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SynerVision Leadership Empower Symposium
Leadership Workshop

 

Leadership Empowerment

Are you starting a nonprofit organization? Are you confused as to what to do next, how to build a high performance board and volunteers, and how to attract sustainable funding to get early traction? Are you growing a nonprofit and are tired of doing it all and being confused as to how to attract donors and get the right team? Are tired of living in scarcity mode trying to move your nonprofit to the next level? According to TheNonprofitTimes, More than 45 percent of young nonprofit professionals surveyed recently predicted their next job would not be at a charity. The respondents cited burnout and low pay as the main reasons they would leave. It’s time to change that picture… The SynerVision Leadership Foundation’s Leadership Empowerment Symposium is a one-day intensive workshop for you to learn the skills to stand up or grow your nonprofit, recruit the right board and volunteers, create a winning strategy, and attract donors to support your mission. Learn how to be the leader to put this all together from Hugh Ballou, who is a 30+ year veteran in building high performing nonprofit organizations of all types. What you will learn:

  • How to engage board and stakeholders for maximum impact;
  • How to attract funding through comprehensive planning;
  • How to leverage relationships to achieve the organization’s mission and attract donors;
  • How to build multiple teams that actively work to accomplish the organization’s mission;
  • How to not get stuck doing it all…the art of delegation;
  • The nuts and bolts of how to start and grow a sustainable high functioning organization;
  • Other modules addressing the specific issues of the group in attendance.

Next on the schedule:

  • Denver, CO – February 24, 2016
  • Baltimore, MD
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • Salt Lake City, UT

The SynerVision Leadership Empowerment Symposium were offered in the following locations in 2015:

For information or to inquire about hosting a workshop in your area email Hugh Ballou

 

 

SynerVision Nonprofit Leadership Excellence Summit
Coming to a Location Near you in 2016

 

Background

The Leadership Summit Purpose

The Unmet Need in the Tax-Exempt and NGO Sectors

The tax-exempt world is currently facing three key interconnected challenges: insufficient organizational development expertise, insufficient funding to pay for getting the expertise, and sponsor dissatisfaction with how their donations are being utilized.

Expertise: The two key sources of organizational development expertise are presenters and consultants. Most presenters are long on inspiration and philosophy and short on skills development and implementation. Most consultants do the heavy lifting without teaching the organization how to fish for themselves. What tax-exempt organizations most need are trainers with corporate-level expertise. Experts who train key team members in pragmatic processes and accompanying skills that enables the tax-exempt organization to effectively and sustain ably fish for itself.

Funding: The challenge tax-exempt organizations face is that the cost of retaining this quality of top-flight trainer generally exceeds what they can afford.

Donor Dissatisfaction: Increasing numbers of corporate sponsors are increasingly frustrated as the tax-exempt organizations they support ineffectively utilize the funds provided.

The SynerVision Solution

The SynerVision Leadership Foundation (SVLF) solves these problems for both tax-exempt organizations and their donors. The Foundation provides cream-of-the-crop corporate trainers who teach tax-exempt organizations and NGOs the business skills they need to utilize the funds their sponsors and donors gift to them in the most cost-effective productive ways possible.

This expertise is provided through world-class training conferences supplemented by scalable programs for individual tax-exempts that need customized value-added resources beyond what the training conferences provide.

This approach is made possible by filling the gap between the cost of the resources SVLF provides and the fees that faith-based institutions, nonprofits and NGOs are capable of paying for them. This gap is filled through SVLF’s corporate sponsorships and endowment.

This one-of-a-kind model enables tax-exempt organizations to access world-class expertise that they couldn’t otherwise afford, while giving sponsors and donors a huge boost in confidence that their funds are being used effectively.

SVLF seeks corporate sponsors and philanthropic donors who recognize the vital importance of a fully functional tax-exempt sector and want to make it possible for those organizations to avail themselves of the necessary levels of expertise that they do not have the budget to fully afford on their own.

The Nonprofit Leadership Excellence Summit Outcomes

This high impact summit will consist of  fully scheduled interactive sessions with a focus on quality and a reasonable pace to provide energy. These summits will be a combination of world-class presenters and cutting edge content. The programs are designed to provide compelling reasons for church and nonprofit social benefit organization leaders, board members, key staff, and principle volunteers to participate and have ongoing engagement in the summit series.

The convergence of business and social benefit sectors, an emerging global phenomenon, will fuel the drive for competence in social entrepreneurship. Generally the desired outcomes for the sessions are as follows:

T-Talks: to inspire new thinking and response to social change, and to create energy for transformational action.

Workshop Sessions: to provide strategies, tools, and applications relevant to the inspiration from the T-Talks providing ways to apply the principles and strategies in a variety of situations – this is the “How To” to go with the “What.” These sessions provide a pathway and confidence needed for the transformation.

Networking Sessions – to connect like-minded individuals to share best practices and to develop mastermind type groups to continue the learning process and to provide a wide range of support, especially for those SBOs with a great vision, but not many resources.

Leadership

The WayFinders, a body of leading thinker-practitioners, will provide principle leadership for the SVLF Summit. The WayFinders all have the experience and skills to execute this innovative convening.  Each has a contact base of NPO and church leaders that will bring energy in significant numbers to the summits. Once the concept is proven, then the leadership can be expanded to facilitate growth of the concept and to provide a variety of content and presenters. A list of the WayFinders is found at: http://synervisionfoundation.org/who-we-are/ and are included in Appendix I.

With a core group of skilled presenters the events can be replicated easily in major American and international cities. The goal is to develop the maximum impact event and then duplicate it in many markets.

Sponsor Benefits

  • Exposure to professional representatives from various verticals
  • Enhance the reputation and philanthropic profile of your corporation
  • It’s a place where contacts are made and where business gets done
  • It’s an event of substance: a gathering of top level management of the organizations
  • It’s an opportunity to interact with corporate business leaders who are decision makers
  • The sponsorship packages will create a year-round advantage, offering value far beyond the actual event itself
  • The marketing campaign is extensive and very targeted

OVERVIEW

SynerVision Leadership Foundation (SVLF) will creates an interactive educational and networking event for church and nonprofit social benefit organization leadership to develop and expand abilities and relationships.  The goal is to provide skill development and organizational development in a peer-to-peer setting directed by an experienced faculty.  It is an intensive focused program of presentations, workshops, and collaborative problem solving.

These educational summits will be replicated throughout the United States in regional hubs easily accessible by air, rail, and car. The typical design would be a Thursday and Friday event allowing church leaders to return to work on Sunday.

These summits will consist of the following components

  • Plenary Sessions called “T-Talks” (Transformation Talks) will be modeled after the high quality, impact TED Talks. The presenters will be the best in their fields and designed to provide concise, innovative, 18-minute talks presenting new ideas on topics relevant to SBOs. These talks will be original material never presented before, presentations that challenge participants to think differently.
  • Workshop Sessions called “Transformation in Motion” which will be an information packed 90-minute interactive session with practical tools and implementation strategies based on the principles provided in the “T-Talk” on the same topic.
  • Peer-to-peer networking session designed to share best practices and resources with other attendees. Several networking sessions will be designed by job description, type of organization, and topic.

This three-step format will be repeated three times during a typical summit. Some events might also include a keynote speaker with a 60 to 90-minute keynote presentation.

TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC

The target demographic for the SVLF Leadership Excellence Summit consists of the following types of organizations:

  • Religious Organizations: Churches and Synagogues
  • Nonprofit Social Benefit Organizations: any 501 (c)(3) organization
  • Community Foundations
  • Educational Institutions
  • Nonprofit membership organizations
  • Religious Judicatories: Conference, Presbytery, etc.
  • Other nonprofit organizations

Within those organizations the following people would be targeted for participation:

  • Pastor or Rabbi
  • Board Chair
  • Nonprofit Executive Director
  • CFO
  • CEO
  • Head of Human Resources
  • Head of Marketing
  • President or Headmaster of Educational Institution
  • Church Lay Leader
  • Judicatory Leaders and District Lay Leaders

Others targeted include:

  • Business leaders with a focus and mission on social entrepreneurial enterprises
  • Business leaders on nonprofit and religious boards

Age and social groups to address:

  • The “Boomer” generation who are retiring and sometimes looking for volunteer positions of leadership in the nonprofit arena
  • The “Millennial” generation – emerging new leaders