Montana Nonprofit Association Conference 2011: Reflections
MNA turns 10 this year and they are taking stock of their work and what it means to be a nonprofit in today’s world. At this year’s conference, they will explore how reflecting on the past, assessing the present, and planning for the future can increase the impact of nonprofits in communities throughout Montana
The conference will take place this September 28-30, in Billings, Montanana at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
You can learn more at the MNA website for Conference 2011: Reflections – looking back and reaching forward.
April 5th Forum to Focus on Minnesota’s Rural Urban Interdependencies
Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc., will present the results of an 18-month-long pilot study regarding job creation and economic linkages between rural and urban Minnesota areas at a public forum and reception on Tues., April 5 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. The forum will take place from 1- 4:30 p.m., with a reception following from 4:30 – 6 p.m.; both will be held at the Continuing Education and Conference Center on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities – St. Paul Campus, 1890 Buford Avenue in St. Paul, Minn.
Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc. conducted the study as part of a national pilot initiative with USDA Rural Development. The study, initiated by Jane Leonard, former president of Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc., and conducted under the leadership of researcher Kate Searls, helps document the power of rural urban connections and resource-sharing to foster increased innovation and job and wealth creation for the state as a whole. In part, the study used cluster analysis tools provided by the Innovation in American Regions Project to examine manufacturing and agribusiness, and IMPLAN™, an input-output analysis tool, to measure the rural urban linkages.
“This study helps quantify the economic importance of a strong rural Minnesota to Minnesota’s overall economic health and well being,” said Leonard, who is now with the Bush Foundation in St. Paul. “It is particularly successful in showing how urban Minnesota benefits, or loses, when rural Minnesota prospers or declines. It also begins to provide measures of how rural urban linkages drive wealth creation and innovation in a state’s economy.”
Copies of the research report will be available at the forum, as well as a copy of a second report by Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc., entitled, “Rural Urban Connections and Job Readiness.
In addition to Leonard and Searls, other speakers at the forum include Burke Murphy, MN Dept. of Employment & Economic Development; Lee Munnich, University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, State & Local Policy Program; Brigid Tuck and David Nelson, University of Minnesota Extension Community Economics; and Bill Lazarus, University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics.
The April 5th forum concludes with a reception from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. to mark the last year of operation of Minnesota Rural Partners, which began in 1995 as Minnesota’s representative council in the National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP), a coordinating group of federal agencies involved in rural development.
When the NRDP began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a pool of federal funding provided basic operating resources for coordinating councils in over 40 states across the country. Although the funding ended about 10 years ago, NRDP continued to exist at the federal level and Minnesota Rural Partners continued to help coordinate federal, state, local, private and non-profit work on rural development. Minnesota Rural Partners organized initiatives to strengthen rural-urban partnering, increase community entrepreneurship as a statewide economic development strategy, and support continued broadband deployment and applications to build 21st century communities.
However, “we found ourselves competing with partner organizations for funding, which was not the intent of the NRDP when it began,” said Leonard. “It’s time to evolve to a rural urban partnership framework, which we hope takes root based on the promise of the research to be discussed on April 5,” she added.
The Rural Urban Interdependencies Forum is co-hosted by Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc.; the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, State & Local Policy Program; University of Minnesota Extension Community Economics; and the University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics.
The registration fee is $25, which includes copies of both reports and refreshments. More information and registration is available at http://www.regonline.com/ruralurban. You can also download a copy of the Rural Urban Interdependencies report at http://mnruralpartners.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/rurb-02_11-final.pdf
Grant Professionals Association 2011 Annual Conference
The Grant Professionals Association has announced the date and location of their 13th annual conference:
October 5-8, 2011
Las Vegas, NV
More information will be released soon.
Acore to Partner with U.S. Government at DIREC 2010
The global renewable energy industry gathers every two years to discuss renewable energy. The last event, hosted by the U.S. Government and ACORE in 2008 brought together 91 countries and 8,600 Executives to talk about the global scale up of renewable energy.
The Prime Minister of India and the Indian Government (MNRE) is hosting DIREC 2010 this October, 2010 in Delhi: www.direc2010.gov.in and just issued an invitation to over 130 global Ministers of Energy and Environment, along with specific invitations to over 1,000 CEOs.
The U.S. Government has approached ACORE to be its Official Partner in organizing the top stakeholders in our space to represent the U.S. and work with us on messaging, hence my email to you.
About DIREC 2010: Gathering Global Renewables Leaders
Over 20,000 are expected to attend with over 40 countries being officially represented, including all the main representatives from India, China and key renewable energy markets that US companies are currently “targeting”. As a result, given that this is a high priority for the US, ACORE will in addition be hosting 2 side events (one on financing of renewable energy globally, co-hosted with the Department of Commerce and the Indian Power Producers Association (IPPAI); and another on Transmission Strategies for a Global Renewables Market, being co-hosted with the Department of Energy/NREL and IPPAI) and an very high level policy reception with the top Ministers of Energy, Indian Dignitaries and strategy US stakeholders at the Ambassador’s Residence/US Embassy in Delhi.
October Date Set for 2010 Midlands Nonprofit Summit
The Nonprofit Association of the Midlands and The Human Services Federation are proud to host the 2010 Midlands Nonprofit Summit, Wednesday, October 20 at the Mid America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Register)
The theme for this year’s Summit is ‘Passion, Purpose, Persuasion’ and the keynote speakers and breakout sessions will address each of these critical topics. (View Agenda)
Also, they will be presenting the Catalyst Award–an annual award recognizing innovative leadership in the sector and exemplifying the theme of the conference: Passion, Persuasion, and Purpose. (Nomination Form)
There’s still time to become a vendor or show support through a sponsorship.
This year’s Summit is expected to be bigger and better than ever!
National Safe Place and SENetwork Present the 2010 National Conference
National Safe Place and SENetwork are co-hosting the 2010 National Conference at the historic Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY. The conference will bring together Safe Place Coordinators, Executive and Development Staff, Clinicians, Outreach Workers, Direct Care Staff, and Youth Advocates from all over the country for a high energy, integrated networking, and professional development event.
AAGP Annual Conference November 3 – 6, 2010
The 12th Annual AAGP National Conference is taking place in St. Pete Beach, FL from November 3-6, 2010 at the Tradewinds Island Grand Beach Resort.
For more information about this year’s conference visit http://grantprofessionals.org/annual-conference/about.aspx
Mississippi Center for Nonprofits Offer Discounted Conference Rate
Register for our annual conference at a discounted rate!
Thanks to a grant from The Maddox Foundation, we are excited to announce that we are keeping our early bird rates for those who have still not signed up for the Connecting Passion and Purpose conference on June 10-11! Now members can register for only $139!
Also, don’t forget our exciting national speakers Jan Masaoka of Blue Avocado and Randy Murray from The Sponsorship Network! Along with some great door prizes, the Sponorship Network is offering you a chance to win a fantastic SPONSORSHIP MAKEOVER!
The annual conference will be held at the beautiful Eagle Ridge Conference Center in Raymond, MS (just ten minutes away from the Jackson Metro!) Click here for directions.
For more information on the conference visit our conference website, and to register click here!
SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy’s 11th Annual Summer Institute
The SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy’s 11th Annual Summer Institute will be held June 16-18 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center in North Charleston, SC. The country’s foremost thinkers and leaders have been assembled to present keynote, breakout and pre-conference sessions. Workshop topics will include Motivating Teen Girls, Communicating Across the Generations, Combining Resources to Strengthen Programs, Parental Involvement, Faith and Sexuality, Reproductive Health for Youth in Foster Care, Sex Education in Schools, Fundraising, Social Media and much more. Please visit our conference website to register by June 4 or download the registration brochure to register by mail. Also be sure to book your room at the conference hotel by May 15 to receive the discounted rate.
REDUCED COSTS for Registration:
- CAPP/MAPP: $150
- General: $200
- Out of State: $300
- One-Day: $125
- Closing Keynote Only: $25
Keynote Speakers:
This year we welcome Marian Wright Edelman, Founder/President of the Children’s Defense Fund, as our closing keynote. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body of the Children’s Defense Fund. For two years she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and in l973 began CDF. She has received many awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her numerous writings including her New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours.
Additional keynote speakers include: Michelle Ozumba, President, Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Edward Sellers, Chairman/President/CEO, BlueCross Blue Shield SC.
Visit the conference website to learn more about our keynote speakers, workshops, and scholarship opportunities.
Ninth Annual Funders Forum June 2 – 4, 2010
A Circle of Ten & the City of Winnsboro are hosting the Ninth Annual Funders Forum from June 2-4, 2010 in Winnsboro, TX. Federal, state, and private funding agencies will hold one-on-one consultations, exhibits, and funding panels at the Forum on grant monies available to cities, counties, schools and nonprofit organizations in Texas.
For more information call 903-541-0013.
For details and to register go to http://www. Funders Expo.com
