Lasting Impact: Creating Sustainable Organizations
Facilitator: Valerie Leonard, Founder of Non Profit Utopia
(1881 Business Collective Members will receive a separate registration link)
Lasting Impact: Creating Sustainable Organizations will provide you with an overview of what capacity building is, and how to take your own capacity building efforts to the next level.
You will learn:
The status of capacity building in the United States
The characteristics of powerful, productive, profitable organizations and the activities in which they engage to remain powerful
The multi-dimensional nature of capacity building and approaches you can take to begin to strengthen your own organization
The process of sustainable change and how to develop your own theory of change
Participants will receive a workbook to review the characteristics of powerful, productive and profitable organizations. This will include a tool to help you to assess your own organization’s capacity in 7 key areas and develop a blueprint for sustainability.
About Valerie Leonard.
Spelman College - Class of 1985.
Ms. Leonard is the founder of Nonprofit Utopia, LLC, where she facilitates an online community, provides leadership coaching and consulting services. She is the host and producer of the Nonprofit Utopia Podcast, inviting nonprofit thought leaders to share lessons learned and the latest developments in the nonprofit sector. Valerie Leonard has been working with nonprofit organizations for over 20 years.
She was a financial analyst, helping the CFO of a major hospital system arrange nearly $120 million in bond financing to cover major expansion projects. Then, she was the founding executive director of a neighborhood grant making organization, using small grants to help residents develop the leadership skills they needed to take control of their economic environment. She has leveraged those experiences and lessons learned to launch her consulting practice, where she helps leaders improve their own skills while guiding their organizations to sustainability. She also teaches courses in nonprofit management and social enterprise at local universities, giving students the tools they need to immediately apply their learning to their own situations.
As many Spelman women, Valerie Leonard has been an engaged citizen. Throughout her life, she worked on several social justice issues surrounding education, school improvement, equitable community development, the importance of the Census and how it impacts our everyday lives.
Valerie is looking forward to helping YOU create sustainable organizations.