WORKSHOPS

Two Upcoming Workshops – September 2010 (Toronto)

Re:Innovation: How to Revitalize your Organization using Innovation Labs

Date: Wednesday September 29, 2010

Location: Hart House, Debates Room (Toronto)

Everyone is talking about it, but what exactly is innovation and how can it help your non-profit organization?

Innovation produces extra-ordinary, relevant, and impactful outcomes for organizations when there is:

• a healthy acceptance of courage and risk,
  
• the appropriate allocation of of time, space, infrastructure and resources (both financial and human), and
• the creation of a collaborative and creative process that stimulates thought, learning, and critical analysis

~ Betty Ferreira, 2010

 

This full-day workshop will answer the following questions:

• Can innovation enable resilience?
• What is an Innovation Lab?
• How can I use Innovation Labs to spark creative thinking, and analysis in my staff team?
• How can the use of Innovation Labs reinforce a learning culture in our organization?
• How can I use Innovation Labs to reinforce strategic planning?
  
• What are some examples of how innovation has revitalized other non-profit and for-profit organizations?
• How do I go about implementing an Innovation Lab?

Sponsorship:

If you are interested in sponsoring this event through financial or in-kind sponsorship, please contact betty [at] restructure.ca

* Enabling Resilience: How to ReStructure your Non-Profit Organization (October 2010)

In surveys with over 200 non-profit and charitable organizations, leaders state that their top 5 challenges for this fiscal year include:

• Decreases in donations and event revenues and decreases in program and core funding
• Unaware of restructuring strategies to reduce costs & protect staff and programs
• Insufficient financial expertise to provide relevant, meaningful reports and forecasts
• Uncertain if their organization will be able to handle the potential/expected decreases in donations and funding
• Increased workload due to staff cut-backs

If you or your organization is unsure of the level of risk your organization is exposed to; how that level of risk may have increased due to the recession and funding cut-backs; unsure how to assess if your programs are resilient; and unsure how to strategically restructure…then this workshop is for you.

For information & registration click here

The ReStructure Conference also offers the following half and full-day workshops:

• Enabling Resilience: How to Restructure & Revitalize your Non-Profit Organization
• How to Develop and Implement Contingency & Scenario Plans to Cope with Funding Cutbacks
• How to Determine and Allocate True Costs of Programs & Conduct Program Economic Analysis of your Programs
• Developing Financial Clarity: Financial Management 101 for Board Members & Executive Directors
• Using Innovation to ReStructure your Organization (Available Fall 2010)
  Practical real-life examples of innovation will inspire you to restructure and revitalize your organization
• Other – please let us know what workshop you would like us to offer to meet your needs!

Are you a non-profit organization, association, network or funder?:

If you are a non-profit or charitable organization: please inquire about our public workshops – we will add workshops to the schedule when we have enough demand.

If you are a non-profit association or network: feel free to ask about rates to provide any of these workshops to your association or network

If you are a non-profit funder: please inquire about our rates to provide any of these workshops to your grantees.