Steering Committee Minutes: 2011 Planning Features New Framework and Mentoring Pilot

Leatherstocking AEA Steering Committee Minutes
November 23

Steering Committee members: Liz Callahan, Hanford Mills Museum; Susan Kenney, Roxbury Arts Group; Lori Solensten; Deborah Marcus, Planned Parenthood of South Central NY; Michael Wesolowski, Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States

Discussed 2011 planning:
• Employment issues
o Nonprofit staff quality and engagement
o Unemployment
• Survival strategies for nonprofits
o Employees
o Costs
o Revenue
o Documenting success
o New approaches for administration/management
• 1 day conference
o EDs and board focus
 Focus on change and board improvement
• Pilot mentoring program
o Meet new EDs as they begin and connect to peer
o Develop inventory of EDs interested in being mentors

2011 Focus
• Entrepreneurial Strategies for Running a Nonprofit
o Priorities
 Marketing and promotion
 Board and staff relationships
 Planning
 Fund development
o Meeting framework
 Pair topics
• Planning and Board and staff relationships
• Marketing and pr and Fund development
o 3 hour timeframe
o Format will be panel discussions
o Offer 2 different dates in Spring and Fall
 April and October
 2 dates each month (4 dates total)
• Workshops repeat
• Planning and Board and staff relationships
o Start with strategic plan and discuss committees and role of board and staff and focus on specific challenges (to be indentified)
o Panel discussion
o Pilot mentoring program
 Announce at meetings