Leading Cooperative Efforts: Skills for Survival and Success
The Institute for Conservation Leadership (ICL) and the Georgia Center for Nonprofits (GCN) are offering this workshop on skills for leaders of cooperative efforts.
Workshop Description:
Working together collaboratively is tough, but these days it's simply a requirement of any nonprofit leader's job. Networks, coalitions, and other cooperative efforts require distinct leadership skills if they are to be effective. This one-day workshop offers skills and tools to effectively manage and participate in a variety of cooperative efforts.
This workshop offers participants:
- Best practices and skills for effectively leading cooperative efforts,
- Tools to assess your own leadership and to better manage cooperative efforts and their persistent tensions,
- A “learning lab” environment in which to discuss and resolve difficult issues with your colleagues or simply take stock and consider your next steps.
The facilitators work regularly with leaders and organizations in networks, coalitions, and other cooperative efforts. The workshop is based on the Institute's newest publication, “When Groups Work Together: A Toolkit for Activists Working in Cooperative Efforts.”Participants will receive a copy of the Toolkit in the workshop.
When and Where:
Thursday, May 11, 2006, 9:00am–4:00pm
Georgia Center for Nonprofits, Hurt Building, Suite 845, Atlanta, GA
Registration and Fees:
Register by April 21, 2006. The cost includes lunch and a copy of ICL’s “When Groups Work Together: A Toolkit for Activists Working in Cooperative Efforts.”
Environmental and Conservation Organizations:
$95 for the first person from the organization; $40 for each additional person from the same organization.
All other nonprofits:
$95 per person; $80 per person for members of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits.
Thanks to generous support from foundations that support ICL’s work, we are able to offer this workshop at a rate significantly below its value of $250 per person.
Payment Instructions: You may pay by MasterCard or Visa (call Courtney at 301-270-2900 x 7) or mail a check (payable to ICL and noting "Leading Cooperative Efforts") to: Institute for Conservation Leadership, Attn. Courtney Carlson, 6930 Carroll Ave. Suite 420, Takoma Park, MD 20912.
Financial Assistance: We encourage groups in need of financial assistance to explore options for covering the cost. For advocacy organizations, one option may be a Training and Organizational Assistance grant from the Environmental Support Center. For more information on this program (applications are due the 15th of every month) and to determine your eligibility, please visit their website: www.envsc.org. If you would like some help thinking about funding options, give Baird a call at 301-270-2900 x 4 or email him at baird@icl.org.
Presenters:
Barbara Rusmore, ICL Senior Program Associate and co-author of "When Groups Work Together: A Toolkit for Activists Working in Cooperative Efforts."
Baird Straughan, director of ICL's Southeast initiative, Strengthening Organizations and Leaders for the Environment – Southeast, a joint program with the Environmental Support Center.
For More Information:
Contact: Courtney Carlson
courtney@icl.org or 301-270-2900.
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