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An extension of today’s Skills-Based Volunteering 101, this hands-on session will focus on how to successfully train executives for nonprofit board service.
Common Impact will share insights and best practices from its two decades of experience in skilled volunteerism, including board matching and service. Participants will learn how to identify suitable candidates, introduce them to the fundamentals of board governance, and equip them to make a positive impact through their service.
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These organizations may provide additional research, resources, toolkits, and ideas to guide and assist with youth philanthropy work.
A resource page for foundations of all types with Youth Philanthropy Councils to promote and raise the awareness of youth philanthropy.
IPA offers guidance on effective youth philanthropy by providing consultation, resources, and learning opportunities for adults and youth.
When community foundations are asked how they assess their community impact (outcomes), most will describe what they do to achieve impact (outputs). Understanding and quantifying the impact of community foundations that work in multiple topical areas, with multiple partners and grantees, can be a daunting task. This session will allow the audience to hear from Laurie Ellen Paarlberg, PhD, who has begun to address this challenge especially in the aspect of community leadership.
This session will help foundation managers understand legal issues they and their grantees commonly face. Topics include: Unwitting Violations of UPMIFA, Individual Director and Officer Liability in a Sex Scandal World; Director and Officer Insurance and Common Exclusions; New Overtime Regulations; Working with Volunteers and other topics.
Building the capacity of your grantees to engage in strong grant reporting and data practices is impossible without strengthening their overall organizational capacity. This workshop will help you identify specific grantmaking practices that will build your grantee’s capacity and fuel your own ability to learn from grant portfolios, share your learning internally and externally, and use these relationships to evolve your grantmaking strategy over time.
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Aligning your corporate strategy with your philanthropic investments and partnerships can add credibility to your brand, board, and employee engagement messaging. This alignment will also positively impact cultural and mission related goals.