Session and Speaker Information
This year's program will feature plenary and workshop sessions emphasizing inspiration and education regarding best practices, innovations, collaborations, and nationally-recognized expert speakers, including:
Plenaries
Opening Plenary: Philanthropy’s Change Agents
Kathleen P. Enright, Executive Director, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
We represent many different kinds of grantmakers, but ultimately all of us are in the business of social change. As we work, we catalyze, facilitate, and witness change—but, like the organizations we support, we face internal and external resistance. GEO is leading an effort to apply proven community change strategies to the practice of philanthropy. Hear what hundreds of nonprofits and grantmakers from across the country believe to be the biggest change opportunities for grantmakers. Kathleen Enright will share examples of change agents in philanthropy who are restructuring the way they approach their work in order to achieve broader results.
Afternoon Plenary: Redefining Nonprofit Success
Jan Masaoka, former Executive Director, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, and named to the 2006 NonProfit Times "Power and Influence Top 50"
Why do our partnerships with nonprofits so often feel superficial or frustrating? Perhaps a new framework is necessary: one that re-defines nonprofit success, community change, and the grantmaker/grantee relationship. In follow-up to Kathleen Enright’s discussion of grantmakers as change agents, Jan Masaoka will explore how the ways we as grantmakers work affect nonprofit performance as much as which projects and issues we choose to support. In addition, Jan will propose innovative ideas on defining nonprofit success and building more authentic grantmaker-grantee partnerships.
Workshop Sessions: Each workshop session will be offered twice so participants will attend two of the four sessions.
Option #1: Investing in Leadership
Kathleen P. Enright, Executive Director, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Janine Mason, Executive Director, The Fieldstone Foundation
Marty Campbell, Vice President for Programs, The James Irvine Foundation
Ask any grantmaker what makes for a strong and effective nonprofit – or what facilitates positive change – and the answer is often the same: leadership. At this interactive session, hear about supporting nonprofit leadership as a means to improve organizational performance and create change. At the same time, share your personal experiences with colleagues to identify how we can work together to strengthen nonprofit leadership and use that leadership to promote change in our region.
Option #2: Achieving Change by Supporting Collaboration
Elwood M. Hopkins, Managing Director, Emerging Markets, Inc. and author of Collaborative Philanthropies
Gene Howard, CEO, Orangewood Children’s Foundation
Jennifer S. Vanica, President & CEO, Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and Jacobs Family Foundation
Significant change can happen through collaboration. However, collaboration is not the current norm. Join this session to examine how effective collaborations are developed and sustained. At the same time, discuss the role that we as grantmakers can play in identifying and convening unlikely partners from within the public and private sectors as well as creating and supporting “communities of interest” to collaborate on key issues and generate change.
Option #3: High Impact Grantmaking
Charlene Seidle, Associate Director, Jewish Community Foundation
Deborah Lindholm, Founder/Executive Director, Foundation for Women
Lisa Fujimoto, Executive Director, Change a Life Foundation
Lina Paredes, Director of Programs, Liberty Hill Foundation
Although our grants vary in size and form, our bottom line is the same: impact. High impact grantmaking is about a strategy for change rather than an award size. Hear from funders whose grants have achieved higher levels of impact and greater measures of change through the use of microcredit, support for direct services, investments in organizational capacity building, and other innovative approaches.
Option #4: The Power Imbalance in Grantmaker/Grantee Relationships
Lee Draper, President, Draper Consulting Group and feature writer, Foundation News & Commentary
The power imbalance in the grantmaker/grantee relationship is unavoidable, but we as philanthropists have the ability to choose how we respond to it as we promote positive change in our work with nonprofit organizations. In an interactive setting, discuss how to become more effective, responsive, and principled grantmakers by recognizing and addressing this power dynamic. Participants should be prepared to answer the following question: In your philanthropy, when have you been able to use power to strategic advantage, and when have you been aware that it was a detriment to creative collaboration and positive change?
Save the date for this exciting event: your chance to develop your skills while you network with a wide variety of grantmakers from private, family, public, community, and corporate foundations and giving programs as well as donor-advised funds.
Agenda
8:00-8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30-9:30am Welcome & Opening Plenary: Kathleen P. Enright
9:30-10:45am Workshop 1
11:00am-12:15pm Workshop 2
12:30-1:30pm Lunch & Afternoon Plenary: Jan Masaoka
1:30-2:00pm Q&A with Kathleen P. Enright and Jan Masaoka
2:00-2:15pm Closing Video Presentation*
2:15-3:00pm Networking Reception
*Produced in partnership by San Diego Neighborhood Funders and the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, c2006, all rights reserved.
Registration
Register by email to programs@sdgrantmakers.org or click here (pdf) to download a form for mail or fax registration. Reserve your seat today! Registrations are due by September 22, 2006.
The registration fee is $100 per person for San Diego Grantmakers members, and $150 per person for non-member grantmakers.
Logistics
Location & Directions
The conference location is the NTC Promenade, San Diego's exciting new destination for arts, culture, science and technology at the former Naval Training Center in Point Loma. Click here for a map and directions. The conference will begin at The Corky McMillin Companies Event Center at 2875 Dewey Road.
Parking
There is a large parking lot near the conference facility. Parking is free.
Questions?
Contact SDG at 619/744-2180 or programs@sdgrantmakers.org.
Sponsors
San Diego Grantmakers gratefully acknowledges the support of Conference Sponsors: (list in formation--to become a sponsor, contact us at 619/744-2180 or programs@sdgrantmakers.org)
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VIDEO SPONSORS
PARTNER
HOST
The Rose Foundation/The WebMD Health Foundation
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