2003 Report
Lessons Learned and Session Handouts | Participant List
Speaker Biographies | Ideas
for Further Exploration | Video by Street-Level Youth Media
The following session ideas and topics for further exploration were proposed by
conference participants.
Fundraising
- Continue the discussion of fundraising in uncertain times with lots of
time for participants to share experiences.
- Fundraising events: what works and what doesn't
- Building individual donor relationships.
- Managing growth in small organizations.
- Motivating a nonprofit board (to help with fundraising)
- Setting and defining fundraising goals
- Fundraising for visual arts groups.
- Fundraising for the literary community
- Fundraising strategies for small (& cutting-edge) organizations.
- Building relationships with foundations
- How do we build relationships and raise funds without burning out and
looking desperate?
- Fundraising etiquette (letter writing, etc.)
- I have 1000s of small donors. How do I make them feel special when
I'm just one person?
- Role playing calls and visits with potential donors.
- Fundraising success stories.
Marketing
- Working with volunteers
- Strategies for increasing membership, attendance and donations.
- Creating a marketing plan
- Branding
- Marketing through email.
Strategic Planning
- Strategic planning for growth
- What to do when growth is not the answer. Right-sizing
- When and why should an organization change its mission to achieve growth?
- Articulating vision
- Organizational self-assessment: recognizing the next stages of growth
before it's too late to adjust
- Board development (including for a brand new organization)
- Developing a successful staff structure
- Crafting or re-crafting a mission.
- Getting over the hump from volunteer-run to hiring the first staff.
- Implementing your strategic plan
- Pitfalls in planning
- Managing volunteers as part of the strategic plan
Financial Issues
- Using an independent contractor vs. and employee
- Sales tax issues associated with earned income programs
- Presenting financial information to the board to help them make decisions.
Management and Leadership
- Using the creative process (problem solving) in administration
- Volunteerism and volunteer recognition
- Roundtable discussions, in which participants share stories and
suggestions about how to attract, motivate and retain quality staff.
- Continue to provide information, and forums for discussion about executive
education
- How to determine salary levels for staff
- How to deal with laying-off staff
- How to evaluate employees
- Supervision of Gen Xers by Baby Boomers & more on how to deal with
generational differences
Other
- How to organize and advocate for arts in the schools
- Cultural tourism
- Involving members of the retired baby-boom generation as volunteers
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