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MAG presents at Alliance Conference
Thursday, May 7, 2009
MAG Presents at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management Conference
July 15-17, 2009, Palm Springs, CA
Building Capacity for Movement Minded Organizations
Presenters: Robin Katcher, Management Assistance Group and Gita Gulati Partee, OpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc.
Social movements are organic, adaptive, and always shifting with political context and opportunities, openings in the culture, the development of an opposition, new innovation from the base, its own internal dynamics, as well as racial and other systemic power dynamics. They therefore call on movement minded organizations to do different things at different moments during their evolution. Effective capacity building with movement minded organizations must not only consider the organization’s own stage of development but the relationship between that organization and the social movement it seeks to advance. This often requires us, as capacity builders, to bring specific knowledge, skill, and understanding.
Together in this advanced session, we’ll examine how we as nonprofit capacity builders can adjust and hone our work with movement minded organization in areas such as governance, strategy, people management, and resourcing, all through a lens of organization development, movement building and power analysis.
This highly participatory peer learning session will be grounded in some common understanding, language, and concepts around social movements and offer some case examples.
When Can Founders and Successors Co-Exist So Everyone Wins? Table for Two
Presenter: Mark Leach, Management Assistance Group
Leadership transitions in which the founding executive remains after stepping down as CEO are rare and potentially risky, but in certain cases can be of enormous lasting value to the organization. Come and learn the factors for success and assess whether it makes sense to consider such a transition in your own organization. This workshop is appropriate for founders, board members, foundation program officers and consultants that have a particular leadership transition they are considering or actively working on.
To learn more, visit the Alliance for Nonprofit Management website.