To launch a successful nonprofit you need vision and confidence, but to make a sustained impact, you also need to lay the foundation for successful growth. This roundtable discussion will offer you the opportunity to ask questions of HR, finance, and outreach experts with extensive experience working with start-up organizations.
Project management is a mature and proven discipline in corporations across the spectrum from technology to healthcare to entertainment. Its value is seen in bringing transparency, predictability and nimbleness to challenging environments. Learn from a certified Project Management Professional about the nuts and bolts of how successful organizations in other industries use it to drive their day-to-day activities.
How well do your development, operations and marketing plans connect to your strategic objectives? Improve your organizational alignment by learning how to develop and manage initiatives that track back to verifiable metrics that matter for your bottom line. Q & A
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Whether you need to step up financial compliance in your organization, prepare for a smooth audit, or restructure your finances for organizational growth, Levi Morehouse of Ceterus and Brad Gruber of SPN have the experience and expertise to address your toughest questions. Join us for a lively discussion of how to create financial systems that complement your organization’s work.
Are you still relying on your gut to know if you are on track to meet your goals? Learn how to determine the data you need to track to monitor trends and improve productivity in your organization. Get an overview of methods and tools that can help you have key data at your fingertips, even if you aren’t a spreadsheet or database guru.
Make the most of your hard-won grant dollars (and increase the likelihood of winning more) by measuring what matters and communicating results to funders. Experts from across the movement will gather to share their techniques for defining, tracking, and reporting on grant-funded successes.
Highly effective organizations have the information they need, when they need it, to manage risk and seize leveraged opportunities. This happens through the daily discipline of overcoming communication barriers. This session will help you identify the four most costly barriers to communication and simple, disciplined steps to remove them. You will also learn how to significantly improve “just-in-time” communication and maximize the impact and value of Intentional, Accidental, and Incidental Communication whether your organization is on two floors or two coasts.
Spend your time focusing on the purpose of your trip instead of worrying about logistical details. Rachelle Reitz, a 12-year business travel veteran, will teach you how to find or train a travel coordinator who can save you money and keep you out of the middle seat. There may be one lurking within your organization! Rachelle will also share her tools and tricks of the trade and answer your questions.
