Building Nonprofit Capacity
Building Nonprofit Capacity In Southern New Jersey Lunch & Workshop
May 9, 2006
11:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Rowan University Ballroom
• Event Registration
To register for Building Nonprofit
Capacity Lunch & Workshop on May 9, 2006 please download the Registration
Form now.
(PDF File)
Please mail Form & Payment to:
NPDC Capacity Building Luncheon, c/o
United Way of Gloucester County, Attn: Becky Corbin
454 Crown Point
Rd., Thorofare, NJ 08086
• Event Directions and Parking
Free parking in LOT A. Lot A is the first lot on the left if coming down Rt 322 from Rt 55 right after entering the campus.
For directions please, click
here...
• Workshop and Funders Panel Info.
Please click here for
detailed information about the Workshop and Funders Panel.
(PDF File)
The event is sponsored by the
Center for Innovation
and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at Rowan
University in collaboration with the Volunteer Center of Gloucester
County, the United Way of Gloucester County, WPH Consulting Group and the Southern New
Jersey Professional Players Association.
Web site and collateral materials sponsored by all-outMedia,LLC.
In the business of "doing good," the question of what it takes to be a great organization is often unasked and unanswered. Executive directors must be resourceful in meeting the needs of their constituents, generating enough income to keep programs running and accomplish all of the above while keeping board members engaged and informed. Board members often feel stymied by the pull of fund-raising and operational demands that distract them from their passion of "making a difference" in the community.
Corporate leaders and individual philanthropists make generous investments in nonprofit organizations that serve a diverse group of people and institutions. Yet, a sizable portion of their contributions often funds overhead expenses. The Nonprofit Development Center (NPDC) of Southern New Jersey is a new organization that provides shared space, equipment, ideas, resources and training for nonprofit executives , staff and board members. It was formed to increase donors' "social return on investment" and to stimulate new sources of philanthropy in this region.
The NPDC is a product of the cooperation and leverage of resources from nonprofits, businesses, government and higher education. Four teams of 11 students supervised by professors from various academic disciplines at Rowan University completed a business plan, designed a logo and are in the midst of completing a video and strategic plan to propel the NPDC forward. It exemplifies of the value of Service Learning and the potential for Social Entrepreneurship to facilitate community development. It also demonstrates the entrepreneurial zeal of a committed Advisory Board that dedicated hundreds of volunteer hours to create the NPDC.
The May 9 event is designed to recognize the diverse resources that created the NPDC, to encourage continued nonprofit collaboration and utilization of Service Learning opportunities and to generate resources for the NPDC through sponsorship support.
• The Capacity Building Lunch Description
The day will begin at 11:30 AM with a networking lunch. The audience
will consist of nonprofit executive directors and board members,
corporate sponsors and 50 invited corporate guests. Senator Stephen Sweeney will make keynote remarks that relate
to State legislation affecting nonprofit organizations.
The lunch will conclude with a presentation introducing the NPDC
as a new community resource. A schedule of future training workshops
and resource sharing opportunities will be presented.
The cost for the lunch is $25.
The lunch will be followed at 1:15 PM - 3:30 PM at by two workshop
tracks with following topics: Effective Grassroots Advocacy (Andrew
Sinclair — Princeton Public Affairs Group), Legal Issues for Nonprofits
, "Creating an Effective Marketing Communications Plan...on a Shoestring Budget"
(Michael Willmann - WMSH Marketing Communications), Building a Diversified
Funding Base (Sam Leone, NJ Economic Development Authority and other
panelists to be confirmed), Financial Controls and Procedures Best Practices (Ken Ditmar,
CPA), and Recruiting and Retaining the "Ultimate Board Member" (Judy
Weaver and Theresa DiVietro).
The registration fee for attending the workshops and Funders
Panel is $10.
• The Funders Panel Description
The day will conclude with a Funders Panel
with representatives from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Wachovia Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - moderated by Nina Stack, the President of the Council of New Jersey
Grantmakers from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM.
Time
will be reserved for question and answer session. Cookies and coffee
will be served.
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