Session A

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

A1 How Can Boards and CEOs Impact Local and State Public Policy? (CC)

A2 Building an Effective Communications Strategy for Your Organization’s Most Valuable Asset: Your Employees (HR)

A3 Making the Most of an Effective PQI Plan (M)

A4 A Smart Investment: How Outcomes Research Can Help Strengthen and Expand Programs (M/C, PP)

A5 Board Ambassadors: Engaging the Board Without Fear and Trespassing, Part 1 (G, RD)

A6 Ways to Work’s Evolution: Developing a True “Program in a Box” for Nonprofit Organizations (IP)

A7 Moving from Good to Great: One Agency’s Improvement Strategy (M, L)

A8 Maintaining Sanity for Parents and Stability for Children Through Specialized Adoption and Post Adoption Services (IP)

Session B

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2-3:30 p.m.

B1 Closing Programs with Integrity and an Eye on Mission (CC)

B2 Do I Have the Right Team? Assessing and Developing Leadership and Management Competencies (L, M)

B3 Implementing New Tools and Strategies to Provide Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Services (IP)

B4 Workplace Communication Across the Generation Gap (HR)

B5 Board Ambassadors: Engaging the Board Without Fear and Trespassing, Part 2 (G, RD)

B6 Peacemaking Circles: Building Community Before Conflict (IP)

B7 Interactive Serious Play to Build Evaluation Capacity and Enhance Staff Knowledge (M)

B8 Succession Planning on a Dime (L)

Session C

Thursday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

C1 Staying In Synch with Your Board During Challenging Times (CC)

C2 Not in Anyone’s Back Yard: Transformation from a Residential Campus to Community-Based Care in the Face of Extreme Opposition (L)

C3 Characteristics of Effective Peer Education Programs for Teens (IP)

C4 Telling Your Best Stories To Engage Lifetime Donors (RD)

C5 Creative and Cost-Effective Marketing (M/C)

C6 Are You Data-Driven? Or is Data Driving You Crazy? (M)

C7 Marketing and Recruiting Approaches for Capturing the Energy and Expertise of People Age 50+ (M/C)

C8 Navigating and Understanding the Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape (L)

Session D

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2-3:30 p.m.

D1 Opportunities for Growing Your Organization (CC)

D2 Comparative Constituency Voice: The Next Phase of Integrating Consumer Feedback to Improve Organizational Outcomes (M)

D3 Multi-Faceted Strategy for Turning Around Turnover Issues (HR)

D4 I Can Raise Major Gifts, Part I (RD)

D5 Creating and Implementing an Integrated Public Relations Plan to Build Lasting Positive Relationships on Just Pennies a Day (M/C)

D6 Internal Corporate Organization and Reorganization: Basic Issues and Process, Part 1 (G)

D7 Accelerating Innovation in Challenging Times: Building a Culture of Personal Growth (L)

D8 The Social Work Leadership Institute’s Workforce and Policy Initiatives to Advance the Field of Aging Care (HR, PP)

Session E

Friday, Oct. 16, 8:30-10 a.m.

E2 Policy Advocacy and Civic Engagement in Tough Times: Making the Most with What You Have (PP)

E3 I Can Raise Major Gifts, Part 2 (RD)

E4 Know Thyself: Determining Your True Costs to Inform Pricing Strategies (M)

E5 An Understanding of the Full Spectrum of Multi-Institutional Arrangements (G), Part 2 of Workshop D6

E6 Branding and the Nonprofit: Should I, Could I, and How Do I? (M/C)

E7 Are You Managing Your Technology, Or Is Your Technology Managing You? (M)