2009 MCN/MCF Joint Annual Conference
Submit a Breakout Session Proposal Today!
Deadline: Wednesday, May 13, 5 p.m.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN) and the Minnesota Council on Foundations (MCF) are seeking your proposals for breakout sessions at our Joint Annual Conference, Transforming Our Work: From Challenging Times to Hopeful Futures, to be held on November 5-6, 2009, at the Saint Paul RiverCentre.
Conference Description
2009 is a time of retooling and transformation for nonprofits, grantmakers, and the public and private sectors. As volunteers, staff and board members make decisions for their organizations’ futures, they face critical choices about how to be nimble, effective, efficient and better able to achieve their missions.
At the MCN/MCF Joint Annual Conference, participants will assemble practical tools to transform their organizations. Whether it’s re-engineering communications, management, human resources, finance or other systems, they’ll learn what’s essential and effective, how to be responsive yet results-oriented, and ways to thrive as they refocus on pursuing their organizations’ missions. And beyond all that, participants will make connections, become inspired and re-energized, and discover a renewed hope for the future.
Submitting a Breakout Session Proposal
Before you complete the survey, please note that we will ask you these questions:
- What is the title of the session you are envisioning?
- Which track (or audience) would it fit into? Leadership, Governance, Finance and Management, Marketing and Communications, Human Resources, Fundraising, Public Policy and Advocacy, Grantmaking, or Theme-Related.
- Which type of session are you envisioning? Interactive Workshop (in-depth 3.5-hour session), Formal Presentation (75-minute lecture-style session), Group Discussion (75-minute facilitated discussion), Panel Discussion (75-minute panel of 3-4 knowledgeable panelists), or Informational Session (smaller, 60-minute session introducing a tool or resource).
- Write a description of your session as it could appear in the conference program (250 words or less).
- How will the session address the needs of nonprofit leaders, staff members, grantmakers, and/or board members?
- What content will be covered? Provide three learning objectives for this session.
- What is the intended experience level of participants who attend this session? (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Expert).
- Information about you, including brief biography (100 words or less) and brief description of your speaking experience.
- Information about your co-presenters, including brief biographies (if applicable).
When you are ready to enter the survey and submit the answers to the above questions, submit your proposal online and you will be taken directly to the first page of the survey. Note the deadline for submitting breakout session proposals is Wednesday, May 13, at 5 p.m.
If you would like to submit another proposal, simply return to the front page of this online survey. However, please note that if you leave the survey incomplete (that is, without getting to the last of its six pages) and then return to this site, you will be taken to the point in the survey where you left off.
The deadline for submitting breakout session proposals is Wednesday, May 13, at 5 p.m.
Stephanie Haddad
MCN's Program Director
651-757-3071
stephanie@mncn.org
or
Lisa Johnson
MCF's Manager of Professional Development and E-Learning, at
612-335-3556 ljohnson@mcf.org
