How to Do What You Said You Would Do: Being Accountable to Yourself and Others, with Less Stress

Wouldn’t it be great if we were judged by our intentions instead of our actions, or lack of action? Do you struggle to manage your tasks list, or wish you even had a task list? Would you like to raise the level of accountability for yourself and those you collaborate with? In this session we will learn actionable steps that can be implemented to achieve high productivity and efficiency, in order to bridge the gap between our intentions and our actions. Together we will discover systems and processes in order to prioritize, track and complete tasks with less stress. We will learn techniques for better clarity in task management, how to prevent tasks from falling through the cracks, and how to track work to completion.

Presenter:  Diana Bloom, Accountability Consultant 

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BIPOC Empowerment and White Accountability: Addressing the Hidden Burden of Racial Interactions

We are committed to creating communities where everyone belongs, where we build and/or strengthen healthy relationships with diverse people. Yet, we may have unconscious worries about building connections with people who are racially different. Racial anxiety is the stress before or during a cross-racial interaction, leading to discomfort, awkward behavior, or even avoidance. Racial anxiety results in a cognitive depletion for BIPOC community members with the burden of navigating others’ anxieties. White community members worry about how they may be perceived, which undermines relationships with BIPOC community members and their engagement in equity work. To build and maintain the authentic, multiracial community we seek, we must recognize the profound impact of racial anxiety, and engage strategies to mitigate it.

Through research and storytelling, this session will support BIPOC participants to contextualize their lived experiences and gain strategies of self-care, and white participants to gain awareness of impact and strategies for overcoming racial anxiety.

Presenters: Sandra (Chap) Chapman, Ed. D. and Jess MacFarlane

Collaborative Narratives: Aligning Personal, Social and Organizational Stories 

We live in an interdependent world. The stories we tell about ourselves and each other meet in both planned and unintentional ways. Sometimes these stories are synergistic and produce more than the sum of the parts. At other times, they bump into each other and cause conflict. In this experiential workshop, session participants will learn how to reduce destructive conflict and increase constructive disagreements by transforming the stories that guide their lives.

Presenter:  Beth Fisher-Yoshida, PhD, CCS, Fisher Yoshida International, LLC, CEO & President

Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback

Management author Ken Blanchard wrote, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” And yet, most of us find giving feedback tricky, and receiving feedback hard to swallow. When we give feedback, we are often unclear or indirect, so we don’t help others make meaningful changes. And when we get feedback, we often experience it as a threat to our sense of identity, and react in ways that range from defensive and denial to dwelling and dramatizing. In this 90 minute session, you will learn a simple framework for giving effective feedback and for receiving feedback with less defensiveness.

Presenter:  Deborah Grayson Riegel

Ignite Your Team Without Burning Them Out

The challenges of the past two years have been extraordinary, for each of us personally, and for the teams and organizations that we lead. We may have never imagined we’d still be in this place, but we also know that our organizational missions require that we find ways to move forward. As nonprofit managers and leaders, it is critically important that we understand how to intentionally prevent burnout and create a culture where our staff can thrive, even while working tirelessly to serve and support others. This interactive workshop will provide you with tools to use at an individual and organizational level, including strategies for supporting your staff and safeguarding your own well-being. You will learn: 

• • Realistic ways to recharge and stay energized—and how to model this for your staff
• • How to approach burnout as a shared responsibility between employee and employer
• • How to identify and support a struggling colleague
• • Common, yet often overlooked, contributors to employee burnout
• • The critical questions to ask yourself and your team when juggling competing priorities
• • Best practices for setting boundaries that will sustain the long-term health of your team members

Presenter: Faun Zarge

Free To Be You and Me: Psychological Safety at Work                                                

One of the strongest markers of a healthy organizational culture is psychological safety: the belief that it is safe to take interpersonal risks including sharing ideas, questions, concerns or mistakes. We know our sector has work to do around this critical indicator, and we also know there isn’t a simple or single solution. In this session we will explore psychological safety from three levels - personally, interpersonally, and organizationally. Participants will gain insight into how psychological safety connects with other dimensions of employee engagement, perspective around the ways context and identity inform people’s experience of risk-taking, and we will begin to identify ways to cultivate a culture of greater belonging and empowerment at work. 

Presenters:  Amy Born and Danielle Natelson

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Building Capacity for Cultural Humility within Teams

A conflict emerged on your team based on social identity. Team members are responding in varied ways-- some are meaningfully silent (“you just can't say anything anymore!”), some confused, angry, feeling shamed. What happened? How is it possible that everyone heard the same thing, but the responses are so divergent? May we ever get back on the same page? How can the team move through this and return to the tasks at hand? What is possible?

In this workshop we will address these questions, exploring the how and why of our responses in cross-cultural teams. By engaging in and deconstructing a workplace scenario and noticing its visceral impacts on us, we will build capacity and vocabulary to support our responses in the moment and in the aftermath. We will also explore considerations to preemptively create space for greater understanding among colleagues.

Presenters: Imani Chapman and Franny Silverman

Design Powerful Meetings 

Too often, meetings drain energy and waste time, yet they are a critical component of how we collaborate. This session will provide practical approaches that will transform your meetings into powerful gatherings that engage participants and drive work forward. You will learn to tackle the meeting cycle - what to do before, during and after - so that meetings build momentum. You’ll discover the secrets to building a useful agenda, how to meaningfully engage others (and surprise, it's not just during the meeting!), and how to capture meeting takeaways efficiently and effectively, plus a whole lot more. This hands-on workshop will leave you ready to take control of your meetings.

Presenter:  Mamie Kanfer Stewart

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Evolutionary Leadership: Leading in Uncertain Times

Our world has turned upside down, never before have we experienced such a rapidly changing world. How can we move from surviving to thriving? We need a radical change in leadership to create work environments that are safe and high performing. Places where people love to come to work (or at least want to turn their cameras on!).

Step into Evolutionary Leadership, extraordinary leadership to evolve systems, people and the ability to impact change. Discover practical models and tools to unlock your ability to lead in this new world of work. Your experience will begin with the famous Marshmallow Challenge, a simulation to reveal the hidden challenges in teamwork and leadership. Develop your understanding of the inner shift needed to unlock your leadership, create nurturing workplaces and high performance. We believe everyone is a leader, regardless of position, we all have the ability to lead and inspire those around us.

Presenters:  Michael Sahota & Audree Sahota, Founders, Shift314

1. Mergers and Partnerships without the Tsuris

Should we consider partnerships, mergers, integrations or collaborations across our community institutions, and if so, WHY? Answering these critical questions up front, in a way that is meaningful, exciting and inspirational for key stakeholders can dramatically change the success of any organization pursuing new and exciting partnership opportunities.

2. Building Vibrant Community, Together: Partnerships that Accelerate Impact

Have you ever known that a partnership could change the entire trajectory of multiple organizations and the community, but don't quite know where to start? With so many stakeholders involved in community institutions, the process can often seem daunting, if not impossible. During this session we will break down the process of building partnerships into realistic, efficient steps that build concentric circles of support as you pursue transformational partnerships and ultimately exponentially greater impact in our communities.

Presenter: David Kaplan, Founder and CEO, Panoramic Strategy

Innovate Now: Real Time Cross-collaboration to Deliver Unexpected Opportunities

Join Bill Nottingham, a proven innovator and thought leader, for a highly interactive workshop. Bill will share perspectives on how leaders can enable teams to collaborate and remove the hurdles that tend to stifle innovation. He will share how “Creative Collisions” can be a strategy to solving problems by discovering unobvious inspiration and collaborating across other areas of expertise or even outside your own organization. Ultimately, attendees will form small agile teams to put strategy to action for an interactive competition. Some of you may even develop “real” projects that live beyond the workshop to ultimately change your businesses. You will learn that there is no better time to innovate than now!

Presenter: Bill Nottingham

$15 Per Email Address and Other Online Fundraising Wisdom

What's up with $15? Research shows that the average US nonprofit organization raises $15 per email address per year. Do the math quickly in your head (number of email addresses on your list multiplied by 15)... if your online fundraising program doesn't measure up, this session is for you.

Join Emily P. Goodstein, CEO and Founder of Greater Good Strategy for a fun, interactive, and enlightening 90-minute workshop, all about how to craft a successful online fundraising program for your organization. We'll cover email list growth, segmentation, ask placement, frequency, the role of social media in fundraising, multichannel marketing and why email unsubscribes are not so bad after all.  

The session will be equal parts theory, strategy, and application. You'll walk out the door with a renewed love of online giving. Promise.

Presenter: Emily Goodstein, Greater Good Strategy

Turning Your Nonprofit’s Candid Profile into a Powerful Storytelling Tool

Learn how updating your nonprofit’s Candid profile on GuideStar.org will grow your organization’s online identity and choose what tens of millions of potential donors see about your organization. During this introductory session, you will learn what your nonprofit’s Candid profile is and how you can earn Seals of Transparency associated with that profile to tell your story, including sharing information about the work you do and the impact it makes.

Outcomes:

• Plan next steps for telling your organization’s story via its Nonprofit Profile.
• Describe how the information in your Nonprofit Profile informs potential donors and funders and powers 200+ charitable sites.
• Explain how earning Seals of Transparency creates opportunities for your organization to be found, grow trust, and share your impact.

A great choice for: Nonprofit executive directors, fundraisers, program staff, board members, and volunteers

Presenter: David Holmes, Candid

Philanthropic Strategy with a Lens of Racial Equity and Justice

Grantmakers often struggle with where to embed racial equity and justice into their grantmaking portfolios, while prospective grantees, especially Jews of Color, often find it difficult to navigate the foundation world. As the first national philanthropic fund dedicated to advancing racial equity in the Jewish community, the Jews of Color Initiative invites you to a rich and provocative conversation informing equity and justice-infused grantmaking vital to our entire sector. Join us to examine best practices around philanthropic values and strategy for more vibrant, just and equitable Jewish life. 

Presenters: Gabi Kuhn and Arya Marvazy, Jews of Color Initiative

Vitalizing Jewish Communal Generosity and Philanthropy

The Jewish community is poised for vitalization. Your passion, talent, and collaboration, along with inspired philanthropic partners, is needed now more than ever to manifest this transformation. 

In an engaging 90-minute workshop, Andrea B. Wasserman, President of ABW Partners and Adjunct Professor of Jewish Philanthropy and Fundraising at Brandeis University, will engage you in an exploration of the current philanthropic landscape and ways to leverage it as you pursue growth and sustainability in all aspects of a 21st century fundraising practice. 

You will leave this interactive session with tangible strategies to deepen relationships with donors and philanthropic partners, diversify your donor prospect pipeline, and capitalize on other high-yield areas of financial resource development. The application of these learnings will, without doubt, position your organization to not only deepen impact but also play an integral part in ushering in an era of unprecedented Jewish communal generosity and philanthropy.

Presenter: Andrea Wasserman, of ABW Partners

Workshop resources available here.