Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, Washington May 17, 2017
Thank You to our Sponsors
Scholarship Sponsors Scholarships are an important tradition at the Washington State Nonprofit Conference. Our sponsors understand that many nonprofit staff and board members would like to attend the conference but cannot due to financial constraints. Scholarships provide the cost of admission for people from across the state to attend and ensure that the conversations at the conference are vibrant and represent our state’s tremendous diversity.
Thanks to these sponsors, we were able to give scholarships for nonprofit leaders to attend the conference.
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Statewide Capacity Collaborative
Seattle Foundation
Office of the Secretary of State
Compensation Connections
Campion Foundation
Northeastern University – Seattle
23rd Annual Washington State Nonprofit Conference
Thank you for joining us for the 2017 Washington State Nonprofit Conference. Today is a day for us to come together, learn from each other, and lift our collective voice. Our goals as we planned this conference were: • • • •
Include more stories from the field, learning from the lived experiences of nonprofit leaders. Build commitment to and action for equity within our organizations and our communities. Engage with current events and lift up strategies for leading in uncertain times. Green the conference by focusing on people, minimizing paper and moving toward earthfriendly practices.
We hope you will be inspired by the speakers, workshops and your peers, and find needed resources in the exhibit hall. We encourage you to engage, connect, learn and reflect. Washington Nonprofits is honored to convene hundreds of nonprofit leaders, and we are confident it will be a powerful day.
Presented by
Washington Nonprofits
Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy
501 Commons
Seattle University Master of Nonprofit Leadership Program
Philanthropy Northwest
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Agenda 7:00 - 8:00am
Registration & Breakfast
7:00 - 3:30pm
Exhibitors are Open
8:00 - 9:00am
Opening Plenary Session
9:15 - 10:30am
Session #1 - Workshops
10:45 - 11:45am
Session #2 - Table Talks
12:00 - 1:30pm
Lunch Plenary Session
1:30 - 2:00pm
Exhibitors/Networking
2:00 - 3:15pm
Session #3 - Workshops
3:30 - 4:45pm
Session #4 - Workshops
4:45 - 5:00pm
Coffee in the Lobby
WIRELESS ACCESS
Network name: WSNC Password: WSNC2017
No Solicitation The Washington State Nonprofit Conference seeks to bring together the leadership of the entire charitable community. To maintain the spirit of this unique meeting ground – where leaders from grant making organizations and leaders from grant seeking organizations can come together as peers – we ask that you respect the no solicitation rule. Please feel free to network, talk about your organizations and follow up when you return to your office. However, we request that during today’s conference you do not bring proposals or ask funders if they will fund your organization. Funders should encourage leaders to talk about their programs, invite people to follow up with them after the conference and politely remind others about this rule should they be faced with a direct request.
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Opening Plenary (Main Hall)
8:00 – 9:00 am
The Hero’s Journey: Remembering who we are and finding courage for the work ahead Colleen Echohawk
The non-profit world is populated with heroes. Heroes who give their all, who generously self-sacrifice, who truly empathize with the most marginalized; superstars who believe in the good of humanity and know that they are making a difference. Colleen Echohawk (Pawnee/Athabascan) will help us remember why we do the work and how to sustain it – offering stories of leadership and service, through the lens of the indigenous values of community, service, love and reconciliation. Colleen Echohawk is an enrolled member of the Kithehaki Band of the Pawnee Nation and a member of the Upper Athabascan people of Mentasta Lake. She is the Executive Director of the Chief Seattle Club, a nonprofit dedicated to the needs of Native American and Alaska Native people who are experiencing homelessness in Seattle. Chief Seattle Club provides a safe and sacred place to rest, revive and nurture the spirit of urban Native people. As the founder of the Coalition to End Urban Native Homelessness, Ms. Echohawk is committed to homeless advocacy. The coalition is a first of its kind to respond to the trajectory of Native American and Alaska Native people living away from reservations in urban places and experiencing homelessness. Ms. Echohawk is interested in creating systems and structures that help facilitate wellness, and encourage kindness and courage. Her education has been focused on organizational development and leadership; helping brilliant people do better work for the greater good. She is the co-founder and principal at Headwater People Consulting Group. Ms. Echohawk serves on local boards such as KUOW (National Public Radio member station,) All-Home Coordinating, Metropolitan Improvement District, and Pioneer Square Preservation. She is also the board chair at Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre.
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Lunch Plenary (Main Hall) Lunchtime Reading
12:00 – 1:30 pm
12:00 – 12:20 pm
Angel Gardener, Seattle Art & Lectures Youth Poet Laureate
Angel Gardener is 20 years old and has been writing for ten years now, on her own and as a youth ambassador with the Pongo Teen Writing Program. She believes that the best type of creative writing is the kind without barriers and makes you shift and sweat. Her community advocacy includes work with the Mockingbird Society and New Horizon Ministries, organizations that support youth experiencing homelessness through advocacy and working towards systemic change. She is the current reigning Youth Poet Laureate with Seattle Arts & Lectures and her book will be released this spring. She plans to keep writing well after her time as poet laureate is finished.
Building Equitable Organization Panel Discussion
12:20 – 1:30 pm
What is the role of nonprofit organizations in promoting social equity? How do we serve our clients more effectively, and extend opportunity to those who most need it? How do we ensure that our organizational practices are equitable and align with our values? Equity is an important value for many nonprofit organizations, but different organizations define the word and place their emphasis differently. In this panel discussion, nonprofit leaders who have led a sustained effort to make their organizations more equitable will discuss how they have focused their efforts and what they have learned along the way.
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Moderator Angela Powell, MA of Imago, LLC has been organizing effective change efforts since the 3rd grade, when she instigated a school-wide anti-smoking campaign that empowered kids to support their parents in kicking the habit. Since then, she has gained over 25 years of consulting and service experience working with for-impact organizations, earning her M.A. in Organizational Development from Bastyr University in 2001. She has taught at Seattle University’s Masters in Nonprofit Leadership Program, and works with leaders on issues ranging from executive coaching and thought partnership to strategy development and research design.
Panelists Sally Pritchard has served as Vice President of Community Impact for Spokane County United Way since 2008. She oversees Spokane County United Way’s community investments and community capacity building strategies. Prior to joining Spokane County United Way in 2003, she spent almost 20 years working for legal services organizations, and worked briefly for the Children’s Alliance in Spokane. She has served on a number of boards including the YWCA of Spokane, SNAP, West Central Community Center and the Chase Youth Commission. She is a graduate of Williams College. She and her husband have four amazing adult children.
Susan Mask is a Co-Founder and Principal of Trillium360 Consulting, a management consulting firm in Seattle. She is an attorney who has practiced employment law and advised senior executives on legal issues and diversity and inclusion strategies in higher education and corporate settings. Susan has served on the Board of the YWCA since 2002 and was Chair of the Board through the adoption of the YWCA’s current mission of “eliminating racism, empowering women.” Susan is also a Trustee at Children’s Hospital and an active member of The Links, Incorporated. Susan is married and has two adult children.
Cecilia Gonzalez moved from Mexico, where she was working in accounting and technology, to Yakima. She became involved at La Casa Hogar as a volunteer and told everyone she knew about La Casa. One day, her husband said, “It seems like La Casa is paying for you to be their spokesperson!” Cecilia thought that was a good idea and asked to work with the La Casa team in 2008. As Early Learning Center Coordinator, Cecilia is trained in early education and likes to know that “I’m contributing to the educational development of children and accompany mothers during their journeys.” Cecilia is a mother of two children.
Mozart Guerrier serves as Executive Director at 21 Progress. He has spent over ten years working on social justice issues as a project manager, organizer, social worker, and teaching artist. He was most recently the co-founder of a collective impact initiative called Healthy Neighbors at Upstate Medical University. Prior to Upstate, Mozart was the community manager at Aunt Bertha. Aunt Bertha’s mission is the transformation of access to need-based programs in the United States for youth and families. His career has focused on supporting grassroots leaders and social justice through technology, storytelling, organizing, and systems thinking.
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Session Listings Tracks:
Session 1 9:15 am – 10:30 am
ADVOCACY NOW!
NEW TOOLS
CHAMPIONING EQUITY
Room 401/402 Details on Page 14
Room 403 Details on Page 15
Room 404 Details on Page 16
If You Have No Voice, You Have No Power
10 Tips to Use Video to Fuel Your Fundraising and Marketing
HR and Equity: Strategies to live your values
Rene Murry
Chris Donaldson
Fleur Larson
Nancy Long
Melinda Hohlbein Loeffler
Keely Monroe
ROOM 401/402
Session 2
Table Talks
10:45 am – 11:45 am
Session 3 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
ROOM 403
Table Talks
MAIN HALL
ROOM 404
Table Talks
ROOM 404
ROOM 405
Stand for your Mission: How Board Members Can Create Change
We Didn't Start the Fire: Crisis Communications Tips from Woodland Park Zoo
Vernetta Walker
Gigi Allianic
Who's Knowledge Counts for Programs and Policies? Resistance as Diagnostic in Counterspace Settings
Rebecca Whitham Kerston Swartz
ROOM 401/402
Brett Coleman
ROOM 403
ROOM 404
Session 4
From "You" to "We": Fostering Ownership Among Your Donors
Communicating Impact with Strategic & Financial Dashboards
Leveraging Polarities to Promote Equity and Create Social Change
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Susan Howlett
Amy Stork
Terrill Thompson
ROOM 401/402
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Keonna Jackson
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ROOM 403
ROOM 404
LEADING IN TURBULENT TIMES
NETWORKED LEADERSHIP
TRANSFORMATION
Room 405 Details on Page 17
Room 406 Details on Page 18
Room 407/408 Details on Page 19
Minimum Wage: The Impact on Local Nonprofits
The New Network Leader: How to Grow Your Impact
Burned Out to Burning Brightly
Scott Allard
Jane Wei Skillern
Katie Howard
Hilary Wething
ROOM 405
ROOM 406
ROOM 407/408
Table Talks
ROOM 406
Getting to Pay Equity Kristen Spangler Marilyn Watkins
The Network Leader Mindset: Making the case with your Staff, Board, and Funders
Transforming nonprofits into democratic institutions Srijan Chakraborty
Marty Kooistra
ROOM 405
Pay-for-Performance & Social Impact Investing: An evaluation quandary Mary Kay Gugarty Teri Kook
ROOM 405
ROOM 406
ROOM 407/408
The Network Leader Roadmap: How to Make Complex Collaborations Work
Transformers: Stories of Leadership for Community Impact
David Ehlichman
Eric Stevens
David Sawyer
Miguel Maestas
ROOM 406
Kate Roosevelt
ROOM 407/408
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Table Talks
10:45 – 11:45 am
A popular feature of the conference, Table Talks gives you time to talk with peers about a topic of your choice. During Session #2 from 10:45am to 11:45am, please find a table with the topic you are most interested in discussing. These topics were chosen from those suggested by attendees during registration. Facilitators will help guide the discussions. The goal is simply to learn from your peers and come away with a better understanding of the topic.
Governance & Leadership
Main Hall
Advocacy
Room 406
TOPICS:
TOPICS:
Advocating for your mission
Board / executive director relationship
Fundraising and Advocacy: Can they go together?
Board development
Nonprofit advocacy in today’s politics
Building a culture of innovation ED roles and responsibilities Getting through organizational hard times Shared leadership
People
Room 406
TOPICS:
Supporting rural leaders
Attracting volunteers
Trends in the nonprofit sector
How to change a person’s view on a topic Self care
Nonprofit Management
Main Hall
TOPICS: Balancing capacity building and program development Building nonprofit capacity
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Transitioning from university to work Working across generations Working with homeless people Working with seniors
How to hire a consultant
Collaboration
I’m a new nonprofit -- what do I do?
TOPICS:
Mission statement writing
Building effective collaborations
Strategic planning
Working globally
Time management
Working with government agencies
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Resource Development
Room 405
Room 404
Equity TOPICS:
TOPICS: Building a culture of philanthropy
Collaboration and advancing equity
Building an online communication strategy
Equitable Funding for Community Driven Solutions
Funding programs in a time of federal budget cuts
Equity in hiring
Grant writing
Implementing race equity practice throughout your org Privilege & paternalism in nonprofits
Technology and Finance Tools
Room 405
Promoting pluralism in a polarized environment Strengthening POC-led organizations
TOPICS:
Transgender diversity
Alternative capital for nonprofits Finance & compliance for small nonprofits
White fragility and internalized white supremacy
Finance best practice
Women in nonprofits
Risk management & insurance Social media Technology in nonprofits Using Salesforce
Got a Nonprofit Question?
Visit the Nonprofit Q&A Center
The Nonprofit Question & Answer Center is a place to ask questions, explore challenges and find resources and referrals. Nonprofit specialists will be available to meet before and after sessions, and they look forward to good conversations about issues facing your organization and opportunities to address them. Stop by to ask, talk, share, and learn!
Brought to you by 501Commons, Northwest Nonprofit Resources, Washington Nonprofits and Wayfind.
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Booth # Exhibitor 1
Compass-360 Association
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Heffernan Insurance Brokers
Insurance
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Northwest University
Education
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HomeStreet Bank
Financial
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Masters of Nonprofit Leadership - Seattle University
Education
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Campion Foundation
Advocacy
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Clifton Larson Allen
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PayNorthwest
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Pacific Continental Bank
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Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy, UW Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
Technology
Accounting Human Resources Financial Education
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Non Profit Insurance Program (NPIP)
Insurance
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Northeastern University - Seattle
Education
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Washington Secretary of State - Corporations and Charities
State Gov.
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Bader Martin, PS
Accounting
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Verizon
Technology
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501(c) Agencies Trust
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Watson & McDonell, PLLC
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Office Depot
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Washington Nonprofits Learning
Advocacy
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501 Commons
Education
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Interconnection
Technology
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David Owen Hastings Design
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Printing Control
Printing/Supplies
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Telosa Software
Technology
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Nonprofit & Philanthropy Resource Center -Â King County Library System
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Well Done Events
Events
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Menucha Retreat & Conference Center
Events
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Foresters Financial
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Washington State Housing Finance Commission
State Gov.
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Professional and Continuing Education - University of Washington
Education
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Mindlink Resources, LLC
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UW Tacoma KeyBank Professional Development Center
Education
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Washington Department of Labor & Industries
State Gov.
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1st Security Bank of Washington
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Round Glass
Technology
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DonorPerfect Fundraising Software
Technology
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Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance (ANI)
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Spokane Convention Center
Events
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Green Latrine
Events
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Westby Associates, Inc.
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Insurance Accounting Printing/Supplies
Marketing
Education
Financial
Translation/Editing
Financial
Insurance
Strategy/Fundraising
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Nonprofit Q&A Center
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Membership Area
Registration
elevator elevator
Volunteer area
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Advocacy Now!
Room 401/402
Empower yourself and your board to lift your voices regarding the things that matter most to you and your constituents. Come away clear on the rules governing nonprofit advocacy, how to engage your board and how to tell your story to attract funding.
If you have no VOICE, you have no POWER Presenters: Keely Monroe, Alliance for Justice, Rene Murry, Youth Development Executives of King County (YDEKC) and Nancy Long, 501 Commons
Want to be more engaged in advocacy and public policy—beyond joining a coalition or attending a lobby day? This session will provide a primer to legal issues, such as the difference between advocacy and lobbying, 990 reporting, and the benefits of filing a 501(h) election. Whether you organize your constituents or walk the halls of power yourself to change laws and budgets, you want results, right? Learn how legislative and rulemaking processes really work, including making friends in high places and nesting your issues into existing policy debates. Exercises will provide tips on messaging and unpacking your policy goals.
Stand for Your Mission: How Board Members Can Create Change Presenter: Vernetta Walker, Chief Governance Officer, BoardSource
Stand for Your Mission is about unleashing the full potential of the nonprofit sector to create positive change through advocacy. The most effective charitable organizations have recognized that successful advocacy does not require stepping into the quagmire of partisan politics. It simply means using our voices as committed and informed champions for our missions. This
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session will provide you a powerful tool for facilitating ongoing board dialogue on your organization’s legal right to advocate and an opportunity for peer-to-peer sharing on how to bring about a sustainable shift in the understanding and expectations around board engagement in advocacy.
From “You” to “We”: Fostering Ownership Among Your Donors Presenter: Susan Howlett, Susan Howlett Consulting
If your organization’s fundraising strategy is characterized by asking people for money, you’re not positioning yourself for long-term sustainability. This highly interactive conversation will explore a more forward-thinking posture for your organization – one that prioritizes creating a sense of ownership among stakeholders who share your values. Find out how to shift your organization’s culture away from old-school fundraising to a model that’s more authentic, and more effective for the long haul.
New Tools
Room 403
Walk away with tools and strategies you can use immediately—learn how to use video effectively as a communications tool, how to manage public relations in a crisis, and how to create a financial dashboard for your nonprofit.
10 Tips to Use Video to Fuel Your Fundraising and Marketing
Communicating Impact with Strategic & Financial Dashboards
Presenter: Chris Donaldson, Melinda Hohlbein Loeffler,
Presenter: Amy Stork, Solid Ground Consulting
Hand Crank Films
Dashboards use simple graphics to help board members, funders and others instantly grasp key information about your organization’s strategic impact and financial status. This workshop will briefly explore the overall concept of “dashboarding,” showcase effective examples of dashboards from the non-profit community, and explore best practices for developing a dashboard for your organization. The session is focused on developing a dashboard for your board of directors, but the principles can be applied to dashboards for other audiences.
Want to know how to use your available resources to create and execute a powerful video strategy? Video is now mainstream, from social media to websites to fundraising banquets. You know video needs to be part of your marketing mix, but how do you tap into this tool to help drive engagement and reinforce your mission? We’ll cover the best tips for harnessing video across all budget and resource levels, including how to find your story. Video with compelling content is a powerful way to tell the unique, heart-driven message of your organization to help move the needle on your fundraising, outreach, awareness and donor goals!
We Didn’t Start the Fire: Crisis Communications Tips from Woodland Park Zoo Presenters: Gigi Allianic, Rebecca Whitham, Kerston Swartz, Woodland Park Zoo
We’ve all done a lot of training for crises. But sometimes a crisis actually happens. Then what? Woodland Park Zoo experts in crisis and media, digital and elected official outreach will lead a fun and creative exercise around crisis communications for nonprofits.
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Championing Equity
Room 404
Gain new skills to lead inclusively. Recognize and interrupt patterns of exclusion and promote equity in your nonprofit organization and your community.
HR and Equity: Strategies to Live your Values Presenters: Keonna Jackson & Fleur Larsen, HR and Equity Consulting Firm and Experience HR
Human Resource work has the potential to be a powerful arena for an organization to live its values. The core of HR is taking care of the humans who work hard to meet the mission and serve their clients. When this is in alignment with equity, transformation is possible. Everyone benefits when diversity and inclusion are at the center of HR. This workshop will review 6 key areas within HR to increase equity, live your organization’s values and better serve your community.
Who’s Knowledge Counts for Programs and Policies? Resistance as Diagnostic in Counterspace Settings Presenter: Brett Coleman, Western Washington University
This workshop provides tools for organizing around justice and liberation in social service contexts. Based in a grounded, data-driven extension of the Counterspace framework (Case & Hunter, 2012), it frames resistance as diagnostic of power. Organizational settings can reinforce oppression and marginalization through “patterns of exclusion” that reflect the power dynamics present in the broader society (Kivel, 2004). This is especially so given the influence of expert-driven service models and “best practices.” A counterspace can facilitate resistance to such oppression among marginalized people through “challenging processes” such as narrative identity work, relational transactions and acts of resistance. Such resistance can be diagnostic of power when we identify the ways in which specific challenging processes
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respond to specific patterns of exclusion, and in which domains. Identifying how challenging processes counter patterns of exclusion can be useful for identifying how organizational policies and practices reify oppression and marginalization in specific settings, and how such reification can be disrupted or transformed. Dr. Coleman will briefly describe the research that underlies his extended counterspace framework and will engage the audience in an exercise to apply it to their own organizational contexts. Participants will learn to identify challenging processes, patterns of exclusion, and the domains in which they interact, and will practice applying the implications of the former to action.
Leveraging Polarities to Promote Equity and Create Social Change Presenter: Terrill Thompson, CTThompson Consulting
Polarity Thinking has been used to support black students in a traditionally white school at the fall of apartheid in South Africa, and is being used to support black communities and police reform in the United States today. When we can see societal problems as a part of one or more key polarities, it increases the attainability, speed, and sustainability of our efforts to build the world we envision. Through story telling and interactive exercises, participants will literally get to stand in and experience each of the four quadrants of a polarity map, experience the “getting unstuck” process, and work in teams to create action steps to leverage the upsides of both sides of the polarity. (Polarities are ongoing, interdependent values (often opposites) that need each other over time in order to achieve a greater purpose.)
Leading in Turbulent Times
Room 405
How can nonprofit leaders prepare for policy changes in an ever-shifting landscape? How can you create a sustainable compensation plan that’s also in line with your organizational (and personal) values? What can we do, as a sector, to eliminate the gender pay gap? Will pay-for-performance and impact investing alter your plans in terms of funding and evaluation? Participants will get perspectives on these questions from leading academics, and nonprofit/ foundation executives who are working on, and through, these issues every day. Expect these sessions to be thought-provoking and interactive.
Minimum Wage: The Impact on Local Nonprofits
Pay-for-Performance & Social Impact Investing: An evaluation quandary
Presenters: Scott Allard and Hilary Wething, UW Evans
Presenter: Mary Kay Gugerty, UW Evans School of
School of Public Policy & Governance
Public Policy & Governance and Teri Kook, Family
The Evans School of Public Policy & Governance’s Minimum Wage Study is looking at the impact of Seattle’s minimum wage, including how it is impacting nonprofits. The country is watching as Seattle, and Washington, trail blaze into unchartered territory. Researchers involved in the study will share what they’ve learned so far and address questions like: How might the increase impact nonprofits going forward?
Impact Network
Getting to Pay Equity
Increasingly, nonprofits are being paid for performance. This fits into a larger, longer-standing trend of funders asking grantees to prove their impact with data. As demands on nonprofits to prove their impact increase, how can you get ahead of the curve? In this interactive discussion participants will grapple with what these trends in impact evaluation and pay-for-performance mean for their organization.
Presenters: Kristen Spangler, Women’s Funding Alliance and Marilyn Watkins, Economic Opportunity Institute
As a sector, we are committed to equity in all forms. However, when it comes to pay, we are not living our values. A disproportionately high number of women, especially women of color, work in the nonprofit sector, so we feel (and live) the impact of the gender gap even more acutely than other sectors. What can we do—as employers, leaders, and equity advocates—to eliminate the gender pay gap?
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Networked Leadership
Room 406
The challenges we face today are so complex and of such magnitude that we are compelled to work differently. By working collectively in networks, nonprofit organizations can leverage their respective competencies and significantly scale the impact of their work. This conference track will include a series of three linked workshops that outline the principles of network leadership and present ways to transform your own thinking and the way your organization functions. The workshops will be presented by four leading thinkers in the field of Network Leadership, providing participants with research, examples of networks, tips for implementation both internally and externally, and supporting resources. Presented in partnership with The Housing and Development Consortium of Seattle-King County and Converge.
The New Network Leader: How to Grow Your Impact
The Network Leader Roadmap: How to Make Complex Collaborations Work
Presenter: Jane Wei-Skillern, University of California
Presenters: David Ehlichman and David Sawyer, Converge
Berkeley’s Haas School of Business
Building an effective impact network, or any form of complex collaboration, requires the ability to convene the right people, build trust early to find common ground, and set the stage for long-term success. Learn the tactics of trust and other critical practices that make network leaders successful when designing, building, and managing complex collaborations both within and across organizations.
Professor Jane Wei-Skillern will present the findings of over 15 years of researching non-profit organizations that achieved scale through collaboration and use of impact networks. Actual case examples will be shared along with key counterintuitive principles that have universally characterized successful nonprofit networks. Resources for further learning and exploration will be shared.
The Network Leader Mindset: Making the Case With Your Staff, Board, and Funders Presenter: Marty Kooistra, Housing and Development Consortium of Seattle-King County
Leading with a network mindset can be challenging as the principles a leader relies on can seem contrary to what some believe is effective leadership. Characteristics of network leaders will be shared. Navigating the resistance a leader might face from Board or staff and bringing everyone along in a network mindset will be explored with participants.
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Transformation
Room 407/408
Take away insights to enhance your own wellness, democratize your organization and lead in a time of rapid change or crisis.
Burned Out to Burning Brightly Presenter: Katie Howard, KH Consulting
We work in the nonprofit sector because we want to make our world a better place. But sometimes we put our mission before our personal well-being with dire results: over-work, insomnia, health problems, depression, total burnout. This workshop explores practical steps we can take as individuals and organizations to nourish our most precious resource: our people! Participants will examine their personal and organizational habits around four pillars of wellness that can sustain us as we work toward our mission. Everyone will leave the workshop with simple, effective changes we can make right now – without spending a penny.
Transforming Nonprofits into Democratic institutions Presenter: Srijan Chakraborty, Hunger Intervention Program (HIP)
How do we create an organization where every employee feels truly important, has ownership of their work, and is invested in the success of the organization? While good leadership can make a lot of that possible, it’s more important to make structural shifts such that we aren’t always relying on that one perfect leader. Nonprofits value equity and empowerment of employees and clients. Yet, we do surprisingly little within our agencies to put those values in action. Transforming our workplace into a participatory democratic space, where employees have a voice in the decisions that affect them, has clear benefits for both employees and the organization. This is borne out by social studies research. This workshop will challenge people to rethink the structure of our
workplaces. In this interactive workshop we’ll confront our misgivings about re-imagining our workplaces as thriving participatory democratic places, expand our understanding of democratic organizational structure, and learn some tools to start shifting the balance of power within our organizations.
Transformers: Stories of Leadership for Community Impact Presenters: Kate Roosevelt, Collins Group, a division of Campbell & Company with Eric Stevens, Kitsap Humane Society & Miguel Maestas, El Centro de la Raza
Throughout their careers, nonprofit leaders are called upon to seize opportunities and calm crises that can profoundly affect their organizations and the people they serve – for better or for worse. One’s ability to successfully build community partnerships, stabilize finances and staff, and anticipate and respond to a rapidly changing external environment can make all the difference in whether an organization grows and thrives or withers on the vine. This moderated panel discussion will feature seasoned executive directors who have seen it all…and done it all! From pulling an animal welfare group back from the brink of extinction to creating a model for community-oriented affordable housing, our panelists will share their experiences of leading organizations through profound periods of change and transformation – all in aid of serving their communities in deeper and more impactful ways.
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Action Planning – What are your next steps?
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Workshop Take Aways Workshop 1: Name one take away:
What one action will you take?
Who will help you or play a role in this action?
Workshop 2 – Table Talks: Name one take away:
What one action will you take?
Who will help you or play a role in this action?
Workshop 3: Name one take away:
What one action will you take?
Who will help you or play a role in this action?
Workshop 4: Name one take away:
What one action will you take?
Who will help you or play a role in this action?
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Be a Part of the Idea Exchange Sponsored by 3M Visit the idea wall in the first floor lobby to contribute your thoughts to our Idea Exchange. Conference participants are encouraged to express themselves by responding to several strategic questions using Post-It notes. Through the day, stop back by to see the wisdom of the crowd.
About Washington Nonprofits Washington Nonprofits makes sure that nonprofits have what they need to succeed. We help nonprofits learn, increase their influence, and connect to people and resources. We are Washington’s state association for all nonprofits. For more information, please visit our website and our calendar of events: www.washingtonnonprofits.org. Membership Our members are the foundation of our organization. As a member, you make it possible for us to expand learning, elevate voices, and connect people. Each member contributes to our collective power. By joining together, nonprofits in Washington are strong, effective and heard. Stop by our table to learn more!
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23rd Annual Washington State Nonprofit Conference
Thank You This conference would not have been possible without the support of many individuals who provided advice and volunteered their time. Special thanks to the following people: Terrie Ashby-Scott Lydia Caudill Noreen Elbert Maureen Emerson Feit Matt Fikejs Mary Kay Gugerty
Aimie Kawai Marty Kooistra Fleur Larson Nancy Long Erica Mills Jodi Nishioka
Lindsay Ohab Sarah Tran Hia Yin Yin Waing Nancy Yamamoto
We appreciate the help from many students, room hosts and other volunteers who contributed to this day.
Washington Nonprofits – Staff Laura Pierce, Interim Executive Director – laura@washingtonnonprofits.org Nancy Bacon, Director of Learning and Engagement – nancy@washingtonnonprofits.org JoAnn Crabtree, Data Manager – data@washingtonnonprofits.org Tom Lang, Learning Program Manager – tom@washingtonnonprofits.org Justin Craig, Membership Services Coordinator – membership@washingtonnonprofits.org Marisol Morales, Learning Coordinator – marisol@washingtonnonprofits.org Carson Rennekamp, Administrative Support – learning@washingtonnonprofits.org Administrative support for Washington Nonprofits is provided by OrgSupport.
We would also like to recognize current and past board members of Washington Nonprofits for their vision and commitment to strengthening Washington’s nonprofit sector.
Current Board Members
Past Board Members
Lee Harper, Chair Terrie Ashby-Scott Sheri Emerson Sandy Gill Lawson Knight Trula Nicholas
Joan Alway Putnam Barber Alison Carl White Elizabeth Clawson David Harrison Liz Heath
Jeannette Privat Nancy Yamamoto
Anne Keeney Jeanne Kojis Mikel Samaniego Naria Santa Lucia Pam Toal Sarah Voelzke
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You make our communities healthy and strong for all. You work hard to raise money, build a great board, tell your story, and steward your resources. You inspire us every day. Thank you.
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