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Making Nonprofits Successful
NPDCSNJ WORKSHOP SEries for NPO Managers and board members
2009-2010 Workshops:
The following is an overview of upcoming 2009-2010 workshops offered by the NPDC.
Click on the Module title for a session overview
• Module I: Grant Writing Made Easy: Get Your Share!
• Module II:Good Governance: Enhancing Your Board's Leadership
• Module III: New Social Media
• Module IV: Social Entrepreneurship
• Event Registration
The cost for Good Governance is $40 per person for members of NPDCSNJ members and $50 for non-members
Organizations registering more than three individuals are eligible for a 10% group discount.
• Presenters:
Helena Kosoff of Springfield Township School District will present Module I
Sonia Stamm of the Nonprofit Center at LaSalle will present Module II
Michael Willmann of WMSH Marketing Communications will present Module III
Robert D'Intino of Rowan University will present Module IV
• Event Directions
Module II will take place at the South Jersey Tech Park in Mullica Hill, NJ. The program will run from 9:00am - 11:00 am on Thursday, December 3rd.
Registration Form or Register Online
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.
Archives
Presentation to Nonprofit Development Center of Southern New
Jersey
• CPAC: The
Community Planning & Advocacy Council, (Power
Point)
• The Wachovia Regional Foundation, February 15, 2007 (Power
Point)
• The Pennsylvania Cultural Data
Project (PACDP), (PDF)
Building Nonprofit Capacity In Southern New Jersey Lunch & Workshop
May 9, 2006
• The Capacity Building Lunch Description
This day began with a networking lunch. The audience
consisted of nonprofit executive directors and board members,
corporate sponsors and 50 invited corporate guests. Senator Stephen Sweeney made keynote remarks that relate
to State legislation affecting nonprofit organizations.
The lunch concluded with a presentation introducing the NPDC
as a new community resource.
The lunch was followed by two workshop
tracks with the 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 Funders Panel Description
The day concluded with a Funders Panel
consisting of 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.
The event was 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.
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