Center for Non-Profits - 2009 NJ Non-Profit Conference

Center for Non-Profits - 2009 NJ Non-Profit Conference

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Graphic design: Howard Levy, Red Rooster Group

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The 2009 NJ Non-Profit Conference Highlights

180 attendees
(non-profit volunteers & staff, funders, civil servants, service providers and supporters)
100 free Nonprofit Quarterly subscriptions given to non-profit registrants
16 Exhibitors
14 varied and valuable breakout sessions
2 informative, thought-provoking plenary sessions on current non-profit trends and isssue

Evaluations:
Rated of 4.5 (out of 5) on overall content, value and overall satisfaction. A few comments from participants:

"Excellent, excellent!! I can't wait to implement some of these ideas"

"...Speakers [were] interesting, dynamic and thought provoking." "Great networking and content!"

"Well organized theme - workshop topics quite relevant & timely."

" Exhibitors were appropriate" and "gave me very useful information."

"I was pleased with the balance between patting ourselves on the back and pointing out where we [non-profits] need to do better as a sector."

Agenda
(including workshops and presentors)

This conference was made possible by the generous support of our event sponsors:

Sponsors

... and the Scholarship Sponsors:
34 people were able to attend due to the support provided by:

New Jersey Health Initiatives and The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Take a look at some photographs of the event!

Speakers

Ruth McCambridge Barbara Buono

Morning plenary speaker Ruth McCambridge, Editor-in-Chief of The Nonprofit Quarterly

The Honorable Barbara Buono, New Jersey Senator, 18th District and Senate Majority Leader-elect

Senator Buono gave the luncheon address at the conference. Click here for a write-up of Senator Buono's Speech from The Record.

Mark Valli Linda Czipo

Center for Non-Profits Chairperson Mark Valli, President of New Jersey After 3

Linda Czipo, Director of The Center for Non-Profits

Elliot D. Lee

Elliott D. Lee, Vice President, Northeast Region, Community Relations, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Workshops

Ronice M. Bruce Lisa Thouin

Change, Chaos & Control: Making Sense in Turbulent Times

Ronice M. Bruce, CFRE, Senior Training and Consultation Specialist, YRM Consulting Group LLC

Navigating from Recession to Recovery: Financial Strategies You Need to Know

Lisa Thouin, CPA, The Mercadien Group

Regina Podhorin Workshop Participants

The Board of the Future

Regina Podhorin, President, The Leadership Group

Workshop Participants

Media Panel Media Panel Participants

Nonprofits and the Changing Media Landscape

(l-r): Matthew Hale, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Seton Hall University;
Howard J. Blumenthal, Interim Executive Director, NJN Public Television and Radio;
Debra Galant, Founder and Co-Owner, Baristanet.com;
Carly Rothman, Reporter, The Star-Ledger

Media Panel Participants

Networking

Networking Networking 2

(l-r) Lisa Cheng, Girl Scouts of Central & Southern NJ and Roseanne Gedman, Scheckner Lifson

Conference Participants

Networking 3

Conference Participants

Thank you to our 2009 conference volunteers!

Carly Rothman, Center Intern

Samir Rohira, Center Web Assistant

Barbara Gomes, NJ Shares

Dena Passero, NJ Shares

Maria Roman, NJ Shares

Jane Silverman, Jane Silverman and Associates LLC

Karen Armas Landau

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