Nonprofit Leadership Institute 
Strengthening Individuals, Nonprofits and Communities

2010 Dates and Sessions
**Dates are tentative and subject to change

Kick off Retreat - 2 1/2 day retreat
April 21 - 23, 2010
Wednesday evening - 1/2 day
Opening Reception and Welcome
The Institute will start with an opening reception and welcome. Participants should be prepared to introduce themselves and their organization. There will be large group activities followed with large group discussion, as well as individual reflection.

Thursday - Day 1
Leadership Goals
Participants will start off by analyzing their learning objectives for the Leadership Institute. Participants will form their Action Reflection Circles (consisting of 5 people).

Understanding Networks & Organizations
A new model of nonprofit organizational types will be introduced. Participants will be asked to identify and describe their organizational type and, based on this, how decisions are made in their organization. Faculty will introduce participants to organizational analysis and community engagement analysis concepts and tools.

Friday - Day 2
Bolstering Self Awareness
Participants will assess their personal strengths and gaps, identify areas for development, and through current leadership challenges, explore new approaches and behaviors for increased personal, organizational, or sector-wide leadership effectiveness.

May 21, Friday - Day 3
Money & Power Part 1
Participants will examine how revenue sources form and shape their organizational operation and will explore mapping methods that will help visualize the complex revenue streams within an organization. This will help participants to rethink organizational planning and management for their organization’s financial sustainability.

Different concepts and vocabulary of power will be explored. Participants will consider how their organization deals with organizational risk, risk taking and consequences. Various tools in helping analyze and working with power will be introduced.

June 17, Thursday - Day 4
Money & Power Part 2
Participants will explore how organizations use financial information for decision making (i.e. benchmarking, tracking, forecasting, etc) as well as learn techniques of buffering, attending to mission and proactively shaping the revenue environment. Participants will probe industry norms about sustainability practices.

July 22, Thursday - Day 5
Community Engagement Strategies
Organizational permeability will be discussed and the unique roles of 501 (c) 3s in this regard. Also, the broad continuum of relationships and interactions that come under the heading of “community engagement” will be discussed. Participants will discuss the multiple methods of engaging in public policy work and will understand the role of nonprofits and social change. A tool to help assess organizational assessment of public policy engagement will be implemented in this session.

August 19, Thursday - Day 6
Working with Public Resources
Participants will deepen their awarenes of the changing norms of public investments and management. Also, cultivate an understanding of public imperative and resulting "point of view" and to assess multiple ways goverment shapes nonprofit operations and identify leadership leverage points.

September 17, Friday - Day 7
Governance & Management
The basic theory, parameters, and different models of nonprofit governance will be explored in this session. Participants will be able to share techniques to nurture good governance behavior as well as explore the public responsibility of nonprofit board governance.

October 22, Friday - Day 8
Strategic Communications In the Context of New Information Technology
Participants will explore principles of strategic communication as well as assess and consider how to use communications more strategically in their organization. This session will be held at an off-site location that is to be determined. Participants will learn about “new” information technology that will improve personal efficiency as well as organizational efficiency.

November 19, Friday - Day 9
Using Organizational Culture Purposefully to Capitalize on Talent
Participants will increase their awareness of the role and form of culture within their organization. Participants will also learn techniques for aligning cultural factors to support mission and program and will examine organizations that are truly multicultural and bicultural in alignment with mission and vision.

Participants will consider their leadership role in mentoring and caring for human resources, share experiences with managing teams as well as to explore what's "known".

December 15 - 16, Wednesday and Thursday, Day 10 and 1/2
Leadership for the Long Term
There will be a final retreat that will be held for one and a half days at a retreat center. Participants will arrive for lunch and afternoon session on Wednesday. On Thursday, participants will spend the day synthesizing the content of their entire Nonprofit Leadership Institute experience.

For more information contact:
Bao Vang, Leadership Program coordinator
at 651-757-3087
bao@mncn.org.