Join me on your lunch break this Wednesday at 12pm EST for All Nonprofits Considered on BlogTalkRadio! This week is the third conversation of the State of the Nonprofit Union, a series of live (and lively!) discussions about the current state of the nonprofit sector with a special focus on careers, fundraising, and organizational sustainability. This is free, real-time professional development where you will get to learn about what’s happening right now in the nonprofit field, as well as chime in with your questions, thoughts and ideas. Please mark your calendars! Tell all your friends. And your friends’ friends.
February 24, 12:00-1:00pm EST
State of the Nonprofit Union: Organizational Sustainability
Listen to perspectives from three different nonprofit voices around what organizations are doing to stay afloat in the economic downturn. Is there increased competition or increased collaboration? We’ll share thoughts on how the economy has impacted leadership decisions and mission integrity in the nonprofit field including layoffs, program cuts, and innovation.
Guests
Nelson Layag, Projects Director, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
As Projects Director, Silicon Valley, Nelson leads the development and programming of CompassPoint’s Silicon Valley site and Resource Center. He was formerly the Director of Technology at CompassPoint, where he lead the development of innovative technology projects for the nonprofit sector which include an online and interactive training resource for community organizers and an e-learning course for Cisco employees who are about to join a nonprofit board. He has served in a number of positions at CompassPoint, including Director of Education. Prior to joining CompassPoint, Nelson was the Accounting Operations Coordinator at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and Group Home Supervisor for Star House in San Jose. He was a social worker serving at risk youth in Baltimore before coming to California. Nelson has a BA in Business Administration and Marketing from Loyola College in Baltimore, MD and was one of the first student coordinators for the Center for Values and Service at Loyola, which connects student and faculty volunteers with community nonprofit organizations in Baltimore.
Joe Brown, Human resources and management consultant to nonprofits at Slope Resources and Taproot Foundation volunteer
Joe Brown, Slope Resources’ founder and principal, is committed to providing organizations with effective, high quality, and creative management consulting services, primarily in the areas of nonprofit human resources management, organizational effectiveness, information collection and reporting, training, communications, and technology. Since founding Slope Resources in 1998, Joe has focused primarily on the compensation, performance management, and related human resources management needs of nonprofit organizations, primarily in the New York region.
Prior to founding Slope Resources, Joe spent nine years with the New York office of the Hay Group, an international management consulting firm, focused primarily on providing compensation and other human resources consulting services to organizations in numerous industry sectors. During this tenure, he accumulated broad experience in work measurement, compensation (including base salary as well as cash, non-cash, short- and long-term incentives), performance management, employee opinion research, work culture diagnosis and change, and internal/external customer satisfaction He also helped develop a number of innovative information- and technology-based client solutions and product offerings.
Joe attended the University of Chicago and New York Institute of Technology, and is a member of World at Work (formerly American Compensation Association), the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. He also provides pro bono consulting services as a volunteer with the Taproot Foundation.
Joe is an avid scuba diver and instructor, as well as a certified first aid and CPR instructor. He resides in Roselle, New Jersey with his wife, Kristin Miscall Brown, a psychotherapist in private practice, and their menagerie of dogs and cats.
Patrick Sallee, Development Director for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City and a Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) national board member. He also has a fantastic blog.
Patrick’s experience in fundraising started with a national nonprofit, American Humanics and continued as a consultant with Hartsook Companies.
Patrick is passionate about building strong relationships with donors, colleagues and other nonprofit professionals. He is addicted to social media and constantly looking for new ways to share info. Outside of the office he currently serves on the board of directors of Nonprofit Connect and recently joined the national board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN).
On a personal level, Patrick is an avid reader and golfer.
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