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Back by popular demand, this daylong comprehensive, hands-on training gives advocacy group leaders and key staff and volunteers the skills to grow their organizational capacity. To build on the success of previous years, this year’s Organizational Development symposium will focus on strategic planning, fundraising in a challenging economy, partnership, and effective communications, with an emphasis on traditional and new media, including blogs and social networking. Participants will come away from this day with tools for prioritizing organizational needs and focusing resources to achieve their mission. The course will use large-group training methods but will also emphasize the importance of creating a peer-to-peer learning environment. Small-group discussions, take-away tools, and individual exercises will create a fast-paced, layered day of learning. Organizational Development will be facilitated by Lisa Wise, whose five-year tenure with Genetic Alliance—and work with a breadth of organizations in all stages of development—will offer an ideal anchor for the day. She has over a decade of experience with strategic planning, organizational operations, media relations, marketing, grant-writing, fundraising, and staff and volunteer development. Principles in accounting and finance for small organizations will be presented by Tim Hawkins, Partner, LT Business Dynamics. The media and communications session will be presented by Steven Keiles, President, National Society of Genetic Counselors; Wendi Koziol, Senior Account Supervisor, Public Communications, Inc.; and Alice Lara, President and CEO, Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation. Tiphane Turpin, Communications Manager of Genetic Alliance, will facilitate the session. |
