Ways to Succeed in Challenging Times 1-2009

Join other agency leaders in a facilitated round table discussion about ways your agency can weather challenging economic times. Will you diversify funding sources? Perform a deeper analysis of your programs and services? Consider merging or collaborating? Change your accounting? Learn from each other and build a stronger local network that will help sustain our nonprofit infrastructures.

Who should attend? Agency executives and financial managers, board leaders and others who have leadership responsibilities.

Facilitated by Jean Block.

Jean Block is a national speaker, trainer and consultant on nonprofit management, board governance, fundraising and social enterprise. She has more than 40 years experience in the nonprofit sector as both a board and staff leader for numerous local, regional and national nonprofits. She is the author of 2 nonprofit books: The ABCs of Building Better Boards and Fast Fundraising Facts for Fame & Fortune. In 2006, Jean and Randy Gleason were founding partners in Social Enterprise Ventrues, LLC, a national training company that teaches nonprofits the skills required to diversify their revenue through earned income. In 2009, they will launch a new program: Exploration - Management by Assessment.