Not-for-Profit Leaders: What's Your End Game?

Not-for-Profit Leaders: What’s Your Endgame?

A game-changing event for Australian social change makers MELBOURNE: Friday, November 6, 2015 SYDNEY: Monday, November 9, 2015

U.S. not-for-profit sector leader: two Australian dates only!

• Do you have a plan for increasing your impact?

• Do you know what lies beyond ‘mission and vision’?

• What is your organisation’s ultimate purpose?

Many organisations assume that the best way to increase their impact is to scale up – get bigger, service more areas, reach more people.

But what if the answer lies in thinking differently, not thinking bigger?

Stop and think: what role do you want to play in the overall solution to the problem you’re tackling?

In this session, you’ll be introduced to the endgame theory first proposed in Stanford Social Innovation Review.

The article’s co-author, U.S.-based social entrepreneur and impact acceleration expert Alice Gugelev, will guide you to an understanding of your organisation’s endgame, and how to steer your course towards your ultimate purpose.

Program 9.30am

Registration (tea & coffee available)

10.00am ‘What’s Your Endgame?’

– an introduction (Alice Gugelev) 11.00am

Endgame panel – case studies

12.15pm

Lunch

1.00pm An enterprise of: Endgame

exercise – applying the theory to your organisation

2.30pm

Close

An enterprise of: Where not-for-profits go for help

Who should attend: This event is suitable for board members, CEOs and senior staff of not-for-profits, and grantmakers, philanthropists and others who work with social change organisations.

Where and when: MELBOURNE: Friday, November 6, Moonee Valley Racing Club, Moonee Ponds, 10am to 2.30pm SYDNEY: Monday, November 9, Cliftons, Level 13, 60 Margaret Street, Sydney, 10am to 2.30pm Cost: $350 pp (10% off for ICDA, AIGM and Philanthropy Australia members. Group discounts available.)

About Alice Gugelev

Endgame theory: a preview What role will your not-for-profit organisation play in the overall solution to the problem you set out to tackle?

Endgame theory authors Alice Gugelev and Andrew Stern propose six possible endgames: • Sustained service: You keep on doing what you’ve always done. This is the default endgame for many not-for-profits – yet it’s not always the right one.

• Open source: You invest in research and development, then share what works by serving as a knowledge hub for other organisations.

• Replication: You demonstrate what works, then persuade other not-for-profits to deliver it.

• Government adoption: You demonstrate what works, then persuade the government to deliver it.

• Commercial adoption: You demonstrate what works, then persuade private companies to deliver it.

Alice is the director of the U.S.-based Social Enterprise Accelerator at the Global Development Incubator (GDI).

The GDI Accelerator aims to increase the scale, reach and impact of growth-stage social enterprises and not-for-profits.

Alice is also the co-founder and executive director of the Muskoka Foundation and the “Do Good As You Go” movement, and chief strategy officer and investor for AppMakr, the world’s largest DIY mobile app development platform.

Alice has worked with the Gates Foundation and the World Bank; in the for-profit world, she spent the earlier part of her career with Bain & Company and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.

Alice is a graduate of the Stanford Japan Center. She holds a degree in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

• Mission achievement: You achieve your mission, and the job is done, everywhere, for all time. This only works if your mission is well defined and plausibly achievable – for example, “To eradicate malaria.”

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