The Connecticut Association of Nonprofits’s 7th Annual Conference is built around the theme of: Imagine. Innovate. Impact. Keynote speaker William Strickland, the President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation will address the Art of Leadership and the Business of Social Innovation, in what is being billed as a simple, optimistic message for leaders: give people the tools they need, treat them with respect, and they will perform miraculous deeds.
Other speakers include Ami Dar, Executive Director of Action Without Borders / Idealist, who will address Hope & Hype on the Web: How your organization can make the most of all the tools we have at our fingertips. I saw Ami Dar speak last year at the CT conference and he inspired me to think about how to use more online tools – and as a result, I have been using Google Docs for collaboration.
Marshall Howard will discuss how to Build More Capacity With the Power of Collaborative Relationships, which is something that I am a big proponent of. Collaboration is a key habit of a nonprofits’s success. Read about other habits of success for a nonprofit.
I attended the conference last year and found it to be a useful venue for learning more about the issues facing nonprofits. Read about the take-aways from Daniel Malloy’s speech about Facing the Recession from last year’s conference.
The conference will be held on Monday, November 23, 2009 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven, CT. More info on the CT Association of Nonprofits 7th Annual Nonprofit Conference.
Let me know what you think of the conference.
