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A Foundation Center Program
This important program is for executive directors, senior managers, board members, and development professionals who want to learn to assess, monitor, and improve the income portfolio of their organizations. This new course offered by the Foundation Center walks you through the key points of nonprofit sustainability, helping you improve the way your organization uses resources and strengthens the financial health of your organization.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
9:00 am—4:30 pm Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel
Program registration begins at 9:00 am. Program begins at 9:30 am and includes lunch.
$75 for the first person from a nonprofit organization;
$50 for each additional person from the same organization
Space is limited.
BENEFITS: Strengthen the sustainability of your organization; Evaluate how well your nonprofit aligns its resources with its mission; Understand how to monitor and improve your organization's financial health; Assess the value and costs of potential sources of support for your nonprofit.
TOPICS: The main characteristics of a sustainable nonprofit; Assessing your nonprofit's sustainability; Strengthening your nonprofit's income portfolio.
BONUSES: Free copy of Wise Decision-Making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively (a $34.95 value); Templates for worksheets used in the course; Applicable for six CFRE International points.
THE PRESENTER: Richard Brewster is Executive Director of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise (NCNE), based in Alexandria, Virginia. NCNE helps nonprofits with the generation and application of resources through research, an information service, and training and consultancy. For eight years until February 2003, Mr. Brewster was chief executive of Scope, a national disability charity and one of the UK’s largest nonprofits ($175 million revenues and 4000 employees). As CEO, he oversaw major changes in governance and in the strategy of the organization, and introduced an outcome driven approach to the delivery of programs and a turn around in its finances. In 2003/4 Mr. Brewster was Senior Visiting Practitioner at the Center of Public and Nonprofit Leadership at Georgetown University; he is visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Open University Business School in the United Kingdom, under whose auspices he is conducting research on leadership in nonprofits. He was educated at Oxford University and spent the first 10 years of his working life in commercial management in ICI, then a major multinational chemical company. He joined the nonprofit sector in 1986 when he became the National Appeals Director of Oxfam, a major UK NGO.
Register by February 9
If you prefer to mail in your registration or pay by check, please click here to download and print a registration form.
Presented by: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley and the Dyson Foundation
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