A Roundtable Discussion for Non-Profit Developers of Affordable Housing and Community Development Projects

Housing and community development organizations, like many other non-profit organizations, are experiencing increased pressure due to limited development opportunities, more stringent financing standards and greater fundraising challenges.  On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF), Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC) and Boston Private Bank & Trust Company will co-host a roundtable discussion on “Increasing Capacity and Achieving Economies of Scale in the Non-Profit Sector” providing developers of affordable housing and community development projects with an opportunity to share their views on possible models for increasing capacity, cutting costs, achieving economies of scale and leveraging their ability to raise debt and equity through:

• development joint ventures

• corporate restructuring, charter amendments and mergers

• tax exempt bond pools

• outsourcing property management

• fundraising partnerships

Discussion panelists will include:

• Shirronda Almeida, Director of The Mel King Institute for Community Building
• Chrystal Kornegay, President and CEO of Urban Edge Housing Corporation
• Mickey Northcutt, Executive Director of North Shore Community Development Coalition
• Emily Rosenbaum, Executive Director of Coalition for a Better Acre
• David Welbourn, President and CEO of ECCF

Moderator:  Kurt James, Director at Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster, P.C.

You are invited to join this discussion.  The meeting will be held on:

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Continental breakfast 8:00 a.m.
Program 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Essex County Community Foundation
175 Andover Street, Suite 101
Danvers, Massachusetts

To allow for full discussion, attendance at the roundtable discussion will be limited.  If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Pat Michaud by telephone at 1-978-777-8876 or by email at p.michaud@eccf.org no later than Friday, April 8, 2011.

March 15, 2011; 9:00am – 11:30am
Boston Private Bank & Trust Company
10 Post Office Square, Boston, MA

This 2-hour, interactive seminar will be lead by a tax-exempt organization specialist.  The agenda will include the role of your board, director duties, board composition, board procedures, policies, as well as other compliance issues and director liabilities.

Co-Sponsored with Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, The Lawyers Clearinghouse, and Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster

Date:  December 9-10, 2010
Location:  Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, MD

Next Steps provides a safe and confidential place where nonprofit founders, long-term executives and board leaders can explore the full range of succession planning topics for their organization, including:

1. Chief Executive Succession Planning
2. Executive Transition Management
3. Organizational Assessment
4. Organizational Capacity Building
5. Sustainability Planning

Developed by TransitionGuides with the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and attended by hundreds of executives nationwide, the Next Steps workshop offers:

1. Presentations and coaching by leading national experts on succession planning
2. Peer-to-peer working sessions
3. A panel presentation of executives who successfully transitioned or took a sabbatical
4. Group and mini discussions related to individual succession and transition challenges

You will enjoy a continental breakfast and lunch both days, take away a comprehensive participant workbook with extra worksheets and receive a copy of The Nonprofit Leadership Transition and Development Guide signed by author and presenter, Tom Adams!

Additional Information and Registration

An Introduction to Community and Economic Development

Date:  September 24, 2010
Time:  9:30am – 4:30pm
Location: Urban Edge, 1542 Columbus Ave. Roxbury, MA 02119

The Mel King Institute for Community Building is sponsoring a Full-Day Introduction to Community Development course on September 24th. This training course is intended to support new community development employees, interns, volunteers, and participants by providing a solid understanding of basic concepts and trends that have guided, and continue to guide, progression within the Community Development field.

The Full-Day training will address several fundamental elements of Community Development including:

• The History and Growth of Community and Economic Development
• The Role of Local Community Development Corporations
• The Core Values of the Current State of Community Development
• A panel discussion of Community Development Careers in Action

This training session will be led by Christina Clamp, who has been a Graduate Professor at Southern New Hampshire University’s School of Community Economic Development for over 20 years.

AmeriCorps Member Registration
MACDC Member Registration

http://www.cdi.coop/blog/?q=node/66

US Social Forum 2010: Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary.
June 22-26, Detroit, MI
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a
 conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the 
economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our
 struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational,
 diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and
 changes history.

2010 ACE Institute: Crossroads: Choosing Cooperation
July 27-30, Cleveland, OH
The annual ACE Institute is the only annual conference dedicated solely to highlighting innovative programs in cooperative education. It provides a unique opportunity to network with educators across cooperative sectors as well as national boundaries. Keynote speaker David Korten will be joined by representatives from the United Steelworkers union and Mondragon Cooperative Corporation.

The Work We Do is the Solution: 2010 National Worker Cooperative Conference
August 6-8, Berkeley, CA
The theme of this year’s conference focuses on solutions. Workshops and speakers will look at worker cooperatives as a possible solution to larger social and economic problems like job loss and environmental damage. But they will also present nuts and bolts solutions for worker cooperatives — innovative approaches to common challenges our businesses face in accountability and management, financing, governance, vision and growth.

NOFA Summer Conference
August 13-15, Amherst, MA
The Northeast Organic Farming Association’s Summer Conference, now in its 36th year, features 200 workshops on organic farming, gardening and land care, homesteading, sustainability, nutrition, spirituality, food politics, activism, and more… including presentations by the Neighboring Food Co-op Association, theValley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives, and the Cooperative Fund of New England.

Common Ground Country Fair
September 24-26, Unity, ME
The Fair allows fairgoers to make connections with a rapidly expanding base of organic farms in the state of Maine. Hundreds of vendors, exhibitors and demonstrators, including Cooperative Maine, more than 1,000 volunteers, and tens of thousands of fairgoers will gather to: share knowledge about sustainable living; eat delicious, organic, Maine-grown food; buy and sell beautiful Maine crafts and useful agricultural products; compete in various activities; dance; sing and have a great time.

CooperARTive Fiesta: Celebrating Community, Creativity and Co-ops
Saturday, October 9, 2010, Willimantic, CT
In Windham County, Connecticut, artists and co-ops are working to open channels of self-expression—for their own needs, and to strengthen the ‘social fabric’ of their communities. The all-day, free festival of artists, artisans, actors, musicians and community organizations will transform downtown Willimantic, CT into a ‘Co-operARTive Fiesta’. A slate of savvy co-op members, organizers and developers from around the Northeast region is being recruited to hold informal chats focusing on how the model can help people do together what they could not do alone. Contact Jane Livingston or Jean de Smet for more information.

Vermont Cooperative Summit and Cooperative Development Conference
Thursday, October 14, Burlington, VT
Cooperative Month is an ideal time bring co-ops together to discuss how they can work together to advance the cooperative movement. The policy summit is paired with a development conference at which a wide range of knowledgeable speakers will share their expertise on the cooperative business model and the benefits of cooperatives, and will assist participants in how to recognize and assess opportunity to develop cooperatively structured business.

2010 NASCO Cooperative Education and Training Institute: Cooperative Cartography: Where People, Places, and Movements Intersect
November 5-7, Ann Arbor, MI
The 2010 Cooperative Education and Training Institute will provide a space for cooperative members from all over Canada and the US to connect through the universal language of mapping. Over 400 participants will converge in Ann Arbor, Michigan this November to share ideas, learn new skills, and look at issues affecting the cooperative movement worldwide. Since 1977, NASCO’s Cooperative Education & Training Institute has been widely recognized as one of the most important training and networking opportunities available to members, directors, staff and managers of housing cooperatives.

• Building the capacity of community development practitioners;
• Providing on-site support and technical assistance to comprehensive community development initiatives in  cities across the U.S.;
• Applying lessons learned through research and performance evaluation to continually improve on-going comprehensive community development initiatives and to develop new initiatives;
• Supporting the development of public policies which integrate government programs in order to effectively facilitate and support comprehensive community development;
• Communicating broadly the best there is in practice and theory in the field of community development.

The Institute is a place where the community development field can take what it learns from practice and use it as a base from which to provide training, to promote research in comprehensive community development, and to investigate the public policies that would best advance this work locally and nationally.  The Institute is the locus where practice and theory meet, and where experimentation and innovation – grounded in real-world experience – flourish.

http://www.instituteccd.org/index.html

YNPN Boston provides a variety of personal and professional development opportunities, including speakers, workshops, discussions, career development, mentoring, networking, as well as social & service events.

YNPN Web Page: http://www.ynpnboston.org/home

Calendar of Events: http://www.ynpnboston.org/events/upcoming-events-calendar

What Every Nonprofit Needs to Know

Presented by the Lawyers Clearinghouse

Date:  Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time:  8:30am – 11:00am
Location:  Doyle Conservation Center (464 Abbott Avenue, Leominster, MA)

The Lawyers Clearinghouse is hosting several upcoming information sessions about the new Massachusetts Data Security Law, and specifically how nonprofit organizations will be effected by this law.  The discussion agenda will include specific details, compliance issues, and assistance regarding the Data Security Law.

For additional information and RSVP, please e-mail:
Machiko Sano Hewitt by March 5, 2010
msanohewitt@lawyersclearinghouse.org

Date:  March 1, 2010 (six module course)
Registration Fee:  $600 for municipal, state and federal employees. $700 for others
Registration Deadline: February 22, 2010

This 6-module course will discuss the tools necessary to help organizations realize the value of setting goals, measuring performance and using the resulting data as a management tool to improve outcomes, while using the latest in online technology, offered in an intuitive, user-friendly presentation.

Course Description

Registration

Please contact Sandy Blanchette for additional information.
sandy.blanchette@umb.edu
617-287-5534

The National Development Council is the oldest national non-profit community and economic development organizations in the U.S.  It was founded in 1969 with one purpose:  increasing the flow of capital for investment, jobs and community development to under served urban and rural areas across the country.  Since that time, NDC has worked with thousands of communities in every one of the 50 states and Puerto Rico, providing technical assistance, professional training, investment in affordable housing, small business financing and direct developer services.  Our work has taken many forms, but we have kept pace with the needs of our constituents, adding new programs and services or updating old ones.

A complete list of NDC trainings are available here.