Management
Are You Managing Your Technology, Or Is Your Technology Managing You? (M)
Utilizing 20-plus years of experience in nonprofit technology management, the presenter will tackle the overriding questions regarding technology for management: “How much do you need to know?” … “What do you want to know?” … “What do you care to know about the latest and greatest product?” Discussions will include the entire spectrum of information management issues, such as hardware vendor selection, the pros and cons of utilizing contracted technical staff, organizing and reviewing budgets and technical specifications for board presentatiRead full description »
Keith Rea, vice president of operations, Family Services of Greater Houston
Tags: Know Thyself: Determining Your True Costs to Inform Pricing Strategies (M)
Because many nonprofits struggle to set pricing that allows them to sustainably provide their services, this workshop will offer tools to efficiently examine costs differently, helping nonprofits price accurately and inform their decision-making. At the core of good pricing is good “costing,” or having a clear and complete picture of what true costs are for each nonprofit service.Read full description »
Alexander J. Cortez, Manager, The Bridgespan Group
Link to presentation materials.
Comparative Constituency Voice: The Next Phase of Integrating Consumer Feedback to Improve Organizational Outcomes (M)
How can organizations improve feedback mechanisms and the utilization of feedback data across multiple purposes by agencies and funders? Reform efforts need to address all stakeholders, notably funders, providers, and primary constituents. The multiple goals of evaluation and feedback efforts need to be explicit and development of feedback activities need to be aligned with those goals. Creating comparative feedback data sets offers one proven way to do all this; adopting a reporting principle that requires feedback on an organization’s stated results is another.Read full description »
David Bonbright, chief executive, Keystone Accountability
Are You Data-Driven? Or is Data Driving You Crazy? (M)
Highlighting the importance of high quality data methodology and informed decision making, presenters for the workshop will offer examples of useful management tools and enforce the idea that good, timely, quality information is critical to business operations and leads to immediate benefits. This workshop will help attendees to create and analyze real-time data, which drives an organization’s ability to efficiently meet the needs of consumers, business partners, and stakeholders.Read full description »
Kristina Allwood, government relations and business development coordinator, and Cheri Rodman, continuous quality improvement coordinator, The Village Network
Interactive Serious Play to Build Evaluation Capacity and Enhance Staff Knowledge (M)
This workshop will guide participants through the process of identifying, managing, and analyzing existing data sources to demonstrate short-term effects and long-term impact of programs and initiatives. Additionally, participants will be introduced to innovative tools and measures that can be integrated easily into existing information systems in order to enhance capacity to build credible and reliable evaluations.Read full description »
Peg Whalen, director of evaluation and research services, Alliance for Children and Families
Do I Have the Right Team? Assessing and Developing Leadership and Management Competencies (L, M)
As a senior executive, you live in the future; you see what is coming and respond with strategies, leading with mission, vision, and values. But when you arrive at your future, who will follow you? Now is the time to ask, “Do I have the right team?” This workshop will help attendees learn what competencies are imperative for an executive team, how to build current competencies, and when to recruit for new competencies.Read full description »
Dan M. Aune, senior consultant, business development director, OPEN MINDS
Moving from Good to Great: One Agency’s Improvement Strategy (M, L)
During this workshop, staff from Family Services of Northwestern Pennsylvania will share how the organization has accepted Jim Collins’ challenge in his book, Good to Great, to move beyond accepting ”good” as a reasonable goal and begin striving to become “great.” Presenters will provide details on how Family Services incorporated a variety of strategies from the book in an effort to redefine the culture of the agency through focused example, discipline, creativity, honest self-examination, and respectful accountability.Read full description »
Danielle Szklenski, director of program development and evaluation, and Tom Vinca, president and CEO, Family Services of Northwestern Pennsylvania
Making the Most of an Effective PQI Plan (M)
Using a model Performance and Quality Improvement (PQI) plan as a framework for the discussion, this workshop will provide an overview of the Council on Accreditation’s 8th Edition PQI standards. The workshop will explain how to develop a PQI plan that is grounded in an organization’s mission and strategic goals, as well as help participants think more broadly about PQI, understand how to use their PQI process to establish organization-wide and departmental goals, and implement processes for generating data to meet those goals.Read full description »
Brenda Hill, director of accreditation training, Council on Accreditation
The Alliance thanks these organizations that have already committed to sponsoring this year’s event:
|
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
©2009 - Alliance for Children and Families All Rights Reserved • 11700 West Lake Park Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53224-3099 phone: 414-359-1040 fax: 414-359-1074