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Conference Schedule and Sessions

Joint Lunch: Forces for Good with Leslie Crutchfield

Friday Plenary: Building a Stronger Nonprofit Sector with Jon Pratt and Marcia Avner

Thursday Sessions

  • Five Lenses for Educating & Assessing Cultural Competence
  • Engaging the Board in Financial Leadership
  1. Presentation
  • E-mail EQ: Tips to Tap the Emotional Brain
  1. Presentation
  • The Nonprofit Niche on Voter Engagement: You Make a Difference!
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  • Telling Your Story to Make a Difference: Essential Skills for Advocates, Champions and Spokespersons
  1. Handout
  • Tapping into Talent: Engaging Volunteers in Higher Responsibility Roles
  1. Presentation
  • The Bored Board: Make Your Meetings More Meaningful
  • Cultivating Donors across Generations:  Proven Strategies from the Field
  1. Handout
  • The Engagement Pyramid – Building Meaningful Relationships from the Ground Up!
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  • Developing Your Web and Social Media Properties: A Checklist
  1. Presentation (Google Doc)
  • Leaning Into Leadership: Uncovering Clues to Your Inspired Vision
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  • Readiness for Realignment: Preparing for the Journey
  1. Presentation
  • Rural Ideas in Action
  1. Presentation
  • Supervising for Employee Engagement
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  • Constitutional Amendments – Minnesota’s New Policy-Making Reality
  1. Handout
  • Engagement as a Path to Healthy Change
  1. Presentation

Friday Sessions

  • What Makes an Excellent Nonprofit? Seeking Input on Nonprofit Best Practices
  • Benchmarking for Communications Effectiveness
  1. Presentation
  • Bringing Issues and ' to Life through Video
  • Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Career through Academic Programs
  1. Handout
  • Daring to Lead 2011 Findings and Implications: A Special Session for Nonprofit Leaders
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  • Copyright and Trademark Basics
  • Weddings, Birthdays, Races and more! Making Fundraising Social with GiveMN
  1. Presentation
  • Fact-Based Fundraising
  • LawHelpMN.org: Free Legal Resources and Referrals for Low-Income Minnesotans
  1. Presentation
  • Criminal Records – Leading the Way in Fair Hiring
  1. Presentation
  • Nonprofit Leadership Programming
  1. Handout
  2. Handout
  • When Volunteers Run the Show: Sharing Leadership Roles in All-Volunteer and Small Nonprofits
  • Taking the Pain out of Transitions
  1. Presentation
  • On Board: How Young Board Members Can Increase Board Effectiveness
  • Keeping the Roof Up and Your Costs Down
  1. Presentation
  • Social Enterprise and the Ties that Bind: Moving Beyond an Exclusive Reliance on Philanthropy
  • Building a Leadership Pipeline
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  • Assessing Advocacy Efforts? Yes, It Is Possible!
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  • The Weaving of Social and Economic Determinants of Health with the Thread of Equity
  1. Presentation
  • Turning Data Dust into Fundraising Gold
  1. Presentation (Prezi)
  2. Presentation
  • The Leadership of Performance Management
  • Strategic Communication Planning and Action: Setting Priorities, Being Proactive and Improving Relationships
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  3. Handout
  4. Handout
  • Developing Leaders Differently: The Payoff for You and Your Organization
  • It’s a Plan, Not a Pipedream: Implementing Strategic Plans for Organizational Success
  • A Board Development Toolbox: Audit, Recruitment, Training and Support
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  3. Handout
  • Why and What to Evaluate?
  • Bonding your Impact: How Human Capital Performance Bonds could affect the Nonprofit Sector
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  3. Handout
  • Tweeting in the Public Interest: The New Era of Social Media and Influencing Public Policy
  • Meet the New Boss - Ain't the Same as the Old Boss
  1. Presentation
  • Development and Communications: Teamwork is Everything
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  3. Handout
  4. Handout
  5. Handout
  6. Handout
  7. Video
  8. Video
  • Leveraging Partnerships to Maximize Impact
  • Tribal Philanthropy: Building Communities through Native Giving and Reciprocity
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout
  • Diversity and Inclusion in the Nonprofit Sector
  1. Presentation
  2. Handout

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I couldn't have asked for any better opportunity to network and discover needed resources. It exceeded my expectations and the energy in the attendees was contagious!

- Denise Hauge, Grains for Health Foundation/ University of Minnesota