Tuesday, May 20, 2008
10:00 am - 4:00 pm session (9:30 am Check-in)
Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts Fine Arts Center, Black Box Theatre
3rd & Pearl Streets, Camden, NJ

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
10:00 am - 4:00 pm session (9:30 am Check-in)
NJPSA/FEA (Foundation for Education Administration)
12 Centre Drive, Monroe Township, NJ

Described as "revelatory" and "enlightening" by past participants, this is one of our most popular workshops.  Nonprofits develop capacity in stages, which means their organizational competencies will look different as they are just starting up, experiencing rapid growth, or undergoing organizational regeneration.  Using the seminal concepts presented in Susan Kenny Steven’s award-winning book, Nonprofit Lifecycles, this session examines the predictable challenges and capacity benchmarks that your nonprofit can expect to face at different stages of organizational development.  Seven different phases of nonprofit development are analyzed, along with the governance, management, staffing, and financial realities at each stage. Time will be set aside for each team to work together to examine its organizational capacity using the Lifecycle self-assessment tool with special attention paid to specific lifecycle challenges Boards face at various points of their development, and best of all, develop practical strategies for understanding and improving your Board at each stage. We encourage Executive Directors to bring a team of up to three Board and/or staff members to this workshop.