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Conference Archive
Past Conferences
Common Threads: 2015 Nonprofit Leadership Conference (November 23, 2015)
Opening Plenary
Keynote Address
Brigette Rouson, principal, Rouson Associates
Inclusion: Moving from Intention to Impact
The public interest sector is uniquely positioned to make a difference in individual and collective well-being. What often stands in the way is a silo existence and a habit of resisting change even as we seek it. There is no time like the present to break through and realize our transformative power. Hear one perspective on why now, and how, from a lifer in the nonprofit world.
Presentation: No PowerPoint presentation was used during this session.
Morning Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Measuring Social Impact: Aligning Strategy and Assessment
The goal of this workshop is for participants to understand how assessment can be seamlessly integrated into strategic goals for the betterment of a nonprofit's mission. Too often nonprofits are placed in the onerous position to develop assessments for grant reporting. This process of the tail wagging the dog suppresses the highest value of assessment, managerial decision making. In this session, participants will be introduced to strategic assessment models that align data collection with the goals of the organization.
Key topics covered in the session include:
- Understanding the value of data for decision making
- Aligning data collection with organization goals
- Designing data collection systems
- Designing effective surveys
- Using logic models as a tool for data collection and strategic decision making
The session will be highly engaging with ample opportunities to utilize tools designed to create strategic assessment plans.
Presenter: Scott Helm, associate director, of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC, and director of the Executive M.P.A. program at the UMKC Bloch School of Management.
Presentation: Handout1 & Handout2 & PowerPoint
Session B: Building a Culture of Fundraising
Raising more money tops the priority list of almost every nonprofit organization. Barriers exist to engaging board and staff members in fundraising activities; even though research shows that organizations raise more, when the board is actively involved. Smart organizations work to create a "culture of fundraising" where everyone is engaged and organizational systems are established to support donors.
The session will cover:
- Defining a "Culture of Fundraising"
- Culture change as it applies to fundraising
- Overcoming negative attitudes toward fundraising
- How to maximize board and staff involvement in fundraising
- The role of the executive and staff
- Organizational alignment to achieve fundraising success
The session is ideal for agency chief executives and chief development officers.
Presenter: Barry Rosenberg, professor of practice, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
Presentation and Handout: PowerPoint & Handout
Session C: Keeping Them in the Game! Strategies for Building and Sustaining Board Member Engagement
One of the most vexing of challenges confronting many nonprofit executives and board leaders is that of getting and keeping their governing board members engaged in the work of the board. This interactive session will share insights and strategies from both colleagues and research on how to effectively build and sustain active board member involvement in the work of the board. It's not rocket science, but it does take some work on our part, and this session will highlight ideas, share strategies, and explore tools that can be used to help us build and sustain productive board member engagement.
Key topics covered in the session include:
- What does it mean for a board member to be fully engaged?
- What contributes to strong board member engagement and performance?
- What are some of the most useful strategies for keeping members engaged?
- What are some of the most common disablers of member engagement?
- What have your colleagues tried to enhance engagement and what has worked?
Presenter: David Renz, director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC
Presentation: Powerpoint
Session D: Nonprofit Success: Achieve Impact through Advocacy
Advocacy is more than lobbying. Measures of a successful nonprofit include one which engages in outreach for its mission and for the issues impacting clients and community. This thought-provoking, skills training workshop is designed to increase understanding of advocacy including lobbying. The program includes specific information about the Missouri legislative process, key relationship building tips, implementation steps and board engagement strategies.
Presenters: D. Scott Penman, principal, Penman & Winton Consulting Group, Barbara Levin, board president, Nonprofit Missouri; coordinator, Alliance for Building Capacity at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University and Paul Kincaid, president, Kincaid Communications, LLC
Presentation: PowerPoint1 and PowerPoint2
Session E: Inclusion Makes the World Rebound
Want results? Try a fresh take on exploring cultural dynamics and using a justice/equity lens. Whether you provide social services, advocate for change, build the knowledge base, or use other approaches, it can make all the difference to connect your work to a broader vision of a vibrant society. With that connection in mind, this workshop is designed to power up your work. The emphasis will be on rethinking the connection of mission-to-strategy, and leadership-to-community to better generate and use resources. Through identifying tools for assessment and action planning, participants can expect to leave with practical means of inspiring and working with colleagues to transform practice.
Presenter: Brigette Rouson, principal, Rouson Associates
Presentation and Handout: PowerPoint & Handout
Lunch Plenary
Funders Panel
Brian Fogle, president and CEO, Community Foundation of Ozarks will lead a panel discussion with several regional funding leaders on their perspectives of philanthropic giving trends.
Panelists Include:
Andres M. Dominguez, program officer, Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
Phillip J. Hanson, president & CEO, Truman Heartland Community Foundation
Lauren Mattleman Hoopes, executive director, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
Presentation: No PowerPoint presentation was used during this session.
Afternoon Concurrent Sessions (Tools for Trends in Practice)
Session F: New Standards in Financial Reporting
Join RubinBrown's Not-for-Profit specialists as we discuss the impact of the recently issued FASB exposure draft, Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities.
Topics Covered
- Highlights of the key proposed changes
- Review of the proposed updated financial statement and footnote presentation format
- Comments received by the FASB during exposure draft comment period
Presenters: Sharon Latimer, CPA, partner in RubinBrown's Assurance Services Group and the leader of RubinBrown's Kansas City Not-for-Profit practice and Colleen McDole, CPA, manager in RubinBrown's Assurance Services Group.
Presentation: PowerPoint
Session G: Non-Profit Compensation - An Oxymoron?
Join the managing principal of OMNI Employment Management Services as he offers perspectives on the following compensation points nonprofit organizations should be paying attention to:
- Demystifying compensation strategies for non-profit organizations. What's everybody else doing?
- Compensation & motivation - Where these concepts get disconnected and why.
- Contracts, commitments, and 'creative compensation' - Where things start to get dangerous.
Presenter: Michael Tracy, managing principal, OMNI Employment Management Services
Presentation: PowerPoint
Session H: Quick and Easy Ways to Ruin (or build) Your Organization's Image
Nonprofit organizations address community needs. To accomplish their missions, they must have the trust and support of community members. It can take years to build that trust, but only seconds to have it ruined.
In this session, you'll learn basic steps organizations of all sizes should be taking to develop and maintain a strong public image with individuals, businesses, and the media.
This session will cover:
- Shaping and sharpening your message
- Building credibility
- Issues management
- Working with the media
Presenter: Dan Prater, founder & director, Center for Nonprofit Leadership, Drury University
Presentation: PowerPoint
Session I: Fundraising Planning
The goal of this session is for participants to understand how to engagingly create and communicate a comprehensive and integrated development plan to enhance their current fundraising efforts.
Emphasis will be placed on:
- Analysis of current fundraising metrics and efficiencies;
- Gift charts to demonstrate the feasibility of current and future fundraising goals;
- Strategy alignment to near-, medium-, and long-term fundraising goals; and
- Simple monthly reports to provide updates to your ED and the Board as well as to enhance projection accuracy.
At the conclusion of the session participants will understand how to compile and present an integrated development plan, a social enterprise business plan and a development office business plan to guide their work and effectively demonstrate their efficiency, careful planning and enhanced stewardship to would-be funders.
Note: Topics covered in other sessions will further assist participants in authoring missing elements or enhancing others within their current plan. This session is intentionally designed to leverage content from the full workshop.
Presenter: Diane Marty, founder and principal, Faire Consulting LLC, and adjunct professor in the Nonprofit Leadership Studies Division at the Rockhurst University Helzberg School of Management.
Presentation: PowerPoint
Closing Session & Next Steps
Mayor Sly James, City of Kansas City, Missouri
David Renz, director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC, Barbara Levin, board president, Nonprofit Missouri
Presentation: No PowerPoint presentation was used during this session.
Complications and Conundrums: The New Era of Research on Nonprofit Governance and the Work of Boards (April 23-24, 2015)
Local Governance Workshop (April 22, 2015): Growing Strong Boards for a New Era
"Leading with Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices"
Vernetta Walker, JD, Vice President of Programs and Chief Governance Officer, BoardSource
[Leading With Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices Report (January 2015)]
"Overcoming the Issues that Challenge the Effectiveness of Nonprofit Boards of Directors"
Yvonne Harrison, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, State University of New York - Albany
[Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations promo flyer]
"Strategies for Strengthening Your Board: Growing A Culture of Effectiveness"
David Renz, Ph.D., Director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC
Plenary Addresses
"Fast Forward: Building Out from BoardSource's Leading with Intent Survey Findings"
Vernetta Walker, Vice President and Chief Governance Officer, BoardSource
[Leading With Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices Report (January 2015)]
"Staying Alive and Staying Free: The Challenges of Nonprofit Governance in South Africa."
Christopher Tapscott, School of Government, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Paper Presentations
Max Freund
Governance Mental Models: Board member interpretation and decision making on strategic challenges
Fredrik Andersson, Avery Edenfield
Expanding Nonprofit Governance Research: Linking Actor-Network Theory with the Dominant Coalitions Perspective
[Presentation] / [Paper]
Skylar Rolf
Founder-CEO & Board of Director Influence on Nonprofit Organizational Performance
Yvonne Harrison
How Do Boards Make Decisions About Changing Their Governance Practices? Data From a Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Performance Assessment on Nonprofit Board Governance Effectiveness
Douglas Ihrke, Nathan Grasse, E. Grant MacDonald
Board Development Practices on Wisconsin and Nova Scotia Boards: Is There a Difference?
Memo Diriker, Mark Edney, Kathleen Momme
From Data to Results: Can Current and Future Nonprofit Governance Research be Successfully Translated into Managerial Action in Nonprofit Organizations?
Michael Ford, Douglas Ihrke
Active Charter School Board Member Governance and Performance: Perceptions and Reality
[Presentation] / [Paper]
Judy Freiwirth, Mary Hiland, Mike Burns, Gayle Gifford, Debra Beck
Perspectives on Board Chairs: How they Prepare for and Perceive their Role in Relation to the Board, Community, and CEO
Mirae Kim, Sheela Pandey, Sanjay K. Pandey
Does Mission Matter for Social Enterprise? A Study of US Arts and Culture Organizations
[Presentation] / [Paper]
Charles M. Gray
Mission, Strategy, and Impact Assessment: The Welfare Economics of Governance
Kathleen Garman, John Tyler, Evan Absher, Anthony Luppino
Threat, Opportunity, Neither or Both? Why Those Who Govern Nonprofits Need to Understand Hybrid Forms and What They Need to Understand About Them
Melissa M. Stone, Francie Ostrower
Researching Organizational Governance in the Context of Hybridity: Critical Questions and Promising Approaches
Judith L. Millesen
A Group Dynamics Approach to Understanding Governance in Multi-Organizational Alliances
Nonprofit Success: Leading in a Dynamic Landscape - 2014 Nonprofit Leadership Conference (November 13, 2014)
Opening Plenary
Keynote Address "The Dynamic Landscape"
Tim Delaney, president and CEO, National Council of Nonprofits
Observations by: Mary Hinde, president and CEO, Community Foundation of Northwest Missouri and Michelle Hogerty, Chief Operating Officer, United Way of Greater Kansas City and Wray Clay, vice president, United Way of Greater St. Louis
Presentation: PowerPoint
Morning Concurrent Sessions sponsored by Commerce Bank
Session A: Capitalizing on the Power of an Engaged Board
Board leaders and nonprofit executives alike often lament that nonprofits do not fully engage the members of their boards, much less capitalize on what they bring to the table. How fully engaged is your board? And how well are you capitalizing on the time, talent, and treasure that your board and its members have to offer? This interactive session presents an opportunity to share insights on board engagement and performance and explore the implications of recent research and practice on how effective boards are refining their operations to gain the most from their members.
Presenter: David Renz, director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC
Presentation: PowerPoint
Session B: Nonprofit Communications
Nonprofit organizations have impact only when people understand the importance of their work - not just what they do, but why they do it. Without a clear, compelling message, organizations get lost in the sea of competitors, missing valuable connections.
In this session, you'll learn the simple steps every organization should take (and ones to avoid) to shape its message and how to use that message to engage and retain donors and volunteers.
Presenter: Dan Prater, founder & director, Center for Nonprofit Communication, Drury University
Presentation: PowerPoint
Session C: Government Contracting: From 30,000 Feet to Your Bottom Line
Is your organization ready to take advantage of the new government grant reforms that will change how governments at all levels - federal, state, and local - treat nonprofit service providers? The OMB Uniform Guidance that goes into effect in December mandates that nonprofits performing work for governments via grants receive reimbursement toward their indirect (overhead) costs when federal discretionary funds are used by governments at all levels. Tim Delaney will discuss the advocacy strategies that created this significant policy shift, and share what you can do to protect it, take advantage of it, and both improve your relationships with governments and strengthen your bottom line.
Presenter: Tim Delaney, president and CEO, National Council of Nonprofits
Presentation: PowerPoint
Additional Resources:
- Overview: What Does It Cost to Deliver Your Nonprofit's Mission?
- New OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs: What It Does and Why It Matters
- Streamlining Report: Investing for Impact: Indirect Costs Are Essential for Success
- Special Report: Toward Common Sense Contracting: What Taxpayers Deserve
Session D: Effective Financial Leadership
Nonprofit boards and executives know well the demand that boards exercise fiduciary oversight and ensure financial accountability. Surprising as some find it, however, there is an even more important financial role for the board, that of financial leadership! More significant to enabling organizational success than monitoring and oversight, financial leadership is the collaborative process by which a board and key executives create the financial model and value proposition that enable the organization to perform at its best. This session will provide a framework and information that executives and board leaders can use to understand the organization's current state of financial development and learn how, working together, the board and executive leadership can work to plan for the organization's next generation of financial sustainability and impact.
Presenter: Lisa A. Gioia, CPA, MPA, provides accounting and tax consulting services exclusively to not-for-profit organizations and Senior Fellow of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
Presentation: PowerPoint
Luncheon Plenary
Address by William A. Schambra director, Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, Hudson Institute
Presentation: Nonprofits, Community and the Whole Person
Afternoon Concurrent Sessions sponsored by RubinBrown
Session I: Measuring the Impact
The goal of this workshop is for participants to become familiar with and understand the concept and context of social impact. Participants will also discuss and learn about the utility of various methods and indicators for measuring social impact and be able to communicate their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Presenter: Scott Helm, director of the UMKC Bloch School of Management's Executive MPA program and senior fellow of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
Presentation: PowerPoint
Session J: What's Next for Philanthropy? Missouri Funders' Perspectives
Moderator: Brian Fogle, president and CEO, Community Foundation of Ozarks
Panelists: Mary Hinde, CEO of Community Foundation of Northwest Missouri
Gloria Jackson-Leathers, director of the Kansas City Civic Engagement program at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Debbie Wilkerson, president and CEO, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Presentation: No PowerPoint presentation was used during this session.
Session K: Advocacy 101: We Can Be Successful!
Learn to maximize the impact of your advocacy efforts. Program includes specific information about the Missouri legislative process and key relationship building and communication strategies.
Presenters: Casey Millburg, Penman & Winton Consulting Group
Paul Kincaid, Kincaid Communications, LLC
Presentation: PowerPoint
Session L: The Affordable Care Act: Updates and Impacts on Missouri
This session will provide an overview on the implementation of the ACA in Missouri. Time will be spent highlighting the impact of the health insurance marketplace and the status of Medicaid expansion in Missouri. Additional information will be offered on the impact of financial and delivery reform of the health system on nonprofits throughout the state.
Presenter: Ryan Barker, vice president of Health Policy at Missouri Foundation for Health
Presentation: PowerPoint
Closing Plenary & Next Steps
Address by Jason Kander, Missouri's Secretary of State
Secretary Kander will be discussing his proposed legislation for Missouri's nonprofit sector.
Barbara Levin, board president, Nonprofit Missouri
David Renz, director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC
Presentation: No PowerPoint presentation was used during this session.
Critical Conversations on the Future of Nonprofit Governance (April 4-5, 2013)
Pre-Governance Conference Session: Beyond Fiduciary Oversight: Boards, Governance, and True Financial Leadership (April 3, 2013)
"Beyond Fiduciary Oversight: Financial Leadership Without Micromanagement."
Woods Bowman, Professor Emeritus of DePaul University's Department of Public Affairs and a Senior Fellow with the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC.
Journals Publishing Research on Nonprofit Boards & Governance (PDF)
"Beyond Fiduciary Oversight: Boards, Governance and True Financial Leadership."
Lisa Gioia, CPA, is the principal of her own accounting and consulting firm and a Senior Fellow with the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC, where she teaches financial leadership and management workshops.
"The Board and Strategic Financial Leadership."
David Renz, Director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC and an experienced nonprofit board and management consultant and researcher.
Plenary Addresses
"Getting A Sense of It All: Key Themes and Insights from the Past Decade of Study on Nonprofit Governance and Boards of Directors."
David Renz, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC
Fredrik Andersson, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC
[Presentation] (PDF)
"Governing Cross-Sector Collaborations: Lessons from Research and Practice."
Melissa Stone, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota
[Presentation] (PDF)
Introductory Dialogue Session
Facilitated by Scott Helm and Brent Never
[Summary information will be posted soon]
Dialogue Session
Setting the Agenda: Planning for the Future of Research on Nonprofit Boards and Governance
[Summary information will be posted soon]
Paper Presentations
Public-Nonprofit and Cross Boundary Governance
Carrie Duncan & Megan Schoor -
Talking Across Boundaries: Implications for Governance in Distributed Organizations
[Abstract] (PDF)
Angela Eikenberry & Gerard Wellman -
Governing Nonprofits in Network Governance: The Case of Transportation Policy in Omaha, Nebraska
[Abstract] (PDF)
Board Performance and Effectiveness
Beth Gazley -
Governance and board performance in membership associations
[Abstract] (PDF) | [Handout] (PDF)
Yvonne Harrison & Vic Murray -
The Efficacy of Board Performance Self-Assessment Using the Board Effectiveness Survey Application (BESA)
[Abstract] (PDF)
Douglas Ihrke, Grant MacDonald, Barb Duffy & Nathan Grasse -
Examining Nonprofit Executive Director - Board Relations in Two Countries as they Relate to Perceptions of Board Effectiveness: Executive Director Perspectives
[Abstract] (PDF)
Governance, Revenue Models, and Organizing Logics
Fredrik O. Andersson & Jurgen Willems -
Autonomy and entrepreneurship in nonprofit organizations: Research propositions and governance implications
[Abstract] (PDF)
Hana Bor & Sharon Jones-Eversley -
Strengthening Faith-Based Nonprofit-Business Management Skills without Sacrificing Spiritual and Ethical Integrity
[Abstract] (PDF)
Mike Burns -
Nonprofit Social Enterprise and/or Revenue Generating Ventures: Does Governance Matter?
[Paper Overview] (PDF) | [Abstract] (PDF)
Power, Inclusion and Systems of Governance
Carrie Duncan -
Painting the Governance Landscape: Culture and Power at the Public-Nonprofit Intersection
[Abstract] (PDF)
Judy Freiwirth -
Community Engagement Governance - A New System-Wide Governance Model for Community Impact. A Participatory Action Research Study
[Abstract] (PDF)
Kelly Krawczyk & Michelle Wooddell -
Community Ties in Perspective: The Link Between Grantors and Grantees
[Abstract] (PDF)
Board Development
Christine Cugliari & Terrell Hayes -
Board Member Retention: An Examination of Premature Exits in a Constituency Organized Nonprofit Board
[Abstract] (PDF)
Ola Segnestam Larsson & Johan Hvenmark -
The Board Development Conundrum in Local, Democratically Governed, and Membership-based Nonprofit Organizations
[Abstract] (PDF)
The Nonprofit Quarterly - Special Issues on Governance (Winter 2012)
The Nonprofit Quarterly - Archived Trendcast: New Concepts in Governance and How To Use Them (Listen to Ruth McCambridge and David Renz share thinking from the 2013 biannual conference on nonprofit governance)
Creating a New Normal: Advancing Governance Theory and Practice (April 14-15, 2011)
Pamela Leland "Empowerment versus codependency? Exploring the board-executive director relationship and its connection to good governance." (PDF)
Susan Neustrom "The dyadic relationship between an executive director and board chair during turbulent times." (PDF)
Mark Engle "Decision quality and commitment in association boards: Impacts of cognitive and affective conflict, procedural rationality, and relational practices." (PDF)
Tosha Cantrell-Bruce & Brent Never "Patterns of information consumption by nonprofit boards." (PDF)
Judy Freiwirth "Community Engagement Governance: System-Wide Governance for Community Impact." (PDF)
Erica Clinton, Wendy Hershberger & Brent Never "Informal gender roles on boards: The effect of emotional labor on how boards function." (PDF)
Douglas Ihrke, E. Grant MacDonald, Barbara Duffy & John Paul Finan "The nature of conflict on nonprofit boards." (PDF)
Brent Never, Erin Nemenoff & Jim Doyle "The use of organizational champions: Boards as bridges to resources." (PDF)
Lore Wellens & Marc Jegers "Broadened accountability: A tool for increasing nonprofit organizational effectiveness." (PDF)
Fredrik O. Andersson "Innovation and nonprofit boards: an empirical examination." (PDF)
Chao Guo & Zhibin Zhang "The governance of Chinese nonprofit organizations: A literature review, synthesis and research agenda." (PDF)
Boards in Uncertain Times: Exploring the Implications of Financial, Technological and Generational Change for Nonprofit Governance (April 23-24, 2009)
William Brown, Texas A&M University, Power on Nonprofit Boards: Considering the Influence of the Board Chair (PDF)
Yvonne D. Harrison, Seattle University, Chris Cornforth, The Open University, and Vic Murray, University of Victoria, A Comparison of the Role and Impact of Board Chairs in United Kingdom and North American Nonprofit Organizations (PDF)
Salvatore Alaimo, Grand Valley State University, The Board's Role in Program Evaluation Capacity for Nonprofit Human Service Organizations (PDF)
Fredrik O. Andersson, University of Missouri - Kansas City, The Nonprofit Board as an Entrepreneurial Agent: Challenges and Opportunities (PDF)
Judy Freiwirth, Nonprofit Solutions Associates, Community-Engagement Governance™: A New System-Wide Governance Framework for Community Impact (PDF)
Patricia Bradshaw, York University, Brian Hart, Whitby Mental Health Center, and Glenna Raymond, Whitby Mental Health Centre, Creating Community Governance: A View from the Inside (PDF)
Deborah Balser, University of Missouri - St. Louis, and JoAnn Carmin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Organizational Identity Threats During Leadership Succession (PDF)
Julia E. Classen, University of Minnesota, and Melissa Stone, University of Minnesota, Multi-Generational Governance: Is There Such a Thing? (PDF)
Robert B. Jones, Children's Aid and Family Services, Betsy Vander Velde, The Family Conservancy, Thomas Lengyel, American Humane Association, and Simon Bisson, Starr Commonwealth: A Pathway to Good Governance: Philanthropic Culture and Capacity Building in Local, Community-Based, Family and Child Serving Agencies (PDF)
Nancy T. Kinney, University of Missouri - St. Louis, The Formative Role of Founding Narratives in Community Service Organizations (PDF)
John Pepin, JPA Insight Consulting, Boned Olivier; Hanneke de Bode, John Baker, and Filippo Addarii, Euclid Network: Third Sector Governance and The Obligation of Leadership: Approaches, Issues and Questions for Consideration (PDF)
Networks, Stakeholders and Nonprofit Organization Governance: Whither (Wither?) Boards (April 26-27, 2007)
Stephen R. Block, University of Colorado at Denver - Nonprofit Board Governance: The Relationship Model (PDF)
Patricia Bradshaw, York University - The Dynamics of Nested Governance in Nonprofit Organizations (PDF)
Judy Freiwirth, Nonprofit Solutions Associates, and Maria Elena Letona, Ph.D. - System-Wide Governance: A New Model for Community Empowerment (PDF)
Thomas Jeavons, ARNOVA, and Pamela Leland, University of Delaware - Learning from Failure: Insights from the Life of a Truly Dysfunctional Board (PDF)
Andrew Sparks, University Of Pennsylvania - The Role of Charter School Boards in a Complex Accountability Environment (PDF)
Tao Zhang, and Wei Jie, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade - Current Development and Challenges of Chinese NGOs (PDF)
Tek Nath Dhakal, National Museum of Ethnology - Critical Assessment of Civil Society Governance in Japan and Nepal: A Comparative Study (PDF)
Nancy Kinney, University of Missouri-St. Louis - Boards that count: How board composition relates to resource generation and community representativeness in nonprofit formation. (PDF)
Kelly LeRoux, and Sheri Perry, University of Kansas - The Role of Racial Diversity in Nonprofit Governance: Does a "Representation Mismatch" Influence Stakeholder Orientation? (PDF)
Yvonne Harrison, Seattle University, and Vic Murray, University of Victoria - The Role and Impact of Chairs of Nonprofit Organization Boards of Directors: An Exploratory Study (PDF)
Brian Newton, Case Western Reserve University - Board/CEO Engagement: Bridging the Governance Gap a Qualitative Study of Co-operative Boards and CEOs (PDF)
Stephen Percy, University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Patricia Wyzbinski, Management Cornerstones - Understanding the Governance of Nonprofit Boards of Directors in Metropolitan Milwaukee (PDF)
Judith Millesen, Ohio University - Community Foundations as Philanthropic Catalysts for Change: What's the Board's Role and the Governance Expectations? (PDF)
J. Bart Morrison, Assumption College, and Paul Salipante, Case Western Reserve - Balancing a Neoinstitutional Dilemma: Governing Nonprofit Organizations for Legitimacy and Effectiveness (PDF)
Max Stephenson, and Mary Beth Dunkenberger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Exploring the Rhetorical Foundations of Board Governance: Market-Based Strategies Versus Common Good Claims in Five Nonprofit Organizations (PDF)
Boards and Beyond: Understanding the Changing Realities of Nonprofit Organization Governance (March 31- April 1, 2005)
Stephen R. Block, University of Colorado at Denver - On Nonprofit Board Governance: Do the Heroes Believe in Our Expectations? (PDF)
William A. Brown, Arizona State University - Board Development Practices and High Quality Board Members: Implications for Performance (PDF)
Chris Cornforth, Open University - Developing a 'Government' Strategy for Improving Governance in the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK (PDF)
Michael G. Daigneault, DeLeon & Stang - The Nonprofit Board Secretary: A New Role (PDF)
Mel Gill, Synergy Associates - Prospecting For Practical Methodologies To Examine the Links Between The Performance Of Governing Boards And The Effectiveness Of Their Organizations (PDF)
Owen Heiserman, Mid-Iowa Community Action - Boards Behaving Badly: Observations from the Field (PDF)
Diane J. Johnson, Mmapeu Consulting - The Cultural Conundrum: One Family Foundation's Struggle To "Walk the Talk" In Creating Progressive Social Change & Developing an Inclusive Board & Staff
Pamela Leland, University of Delaware - Faith into Practice: An Exploration into the Board Development Practices of Faith-Based Organizations (PDF)
John E. McClusky, University of Missouri-St. Louis - Conceptualizing Three Functions Of NPO Boards: Rethinking Prescriptions About Board And Staff Roles And Relations
Judith L. Millesen, Ohio University - Maintaining Balance in Complex Environments: Negotiating the Multiple Expectations of Community Foundation Governance
Jill Mordaunt, Open University - The Dilemmas and Paradoxes of User-Led Governance: the Case of the Oak Children's Centre (PDF)
Vic Murray, University of Victoria - Prescriptive And Research Based Approaches To Nonprofit Boards: Linking Parallel Universes (PDF)
Max Stephenson Jr., Elisabeth Chaves, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - The Nature Conservancy, the Press and the Social Construction of Accountability (PDF)
Susan S. Stepleton, St. Louis University - Ultimate Accountability: Nonprofit Boards And Executive Transition (PDF)
Ann Williams, Jean B. Tyler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Continuity and Change: A Case Study of Policy Governance (PDF)
Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness and Performance: Challenges and Advances in Theory and Practice (April 19-20, 2002) (PDF)
A Summary of the Proceedings of the Third Annual Regional Leadership Conference (June 16-17, 2000) (PDF)
A Summary of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Regional Leadership Conference (June 18-19, 1999) (PDF)
A Summary of the Proceedings of the First Annual Regional Leadership Conference (1998) (PDF)


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A well known Indian corporate has come with a series of advertisement that portrays individual achievements, work opportunities provided and creation of innovative technology as the values they hold in promoting their mining activities. In challenging a stand that technology brings only positive change and not looking for best practices in treatment and management of residue and the environmental ramification of mining and its containment, the presentation of material becomes crucial. Advertisements generally are for 45 seconds and convey powerful messages that create a change in attitude – which is the most difficult change psychologically – they create needs, like 'fair/thin is beautiful' and gets you the work assignment of your choice! Implanting an idea at intervals in the mind results in what is termed as automatic behavior in looking for these products and vicarious joining the 'in crowd'. When an advertisement sets the values of 'desired' behavior and can undo the work of awareness building and gender sensitization the impact of the media for change is largely ignored. The effectiveness of an ad to create 'new' behavior, [usually for products] makes change happen [safe sex, polio drops and even to sneeze or cough with decorum] and cause the cessation of undesired behavior [tobacco usage, domestic violence] is hardly used by development workers. The effectiveness of social networking was proved in India in the recent times with the unexpected and massive turnout at anti-corruption rallies across age, caste, class and sex barriers. The anti corruption movement proved that social media especially the use of facebook, twitter and SMS was effective in drawing people together as one for a cause – a shadow of the gatherings that swept through the middle eastern countries. The challenge is to be able to fund an advertisement cycle for development purposes that focuses on the 'doable', use humour/ridicule to address the impact of discrimination and marginalization and accelerate the process of change. Mindfulness, kindness, awareness of others and helpfulness needs the occasional nudge for fair actions and behavior. Facebook, twitter and SMS bring like minded individuals together for a cause and to form networks to influence policy and decision making maybe the barrier of seeing ads as a purely commercial venture can be altered and tapped into for the efficacy of its reach and its ability to influence thinking and behavior. Prejudice has strongly been ingrained by the use of mechanisms of repugnance and shame resulting in premature cognitive commitments. Taking for example the widespread use of contract staff especially in services like construction work, housekeeping in corporate offices and households, manual labor, results in a system whereby women and the economically disadvantaged are given salaries disproportionate to what is received by contractors. Women especially in housekeeping earn as little as half their stated salaries. They sign for the full amount and receive half and the rest is pocketed by the contractor because of the paucity of available work and the fact that there are over 50 claimants ready to work in these unfair circumstances.Public information through mainline and regional channels may yet be another way to mainstream change.
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Hi Rita, nice written article. Yes, social networking is the key to empowerment and freedom for women to speak out and share with others..
For future writings, will suggest you use paragraphs and spaces to break up your article so as to make it easy to read and keep the reader wanting to read on. Thumbs up!
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Hi Rita, I like the idea of using public service announcements to address issues like discrimination. Creating awareness is a great start.
Hi Rita, I agree with you that change in attitudes is the most difficult of changes and is an enormous challenge. Good luck in overcoming challenges to "fund an advertisement cycle." Keep the conversation going on Pulsewire, it's a good idea!
Hi Rita.
Thank you for shedding light on these very important issues. Please continue to share your experiences and your story!

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Brian Jarvis might have the perfect description of what it's like to be an independent musician.
"Its basically like throwing yourself to the wolves every day and hoping someone bites and gives you a chance," he said.
Jarvis, a Springfield native who has been toiling in the Hartford music scene for the last few years has several "indie" success stories to his credit. He has a tour booked up and down the East Coast and his recent release "Beautifully Broken" debuted at No. 69 on the iTunes Rock Chart.
"Plan and do your homework," said Jarvis about the chart success. "I wouldn't dare try to chart on a day when bands like John Mayer, Matt Nathanson or Green River Ordinance are dropping records. So I found a Tuesday that worked for me and gave myself about a month lead time to promote. After that it's just getting your hands dirty by texting, calling, emailing, and social networking until you pass out."
Jarvis, who has dates booked from Manchester, N.H. to Panama City, Fla., said that getting high profile gigs is similarly hard work.
"Booking yourself is an incredibly hard process," he said. "Its all about delicately massaging your connections and not always trying to get something from them and knowing the right time to ask for favors. Some of the shows I have booked have taken as long as three years to track down."
Jarvis' love of music came from his late father and while he initially leaned toward a Dave Matthews sound, his latest release shows a shift toward more of a singer-songwriter approach. The songs are earnest, his voice is strong, and both the sentiment and message are genuine.
It's all part of making a concerted effort to live the dream and when the going gets tough, Jarvis has a fairly poignant reminder of his motivation tattooed on his wrist.
"I had my father's initials tattooed on my wrist after he passed, along with the logo of the inlays of the first guitar he bought me to remind to stay focused," Jarvis said. "I made a promise to him when he was sick in the hospital that I would give it everything I had. I am trying to follow through on this promise."
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On Wednesday December 12, 2012 in front of a crowd of 800 citizens in Portland, Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality LOST all of its credibility as a state agency with respect to the following claims on its website:
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is a regulatory agency whose job is to protect the quality of Oregon's environment.
DEQ's mission is to be a leader in restoring, maintaining and enhancing the quality of Oregon's air, land and water.
DEQ works collaboratively with Oregonians for a healthy, sustainable environment.
It was abundantly clear that DEQ is a spineless bureaucracy without the backbone and leadership to carry out its primary mission of protecting the quality of Oregon's environment.
DEQ director Dick Pedersen has instructed his staff to place permit rules compliance above fundamental mission objectives. Inexplicably, governor John Kitzhaber appears to approve of Pedersen's misplaced priorities.
Unfortunately for governor Kitzhaber, DEQ director Pedersen and Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality, to place bureaucratic permitting practices above the essential mission of DEQ is to not just abrogate DEQ's fundamental mission and responsibility to the people of Oregon but to effectively destroy the very essence and trust in the institution. Oregonians have every right to hold governor John Kitzhaber and his subordinate, DEQ director Dick Pedersen, directly responsible.
A permit to build a coal transport facility at Port Morrow would be like a prescription to inject cancer cells into the largest artery of the Pacific Northwest body politic, the Columbia river. This metaphor is clearly understood by John Kitzhaber, M.D. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Dr. John MUST NOT WAIT until the patient arrives in the emergency room. Treat this preventable illness NOW.
Oregon's DEQ CANNOT issue any kind of permit to facilitate the transport of coal through Oregon and maintain its claim that it is "protecting the quality of Oregon's environment, maintaining and enhancing the quality of Oregon's air, land and water and working collaboratively with Oregonians for a healthy, sustainable environment."
If DEQ director Dick Pedersen is unwilling to publicly proclaim that the mission and job of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality trumps any coal permitting process and that he will deny any and all permits relating to facilitating coal export on the grounds that issuing any coal facility permit is contrary to the job and mission of the DEQ then governor Kitzhaber must fire Dick Pedersen immediately and replace him with someone who will.
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COLUMBIA South Carolina pays Frank Martin a handsome sum of money to believe he can change its floundering mens basketball program. And that is, sort of, where it starts with belief.
South Carolina vs. Auburn WHEN: 1:47 p.m. WHERE: Colonial Life Arena, Columbia TV: SEC Network RADIO: RECORDS: USC 10-4 (0-1 SEC); Auburn 7-7 (1-0 SEC) NOTES: Auburns leading scorer is senior guard Frankie Sullivan, who averages 17.2 points. Junior guard Chris Denson was academically ineligible for the first semester, then scored 13, 17, 20, 18 and eight points after returning, while shooting 52.1 percent. But he hasnt played in the past two games because of a stress fracture in his foot that will sideline him for a month.
So a day after the Gamecocks opened their Southeastern Conference schedule with a 56-54 loss at Mississippi State, another struggling team, Martin was back in Columbia, speaking optimistically, almost defiantly, on his radio call-in show, as he turned his focus toward todays home game against Auburn.
We are not going to take a backseat to anybody, he told host Andy Demetra. I dont care who the team is, where they come from, or what theyve won. Were going to go nose-to-nose and get as dirty as we got to get, to figure out a way to go beat whoevers in front of us.
It sounds like coach-speak, and it is. But really, what else is Martin supposed to say? His role this season is, in many ways, a salesman. He is trying to sell the notion that USC basketball can win. Sell it to fans, to recruits and even to his current players, who are used to losing.
Martin has repeatedly said change will not happen overnight. Thats why USC gave him a six-year contract worth $12.3 million. He knows this is a transition season for the Gamecocks. He knows they lack what it takes to win consistently in the SEC. They are simply not very talented, and in college basketball, recruiting talented players is a coachs single most important task. Do it, and you will usually win. Dont, and you wont, regardless of your blackboard acumen.
Martin is already making progress in recruiting. He signed Sindarius Thornwell, the No. 11 small forward and No. 43 overall recruit in the Class of 2013, according to Rivals. He just welcomed a transfer from Villanova, Tyrone Johnson, who was the No. 11 point guard and No. 52 recruit in the Class of 2011. Johnson can practice with the Gamecocks now and will be a redshirt sophomore when he is eligible to play for them after next seasons first semester.
To sweeten Martins sell for the future and maintain the current sanity of his own purpose-driven mind Martin would certainly like to win some conference games this season. The Gamecocks went 2-14 in the SEC last season their fewest league wins since they were 2-10 in the Metro Conference in 1985-86.
Wednesdays loss at Mississippi State does not necessarily portend another disastrous SEC record, but it was unmistakably a winnable game that USC let slip away. The Gamecocks turned the ball over 24 times, leading to 28 points for the Bulldogs. Few teams are good enough to win with such dreadful turnover numbers. USC is not one of those teams.
Now Martin prepares for another beatable team, Auburn. The Tigers, Mississippi State, Georgia and USC could all very well battle to stay out of the SEC basement. That bodes well for Martin as he tries to reach the six SEC regular season victories that would guarantee the Gamecocks of not having a fourth straight losing overall record.
But Auburn has played relatively well lately. The Tigers are 5-2 in their past seven games, after starting 2-5. Their losses in the past seven games: Winthrop by seven points and at No. 12 Illinois by two. In its last two games, Auburn beat Florida State by six and LSU by five.
Like USC, Auburn and third-year coach Tony Barbee are trying to build for the future. The Tigers also have three consecutive losing seasons during which they went 15-33 in the SEC, two wins better than USC.


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In this youth lacrosse drill Glen Ridge (NJ) High School Assistant Coach, Paul Schwern, teaches players how to cradle with one hand while protecting their stick from a defender.
One-Handed Cradle Drill
Athlete Movement: Players start in a single file line facing a cone about ten yards away. The first player up will cradle with one hand while running toward the cone. A defender is positioned at the cone to throw checks at the ball handler. Upon reaching the cone, the ball handler must switch hands and change direction to return to the end of the line.
Teaching Points: The key is for the ball carrier to use their body to protect their stick from the defender.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Gov. Nikki Haley is asking that President Obama declare almost half of South Carolina a federal disaster area following last month's winter storm that caused tens of millions of dollars in damage and cut power to hundreds of thousands.
Haley says that damages and storm response costs suffered by governments and electric cooperatives are in excess of $54 million. She's asking that 21 of the state's 46 counties be made eligible for federal disaster assistance.
The state Forestry Commission has scheduled a Wednesday news conference at the Statehouse to discuss damage to the state's forests. Officials have already said damage will exceed the almost $100 million to the state's forestlands during the winter storm of 2004.
Last month's storm also resulted in an estimated $15 million in private insurance claims.
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