Highlights

When: Thursday, October 10, 2019,  10:00am – 4:30pm – Cocktail Reception to follow
Where: Gold Miners Inn, Grass Valley

Nonprofit organizations play a vital role in building healthy communities by contributing to the economic and social stability, and well-being of its constituents.

If asked how nonprofit organizations define their success, they will tell you….by the impact they have on the constituents they serve and the community that surrounds them.  In short, by working hard to achieve their mission.

Organizational best practices, along with respected institutions such as GuideStar and Charity Navigator, now encourage nonprofits, local governments, and community partners to embrace and talk about the impact and results of our work as a key component to evaluating success as a healthy community.

To do that, we must broaden our focus from one of just financial ratios, to a focus that includes and embraces impact and results.

Join us for a fun and informative day at the Center for Nonprofit Leadership’s Second Annual Community Impact Forum as we shift the lens on understanding, evaluating, presenting, and talking about our successes, our impact.

In the morning, Plenary Speaker Kim Tucker, Executive Director of the Impact Foundry, will speak with participants on how we shift the nonprofit leadership lens to focus on planning for long-term impact.

Our Key Note speaker Alison Lehman, County Executive Officer at County of Nevada will share the impact of the local nonprofit community and provide insights on what we lose if we fail to plan for a sustainable future.

The afternoon will be broken into 2 sessions:  After the lunch break, we will discuss strategies and internal tools for shifting organizational focus away from the traditional “doing more with less” philosophy.  Ann Lucas of Nonprofit Strategies, will instead help us explore a model rooted in achieving goals and outcomes through investing in the infrastructure needed to achieve them.   In the second session, Co-directors, Aimee Retzler and Malaika Bishop of Sierra Harvest will walk through a real life case study of their organization’s success. Participants will explore the ways to meet the critical objective of effectively communicating impact.  The session will help attendees identify ways in which to address the need to share results to both constituents and to the larger community.  Let’s start answering the question – how do we talk about impact!

Location:  Gold Miner’s Inn, Grass Valley, California
Date:  October 10, 2019
Plenary Presentation with Kim Tucker
Lunch and Keynote with Alison Lehman
Management Strategies, Session
Communication Planning, Session

Intended Audience:  Nonprofit and community leaders: nonprofit executive directors, board members, senior level fundraising and communications staff; community focused business owners and management staff; county and city leaders.

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS & UNDERWRITERS

                  DAN & JOANNE CASTLES

Friday, April 5, 2019
8:30am – 12:30pm

Why is it that some fundraising programs do better than others when the organizations have the same basic plan?  Whether your organization is just starting out or one that has never been terribly successful with your fundraising efforts, sometimes figuring first or next steps can be a hurdle.

Often organizations overlook the basic building blocks that are essential in designing your fundraising strategy.

This is not your typical basic fundraising workshop! Together, with presenter, Kimberly Parker, CFRE, Executive Director of Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation, we’ll explore the fundamentals that need to be in place before you start or revive a struggling fundraising program.

If you are an Executive Director or staff member that needs to work on fundraising without a clue of where to begin or a Board member or committee chair that has been assigned the task of leading the fundraising effort, this four hour session will share tools to assess your organization’s fundraising readiness as well as tips to help you create or elevate your basic fundraising program.

Click HERE to learn more about Kimberly.

Suggested Participants: Executive Directors, Organizational Staff and Board Members focused on fundraising 
Date & Time: Friday, April 5^th,  8:30am – 12:30pm
Location: Seventh Day Adventist Church, 12889 Osborne Hill Rd, Grass Valley

Navigating the minefield of employment laws is becoming increasingly difficult when each passing year brings change and more change.

In this 90-minute Info Session, attorney, Steven McFarlane, will cover three topics of importance for every organization, regardless of size.

The majority of the session will focus on the new interpretation by the CA Supreme Court of the laws governing the designation and use of Independent Contractors.  Steven will also touch on the current status of California’s minimum wage law, provide an update on the new requirement around Sexual Harassment training and to whom that applies, and cover other labor law changes pertinent to the not-for-profit community.**

It is more critical than ever that you are armed with the information you need to protect your organization; join CNL at this session and make sure you are ‘in the know.’

**Disclaimer: No individualized legal advice is available in this forum

When: Tuesday, March 19^th,  8:30am – 10am
Where: Conference Room at Owens Estate and Wealth, 426 Sutton Way, Suite 110, Grass Valley
Suggested Participants: Executive Directors, Human Resources Staff & Business Managers, Board Members serving on HR or Employment committees and Retail Business Managers

Does your organization use volunteers?  Do you think you should?  Volunteers can maximize your organization’s impact and most often, touch every aspect of your mission. Join CNL for this interactive workshop to learn how to recruit, train, and retain your volunteers from the people in our community who do it best.

Miriam Limov from Sierra Harvest, Pepper from the Center for the Arts, and Cindy Hintz from the Friendship Club will share their tricks, tips, and techniques for building, growing, and sustaining your volunteer program. Each of our local experts will share their perspectives and best practices and lead the group through discussion and hands-on, small group activities so that participants will leave with a robust set of tools to increase their volunteers’ engagement and effectiveness.

Suggested Participants:  Executive Directors, All staff and board members managing volunteers
Date and Time: Friday, November 2nd, 8:30am –12:30pm
Location: Seventh Day Adventist Church, 12889 Osborne Hill Rd, Grass Valley  (map)
Presenters: Miriam Limov, Sierra Harvest; Pepper, Center for the Arts; and Cindy Hintz, the Friendship Club

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSOR:

Design Thinking, born in the corporate innovation world, has come to the nonprofit sector!

Design Thinking is a user-centered approach, drawing upon logic, imagination, intuition, and systemic reasoning, to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions.

Join CNL and internationally renowned speaker, Kay Sprinkel Grace for this full day workshop where we ask:   Are we solving the right problems? Do we find ourselves focusing more on organizational issues within our organizations than on designing solutions to the chronic issues we address?  We respond well to crises — always addressing the needs that arise — but how can we apply that same focus to our ongoing work?

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Design Thinking, and understand how to apply it in different ways — from solving specific problems in your organization to creating innovation on your team (including the board) to collaborating with your volunteers and to designing the future of our industry. This is a very useful, flexible methodology for today’s nonprofit workplace.

We will explore our role in the visionary betterment of our community, and why collaborative design thinking is critical to this moment.  Join us and learn to build design thinking into your daily work and become more focused on creating long term solutions.  Embrace how to keep, as our central mission, not what we see in the mirror, but rather, what we see through our windows.

The Center for Nonprofit Leadership is excited and honored to bring Kay to Nevada County. Kay Sprinkel Grace is Principal and Founder of Transforming Philanthropy. Since 1989, she has served as Principal of her own firm, has published seven books and countless articles, won numerous awards, including the 2013 Henry A. Rosso Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Ethical Fundraising, as well as being one of the first AFP Distinguished Fellows.  She also serves on a number of boards, including the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco. To learn more about Kay, visit her website.

The Importance of Team Attendance: The more participants from the same nonprofit who attend the workshop together, the more effective this training will be for that organization in implementing the ideas learned and explored. CNL understands this and is providing this opportunity to learn with an internationally acclaimed independent consultant, speaker, facilitator, and writer at a notably discounted rate enabling organizations to bring a team (staff and/or board) to the event.

Suggested Participants:  Teams, including Executive Directors, Board Members and Staff, from Nonprofit Organizations, City and County Government Agencies, local business leaders and philanthropists.
Date and Time: Thursday, October 11th, 9:00am –4:00pm
Location: Gold Miners Inn, 121 Bank St, Grass Valley  (map)
Presenter: Kay Sprinkel Grace, CFRE, Principal and Founder of Transforming Philanthropy

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS:

Dan and Joanne Castles and

AND OUR UNDERWRITERS: