PURPOSE

The 2007 Nonprofit Summit is a follow up to the 2006 Summit, which consisted of an electronic town hall designed to increase participants' vision of their potential for collective community action. The 2006 Summit was devoted to thinking and planning; the 2007 Summit is focused on action. The 2007 Summit is designed to:

• Contribute to the effectiveness of individual nonprofit leaders
• Help to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations
• Build the collective strength of the nonprofit sector.

Each attendee will have an opportunity to benefit from five learning experiences:

• Three plenary sessions
• Two workshops.

GOALS

1. Stimulate leadership by presenting leadership concepts and models and by providing learning opportunities for leaders at all levels.
   
   The twenty-first century demands more of leaders. Leadership from and of the group - and from the least among us - can be the catalyst for change. As Thomas Friedman pointed out, we can all be leaders in today's "flattened world."
2. Encourage innovation by profiling the process, practices and tools; and by providing lessons learned from national and local case studies.
   
   Everyone can be a change maker. Everyone can see the world in new ways, discover new solutions to problems, and create new opportunities for our communities.
3. Promote opportunities for building partnerships between and among private-sector, public-sector and nonprofit sector organizations by presenting the strategies and tools to build successful partnerships and profiling national and local examples of best practices.
   
   Going it alone is a thing of the past. Partnerships - between citizens, between communities, and between nonprofit, private, and public-sector organizations are critical to our future. They are the only path to the future.
   
   In addition, the Summit will:
4. Provide educational sessions that address basic skills that are important to effective nonprofit management and service delivery.
   
   No one is in charge of the future. We are all responsible. And to guide our organizations requires learning and re-learning, renewing and reflecting - and an investment in professional education.

Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania | 650 Smithfield St., Suite 210, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412-471-6488 | summit@gwpa.org


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