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FPN Programs Community Foundations of Florida Winter 2012 Meeting February 1, 2012 Audience: CFF’s Winter 2012
meeting is intended for the chief executives of Florida community
foundations. The meeting is open to organizations that are members of Florida Philanthropic
Network.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:00 pm Wednesday, February 1, 2012 9:30 - 9:40 am
CEOs of community foundations value the concept of strategy, and report that they are using strategy, according to a 2011 report by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, "Rhetoric Versus Reality: A Strategic Disconnect at Community Foundations." However, the report claims that few CEOs actually use strategy, as CEP defines it, in their donor or programmatic work. In this session, one of the authors of the CEP report, Ellie Buteau, will present some of the report's key findings and engage participants in a conversation around what it means to be a strategic community foundation. The most popular part of every CFF gathering, this is an opportunity for community foundation CEOs to update the group on a recent activity or achievement of your foundation, pose questions to the group and engage in informal discussion and sharing. Each foundation should be prepared to share, in no more than two minutes, one or two "what works" ideas from any area of the foundation. Bring hand-outs and examples to share.
Community foundations face a somewhat unique
situation in that - more often than their corporate, independent or
family foundation counterparts - they find themselves at the center
of needing to balance the wishes of their donors with the needs of
their communities and the desires of their own boards. Critical to
leadership is skillfully managing these competing priorities and,
where necessary, putting key relationships and approaches at risk in
the service of progress and innovation. This is particularly true
during times of uncertainty, where current business models and
practices are inadequate to the challenges facing foundations, where
decisions to engage in partnership and risk-taking must be made
without complete information, and where nobody can know for certain
what the results will be. In this session, Marty Linsky, an
international expert on adaptive leadership, will facilitate a
candid, interactive and experiential discussion and activities about
the risks and resources for adapting to a persistently complex and
dynamic community foundation landscape. Participants will have the
opportunity to bring and work on their own leadership challenges
during the session, as well as get advice and learn from their
peers.
Host Hotel The host hotel for the CFF Meeting and FPN's 2012 Statewide Summit on Philanthropy is The Waldorf Astoria Orlando Hotel, part of the Hilton/Waldorf Bonnet Creek complex, 14200 Bonnet Creek Resort Lane, Orlando FL 32821, 407-597-5500. FPN has negotiated a group rate of $179, which includes:
For questions on registration and logistics, please contact Olivia Cortez-Figueroa, 813-983-7399. For questions on the program, please contact Maggie Osborn, 813-983-7397. |
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Ellie
Buteau, Ph.D. is Vice President–Research for the Center
for Effective Philanthropy, where she leads the design, execution
and analysis of CEP's research and data related to foundation
performance and effectiveness. She has co-authored all of CEP's
research reports since 2005, including Working with Grantees: The
Keys to Success and Five Program Officers Who Exemplify Them,
Essentials of Foundation Strategy, and More than Money: Making a
Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant. She has also authored
or co-authored a number of opinion pieces, blog posts, and
articles on issues related to foundation effectiveness. Buteau is
an expert in quantitative and qualitative research design and
analysis and has led analyses for research projects at Weill
Medical College of Cornell University, Tufts University and a
variety of nonprofit organizations. She has a Ph.D. in
Social-Personality Psychology with a focus on Methodology from
City University of New York Graduate Center and a BA from McGill
University in Montreal.
Marty
Linsky is Co-Founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates
(CLA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has taught at Harvard's
Kennedy School for over 25 years. He served as Chief Secretary and
Counselor to Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld; Assistant Director,
Harvard's Institute of Politics; Executive Editor, The Advocates,
PBS; Editorial Writer and Reporter, The Boston Globe; Editor, The
Real Paper; Assistant Minority Leader, Massachusetts House of
Representatives; and Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General.
Linksy has published widely, in print and online. He has authored or
co-authored 10 books including, with Ron Heifetz, the best-selling
Leadership on the Line (Harvard Business Press 2002) and, with
Heifetz and Alexander Grashow, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
(Harvard Business Press 2009). He is a graduate of Williams College
and Harvard Law School. 