GROWING AS CAPACITY BUILDERS
Speaker files from conference continue our learning & impact
At its core, the Alliance is about learning, growing, and improving our skills and impact as capacity builders serving nonprofits and communities.
That passion for creating change also drives us to constantly share knowledge, best practices, and new ideas.
Our 2019 annual conference in St. Louis in October,
Facing Power & Privilege in Capacity Building
, was infused with this spirit of sharing and learning. But we want what happened under the Arch to have the most impact possible - north, south, east, and west of the Mighty Mississippi.
Whether you were able to join us in St. Louis or not, you'll find a listing at the end of this email of the conference presentations provided to us for you to have, use, and continue to learn from.
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Alliance annual conference
Denver
2020
Details on theme, dates, and exact location coming soon!
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UPCOMING EVENTS, LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES & WEBINARS
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ONLINE CHAT
: "Philanthropy, honey, it’s time for an intervention."
Wed, Feb. 12: 4pm ET
$10/ANM members | $25/non-members
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In
Decolonizing Wealth
, Villanueva, who is Vice President of Programs & Advocacy at the
Schott Foundation for Public Education
, asserts that colonialism is not a thing of the past, but lives on, like a virus, in existing systems and structures, including philanthropy and social finance.
One of the first things he does in his book is draw a distinction between colonialism and immigration: immigrants come to a new country expecting to abide by the existing laws of the land; colonialism, in contrast, is all about imposing control over new lands and expropriating their resources — by force, if necessary. Colonialism is about establishing dominance over others, which Villanueva likens to a “zombie invasion” in that “[c]olonizers insist on taking over the bodies, minds, and souls of the colonized.”
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WEBINAR
:
Peer Learning: Addressing organizational traumas that lead to executive transition
Thurs, Nov. 21: 1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT
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CLINIC CALL
for Interim EDs
Wed, Dec 11: Noon ET / 9AM PT
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Alliance Study Seeks Input on
Governance Best Practices Survey
The Alliance’s
Governance Affinity Group
has launched a new research study,
Conventional Wisdom, Anecdote, or Evidence: The State of the Governance Capacity Building Field.
Through this
SURVEY, they
s
eek input from capacity builders like you to understand questions relating to g
overnance capacity building. Specifically they want detail on how consultants choose their interventions with clients and what research, information, and resources they use and why, including how do they know the strategies are effective.
Responses will help inform the creation of a
Governance Research-to-Practice Consultant Toolkit
, a resource to help advance the governance field.
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bevy of benefits
that come with joining our membership ranks alongside other consultants, coaches, capacity building organizations, foundations & funders, pracademics, researchers, graduate students, and nonprofit leaders.
PS. We don’t actually have cards. But we do have TONS of great benefits!
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and join today!
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2019 Conference Speaker Presentation Files
Whether you joined us in St. Louis in October or not, here are the conference presentations provided to us for you to have, use, and continue to learn from as capacity builders serving nonprofits and communities across North America! They are listed by session title, then by presenter/s.
- Capacity Building Through a Race Equity Lens: Building the Place As We Fly || Dipty Jain, FMA, Sean Breitfeld, Building Movement Project & Keith Timko, Support Center
- Capacity Building with Nonprofit Executive Women of Color || Melissa Alvarez Mangual, Ed.D., The Nature Conservancy & Northeastern University
- Catalyzing Capacity: Leadership as "Power To" vs. "Power Over" || Elizabeth Castillo, PhD, Arizona State University
- Co-Creating Racial Equity by Addressing White Privilege: Capacity Builders' Roles & Accountability || Bridget Rouson, Rouson Associates & Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates, Inc.
- Creating an Anti-Racist Multicultural Practice & Organization || Andrea J. Rogers & Unique Brathwaite, Community Resource Exchange
- Developing Grassroots Capacity Building Mentors || Kaki Rusmore, Center for Nonprofit Excellence, Community Foundation for Monterey County
- Also, the Center for Nonprofit Excellence's Grassroots Mentors Handbook & Toolkit is here
- Distributed Leadership Tools for Advancing Racial Equity || Michael Arnold & Natalie Blackmur, Informing Change & Mike Courville, Open Mind Consulting
- Drama as a Capacity Building Tool || Mary Vradelis, Sequoia Consulting Associates
- Emphasizing Unity in Community: An Equity-Based Approach to Community-Led Data Collection for Community Change || Kimberly Spring, Sarah Wallace & Lamontre Randall, East Baltimore Research Project
- Executive Transition & Leadership Committee Planning Session || Julia Burns, Clarity Transitions & Carrie Blanding, Carrie Blanding Consulting
- Power Over Privilege || Elizabeth Castillo, PhD, Arizona State University
- Preparing the Next Generation: Field Learnings on Monday, Power & Race || Judy Levine & Janay Daniel, Cause Effective
- What Different Does Capacity Building Really Make? How to Design Strategies to Measure Our Effectiveness || Ellen Bass, Capacity Institute & Alex Hildebrand, Learning For Action
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