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"Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better"--Harry S Truman
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
We hope that everyone who attended this year's Annual Conference gained new ideas, new contacts, and renewed inspiration for the important work that you do. We're using this month's SDG In-Depth newsletter to report back on the Annual Conference so that our members who could not attend have some of the great resources shared that day, and so that participants can learn what went on in the sessions they may not have attended. As always, we try to make sure the SDG website is a resource for our members. In the Members-only section (email Nancy if you need a reminder about your username and password), you can download handouts from the Annual Conference, as well as from many other SDG events. With 140 attendees (more than double that of past conferences) representing all types of grantmakers, a new venue, and great speakers, we consider this year's event to have been a great success, and encourage your feedback if you have not already shared it! Click here for the online evaluation. The conference occurred 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 (beware: very large pdf file) to download the conference program...or read below for resources on speakers and sessions. Many thanks again to our conference sponsors and planning committee . Preliminary results (based on 46 responses) include the following:
We want to make sure that each year's Annual Conference is better than the last. Next year’s conference planning will begin before we know it. If you are interested in helping to plan the 2007 event, please let Nancy know; we have already begun recruiting committee members. Click for: Grantcraft resources on Mapping Change Creative Philanthropy report by Helmut K. Anheier and Diana Leat Change Agents & Corporate Citizenship article Working to Catalyze Social Change article Fieldstone Alliance Advice for Change Plenary Handouts & Resources
Session Description: 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
Session Description: 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. Option #1: Investing in Leadership
Session Description: 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
Session Description: 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
Session Description: 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
Session Description: 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? San Diego Grantmakers gratefully acknowledges the support of Conference Sponsors: PLATINUM
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HOST For information on how to become a conference sponsor, contact SDG at 619/744-2180 or programs@sdgrantmakers.org. SDG also wishes to thank the members of the 2006 Annual Conference Planning Committee: Members: Gangs & Youth Violence Learning Agenda Family Foundation Peer Networking Meeting A Forum on Immigration: Implications for Funders Corporate Collaborations, Connections and Community RelationSHIPS Host: Location: Time Warner Cable, 10450 Pacific Center Ct. This SDG IN DEPTH online monthly publication is developed, in lieu of a printed newsletter, by San Diego Grantmakers to keep you informed about special topics of interest to grantmakers. Feel free to forward, print out, and/or refer to it later as desired! In addition to IN DEPTH, we also publish SDG Update, a monthly member online newsletter. Our mission is to connect, educate, develop, and inspire a diverse group of foundations and corporations to stimulate effective philanthropy in the San Diego region. For more information, visit www.SDGrantmakers.org. For questions or comments about SDGrantmakers or to submit articles for our online publications, visit www.SDGrantmakers.org or contact Nancy Jamison, 619/744.2180 or Nancy@SDGrantmakers.org. This online update is a service to San Diego Grantmakers members. Copies of past editions are archived here: News You Can Use. If you do not wish to receive these emails, send an email to nancy@SDGrantmakers.org requesting to unsubscribe in the body of the email. |
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