rates (Effective Until August 28, 2009)
$795: Special rate if you are a Stanford Social Innovation Review subscriber* or an AFP member
$995: Special rate PLUS become an AFP member
$1,095 Standard rate (if you are not an SSIR subscriber or an AFP member)
Regular Rates (Effective August 28, 2009)
$995: Special rate if you are a Stanford Social Innovation Review subscriber* or an AFP member
$1,195: Special rate to attend PLUS become an AFP member
$1,295 Standard rate (if you are not an SSIR subscriber or an AFP member)
*A domestic subscription to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is $39.95. To qualify for the discounted subscriber rate to the Nonprofit Management Institute, you must be a print subscriber with a current, paid subscription. If you are not yet a subscriber, or if your subscription has recently expired, you can qualify for the $200 discount if you subscribe or renew now at the web rate of just $39.95 (domestic) for one year at www.ssireview.org/subscribe. If you are not sure if your subscription is up to date, you can check at by going to www.ssireview.org/subscribe and clicking on “manage my subscription.”
Recovery Special!
Bring a work colleague—or two colleagues—from your organization and each of you will get $100 off your registration. Note: you must register at the same time.
We also offer group discounts. Register three people from your organization and the fourth person will be free. To register a group, please call: (703) 519-8494.
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Important Registration Dates
Aug. 28, 2009: Early bird registration closes
Oct. 3, 2009: If you need to register after the 3rd, please register on site.
Cancellation policy: A refund charge of twenty percent of the registration fee will be assessed for any cancellations received before September 22. After Sept. 22, there will be no refunds for cancellation.
Contact Information
Questions?
If you have questions about registration:
Email: proadv@afpnet.org
Phone: Toll Free 800-666-3863 ext. 494 or Direct (703) 519-8494
If you have questions about the program or logistics:
Email: lynch_loreal@gsb.stanford.edu
Phone: 650-724-3309
About AFP and SSIR
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents more than 30,000 members in over 205 chapters, working to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education, and certification programs. The association fosters development and growth of fundraising professionals and promotes high ethical standards in the fundraising profession. For more information or to join the world's largest association of fundraising professionals, visit www.afpnet.org.
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), published by the Stanford Graduate School of Business, chronicles and advances the exchange of ideas among the nonprofit, public, and private sectors to foster innovative solutions to social problems. Each issue offers provocative management insights by world-class faculty, cutting-edge research, real-life case studies, and commentaries by leading executives.
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