Nonprofit Management Institute 2008: September 23 - 24!
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) and Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) join forces to bring you the 3rd Annual Nonprofit Management Institute, conducted by the world’s leading experts and professors from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Strengthen your executive management skills to lead a more effective nonprofit.
What You Will Learn
This intensive two-day institute will equip nonprofit leaders with critical knowledge and skills they can use immediately. Even the most experienced executives will gain insight in evaluating the strategy of their organizations, expand their knowledge of foundation and capital market funding, learn how to improve their organization’s branding, develop new management and leadership practices, and become more skilled negotiators.
Who Should Attend
Senior-level nonprofit executives including CEOs, executive directors, board members and others with significant leadership responsibilities. Note to last year’s attendees: The Nonprofit Management Institute 2008 is an all-new program.
Program
Schedule
The 2008 program will be announced in June. Here is last year's program:
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Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2007
5:30 – 7 p.m.
Welcome Reception at the Sheraton Palo Alto
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center,
Stanford Campus
8 – 9 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9 – 9:15 a.m.
Welcome
9:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Missions That Really Inspire
Chip Heath
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Your organization has an important mission. But could a potential funder or volunteer tell that by looking at your website or your annual report? And could one of your employees make the right decision in a tough situation by reading it? This interactive double session will talk about how you can avoid mission speak and mission creep and instead craft a mission statement that inspires people and helps them make important decisions. This session will give you powerful tools to lead your organization.
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
What Makes Great Nonprofits Great?
Heather McLeod Grant
Advisor to the Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business Consultant to leading nonprofits and foundations
Now more than ever, nonprofit leaders need to know how to maximize their social impact. This session draws upon the groundbreaking research conducted by Heather McLeod Grant and published in Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Fall '07). She and her co-author spent four years surveying thousands of nonprofit leaders, conducting hundreds of interviews, and studying in-depth 12 high-impact organizations. What they learned surprised them: Success isn't just about “nonprofit management,” but about creating larger systemic change. This session will provide you with important insights to creating change at your organization.
3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained – A Capital Market for Social Enterprise Comes to Life?
Tim Freundlich
Director, Strategic Initiatives - Calvert Foundation
Tim Freundlich will focus on the dynamics of a more efficient and effective capital market and stakeholder concepts for social enterprise, providing a global view of who is funding social enterprise, how they're doing it and where the gaps are. The landscape extends across debt, equity and grants, plus non-financial inputs...but the dysfunction and broken food-chain is appalling. Luckily new models are afoot. Attendees will gain a broad understand of the capital market for social enterprises and be able to identify opportunities for their organizations.
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Networking Reception
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Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford Campus
8 – 9 a.m.
Contintental Breakfast
9 – 10:15 a.m.
Funding Models: How Nonprofits Get Really Big
William Foster
Partner, Bridgespan Group
The gap between the capacity of nonprofits and the size of the problems they're addressing can seem like a chasm. There are few examples of organizations that have scaled successfully. One of the most commonly cited barriers to major expansion is the lack of large-scale, reliable funding. To see what could be learned from organizations that did get really big, Bridgespan identified 145 nonprofits/networks founded since 1970 with $50M in revenue by 2003, and gathered data and conducted in-depth interviews with 21. The session will share good news and bad and discuss implications for nonprofits and funders. Findings will be brought to life with examples from organizations that scaled, and observations on the characteristics of others that, through choice or lack of opportunity, did not.
10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Creating Strong Brands
Jennifer Aaker
Xerox Distinguished Professor of Knowledge, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
General Atlantic Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business (on leave)
Professor Aaker will discuss the psychology of relationships and will outline the basics of what it takes to build strong relationships between companies and consumers, honing in on examples in the nonprofit space. Insights into global brand building, how to develop your brand's personality, and how to manage consumer expectations will be discussed. You will leave this session with many ideas on how to build your organization's brand.
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Negotiation: Common Myths and Unexpected Truths
Margaret Neale
John G. McCoy/Banc One Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Neale will explore many of the beliefs that surround negotiation "best practices" in an attempt to distinguish the reality from wishful (or wrong-headed) thinking. The purpose of this interactive session (which builds on last year's popular session "Negotiation and the Psychology of the Deal") is to add to your understanding of and the tools to respond to your next negotiation challenge.
3– 4:15 p.m.
Building a Civilized Workplace
Robert Sutton
Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford Engineering School
Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Professor Sutton will talk about the main ideas from his new best-selling book The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't . Sutton reveals the huge TCA (Total Cost of Assholes) in today's corporations. He shows how to spot an asshole and provides a "self-test" to determine whether you deserve to be branded as a "certified asshole." And he offers tips that you can use to keep your "inner jerk" from rearing its ugly head. Sutton then uses in-depth research and analysis to show how managers can eliminate mean-spirited and unproductive behavior (while positively channeling some of the virtues of assholes) to generate an asshole-free and newly productive workplace.
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.
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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. 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 September 21 - 25, 2008. Rooms are provided at a discounted rate of $209. To reserve a room, please click here.
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Registration
Registration opens in June
Rates
Early Bird Rates (Effective Until August 25, 2008)
$995: Standard rate
$795: Special rate for Stanford Social Innovation Review Subscribers* and AFP Members
Regular Rates (Effective August 26, 2008)
$1195: Standard rate
$995: Special rate for Stanford Social Innovation Review Subscribers* and AFP Members
*To qualify for the Stanford Social Innovation Review discount, you must be a paid print subscriber. If you are not yet a subscriber, you can qualify for the $200 discount if you subscribe now at the new U.S. subscriber web rate of just $39.95 for one year.
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Important Registration Dates
Aug. 25, 2008: Early bird registration closes
Sept. 9, 2008: Cancellation policy: A refund charge of twenty percent of the registration fee will be assessed for any cancellations received before Sept. 8, 2008. After Sept. 8, there will be no refunds for cancellation.
Sept. 20, 2008: Online registration closes September 20, 2008. If you need to register after the 20th, please register onsite
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Contact Information
Email: ssirafp@afpnet.org
Phone: 800-666-3863 ext. 497
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About AFP and SSIR
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents more than 30,000 members in over 197 chapters throughout the world, 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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