10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
Concurrent Sessions Block A
Choose one of the following sessions:
A1 Forging New Futures: Foundations as Partners in Social Change
Presenters: Colette Murphy, Metcalf Foundation; James Stauch, Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation
How do we find new ways of thinking and talking about tough, messy problems such as poverty, environmental degradation and the role of Aboriginal peoples and marginalized regions in Confederation? This forum will explore how foundations, communities and our larger society can work in creative ways to meet modern challenges and sow the seeds for a more sustainable future. It begins with a case study of foundations partnering with communities against poverty, resulting in Ontario's first-ever poverty-reduction strategy, legislation and the recently announced Social Assistance Review. It concludes with a look at how one foundation's longstanding focus on Arctic Canada has built sufficient social and political capital to permit it to step into often controversial public policy issues through cultivating grassroots perspectives.
A2 Next Generation Leaders: Are You Ready for Them?
Presenters: Lynne Toupin, HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector; Justin Ho, United Community Services Co-op; Martin Garber-Conrad, Edmonton Community Foundation
How prepared are foundations to attract the next generation of leaders? As Baby Boomers retire, a new group of talented executives – with their own approach to the non-profit sector – will need to fill these senior positions. Where will foundations find their future leaders? Are they grooming existing talent for leadership positions? The HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector shares the findings of two recently completed studies about next-generation leaders and their recruitment. A panel of emerging young leaders will offer their perspectives on this pressing issue. This debate is sure to highlight the challenges and opportunities of this situation.
A3 Investment Trends
Presenter: Colin Sinclare, McLean Budden
Still reeling from the recent global credit crisis? In this interactive session, we consider customized policies to improve financial sustainability. Focusing on the coordination of investment portfolio risk controls with gifting policy, this session will inform your foundation’s decision making and help you grow endowed assets.
A4 Sparking Social Entrepreneurship: Community Foundations and Social Venture Partners
Presenters: Dan Thorburn, The Calgary Foundation; Ruth Jones, Social Venture Partners International
Community foundations often act as incubators for innovative responses to social issues – instigating, supporting and collaborating. They and organizations such as Social Venture Partners can provide a valuable entry point for people in our communities who want to be engaged in social change. This session explores various approaches to initiating change through social entrepreneurship.
A5 Bringing Business to the Table: Exploring Models for Effective Corporate Philanthropy
Presenter: Diane Solinger, Entrepreneurs Foundation
Based on the experience of the California-based Entrepreneurs Foundation, this session will look at corporate philanthropy from a variety of angles, sharing best practices, trends and models, as well as examples of how community foundations in the United States are working with corporations to meet local needs. Participants will review case studies featuring various scenarios, and work collaboratively on potential strategies.
A6 On the Record: Why a City Newspaper and a Community Foundation Joined Forces to Fight Poverty
Presenters: Terry Cooke, Hamilton Community Foundation; Dana Robbins, The Hamilton Spectator
Building awareness and understanding of a community's most pressing issues is critical to a community foundation's work. While securing coverage is challenging, the media's role is crucial in a successful awareness campaign. Find out how and why The Hamilton Spectator agreed to take on a leadership role, and engage with Hamilton Community Foundation in addressing poverty in the community. This initiative culminated in Code Red, the paper's groundbreaking investigative reporting series that brought troubling neighbourhood disparity to the front page, and finally to the partnership with Vital Signs as an ongoing awareness building tool.
A7 The Community Foundation Business Model: Responding to Changing Times
Presenters: Rebecca Graves, CF Insights, FSG Social Impact Advisors; Barbara McInnes, Scott Wilson, Community Foundation of Ottawa
Community foundations are responding to a changing philanthropic landscape, pursuing new opportunities for leadership and impact and navigating the reverberations of the global economic crisis. This session will use research and case studies to illustrate how a variety of community foundations, big and small, are adjusting the model. Presenters will look at the new role of endowments, new sources of revenue, fee structures and spending policies. Attendees will discuss the vulnerabilities and opportunities for business model innovation facing today’s community foundation leaders.
A8 Marshaling Resources: Our U.S. Colleagues Share Their Leadership Journey
Moderator: Deborah Ellwood, CFLeads
Presenters: Veronica Blake, Placer County Community Foundation, California and Felecia Jones, Black Belt Community Foundation, Alabama
At their best, community foundations engage people from all backgrounds to address their common challenges and then marshal the resources that are needed to build strong, healthy communities. But learning how to develop this expertise is difficult and leads to questions of how to engage your board, staff the work, pay for it and measure success. In this session, you will hear from two US based community foundations who will share stories from their own community leadership journey, providing keen insights and universal lessons along the way. This session was developed by CFLeads, a U.S. initiative that helps community foundations advance their community leadership practice.
A9 Getting Environment out of its Silo: Grantmaking for Sustainability
Moderator: Sandy Houston, Metcalf Foundation
Panel: Ross McMillan, Tides Canada; Linda Coady, Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC; Carolyn Taylor, Cape Farewell
Here’s your chance to explore the need for a more integrated approach to environmental problems and solutions. This session will highlight funders who are tackling thorny environmental issues in unique ways that also consider social justice, economic, health and cultural concerns for more lasting solutions.
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2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. |
Concurrent Sessions Block B
Choose one of the following sessions:
B1 Inspiring Young Donors
Presenters: Jennifer Litchfield, The Winnipeg Foundation; Cathy Auld, The Winnipeg Foundation
A recent survey shows young people under the age of 35 have the capacity, natural networks and desire to give much more than they already do. So how can you engage younger people to become donors, give closer to their capacity, and become active agents in the work of community foundations? Our presenters have some great ideas for you.
B2 With a Little Help From My Friends: The Power of Corporate and Community Partnerships
Presenters: Kerry Longpré, The Calgary Foundation; Christi Cruz, TELUS Community Affairs
Learn first-hand what it takes to break out of your silo to craft a truly successful corporate/community partnership directly from the people who built a successful collaboration between The Calgary Foundation and TELUS. Discover how they expanded the conversation beyond dollars and cents to partner on community leadership initiatives, including charitable sector sustainability projects and the groundbreaking Calgary’s Youth Vital Signs . The team will present practical ideas on making strategic connections; building innovative, mutually beneficial plans; and executing the initiative.
B3 Show and Telling: The Power of Stories to Make a Difference
Presenters: Catherine Clement, Vancouver Foundation; LuAnn Lovlin, The Winnipeg Foundation
Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools for capturing people’s attention – and their hearts. It’s also the best way for community foundations to illustrate the impact of their work. Here we explore how to build a successful story and the factors that inspire people to give. Besides helping participants to identify and frame their own organization’s stories, the workshop will examine inexpensive new ways to capture and distribute stories to a wide audience.
B4 Investment Policies and Practices for Smaller Community Foundations
Presenter: Andrew Chunilall, London Community Foundation
Recent market volatility has prompted many community foundations to critically examine their investment policies and practices to ensure prudent and responsible stewardship of funds. Here, staff and board members of small- and mid-sized foundations will have an opportunity to explore the core components of this process.
B5 More Than Money: Pro Bono Community Advice
Presenters: Marg Rose, Deirdre Roberts and Justin Stephenson, Victoria Foundation
A “more than money” service at Victoria Foundation successfully refers community consultants to hosted organizations, pro bono. Hear from beneficiaries about the value of this program, meet some of the advisors, and receive a template to adapt to your own foundation’s work in this area.
B6 WINGS Community Foundation Global Status Report (GSR 2010)
Presenters: Vera Billen, King Baudouin Foundation, Belgium; Helena Monteiro, WINGS, Brazil
This interactive session will explore ways the 2010 Global Status Report on Community Foundations can be used to promote community philanthropy in your region and country. The GSR 2010 is an initiative of Worldwide Initiatives for Granmaker Support (WINGS). An overview of this new web-based resource will be provided, highlighting key facts, stories and insights. Working in small groups, participants will explore questions such as: How do we leverage the statistics, data and stories of local community leadership to assist our own foundation’s exploration of leadership? How do we use this material to engage with donors, policy makers, and community leaders? Hear from practitioners on ways they have used the 2010 GSR in their foundation’s work. You can access the resource on line at www.wings-community-foundation-report.com
B7 Rethinking Transparency and Accountability: What’s Possible Through Technology.
Presenters: Owen Charters, CanadaHelps and Lucia Dellagnelo, Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis, Brazil
We’ve all thought about how to be more transparent and accountable. In Florianopolis, Brazil, a new Transparency Portal hosted by the community foundation has engaged community agencies, provided the foundation with a tool, and demonstrated community leadership.In this session you will learn about how the portal was developed in a participative way and how it is now serving the community. And you will have a chance to discuss, with a leader from a Canadian organization, how new tools could shape the way we will demonstrate accountability and transparency in the future and some of the challenges and opportunities that might come up along the way.
B8 How Online Giving is Changing Philanthropy
Moderator: Betsy Martin, CFC and Small Change Fund
Presenters: Ruth Richardson, Small Change Fund; Tracey Vavrek, Community Foundation of Greater Grande Prairie
Is your foundation struggling with how to use online giving to reach out to new donors? If so you’re not alone. Online giving – especially online micro-philanthropy – is changing the way people give. What are the implications for community foundations and how can they harness these new technologies?
This session features Small Change Fund, an award-winning, made-in-Canada global giving marketplace, that identifies, vets, and helps everyday Canadians invest in grassroots projects across the country. Join a facilitated conversation between Small Change Fund and a leading community foundation to learn about the state of online giving across Canada, and what foundations can do to reach donors through digital marketplaces and social media.
B9 Gimme Shelter: Addressing the Youth Homelessness Crisis
Presenters: Catherine Hume, Vi Nguyen, and Puneet Grewal, Vancouver Foundation; Michelle Fortin, Watari Youth, Family and Community Services
Vancouver Foundation walks us through its Youth Homelessness Initiative, which has been addressing the issue since 2007 through granting, convening and partnering activities. The panel will include foundation staff and a young person who was supported by a partner agency to end her own housing crisis. There will be an opportunity to explore strategies used by other communities to ensure that all youth have proper homes.
B10 Beyond Community Kitchens and Gardens: Moving from Silos to Systems in Food-related Grantmaking
Presenters: Virginia Clarke, Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders; Sandy Houston, Metcalf Foundation; Derek Gent, Vancity Community Foundation
In this panel discussion, key players explore the multiple dimensions of food-related granting, from supporting local food and sustainable land-use practices to addressing community economic development and public health. Audience interaction will be encouraged as we address questions around increasing the likelihood of food-related grantmaking leading to broader and more lasting changes; the tendency to treat environment, health, economics/trade and agriculture as unrelated issues; assessing the impact of this type of grantmaking; and pitfalls in taking a broader benefits perspective.
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