Conference Program
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| Wednesday May 11 Pre-conference |
Thursday May 12 |
Friday May 13 |
Saturday May 14 |
Full Schedule |
Saturday, May 14 |
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7:00 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. |
Breakfast for Annual General Meeting |
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. |
Community Foundations of Canada’s Annual General Meeting & Tribute to Monica Patten |
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. |
Breakfast (for those not attending CFC AGM) |
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. |
Morning Plenary In Conversation with Monica Patten Together Monica, Barry and Tim will look back at how community foundations have become part of the fabric of Canadian communities, how Canada’s story has been woven into the growth of community philanthropy around the world, and what should be remembered by our movement going forward. |
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
Choose one of the following sessions: D1 Leveraging Community Knowledge In answer to the recent economic crisis, community foundations are creating new tools of engagement for sharing knowledge about high-impact organizations. These include Toronto Community Foundation’s Community Knowledge Centre and Vancouver Foundation’s Book of Opportunities, both of which position community foundations as knowledge hubs and engage donors and other stakeholders in a collaborative approach to funding important community initiatives. This session will provide tool-kit tips, as well as insight into the vision, process and impact from both donor and staff perspectives. Indeed, by showcasing dynamic success stories from organizations working on pressing community needs, we can better engage donors on a journey towards transformational philanthropy. D2 Ready, Set, Go: True Sport Pilot Project Learn about the True Sport movement and its contribution to making our communities better places, including an overview of the True Sport Report: What Sport Can Do, and a presentation on the data to date from the Community Foundations of Canada-True Sport Asset-Based Community Development Pilot Project. D3 Strategic Relationship Management in a World of Opportunity Relationships are the life blood of community foundations. The ability to manage strategic relationships effectively, whether with a donor, another foundation, a governmental entity, a business or a grantee, is critical to a community foundation’s success. The ability to collaborate effectively is also tied to how well one manages strategic relationships. Participants in this session will begin by mapping out and analyzing their foundation’s strategic relationships. They will be asked to identify the challenges of managing those relationships. They will then be introduced to one model for Strategic Relationship Management (SRM)©. Using the model, they will get an opportunity to identify one strategic partner with whom they’d like to develop a new and/or better relationship and, begin the process of developing a more strategic approach to that relationship. D4 Keeping Up With the Times: Philanthropy’s Role in a Changing World Change is all around us. Demographic shifts to unsettling world events to technology and how it changes giving are just a few of the news items we hear and read about all the time. These global issues often play themselves out locally but we are sometimes unsure about what they mean for us and how we can respond, or if in fact a response is needed. Join us for a conversation with two global thinkers about the role of philanthropy in our fast changing world. They will share their own experiences, raise important questions about what they see coming down the road, and invite us to reflect on our own responses to our role in a fast changing world. D5 Assessing Impact: It’s Not the Tool, It’s the Tool Wielder! You want to understand the impact of your work, but don’t know which of the hundreds of available impact assessment tools, if any, is right for you. Not to worry. Armed with some key concepts and a database called TRASI (Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact), you can chart an efficient and effective approach to assessing impact that meets your needs. The key? Don’t let the tools you choose drive the process. Tools can’t set goals, choose strategies, or learn lessons. In the final analysis, they don’t even assess impact. Guess who does? Get on top of impact assessment in this thought-provoking, interactive session. D6 The Social Media Squad: Lessons from the Laboratory Get the real goods on linking social media to your organization’s goals and mission from this session with CFC’s Social Media Squad, a collection of social-media practitioners who will be recording, commenting and conversing about all the goings-on during CFC 2011 Conference. The conference will act as a living laboratory and serve as one of several case studies exploring how to integrate social media into your communications and marketing plan. The session will also feature stories, best practices and other tips from community philanthropy professionals. D7 Community Foundation Collaborations: Passing Fad or Promising Practice? Is collaboration just a buzz word, or is there genuine value in activating strategic alliances among community foundations? Around the world, community foundations are initiating partnerships to deepen their impact, extend their reach, and increase their capacity and sustainability. Recent experience and research demonstrates that, whether well established or just starting out, every foundation can benefit from partnering with peers. This interactive session will highlight examples of administration, infrastructure, marketing, communications and program partnerships, as well as community funds and mergers. |
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
Closing Lunch Plenary Cultural Performance: Kunaka Speaker: Michael Furdyk, Co-Founder and Director of Technology, TakingITGlobal.org Using technology to make positive social change is just one of the topics Michael will talk about. His optimistic message, building on our conference theme of “A World of Opportunity”, will send you home inspired and motivated. This speaking appearance is made possible by Birch Hill Equity Partners |
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