Nonprofit professionals and volunteers are finding it is getting more difficult to attract donations, grants and volunteers. Explaining the difference and the value that one organization brings as compared to another is part of the challenge. Consultant Kay Plantes will discuss defining, innovating and evolving the business model of nonprofits. An enterprise’s business model captures how it creates a positive difference while, at the same time, creating revenues to offset the costs of creating this difference.

Presenter:

Kay Plantes is a strategy consultant serving both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. She is author of Beyond Price: Differentiating Your Company In Ways that Really Matter. Plantes also produces a monthly column for the Capital Region Business Journal, writes regularly for Madison Magazine and has taught social entrepreneurship at the UW Madison Business School’s Weinart Center for Entrepreneurship.

Become part of the community conversation on collaboration. Collaboration is among the many concepts being promoted, discussed and debated as a necessity for nonprofits in current times. Its success, however, may hinge on shared understanding of what it means, aligned objectives for its pursuit, and clear expectations among the various stakeholders involved and affected. This interactive session engages attendees in a conversation about the role of nonprofit collaboration in the greater Madison area and opportunities for moving it forward in the best interest of our nonprofits and our communities.

Bobby Hackett, Vice President of the Bonner Foundation, will address how the use of web 2.0 and social media tools can help nonprofit organizations and universities meet their service missions. Drawing on lessons learned from the National Bonner Network, Mr. Hackett will provide compelling examples of how nonprofit organizations and campuses are working together to promote collective action on key community issues.