Board Development - workshop, Sydney

Where: Sydney
When: 30 July 2008
Start time: 4pm
Finish time: 6pm
Are you a non-profit leader, or a current or potential board member? This afternoon workshop turns the spotlight on what’s required to make your non-profit board deliver. You’ll look at best practice, performance expectations and what it takes to make non-profit leaders and board members work effectively together.

To address the sector’s need for practical and affordable skills development, Social Ventures Australia has developed an integrated program of capacity building workshops specifically designed for non-profit organisations of all sizes and stages of development.

Led by qualified and experienced facilitators who are familiar with nonprofit culture and the unique issues we face, these workshops introduce key concepts of organisational and board development and offer specific techniques on how to apply them to your organisation.

SVA workshops are for non-profit leaders and managers. They’re short, sharp and focused to make sure your time out of the office makes your time in the office easier and more effective.

Why come?

Get tools and know-how that boost organisational outcomes
Apply your learning in real-time
Benefit from experienced facilitators and non-profit peer working
Cost: $200

For more information or to register download the workshop flyer.

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Working paper: Agency and Institutions

—A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5943.html
Download the PDF.

Researchers' understanding of institutional entrepreneurship has evolved since the publication of Paul DiMaggio's seminal text "Interest and Agency in Institutional Theory" 20 years ago. In particular, researchers have begun to establish foundations for a theory of institutional entrepreneurship. This paper by Bernard Leca, HBS professor Julie Battilana, and Eva Boxenbaum analyzes existing work, and proposes an ambitious research agenda that calls for a more systematic investigation of institutional entrepreneurship.

Fundraising help sheet

Raising money to send amateur individuals or teams away to events musical, sporting or otherwise is not easy.

There's no quick fix, no magic pool of funds that ou can dip into to get yu on your way.

To help people think through the process of raising funds for things like this, the OurCommunity webste has a help sheet. It's a handy reference for anyone wanting to know how to raise funds for a one-off need (as well as those such as council officers who also receive this request from time to time).

The help sheet is in the Community Funding Centre at www.ourcommunity.com.au/oneoff

The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations [pdf]

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2008. http://scout.wisc.edu/

Established in 1997 with a grant from Rita and Gus Hauser, The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organization "pursues dispassionate research and education, promoting critical thinking about the importance, roles and performance of civic organizations." This website complements their contextual work by offering information about their staff, publications, research programs, and educational programs. The "Publications" area is one that will be of most interest to visitors, as they can peruse their working paper series, look over their newsletters, and also learn about recent books written by Hauser Center authors. The working paper series contains over 40 titles, including "Comparative Advantage in Disaster Response" and "What Matters to Whom? Managing Trust Across Multiple Stakeholder Groups". In the "Programs" area, visitors will find resources for public sector and religious leaders via the Program on Religion and Public Life and materials on the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. Finally, visitors can also sign up to receive the Center's e-newsletter.

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/