Programs 2009-2010

Breakfast Meetings

Held on the second Tuesday of the month from September to May. Advance registration is preferred, with payment by mail or through Paypal. Cash or check payment at the door is also welcome (sorry no credit card at this time). Cancellations MUST be received by RSVP deadline to receive credit toward another meeting. Unpaid reservations not cancelled by the RSVP deadline will be billed for the full amount.

$15 members; $25 non-members; Season Pass Holders - no monthly fee

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Doors open at 8:00 a.m. Program takes place from 8:15 to 9:45 a.m.

Unless otherwise noted, all breakfast meetings take place at:

The Delaney House
Route 5 at Smith's Ferry
Holyoke, MA
Phone: 413-532-1800

www.delaneyhouse.com

Season's Passholders: Be sure to invite a guest to a meeting this season. Not sure if you already have? Contact our administrator, Karen Blinderman. If you are unable to attend, feel free to send someone in your place.

February 9, 2010

Deb Habib

Speaker: Deb Habib, Founder, Seeds of Solidarity Farm and Education Center

Presentation Topic: Surviving and Thriving: A Small Nonprofit's Strategies to Values-Based Fundraising

Presentation Description: How do we stay true to our organizational values during challenging times (and stay calm!)? This presentation and dialogue offers an opportunity to share fundraising strategies that reaffirm our mission, enhance outreach, and celebrate the vision that informs our work.

About the Speaker: After taking part in the International Pilgrimage for Peace and Life, walking from Auschwitz to Hiroshima in 1994-1995, Deb Habib and her husband, Ricky Baruc started Seeds of Solidarity Farm and Education Center in the mid-1990s. The education center is a nonprofit that provides people of all ages with the inspirational and practical tools to use renewable energy and grow food in their communities. Seeds of Solidarity Education Center, located in Orange, Mass. The nonprofit runs a sustainable agriculuture program for low-income youth and has established partnerships with several school districts to integrate gardening, cooking, and nutrition programs. Deb holds a doctorate from UMass in Multicultural Education. She lives on the farm in Orange with her husband (a full time farmer) and son.

March 2, 2010 at the Mass Mutual Center

Taste of Philanthropy Bi-Annual Conference
Keynote Speaker: Sheryl WuDunn

April 13, 2010

Claire Gadrow Speaker: Claire Gadrow, Assistant VP of Advancement, Connecticut College
Topic: Offering Gift Solutions in a Challenging Economy: A Critical Role for Planned Giving

Presentation Description: How can development programs succeed in these challenging times? Comprehensive programs often involve annual giving, major gifts and planned gifts. As donors are experiencing market volatility, now may be the best time to introduce planned giving into your gift discussions. An unexpected realized bequest might bring joy to your CFO. How about making your prospect joyous when they learn they can make a meaningful gift and receive a lifetime income stream? Or diversify their portfolio by funding a planned gift with unwanted appreciated stock? In this interactive session, we’ll discuss best practices to meet your donors’ needs and achieve your organizational goals.

About the Presenter: Claire is assistant vice president for college advancement at Connecticut College. The Campaign for Connecticut College seeks to raise $200 million to assert its leadership as one of the nation’s best liberal arts college. Claire has worked as a professional in the field of development since 1994. Prior to joining Connecticut College, Claire was involved in campaigns at Rhode Island School of Design as director of planned giving and major gifts and the University of Rhode Island as a senior major gift officer. She has served as President of the Planned Giving Council of Rhode Island and Planned Giving Group of New England. Claire is a CPA and started her professional career in public accounting at Deloitte & Touche in Boston and Ernst & Young in Providence. She is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a BS in accounting and a MBA.

May 11, 2010

Allison Fine Speaker: Allison Fine, Writer and Activist; Founder and former ED of Innovation Network; Author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age

Topic: Overcoming your Fear of Social Media and Changing the World!

About the Presenter: Allison is an activist and author studying and writing about the intersection of social media and social change. She is the author of the award-winning book Momentum:  Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age (Wiley & Sons, 2006). She is also a Senior Fellow on the Democracy Team at Demos:  A Network for Change and Action in New York City. In 2008, she published a paper on young people and activism commissioned by the Case Foundation call Social Citizensbeta, and edited a collection of essays, Rebooting America, about transformative ways to reinvent 21st century democracy using new media tools. Her new book, The Networked Nonprofit, co-authored with Beth Kanter, will be published by Wiley & Sons in 2010.

Allison hosts a monthly podcast for the Chronicle of Philanthropy called Social Good and writes her own blog, A. Fine Blog. Her articles have been published in the Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, and a frequent contributor to Huffington Post, Personal Democracy Forum, Alternet and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Allison served as the C.E.O. of The E-Volve Foundation in 2004-2005, and was the Founder and Executive Director of Innovation Network, Inc. from 1992-2004.   She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and New York University, and was a Trustee and Fire and Police Commissioner of Sleepy Hollow, New York.
  

 

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