As this year’s premier gathering of asset-building practitioners, funders and advocates, the 2012 Assets Learning Conference will feature four conference institutes, four plenary sessions and over 40 concurrent sessions covering the most pertinent and cutting-edge topics for the asset-building field. The conference will begin on Wednesday, September 19 with four half-day and full-day conference institutes […]
GCIR's 2012 National Convening, Global Trends, National Implications, Local Innovations, June 13-15 in Portland, Oregon, will bring together a community of grantmakers who share a commitment to helping immigrants become full and active members of our society. It will offer funders an opportunity to learn from one another’s experiences and expertise. And it will uplift […]
Nonprofits are continually being asked to do more with less, and fundraising gets harder every year. But it’s not just a fundraising problem. It’s a larger symptom of California's revenue and spending priorities. Nonprofits are a huge part of California’s economy in addition to being the main social safety net, the main source of education, […]
Please join the BMP Detroit team for the second Uniting Detroiters Convening on August 10, 2012, at the Solanus Casey Center (1780 Mount Elliot Street) from 10am to 3pm to discuss our right to the city, collective power, and new political geographies emerging in Detroit. Lunch will be provided.
There has been much written recently on the Leadership Deficit that may occur as Baby Boomers retire in the next five years. Nowhere is this concern more justified than in the nonprofit sector in New England, whose leaders were instrumental in the spectacular growth of the sector in the 70’s and 80’s and are now […]
This interactive Workshop, hosted by the Building Movement Project in Detroit and featuring Project Team member and internationally known fundraiser, Kim Klein will highlight the current fundraising climate and focus on strategies for creating a lucrative fundraising year for your nonprofit. The workshop will provide a unique platform for participants to share their biggest obstacles […]
Nonprofits are a huge part of California’s economy in addition to being the main social safety net, the main source of education, art and culture, and environmental protection and preservation. Tax cuts have really affected our ability to do our job and impacting the communities we serve - we need to speak up. To do […]
Join Grassroots Grantmakers for a conversation with special guest, Director Frances Kunreuther, as they explore the complex set of relationships that contribute to movement building for social change, with specific focus on the relationship between people and groups that are the focus of grassroots grantmaking and the movement building work of social-justice oriented non-profit organizations. […]
The budget crisis in California has heightened the need for all communities to build their civic capacity and to stay informed about the policy decisions that affect their lives. Direct service providers have enormous reach into communities that have been marginalized – including low-income and communities of color – but these groups do not always […]
Spark together with Stanford University’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS), Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Women's Community Center and CDDRL’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship, will co-host an intergenerational conversation to address questions around leadership within the next phase of the women's movement including what is the women's movement, how the […]