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2013 IS Conference: Share Your Ideas Today!
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Please submit your program ideas in the comment box below for the 2013 IS National Conference, which will take place in New York September 29-October 1.
- What topics should we discuss at our next conference?
- What questions would you like the nonprofit and philanthropic community to explore?
- What session ideas might you feel most compelled to attend?
- Which dynamic speakers would you like to see at the conference?
Sharing your thoughts will help ensure the 2013 IS National Conference will address key issues important to the nonprofit and philanthropic sector. Please submit your ideas by March 1.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Feb 28, 2013 at8:20 AM How Cleveland Rocks
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, home to the City of Cleveland, has addressed local public arts funding in a unique way. In 2006, voters approved a 10-year tax on cigarettes to fund arts and culture activities, and that tax, which generates more than $15 million annually, has resulted in a $95 million commitment to arts and culture. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) is the public agency that distributes these tax dollars to arts and cultural organizations throughout Cuyahoga County.
Karen Gahl-Mills, CAC’s Executive Director, will provide high impact examples of how publicly funded organizations in Cleveland and its surrounding county are making a difference in the areas of community development, K-12 education, and quality of life. CAC’s work strengthening the vitality of the arts and cultural sector in this region has been a great success story, not only because the investments that it makes are meaningful but also because, through its grant guidelines and capacity building work, it is helping arts and cultural organizations adapt to an evolving landscape.
About Karen
Karen Gahl-Mills was named Executive Director of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture in November, 2009. In her 20+ year career in arts administration, Ms. Gahl-Mills has worked tirelessly both to connect organizations to communities in meaningful ways and to build the management and governance capacity of organizations of all sizes. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
She has served on panels for the Ohio Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey State Commission on the Arts, and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts, participated in the inaugural Executive Leadership Program for the League of American Orchestras in 2007, and was named one of Westchester’s “40 Under 40,” an award given by the Business Council of Westchester in 2005.
Mar 1, 2013 at12:51 PM What topics should we discuss at our next conference? The Changing Landscape for the Nonprofit Sector
Due to our new economic landscape, we are experiencing shifting models and roles of both philanthropic institutions and their nonprofit partners, how are we responding to this new context of our work? How are groups are operating effectively in this new terrain of decreased funding on multiple levels (local, state, national)? While the climate may cultivate innovative strategies for achieving mission these strategies may be new and thus may appear ‘risky’ –
What questions would you like the nonprofit and philanthropic community to explore?
*How are we understanding these changes and our role as leaders in advancing greater social impact for communities across the country?
*What are effective practices and systems in order to better serve the needs and success of disadvantaged communities?
What session ideas might you feel most compelled to attend?
*Sessions that in which leaders from a range of organizations/context/models can speak to sustainability and viability at this moment. Often speakers are national and we fail to see the local and regional context.
Which dynamic speakers would you like to see at the conference?
*Caring Across Generations
*Dignity in Schools
*Generational Alliance
*Cricket Island Foundation
Mar 1, 2013 at2:48 PM Social impact investing will be the new venture capital; collaboration is the new competition; and evidence is holding the sector back. Agree? Disagree? These are just three of many vibrant debates taking place as part of the Insight Center on Scaling Social Impact that HBR.org launched this winter in partnership with The Bridgespan Group, supported by Omidyar Network. The three-month-long series of global conversations has covered three themes: how to structure and fund scalable entrepreneurial solutions to the world's most pressing problems; finding and managing the necessary talent; and the opportunities and challenges presented by data and technology. This fall at IS, we’d like to host a session featuring 4-6 of our most provocative bloggers who will introduce their insights then host table talks with attendees on how they can apply them. Contributors we would invite include:
Sir Ronald Cohen & William Sahlman (HBS) – Social Impact Investing is the new venture capital
Ben Hecht (Living Cities) – Collaboration is the new competition
Phil Buchanan (CEP) – What capitalism can’t fix
Rich Leimsider & Cheryl Dorsey (Echoing Green) - You’re more Important than your biz plan
Peter Roberts (Emory U) Start up experience doesn’t help social entrepreneurs
Paul Carttar (SIF emeritus) – Why evidence is holding the sector back
Jacob Harold (Guidestar) – Not ready for big data? Try medium data
Facilitators:
Katherine Bell, Editor, HBR.org
Amy Gallo, Editor, HBR-Bridgespan Insight Center