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Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Lessons from Partners for a Competitive Workforce

2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern

Partners for a Competitive Workforce (PCW), a workforce intermediary in Cincinnati, OH, recently launched a new apprenticeship program in manufacturing in partnership with regional manufacturers, educational institutions, and workforce investment boards. In this session, PCW will share the lessons they have learned (and are documenting through a National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP) Strategic Venture Fund grant) in the development, funding, and implementation of the machine operator and welding apprenticeship programs. Specifically, PCW will share the best practices and strategies they incorporated to improve recruiting, candidate quality, employer referral processes, and employer matching to maximize candidate fit and to eliminate employer poaching. An overview of the registered apprenticeship model will also be included.

Panelists:

  • Stephen Tucker, Senior Manager of Industry Partnerships, Partners for a Competitive Workforce
  • Sherry Kelley Marshall, President, Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board
  • Sam Bellamy, American Fan, Welding Employer
  • Chelsee Reese, Welding Apprentice
  • Jeff Hodges, Thyssenkrupp Bilstein, Machine Operator Employer
  • Christopher Kinney, Thyssenkrupp Bilstein, Machine Operator Apprentice
  • Jim Bax, Cincinnati State, Education Provider

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Or register for the full 2014 NNSP Virtual Conference (more details below)

Wednesday, December 3

11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific
2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern		Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Lessons from Partners for a Competitive Workforce

Thursday, December 4

9:00am to 10:30am Pacific
12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern		Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Policy and Practice Lessons from WRTP/BIG STEP
 
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific
2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern		“Fair Chance” Practices to Support Employment of People with Criminal Records

Friday, December 5

9:00am to 10:30am Pacific
12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern		Dealing with "The New Scarlet Letter": What Research Tells Us about Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
 
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific
2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern		Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Criminal Records – Lessons from Per Scholas and New Century Careers

Tuesday, December 9

11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific
2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern		Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from JobsFirstNYC’s Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)

Wednesday, December 10

10:00am to 11:30am Pacific
1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern		Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from Per Scholas and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund

Thursday, December 11

9:00am to 10:30am Pacific
12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern		Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways - Policy Lessons from the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
 
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific
2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern		Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Lessons from Towards Employment's WorkAdvance Initiative
 
New sessions and speakers are still being added. To stay informed about the virtual conference and other news of interest to sector initiatives, subscribe to NNSP’s free updates now.

 

A New Anchor Mission for a New Century

2pm to 3:30pm Eastern Time

Learn how community foundations are building community wealth

This webinar will present and discuss the new report from the Democracy Collaborative, "A New Anchor Mission for a New Century: Community foundations deploying all resources to build community wealth."

The webinar will highlight the best practices and lessons learned by leading community foundations, and provide a framework for audience members who want to better use their community foundation's institutional and financial resources to build community wealth.

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In the report, Marjorie Kelly and Violeta Duncan explore how community foundations across the country are embracing a new mission as key local anchors, catalyzing transformative community economic development and mission-focused investment.

Profiling 30 cutting-edge community foundations—the "Innovative 30"—the report offers an exciting snapshot of an emerging trend, one driven both by the need in communities across the country for new thinking about seemingly intractable economic problems, and by the need for community foundations to assert their uniquely place-based capacity to convene local stakeholders and align local resources in an era of growing competition for donor-advised funds from national foundations linked to commercial banks and investment houses.

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In coversation with:

  • Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects, The Democracy Collaborative
  • Violeta Duncan, Community Development Associate, The Democracy Collaborative
  • Sandy Wiggins, Principal, Consilience, LLC; Chair, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); and Senior Advisor, RSF Social Finance
  • Patrick Horvath, Director of Economic Opportunity, Director of Strengthening Neighborhoods, The Denver Foundation

Living the New Economy Global Live

Redefining the nature of economy and value

LNE Global Live is your access point to creating a new economic reality. It’s a conversation and exploration of new ideas, new ways of living to create abundance, equality and sustainability.

Living the New Economy is hosting a week of events in Victoria and Globally through Online streaming on Nov8-12, 2014. LNE is designed to energize, accelerate and celebrate the people, institutions and collaborations that are bringing a new economic movement to life. These events will inspire new collaborations, facilitate new project partnerships, accelerate the work of social entrepreneurs, and showcase local innovation.

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2014 Theme: Integration

The “new economy”, along with many of its facets (shared spaces, alternative currencies, impact investing, gift economy, indigenomics, permaculture and so on), is an EMERGING paradigm. As such, most of us are just opening our eyes to many of these practices and principles, and even many of the global leaders in these conversations have few peers to look to in their respective fields. As an emerging set of ideas, practices & distinctions, the new economy builds momentum and gains social traction through our individual and collective INTEGRATION of its principles.

Throughout the five days of LNE Global Live 2014, speakers and audience members will be encouraged to notice how these facets weave together to form a visionary whole, and we will be encouraging all participants to integrate more and more new economy practices into their own lives. Each speaker will talk about the ways they integrate the new economy into their own lives, business and communities and talk about what they don’t integrate yet and why. We will talk about things that can be done quickly and things that take time.

This year we wish to ensure that all our participants, whether joining us in Victoria or from elsewhere in the world via livestream, end up with lots of ideas, information, links & specific access points to INTEGRATE these new principles into their lives – in a nature & scope that feels most aligned. We’ll be giving you lots of different ways to INTEGRATE the new economy into your world – whether you think of yourself as a new economy rookie.. or global leader.. you’re going to learn something new. THANK YOU for your interest in helping this conversation gain momentum! We’ll see you at LNE GLOBAL LIVE 2014.

Business Models for Sustainability and Scale

November 13
11 a.m. - 12 noon PST /
2 - 3 p.m. EST  

Business models for sustainability and scale are made, not born. Nonprofits develop strategic plans, but often leave the business model out. This session will outline what a business model is, how it fits into a strategic planning process and why building a strong business model is vital to building a higher impact, sustainable nonprofit. Speakers will share examples of different approaches to business models and some of the challenges nonprofits face in developing them.

This session will be presented by:

  • Alexa Cortes Culwell, founder and managing director, Philanthropy Futures; visiting practitioner, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
  • Antony Bugg-Levine, chief executive officer, Nonprofit Finance Fund
  • Janet Gless, president, New Teacher Center 
Alexa Cortes Culwell is the founder and managing director of Philanthropy Futures, a strategic advisory firm that works alongside leaders to chart the course for creating positive social change. The firm develops vision, strategic direction, and business models, energized by effective meeting design and facilitation, as well as leadership coaching to support implementation. Cortes Culwell also serves as a visiting practitioner at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. For nearly two decades, Cortes Culwell served as a foundation chief executive officer guiding philanthropic investments focused on building capacity and scale, first at the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation and then at the Stupski Foundation. She holds a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in nonprofit management from the University of San Francisco.
 
Antony Bugg-Levine is chief executive officer of Nonprofit Finance Fund, a national nonprofit and financial intermediary that unlocks the potential of mission-driven organizations through tailored investment, strategic advice, and transformational ideas. In this role, he oversees more than $225 million of investment capital and a national consulting practice, and works with a range of philanthropic, private sector, and government partners to develop and implement innovative approaches to financing social change. He is the coauthor of the newly released Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference. A former consultant with McKinsey & Co., he also teaches at Columbia Business School.
 
Janet Gless is president of New Teacher Center, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers and school leaders. A cofounder of NTC, Gless has overseen the organization's business growth and program dissemination, which result in direct impact on the instructional practice of 23,000+ new teachers each year. Her contributions include curriculum design, professional development and delivery, capacity-building, business modeling, and strategic planning. Before colaunching New Teacher Center in 1998, Gless worked as an academic coordinator at the University of California, Santa Cruz; as a visiting educator administering a statewide mentoring initiative at the California Department of Education; and as an induction program coordinator, staff developer, and high school foreign language and ESL teacher in an urban district in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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This event part of the Core Components for Driving Greater Impact webinar series moderated by Alexa Cortes Culwell
 
Successful nonprofit leaders focus their time and energy on three core components that are vital to creating greater impact in their communities—components that are sometimes overlooked or hastily constructed because their value isn't fully understood. In this webinar series, participants will learn more about the importance and purpose of these core components: a compelling theory of change, strong performance metrics, and a sustainable business model—as well as the leadership and cultural dispositions required to bring them to life. 
 
This series will benefit anyone who wants a better understanding of the frameworks and strategies that help nonprofits become more performance-based and outcome-driven. All three sessions in this series will be moderated by Alexa Cortes Culwell. The last twenty minutes of each webinar will feature live questions from the audience. 
 

Performance Metrics that Drive Organizational Outcomes

November 6
11 a.m. - 12 noon PST / 2 - 3 p.m. EST 

Performance metrics form the backbone for outcome-focused organizations. Well-developed metrics help drive organizational alignment around everything from a nonprofit’s performance review system, to financial and program reports, to evaluation programs. And strong leadership and cultures help ensure that performance metrics are used to drive impact and not impede it. This session will explore how nonprofits can put together the right sets of metrics, at the right level, in order to track their progress and improve their impact. Case examples will be shared.

This session will feature:

  • Alexa Cortes Culwell, founder and managing director, Philanthropy Futures; visiting practitioner, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
  • Tiffany Cooper Gueye, president, BELL, Building Educated Leaders for Life
  • Melanie Moore, managing partner, Family Independence Initiative 
Alexa Cortes Culwell is the founder and managing director of Philanthropy Futures, a strategic advisory firm that works alongside leaders to chart the course for creating positive social change. The firm develops vision, strategic direction, and business models, energized by effective meeting design and facilitation, as well as leadership coaching to support implementation. Cortes Culwell also serves as a visiting practitioner at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. For nearly two decades, Cortes Culwell served as a foundation chief executive officer guiding philanthropic investments focused on building capacity and scale, first at the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation and then at the Stupski Foundation. She holds a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in nonprofit management from the University of San Francisco.  
 
Tiffany Cooper Gueye is the chief executive officer of BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life), a national nonprofit organization, working to improve performance in high-poverty schools through the provision of rigorous summer and after school learning experiences to at-risk students. Cooper Gueye started her career at BELL in 1998 and has served in a variety of roles, including program manager, director of evaluation, and chief operating officer. Since Cooper Gueye became CEO in 2008, BELL has grown to serve over 15,000 students in 19 communities and its evidence base has informed local and federal policy efforts aimed at increasing the role of expanded learning programs for at-risk students. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a doctorate in educational research, evaluation, and measurement, both from Boston College.  
 
Melanie Moore is the managing partner at Family Independence Initiative, which leverages the power of information to support economic and social mobility in America in low-income families and communities. Bringing more than twenty years of experience as a professional evaluator and social sector researcher, she has advised a range of nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies on strategies to maximize their impact, particularly within the areas of individual development and community change. Prior to joining FII, Moore spent eight years running See Change, an impact assessment firm she founded. Moore holds a doctorate in human development from Stanford University's School of Education, and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University.

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This event part of the Core Components for Driving Greater Impact webinar series moderated by Alexa Cortes Culwell
 
Successful nonprofit leaders focus their time and energy on three core components that are vital to creating greater impact in their communities—components that are sometimes overlooked or hastily constructed because their value isn't fully understood. In this webinar series, participants will learn more about the importance and purpose of these core components: a compelling theory of change, strong performance metrics, and a sustainable business model—as well as the leadership and cultural dispositions required to bring them to life. 
 
This series will benefit anyone who wants a better understanding of the frameworks and strategies that help nonprofits become more performance-based and outcome-driven. All three sessions in this series will be moderated by Alexa Cortes Culwell. The last twenty minutes of each webinar will feature live questions from the audience. 

 

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