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Conference Program |
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Thursday, April 23 |
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7:30 a.m. – Noon |
Conference Registration |
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Note: Buffet breakfast
will be available starting at 7:30 a.m.
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8:30 – 10:30 a.m. |
Opening Plenary |
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Welcome –
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Robert Herman, Professor and Senior Fellow
David Renz, Director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit
Leadership
Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Plenary Address-
“Reality Governance: Trusteeship in Chaos”
Ruth McCambridge, Editor-in-Chief,
The Nonprofit
Quarterly
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10:45 – 11:45 a.m. |
Introductory Dialogue Sessions |
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Dialogue sessions have no formal
presentations.
Rather, they are facilitated discussions on specific topics
among interested participants.
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Session A |
Boards, Governance and the Impact of Changing
Technologies |
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How are nonprofit boards adapting to the constantly evolving
information technologies?
How should they be adapting?
Are board members using social networking tools – to
connect to each other, to connect to other governance
stakeholders, to mobilize stakeholders to action?
Are boards and/or the nonprofit organizations they head
using other emerging and developing technologies to do their
work – “green” technologies or others? |
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Session B |
New Strategies and Techniques for Building Board
Capacity |
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In this time of substantial financial stress for
most nonprofit organizations when the demands for high
performing boards would seem to be increasing, are boards and
those who advise them turning to new or different strategies and
techniques to recruit and build board skills and capacities?
Are or will efforts to enhance diversity, including
enhancing client and community representativeness on boards take
a back seat as boards seek to find those who can “give and get”?
Are any truly new strategies and techniques for capacity
building emerging now? |
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Noon – 1:30 p.m. |
Luncheon Plenary |
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Introduction –
Ruth
McCambridge,
Editor-in-Chief, The Nonprofit Quarterly
Plenary Address-
“What Matters About the Chair of the Board”
Yvonne Harrison,
Assistant Professor in the Center for Nonprofit Leadership at
Seattle University
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1:45 – 3:15 p.m. |
Concurrent Paper Sessions |
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Session C |
The Roles and Power of Board Chairs |
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William Brown, Texas A&M University,
Power on Nonprofit Boards:
Considering the Influence of the Board Chair
[Abstract]
[Full Paper Not Available Yet]
Yvonne D. Harrison, Seattle University, Chris Cornforth,
The Open University,
and Vic Murray,
University of Victoria, A
Comparison of the Role and Impact of Board Chairs in United
Kingdom and North American Nonprofit Organizations
[Abstract]
[Paper]
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Session D |
The Board’s Role in Program Evaluation and as
Entrepreneurial Agent |
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Salvatore Alaimo, Grand Valley State University,
The Board’s Role in
Program Evaluation Capacity for Nonprofit Human Service
Organizations
[Abstract]
[Paper]
Fredrik O. Andersson, University of Missouri – Kansas City,
The Nonprofit Board as an Entrepreneurial Agent: Challenges and
Opportunities.
[Abstract]
[Paper]
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Session E |
Governance and Community |
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Judy Freiwirth, Nonprofit Solutions Associates,
Community-Engagement Governance™: A New System-Wide Governance
Framework for Community Impact
[Abstract]
Patricia Bradshaw, York University, Brian Hart, Whitby Mental
Health Center, and
Glenna Raymond, Whitby Mental Health Centre,
Creating Community
Governance: A View from the Inside
[Abstract]
[Paper]
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3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Concurrent Dialogue Sessions |
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Dialogue sessions have no formal
presentations. Rather, they are facilitated discussions on a
specific topic among interested participants. Each session is
led by a skilled facilitator to ensure that discussion is
on-point, free-flowing, and inclusive of all participants.
Dialogues are facilitated to include the perspectives of all.
We ask that you choose the topic of greatest interest to you and
remain in the session for the entire period. |
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Session F |
Governance, Boards, and New Forms of Organization |
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As the appeal of social enterprise and social
entrepreneurship continues to grow, both internationally as well
as in the U.S., new forms of organization are being created.
Various typologies of “hybrid” forms have been created as
well as new corporate types.
What challenges to the “prudent stewardship” standards of
board duties do these hybrid organizations?
What challenges to network governance do such hybrid
forms pose (e.g., reduced concern with community involvement and
more with involving financiers)? |
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Session G |
The Changing of the Guard? Leadership, Succession, and
Generational Dynamics |
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There has been significant discussion regarding
what has sometimes been termed the “coming leadership deficit”
(that most senior managers are approaching retirement age with
apparently little in way of succession planning).
What is being done
at both senior management
and board levels to prepare for leadership succession?
Will younger “boomers,” “gen X” and “gen Y” come to
nonprofit leadership positions with different governance
expectations? If so,
what? |
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Session H |
Community Engagement and Nonprofit Governance |
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Nonprofit organizations operate in many types of
communities, but local geographical (and thus, sometimes,
politicized) and client/beneficiary communities are typically
least represented in governance practices.
What is and can be done to enhance nonprofit
organizations’ engagement with local and client communities?
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5:00 – 7:00 p.m. |
Reception |
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Join your conference colleagues and
Kansas City nonprofit leaders for informal conversation and
hors d’oeuvres. |
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7:00 p.m. |
Dinner on your own
(Visit
www.countryclubplaza.com
for restaurant ideas) |
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Friday, April 24 |
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7:30 – 8:30 a.m. |
Networking and Breakfast |
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(Note: A Special Meeting of Governance
Affinity Group of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management
will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.)
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8:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Concurrent Paper Sessions |
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Session I |
Leadership Succession and
Multi-Generational Governance
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Deborah Balser, University of Missouri - St. Louis, and JoAnn
Carmin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Organizational Identity
Threats During Leadership Succession
[Abstract]
[Full Paper Not Available Here - It will be published in the
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
(NML)
journal
soon]
Julia E. Classen, University of Minnesota, and Melissa Stone,
University of Minnesota,
Multi-Generational Governance: Is There Such a Thing?
[Abstract]
[Paper]
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Session J |
Philanthropic Culture, Founding
Narratives and Good Governance |
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Robert B. Jones, Children’s Aid and Family Services, Betsy
Vander Velde, The Family Conservancy, Thomas Lengyel, American
Humane Association, and Simon Bisson, Starr Commonwealth:
A Pathway to
Good Governance: Philanthropic Culture and Capacity Building in
Local, Community-Based, Family and Child Serving Agencies.
[Abstract]
[Paper]
Nancy T. Kinney, University of Missouri - St. Louis,
The Formative Role of Founding Narratives in Community Service
Organizations
[Abstract]
[Paper]
John Pepin, JPA Insight Consulting, Boned Olivier; Hanneke de
Bode, John Baker, and Filippo Addarii, Euclid Network: Third Sector
Governance and The Obligation of Leadership: Approaches, Issues
and Questions for Consideration.
[Abstract]
[Paper]
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10:15 – 11:45 a.m. |
Concurrent Dialogue Sessions |
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Session K |
Governance, Regulation, and the
Changing Face of Accountability |
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Accountability is a theme of our times, but how
is it being addressed? Though much is yet unsettled, the current
financial and economic crisis seems likely to lead to
substantial expansion in regulation of financial activity by the
U.S. government (and in many other countries too).
What are the implications for regulation of charities and
grant-making foundations?
Will accountability expand to new agencies, become more
demanding? |
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Session L |
Networks, Boards, and Governance |
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As program development and delivery becomes
increasingly multi-organizational (and multi-sector), how have
the roles and responsibilities of boards changed?
To what extent is governance moving beyond the boundaries
of specific nonprofit organizations?
What useful models and strategies presently exist for
good networked governance?
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Session M |
Connecting the Dots: How Do We Bridge the
Worlds of Research and Practice, and What is the Next Generation
of Research on Boards and Governance?
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Researchers usually try to understand and
explain what is happening in the real world.
Practitioners often wish researchers would work on issues
and questions of importance to their organizations.
This session will focus on how we might improve the
connectedness between research and practice, and what needs to
be examined as we proceed with our work to better understand and
improve board effectiveness, governance, and practice?
What currently is happening in the world of nonprofit
governance that deserves research attention?
How might researchers be encouraged to examine such
issues? How might
practitioners most usefully connect with researchers as both
attempt to enhance understanding and effectiveness?
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Noon – 1:45 p.m. |
Luncheon Plenary |
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Plenary Address-
“The
Challenges of Network Governance: Reflections from Research
Outside the Field,”
Melissa Stone,
University
of
Minnesota
Discussion facilitation by: Ruth McCambridge, Editor-in-Chief,
The
Nonprofit Quarterly |
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1:45 - 2:00 p.m. |
Closing Comments |
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