More about the Day's Professional Development, Speakers and Facilitators
There are many reasons that we invite you to our 11th Annual Nonprofit Leadership Conference. Celebrating our past and honoring this year’s award winning colleagues is important, but perhaps the critical reason is to inspire ourselves and each other to embrace the future. Quite simply, the experiences offered at this conference will help build the individual and collective leadership capacity of all of us to realize our highest aspirations.
We invite all of you who have attended our conferences in the past. This can be a time of reuniting, reconnecting and forming new relationships.
With equal fervor, we invite those of you who have never attended, those current and future leaders from all three sectors: government, nonprofit and for profits.
Above all, we invite people who seek a higher ground of commitment, those who wish to rekindle their inspiration and those who desire to inspire others to make our community one where everyone thrives.
Kevin Connelly Executive Director, Center for Nonprofit Excellence
OUR SPEAKERS
Featured Keynoter and Facilitator
Dr. Paul C. Light will open the conference, help guide the breakout sessions and facilitate the closing plenary. He is New York University’s Wagner's Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service and founding principal investigator of the Global Center for Public Service. Before joining NYU, Dr. Light served as the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, founding director of its Center for Public Service, and vice president and director of the Governmental Studies Program. He has served previously as director of the Public Policy Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts and associate dean and professor of public affairs at the University of Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He is the author of 25 books, including works on social entrepreneurship, the nonprofit sector, federal government reform, public service, and the baby boom.
His newest book, Driving Social Change: Solving the World’s Toughest Problems is being provided to the first 100 full conference participants.
Pyramid Awards of Excellence Luncheon Keynoter
Committed to creating new jobs, spurring entrepreneurial activity, and leading a community recognized for its compassion as well as its commitment to lifelong learning, Greg Fischer became Louisville's 50th mayor on January 3, 2011.
Since taking office, Mayor Fischer has directed a review of city government, beginning with Public Works, Animal Services and Planning and Design and formed the Merger 2.0 Task Force to insure that government consolidation is working for all citizens. He has also settled two long-running lawsuits, helped facilitate a breakthrough on the Ohio River Bridges Project and pushed forward a deal to preserve and renovate the historic Whiskey Row block of W. Main Street
In a good example of "breaking boundaries," Mayor Fischer and Mayor Jim Gray of Lexington announced a Louisville-Lexington super region partnership, Bluegrass Economic Advancement Movement, optimizing the competitive assets of the two cities in the global marketplace. The Brookings Institution, where Paul Light served as the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow, will lend its considerable expertise to the project.
Many of Mayor Fischer's administration's goals are very much part of the nonprofit sector's work and directly relate to Breaking Boundaries for Breakthrough Results.
OUR FACILITATORS
Session 1A: Leading Community Change in Educational Attainment (Leadership)
Facilitator(s): Mary Gwen Wheeler, Executive Director, 55,000 Degrees & Dan Ash, Director of Research & Data Analysis, 55,000 Degrees
Session 1B: Resourcing Community Change in Educational Attainment (Resource Development)
Facilitator(s): Carl Thomas, President, The Gheens Foundation & Donald Rizzo, Associate Vice President for Development, University of Louisville
Session 1C: Supporting Community Change in Educational Attainment (Human Resources):
Facilitator(s): Lopa Mehrotra, Community Volunteer & Rae Helton, Special Assistant for Educational Attainment, University of Louisville
Session 1D: Communicating Community Change in Educational Attainment (Public Relations, Marketing, Advocacy)
Facilitator(s): Kathy Zandona, Vice President of Education, Greater Louisville, Inc. & Stephanie Bateman, Director of Communications, Jefferson County Public Schools
Session 1E: Implementing Community Change in Educational Attainment (Program Management, Practitioners)
Facilitator: Kevin Fields, Vice President of Programs, Louisville Urban League & Karen Napier, Director of Education Initiatives, Metro United Way
Session 2A: Leading Community Change in Health & Well-Being
Facilitator: Brent Densford, Director of Innovation and Well-Being Strategy, Humana, Inc.
Session 2B: Resourcing Community Change in Health & Well-Being
Facilitator: Lynnie Meyer, Chief Development Officer, Norton Healthcare
Session 2C: Supporting Community Change in Health & Well-Being
Facilitator: Alfonso Cornish, System VP Learning & Organizational Development/Chief Learning Officer, Norton Healthcare
Session 2D: Communicating Community Change in Health & Well-Being
Facilitator: Dana Jackson, Executive Director, Network Center for Community Change
Session 2E: Implementing Community Change in Health & Well-Being
Facilitator: Michael Muldoon, Executive Director, Health Enterprises Network
Conferees will increase our community’s capacity to achieve its dreams in education, health and well-being by:
- Deepening our understanding of the nature and requirements of how to affect real social change and to sustain it
- Gaining awareness and sharing ideas with the many organizations who share your community dreams
- Developing greater clarity of how organizations can gain affinity to further community goals
- Developing new ways to approach and build collaboration
- Challenging your organization to help connect the dots on achieving 55,000 degrees and better health and well well-being
- Learning the emerging principles of collaborative leadership
- Building working relationships between organizations that will be supported through CNPE and other community networks for years to come
Who should attend?
- Executive directors and CEOs
- Corporate executives and managers
- Government leaders in human services, education, arts, the environment and wellness
- Elected political leaders
- Neighborhood leaders
- Arts and Cultural Attractions Council Members
- Board members
- Civic volunteers
- Fundraising professionals
- Marketing and public relations professionals
- Emerging leaders
- Young professionals
- Program managers and supervisors
- Finance Directors
