April 30 - May 1 Embassy Suites Little Rock, AR
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Vegetarian and diabetic meal options are available. *
(Lunch and awards breakfast included)
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Agenda Thursday, April 30, 2015 9:00 -10:00 AM Registration, Refreshments & Networking 10:00 AM Opening Session, Ambassador IV-VII Opening Remarks: Sherry Middleton, Director Division of Community Service & Nonprofit Support 10:30 - 11:45 AM Concurrent Session One 12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch, Ambassador IV-VII Billie Ann Myers Paragon Award Ceremony 1:15 - 2:30 PM Concurrent Session Two 2:30 - 2:45 PM Afternoon Break 2:45 - 4:00 PM Concurrent Session Three 4:00 - 5:00 PM Annual Meeting, Ambassador III Arkansas Volunteer Coordinators Association
Friday, May 1, 2015 7:45 AM Registration 8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast & AVCA Awards, Ambassador IV-VII 9:00 - 9:15 AM Check-Out Break 9:15 - 10:30 AM Concurrent Session Four 10:45 - 12:00 PM Concurrent Session Five
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Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 Room
Title
Ambassador 1
Powerful Presentations in the Workplace: Enhancing Your Skills for Creating and Delivering Presentations
Ambassador 2
Taxes for Nonprofits
Ambassador 3
Effective, Action-Oriented Collaboration Techniques
Diplomat
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Fundraising 101
Speaker
Sarah Warren
W C Mitchell
Description This workshop provides strategies for preparing and delivering presentations, increasing audience engagement and overcoming your fear of public speaking. Guidelines will be provided for creating your presentation, from planning through execution. Additionally, tips and tricks will be provided for building PowerPoint presentations and other visual aids to enhance presentations. Some knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint is recommended for this training.
This workshop will explore how nonprofit agencies can ensure IRS compliance.
Amy Whitehead & Josh Markham
Partnerships between agencies is critical for non-profits and other organizations. However, effective collaboration relies upon setting an agenda that demonstrates a clear plan of action and motivates everyone involved to stay engaged. This session will outline techniques for setting an action oriented agenda when collaborating with others, as well as providing examples of important lessons learned from past collaborative efforts.
Georgia Mjartan
Come learn how to raise monetary support for your organization or your program. This session will include tips on soliciting donations from individuals and companies as well as how to find and write grants.
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Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 Room
Title
Ambassador 1
Powerful Presentations in the Workplace: Enhancing Your Skills for Creating and Delivering Presentations
Ambassador 2
An Untapped Resource: Creating Partners in Higher Education
Ambassador 3
Fundraising and the Nonprofit Board
Diplomat
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Motivation: It's all up to You
Speaker
Description
Sarah Warren
This workshop provides strategies for preparing and delivering presentations, increasing audience engagement and overcoming your fear of public speaking. Guidelines will be provided for creating your presentation, from planning through execution. Additionally, tips and tricks will be provided for building PowerPoint presentations and other visual aids to enhance presentations. Some knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint is recommended for this training.
Heath Bowman
Learn how your organization or agency can benefit from creating collaborative partnerships with local colleges and universities. This session will include an overview of past successes and a blueprint that you can customize to your needs and goals.
Keith Vire
This presentation stresses the importance of fundraising, as well as the Board's role in fundraising. The responsibility of the board as a whole, as well as the responsibility of individuals members will be discussed. Participants will leave this session with possible solutions to typical fundraising issues.
Bobby Hall
Motivation is like learning. You can be taught, but the learning is up to you. In Steven Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, he states that “Between stimulus [inspiration, stimulation] and response [motivation], is our greatest freedom, our freedom to choose.” During this workshop participants will learn eight tips on how to motivate themselves. Inspirational videos will be interspersed throughout the presentation with stimulating messages for everyone to take home. 7
Thursday 2:45 - 4:00 Room
Title
Ambassador 1
Facebook, Funds and Friends: Empowering Citizens Through Social Media
Ambassador 2
Winning at National Service
Ambassador 3
From Bored to Boom: Transforming Your Board
Diplomat
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Motivation: It's all up to You
Speaker
Description
DeAnna O'Malley
During this workshop participants will learn how to use Facebook and other forms of social media to create a strong community group, the importance of empowering individuals to participate in community projects, and how having a hands-on group can benefit a community financially.
Will Roark
This panel will consist of the Corporation for National and Community Service representatives from across the streams of service to discuss how your organization can benefit from CNCS programs. We will also discuss the steps your organization can take to apply for CNCS funds.
Merritt Royal
The purpose to this session is to provide insight into transforming inactive and dispassionate nonprofit board leadership to active and engaged leaders. Session attendees will develop an understanding of what motivates board members to serve, how to best utilize the strengths of board leadership, and how to recruit new board members.
Bobby Hall
Motivation is like learning. You can be taught, but the learning is up to you. In Steven Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, he states that “Between stimulus [inspiration, stimulation] and response [motivation], is our greatest freedom, our freedom to choose.” During this workshop participants will learn eight tips on how to motivate themselves. Inspirational videos will be interspersed throughout the presentation with stimulating messages for everyone to take home. 9
Friday 9:15 - 10:30 Room
Title
Ambassador 1
Managing and Maintaining Nonprofit Personnel Policies
Ambassador 2
Foundations are People, too
Ambassador 3
Nonprofit Accounting
Diplomat
Recruiting Volunteers with Disabilities
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Speaker
Description
Wayne Young
What are some interview questions you cannot legally ask? Can you use the internet to augment background checks? Why are updated job descriptions important? Why are timely reviews important? Can a person be fired for a tweet or post? Can an employer require access to a personal account (EX: Facebook or twitter) as a condition of employment? Come to this session to discuss these questions and more involving nonprofit personnel practices and policies.
Melissa Hendricks, CFRE
Learn techniques to stand apart from the crowd of grant seekers. This session will include how to develop professional relationships with staff and/or trustees of private foundations, advice for ensuring your proposal reaches the top of the stack and ways to cultivate and steward relationships with private foundations so you might be funded more than once.
Marc Lux
This session will cover a general Q & A on what Nonprofit agencies want/need want from a CPA. We will discuss different level of attestation services, i.e. differences between an audit, review, compilation & AUP. This session will also review clarification on filing the Form 990 or 990-EZ, as well as other filing requirements within the state of Arkansas. We will also discuss upcoming changes from the FASB, GASB, and OMB.
Billy Altom
This session will discuss some best practices for recruiting volunteers with disabilities as well as answer some general questions about what’s appropriate to ask or do with volunteers with disabilities.
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Friday 10:45 - 12:00 Room
Title
Ambassador 1
Cyber Security: Threats and Affordable Solutions
Ambassador 2
An Untapped Resource: Creating Partners in Higher Education
Ambassador 3
Disaster Preparedness
Diplomat
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Recruiting Board Members
Speaker
Philip Huff
Heath Bowman
Katie Belknap
Fran Carter
Description Cyber security threats are very real for all organizations, but they can leave you feeling hopeless and uncertain. This session will break down real cyber threats to client information and provide effective and affordable solutions to address them.
Learn how your organization or agency can benefit from creating collaborative partnerships with local colleges and universities. This session will include an overview of past successes and a blueprint that you can customize to your needs and goals.
This session will cover disasters in Arkansas including pictures of recent disasters in Arkansas. It will also cover individual and nonprofit preparedness tips. Finally, it will address what the state is doing to protect its citizens and ways individuals can help out.
This session will cover some best practices in recruiting a strong board of directors for your nonprofit organization.
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Billie Ann Myers Paragon Award The DHS Division of Community Service & Nonprofit Support presents the Billie Ann Myers Paragon Award to an Arkansan whose volunteer efforts have impacted and inspired others in Arkansas. To be eligible for the award, an individual must meet the following criteria: Be a resident of the State of Arkansas Have a history of volunteering and inspiring others to volunteer Exhibit servant leadership in advocating changes for the better, working to bring them about, and helping others bring them about Have caused a significant improvement in the quality of life for Arkansas as a result of these efforts
Previous recipients: 2001 - Billie Ann Myers
2010 - Dick Trammel
2002 - Willie Oates
2011 - Steve Jones
2003 - Freeman McKindra
2012 - Former First Lady Betty Bumpers
2004 - Randy Frazier
2013 - Dr. David Sink
2005 - Ray Baker
2014 - Al Schneider ( Pictured Below)
2006 - Dr. Roby Robertson 2007 - Bob Torvestad 2008 - Pat Lile 2009 - Former First Lady Ginger Beebe 14
Summit Sponsor
Mission: to strengthen community resources, volunteerism and national service in Arkansas.
The Arkansas Service Commission, a unit within DCSNS, provides sub grants for AmeriCorps programs in Arkansas.
For a detailed directory of services, come by our displays while at The Summit or visit our website: www.humanservices.arkansas.gov/dcsns
www.facebook.com/ardcsns
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Summit Partners Arkansas Community Foundation (ARCF) is a nonprofit organization that fosters smart giving to improve communities. The Community Foundation offers tools to help Arkansans protect, grow and direct their charitable dollars as they learn more about community needs. By making grants and sharing knowledge, the Community Foundation support charitable programs that work for Arkansas and partners to create new initiatives that address the gaps. Since 1976, the Community Foundation has provided more than $108 million in grants and partnered with thousands of Arkansans to help them improve our neighborhoods, our towns and our entire state. Learn more at www.arcf.org
UALR Institute of Government exist to serve the people of Arkansas by advancing excellence in governance and public service across the state. We do this by helping governments and nonprofits through applied research, instruction, and training. The Institute of Government houses a nationally accredited graduate program in public administration; graduate certificate programs in nonprofit management and conflict mediation; and specialized centers in survey research, nonprofit management, and community civics (public collaboration, conflict mediation, and civic governance). Learn more at www.ualr.edu/iog 16
Summit Partners Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation For nearly 40 years, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation has helped to build and sustain the organizations that serve and strengthen Arkansas. Through grant making and strategic partnerships, we are working hard to help close the economic and educational gaps that leave too many Arkansas families in persistent poverty. Learn more at www.wrfoundation.org
In Cooperation With
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SPONSORED BY Arkansas Department of Human Services Division of Community Service & Nonprofit Support
Summit Partners Arkansas Community Foundation UALR Institute of Government Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
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