2pm to 3pm Eastern Time

What if the performance data that you receive do not adequately capture the effectiveness of a nonprofit?

Over the past two decades, funders and policymakers have put more pressure on nonprofit organizations to pursue and achieve measurable outcomes. The increasing focus on performance-driven frameworks such as “pay for success” and “social return in investment” signals that such pressure will only grow more intense. For nonprofit professionals, that trend raises troubling questions: What if the ways that your organization makes a difference in people’s lives are not easily measured through conventional performance metrics? What if the logic model of your organization does not fully account for the value that you deliver through direct work with beneficiaries?

Presenters

Lehn Benjamin, associate professor of philanthropic studies at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, will lead a discussion of what frontline nonprofit work looks like in practice—and how to accurately measure the value of that work. Joining Benjamin will be Katya Fels Smyth, founder and CEO of the Full Frame Initiative; Maria Peña, chief program officer of LIFT; and Jesús Gerena, senior vice president of the Family Independence Initiative.

Speaker Bios

In the webinar, these presenters will:

• Explain how some of the most popular performance models used in the nonprofit sector fail to measure the true impact of what nonprofit professionals do
• Examine the reasons why it can be so difficult—yet so important—to recognize the value that on-the-ground work delivers to beneficiaries and their communities
• Explore examples of nonprofits that have succeeded in capturing and conveying the full value of frontline work

Who should attend this webinar:

“Valuing Frontline Work” will be of interest to nonprofit practitioners whose organizations provide direct services to marginalized groups. The webinar will also be highly relevant to funders, consultants, evaluators, and other professionals who support organizations that engage in such work. During the latter half of the session, registrants will be able to direct questions to Benjamin, Smyth, Peña, and Gerena. Michael Slind of Stanford Social Innovation Review will moderate the webinar.

Price: $49, which includes access to the live webinar; unlimited access to the webinar as many times as you’d like for twelve months; and downloadable slides. 

Register for Valuing Frontline Work

 

Through the Conference theme, the CWCF plans to share experiences and learnings across borders, across co-ops, with other partners:  for example between and among people from Québec, from the rest of Canada, and from other countries.  What do worker co-ops in each of Quebec, Canada & the USA have in common?  What is unique and strong within each region; what can be improved?  We'll explore the latest advances in co-op development in various different places with a goal of strengthening us all.

What the Co-op Conference Offers

The CWCF will feature networking opportunities for participants, both organized networking sessions, and informal time and space.  As always, there will be many training workshops of practical interest to worker co-operators, co-op developers, and worker co-op entrepreneurs, i.e., those wishing to start a new worker co-op.  Session topics include:  Building Bridges Across Generations, Diversity, Collective Decision-Making in a Worker Co-operative, Finances, Coming Together to Grow, Co-op Development Supports, the Techniques and the Art of Facilitation, and Sustainability: How Worker Co-ops can Help Address Climate Change. 

 

Featured speakers include keynote Esteban Kelly, the new Co-Executive Director of the US Federation of Worker Co-operatives, and Matthieu Piegay from a worker co-operative in France, SCOP-Accolades, which does training and development for participatory governance.

 

For the Conference Program as well as information about registration, please click here. 
 

Many of the topics covered will be done in light of the theme of Building Bridges :

• Between different generations in the co-operative
• Among federations and other partner organizations
• Between and among co-operatives.

Register for Building Bridges Coop Conference

3pm Eastern Time

Join the Democracy Collaborative's Keane Bhatt and Steve Dubb, co-authors of the new report Educate and Empower: Tools for Building Community Wealth, for an online discussion with leading practioners on the practical strategies to empower residents to engage and participate in community economic development.

Register for the Educate and Empower webinar

Tools for Building Community Wealth

How do low-income communities learn to advance economically and build wealth? Low-income communities and communities of color, in challenging structural economic and social inequality, have historically grappled with tensions inherent to development. Who participates in, directs, and ultimately owns the economic-development process? In creating and sustaining new, inclusive economic institutions, how do community members cultivate and pass on skills, commitment and knowledge—especially among those who have long faced barriers to education and employment? And how should communities strike an appropriate balance between utilizing local knowledge and accessing outside expertise?

Download the Educate and Empower report

Speakers

Aaron Bartley, Executive Director and Co-Founder, PUSH Buffalo
Carla Javits, President and CEO, REDF
Dana Pedersen, Education & Outreach Coordinator, Cooperation Texas

SOURCE: Democracy Collaborative

1pm Eastern

Artscape’s work involves clustering creative people together in real estate projects that serve the needs of the arts and cultural community and advance multiple public policy objectives, private development interests, community and neighbourhood aspirations and philanthropic missions. Based in Toronto, Artscape currently operates nine projects including the award-winning Daniels Spectrum, LEED Gold certified Artscape Wychwood Barns and our newest community cultural hub Artscape Youngplace.  Working with communities to identify unique and diverse assets our projects cluster arts, cultural and environmental organizations as well as individual artists into affordable well-designed spaces. Artscape’s projects are embraced and activated by the communities they serve, delivering shared value and positive social, economic and environmental impacts.

Artscape has a number of exciting new projects under development in Toronto including a social enterprise event venue in the heart of the Entertainment District, a new community cultural hub which is part of a larger revitalization initiative in the Weston neighbourhood, as well as Artscape Launchpad – a cutting-edge centre for creative sector entrepreneurship.

Join this free webinar to gain insight and learnings from Artscape’s unique approach in cultural space development as a not-for-profit urban development organization, affordable housing provider, and thought leader in Creative Placemaking practice.

You Will Learn

• About Artscape’s evolution as an organization over its 29 year history
• About Artscape’s from the ground up approach to Creative Placemaking
• About tools for advancing cultural space development projects
• About working with partners across public, private and non-profit sectors
• How Artscape uses community engagement and public process to build successful projects

Register for the Partnership and Collaboration webinar

About the Speaker

Pru Robey is a passionate advocate for the transformative impact the arts and culture have on the lives of individuals and communities. Throughout her career, the development of innovative, multi-sector approaches to support cultural sector development, creative economy activation and sustainable urban regeneration has been a centerpiece of her work. Pru has over 30 years of experience as a consultant, researcher, manager, promoter and funder in the arts, culture and creative industries in Canada and the UK. As Vice President and Creative Placemaking Lab Director at Toronto-based Artscape, Pru takes the lead in new project research and development and on major research initiatives; directs a suite of programs and services designed to build the capacity of communities internationally to undertake creative placemaking; and advises communities internationally on strategies to support city-building through the arts. She designed and teaches Canada’s only undergraduate course in Creative Placemaking for the University of British Columbia and is a member of the Placemaking Leadership Council.

SOURCE: Artscape