Today we launch The Hub,
an online community for the IS Annual Conference. The Hub was created
to allow attendees and speakers to meet and engage with one another
before, during, and even after the conference this year in Chicago.
Recently Will DeKrey, senior associate at Community Wealth Ventures, Inc., shared with us his experience at the NGen Speed Networking event in Atlanta last year. The NGen pre-conference program will take place October 29-30 just prior to the 2011 IS Annual Conference in Chicago.
Have
you ever tried to explain to your grandma that you’re the grants
administrator for a private non-operating foundation or that you’re the
new media specialist for a community-based economic justice
organization? Did it result in a blank stare and then a demand that you
stop all the mail from nonprofits asking for money?
What criteria offer collaborations the greatest chance for success? Are the conditions right for your organization to consider a strategic partnership? Find out in Diana’s blog on collective impact.
Muhammed Chaudhry, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation in San Jose, California recently shared his experience attending the CEO Track at the 2010 IS Annual Conference in Atlanta.
We are thrilled to have some outstanding participants at this year’s Public Policy Action Institute.
Here are just some of the names of the people who have agreed to share their wisdom with us in Chicago, October 29-30:
