July 9, 2020
9:00 AM-12:00 PM

About this Event
Guest Speaker, GUY GENERALS: PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA

Presentation: Will Philadelphia’s Poverty Action Plan succeed in raising 100,000 residents out of poverty by 2024? Bryan Wilkerson

Social Innovators AND Change Agent Presentations

• David Castro: I-LEAD
• Malik Brown: Graduate! Philadelphia
• Michael Lilley: Pay for Ed
• Eric Schuner: Virtuous
• Nikia Owens and Carniesha Kwashi: United Way and JOIN
• Michael Clark: Social Innovations Journal

Insights regarding Neighborhood Small Business Development from Regional Leaders

• Adriana Abizadeh, Executive Director of the Kensington Corridor Trust
• Sylvie Gallier Howard: First Deputy Commerce Director at City of Philadelphia
• Jill Fink: Executive Director, Merchants Fund
• Amy Carroll-Scott: Promise Zone Research Connection, Urban Health Collaborative, Associate Professor, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

Guest Speaker, H. PATRICK CLANCY, PRESIDENT & CEO, PHILADELPHIA WORKS

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BACKGROUND/CONTEXT

Through Social Mobility Partnerships the Social Innovations Journal aims to evaluate the existing anti-poverty programs in Philadelphia framed within short-term and long-term strategies. The evaluation will conclude with both a mapping of Philadelphia’s anti-poverty ecosystem; social impact individually and collectively; and short-term and long-term strategy recommendations. This edition of the Social Innovations Journal will focus on the Jobs and Education strategy of City Council’s Poverty Action Plan.

For the past 10 years; The Social Innovations Journal has connected and inspired local change agents; through the sharing of knowledge; best practices; and research; to improve poverty. Concrete impact and change requires more than education and engagement. The time has come for The Social Innovations Journal to become a network for collective action; and this short concept paper explains how this evolution will happen.

Learn more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-the-capacity-of-local-change-agents-to-impact-poverty-tickets-109018719926

The Race Equity Cycle identifies the three stages and common entry points of building a Race Equity Culture; helps organizations find themselves in this work; and names the levers that create momentum in building a Race Equity Culture. Participants will be provided key learnings on how to operationalize equity and measurably shift organizational culture toward race equity.

1) Participants will be introduced to research and resources Equity in the Center provides to support leaders and organizations in advancing race equity.

2) Participants will understand key research findings from the “Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture” publication, and how to apply the Race Equity Cycle framework in their own work.

3) Participants will learn about management and operational levers that can shift organizational culture toward race equity.

DATE AND TIME
Wed, November 7, 2018
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/awake-to-woke-to-work-building-a-race-equity-culture-tickets-51576733398

DATE AND TIME
Wed, October 3, 2018
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

LOCATION
Zoom Webinar

DESCRIPTION
Strengthen your relationship with donors and your case for support with inspiring communications. This webinar is designed for nonprofit staff and leadership members who want to develop clear, compelling, and consistent brand experience (visual identity and messages) across all your communication channels and marketing materials.

This fast-paced, one-hour training will help you consider how to build your organization’s public image with strategically targeted, engaging identity and messaging created to build brand awareness and support. It will focus on best practices for building a strong brand purpose and personality, from critiquing your most essential positioning language to evaluating the images and stories you share with donors, clients, and other stakeholders.

This webinar will help leadership and fundraising professionals at all levels learn how brand purpose and positioning are an important part of fundraising.

Expected Outcomes:

1. Learn the differences between a statement of mission and vision, and how they align with your brand’s actions, behaviors, and communications.

2. Explore examples of brands that have successfully expressed their purpose across multiple media.

3. Learn a three-step process to engaging your stakeholders in developing inspiring brand messaging.

Speaker: Claudia Zeldin

Claudia Zeldin is a partner at Growth for Good and an accomplished professional consultant with 30+ years of nonprofit marketing and management experience. She has a strong expertise in strategic planning, business development, brand messaging, and interim executive leadership. Claudia has consulted, coached, trained, and created campaigns for more than 150 for-profit agencies, nonprofit agencies, and educational organizations. Clients include: Alliance/AIDS Service Center, American Foundation for the Blind, Brooklyn Community Housing and Services, CoveCare Center, City University of New York, Foundation for Jewish Camps, LEAPnyc, Pajama Project, and more.

Claudia loves sharing her knowledge and has provided training for the NYC Mayor’s Office, National Philanthropy Day, NYN Media’s FundCon/MarkCon, National School Foundation Association, Planned Giving Council of NH/VT, Support Center/Partnership in Philanthropy, Vera Institute, and others.

For 20+ years, Claudia has served as a devoted board member of DREAM serving on their Strategic Planning Committee since 1991, and is currently the Board Secretary of their DREAM Charter School. Claudia holds a B.A. in Communications from Tulane University.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mission-driven-messaging-how-brand-positioning-drives-fundraising-tickets-50077402860

When most think of parenting, their first thoughts are typically that of changing diapers, preparing dinner or perhaps chasing a screaming child through a mall. But parenting doesn’t stop with the basic survival needs of a child, as many of us with children know, parents have a major influence, if not the biggest influence in how a child turns out. This is especially true when it comes to a child’s academic and educational experience.

Parents can be the key to turning a struggling academic experience into an exponentially successful one. However, with opportunity comes a whole new set of challenges. One recent poll conducted by Ask.com, surveyed 778 parents and found that 43% of them actually do their child’s homework.

This webinar panel discussion will bring together experts from around the country to explore how best we can maximize the impact of parents, on a child’s academic performance. Attendees can expect an insider glimpse into the innovative strategies currently being utilized, what unique challenges they face and what the future may look like for parental engagement in education.

Wed, September 26, 2018
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT

LOCATION
Zoom Webinar

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/parents-as-a-strategy-to-increase-academic-performance-tickets-49750792961

Wed, September 19, 2018
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT

Speakers:

• Ana Lisa Yoder, Founder and Principal, Yoder Consultancy
• Sundrop Carter, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Immigrant and Citizenship Coalition
• Bitta Mostofi, Commissioner, New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigration

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/immigration-in-america-today-tickets-49555434639

This webinar will examine a free, data-rich platform explores housing stability, education, health and well-being, economic security, and mobility in every neighborhood in the country. As social innovators, we are fundamentally in the people business — in the business of changing lives. But the fact is that we can’t do our work if we don’t fully understand the ways in which people are shaped by their surroundings: their home, their neighborhood, their larger community.

As part of Opportunity360: A Collaborative Approach, we will draw on the following three principles: place matters; interconnected problems require interconnected solutions; and residents must be co-creators of solutions to the problems plaguing their communities.

This interactive training will walk multi-sector-minded collaborators through Opportunity360, a comprehensive new approach to understanding and addressing community challenges.

Drawing on more than 200 indicators, Opportunity360 measures whether people in a given place have access to the resources, institutions and services they need to pursue economic security, and how residents fare when it comes to housing, education, economic security, health and well-being, and mobility in every census tract across the country.

The platform enables multi-sector collaborators to assess with a few clicks the assets and challenges in a given neighborhood and to identify and target collaborative, cross-sector investments in solutions.

Opportunity360 is not just an evaluation and measurement tool but a platform to help identify and target solutions, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, so that together, we can create smarter multi-sector investments and solutions, and stronger communities.

Presented by: Tiffany Manuel, PhD; VP, Knowledge, Impact & Strategy, Enterprise Community Partners

Tiffany Manuel is vice president of knowledge, impact and strategy at Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. She drives the collection and dissemination of data and information from within Enterprise and across the affordable housing industry through innovative solutions that demonstrate achievable impact. She also leads Enterprise’s strategic planning processes and the continued development and
execution with the organization’s strategic goals.

Dr. Tiffany Manuel is an experienced social scientist, strategist and cross-sector leader committed to social impact. She has worked to expand opportunity for low-income workers, families and communities through 25+ years of professional and volunteer experience spanning the private and non-profit sectors, government and academia. As vice president for Knowledge, Impact & Strategy at Enterprise Community Partners, she leads Enterprise’s work to measure impact and build the capacity of the community development field to make a stronger case for its work. She leads the strategic vision on Enterprise’s innovative Opportunity 360 platform, the most comprehensive set of tools and resources for measuring opportunity in the United States. Tiffany is passionate about translating the insights harvested from this work to increase opportunities for public deliberation and public will-building around the issues of poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Tiffany is a frequent writer and speaker on these issues – especially as they relate to community development, social change and cross-sector partnerships.

Tiffany holds doctorate and master’s degrees in public policy from the University of Massachusetts Boston, a master’s degree in political science from Purdue University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago.

Register Here

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opportunity-360-measure-track-opportunity-in-every-census-tract-tickets-46862462888

Digital Marketing for Cultural Entities
Happening July 12th, 2PM EDT

Learn from Daniel Gallant, Arts Marketing Consultant and the Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, about a maximizing customer loyalty, boosting revenue and raising awareness of your programs and services

This webinar will provide a discussion of social media and other online marketing initiatives that have helped the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Arts Japan 2020 and other cultural entities to grow customer loyalty, boost revenues, and raise awareness about programs and services.

At a time when the glut of online content has become overwhelming, cost-efficient strategies that allow modestly-budgeted organizations to thrive are increasingly essential. Organizations of all sizes can learn from the achievements of small cultural entities that have exploited nuances of the online marketing sphere to outperform their larger competitors in key categories.

Presenter by: Daniel Gallant, Arts Marketing Consultant and Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Daniel Gallant is the Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the author of the short story collection Determined to Prove, and the recipient of a 2016 Eisenhower Fellowship. He is also a poet, playwright, theatrical producer, actor and teacher. His writing has appeared in eight anthologies from Vintage Books, Applause / Hal Leonard and Theater Communications Group. Daniel previously served as the Director of Theater and Talk Programming at the 92nd Street Y’s Makor and Tribeca centers. As an Eisenhower Fellow, he has explored how cultural organizations in Spain and Japan use innovative program and funding models to expand arts engagement. Daniel also advises cultural organizations in the United States about how to use game theory and social media to broaden their impact, and he oversees Arts Japan 2020, an online initiative that celebrates Japan-related cultural programs in the United States. Daniel has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Crain’s New York, the Daily News, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and Voice of America; and on MTV, NBC, CNN, NY1, CBS, NPR, Univision, the BBC and other networks. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Gallant has exploited expanding social-media tools to grow the cafe from a small, volunteer-led venue best known for weekly poetry events to a thriving arts center with partnerships across the city.”

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-marketing-for-cultural-entities-tickets-40934954551

Viewers will gain an understanding of a hybrid mechanism for foundations to support social enterprise and innovation via various tools, including grants, pilots, or PRIs.

Thu, May 24, 2018
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-model-for-high-leverage-philanthropy-tickets-45729547307

Social capital is in decline. Community trust, networks of resources, and authentic communication systems are critical to the fabric of healthy and sustainable communities, as well as a bedrock source of individual opportunities. In low-income communities, this decline of social capital has particularly devastating effects. So how can we spark social capital in today’s transient and digital world? Join us to learn about the methods and model of Union Capital Boston – a rewards program for community and civic engagement that creates physical and digital spaces for building trust and pathways of opportunity.

In this webinar we will:

• Identify the key challenges of building social capital and trust in today’s world
• Analyze the methods and model of UCB, what has worked and what still needs to be learned and improved
• Discuss the future opportunities for new organizing models that seed social capital and weave a stronger community fabric that create opportunities for all

About the Presenter:
Eric Leslie, Founder/Lead Organizer of Union Capital Boston

Eric Leslie began his career as a community organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation in Baltimore and New York City. Eric joined Teach For America in 2004 and taught middle school in North Philadelphia, later serving as principal of KIPP Philadelphia Charter School from 2008-2012. Eric returned home to the Boston area to attend the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2013 with his wife, and now has two daughters, ages 5 and 2. In 2014 Eric founded Union Capital Boston (UCB), http://unioncapitalboston.org. UCB is a new organizing approach to increase civic engagement as a means of addressing inequity for families and communities.

Facilitators:

• Dr. Leslie Grace, Social Entrepreneur
• Linda Samost, Sunday Suppers, Executive Director
• Lisa Miccolis, The Elephant and the Monkey, Executive Director
• Nicholas Torres, Social Innoavations Journal, Institute, and Lab, Executive Director

Wed, March 7, 2018
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

LOCATION
1700 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/measuring-your-social-impact-social-return-on-investment-tickets-42483134198

Enroll NOW in our Virtual Trainings

We believe the best strategy to increase SOCIAL IMPACT is to provide SOCIAL SECTOR LEADERS with the tools and knowledge they need to be SUCCESSFUL.

The Social Innovations Institute had developed a NOT-FOR-PROFIT leadership and SOCIAL ENTERPRISE track with 10 and 8 respective modules for NOT-FOR-PROFIT and SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR leaders who are seeking SPECIFIC knowledge and competencies.

As part of the Social Enterprise Track we published the Social Innovators Playbook to provide entrepreneurs and companies a process and framework to develop great products and services, dedicated employees, and great teams. Order you Copy HERE.

https://www.amazon.com/SOCIAL-INNOVATOR-PLAYBOOK-products-Innovation/dp/197390912X

The Social Innovations Institute will issue a Certificates of Completion for the Social Enterprise and The Not for Profit tracks for completion of 6 modules for either track. Those who enroll in the Social Enterprise track will have the opportunity to do a 5-min online pitch of their ideas and receive immediate feedback.

TRAINING AND EVENTS WILL ALWAYS BE LISTED ON THE SOCIAL INNOVATIONS PARTNERS WEBSITE.

http://www.socialinnovationspartners.org/index.php?id=2017-leadership-training-opportunities

This year’s celebration of the Social Innovations Awards will support the journal’s continued expansion across the globe. This event is an incredible opportunity to stand alongside Greater Philadelphia’s Social Innovators who are reshaping our neighborhoods and communities and whose ideas are inspiring people around the world.

We inspire leaders and organizations to dream. We create the space for leaders to tap into their own creativity to innovate. We endow leaders with the tools and knowledge to launch and grow their ideas. We challenge leaders to become better versions of themselves. We transform leaders and their companies.

Awards Ceremony​
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The 2018 Social Innovations Journal (SIJ) Awards will be a night to celebrate Philadelphia’s regional visionaries and how they are changing the social landscape in Greater Philadelphia. It is an opportunity for the Philadelphia Region social sector agents of change to come together to honor the progress that has been collectively made and initiatives that serves as catalysts spurring further social innovation and impact. SIJ will honor the region’s most passionate and accomplished social innovators and entrepreneurs and the work that they are doing to make Greater Philadelphia a more inclusive, equitable, and thriving region of opportunity for all residents. These awards will highlight the top leaders and organizations across the Greater Philadelphia Region.

​In bringing recognition to these individuals and organizations, we:

• Promote a culture of bold thinking and problem solving;
• Increase awareness and build a culture for social enterprise and entrepreneurship;
• Assist award nominees and winners in telling their stories and strengthening their initiatives;
• Build active participation from SIJ readers; and ​
• Supports a growing community of entrepreneurs and innovators.

​Awards Criteria

Criteria: Any individual or organization can be nominated for a social innovation award; however, the award winner will be selected by the public from among those who best exemplify the tenants of social enterprise and innovative thinking. These individuals and organizations may work in the for-profit, governmental, or nonprofit space, and demonstrate a bold determination to solve social problems through innovative methods.

NOMINATE candidates HERE
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PHILLYSOCIALINNOVATIONS

LEARN MORE HERE
http://www.philadelphiainnovationawards.com/

BUY TICKETS HERE
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greater-philadelphias-social-innovations-awards-tickets-37811540335

Designed for all nursing students, professional nurses, and healthcare professions, this is a 4 and 1/2-day interactive series that examines the role of social innovation and social entrepreneurship and the concept of creating private and social enterprise businesses as a different way of doing business and solving complex health and human services challenges and opportunities in a region, national and globally. The Social Innovations and Enterprise Health Lab is the only lab internationally of its kind to focus on and prepare nurses through a series of learning modules to become social entrepreneurs.

DATE AND TIME

Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 9:00 AM –
Fri, Jul 14, 2017, 12:00 PM EDT

Location:
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/health-enterprise-models-and-impact-locally-and-globally-tickets-32666612718

June 2, 29, & 30; September 22; and October 6

REGISTER BY APRIL 28, 2017 and receive a $300 SCHOLARSHIP provided by EXUDE
TYPE IN CODE: EXUDEEARLY to receive the SCHOLARSHIP

OVERVIEW

During the first two sessions, participants, working in teams will be required to design, incorporate, and govern a best practice mock nonprofit. Using best practice templates, each team will deliver a non-profit infrastructure manual that includes articles of incorporation; bylaws; board member governance committees and roles; strategic business plan (i.e. theory of change); organizational dashboard/scorecard; 3-5 year budget projections; development plan and targets; and a public policy strategy. Through this process participants will learn to lead and/or govern their own organization better through comparing their own leadership/governance models with best practices and through learning from the collective knowledge, experience and conclusions of participating colleagues.

During the third session, participants will determine how the knowledge gained translates into their respective organizations. Participants are encouraged to invited additional organizational members (i.e. board, senior leadership) for the third session to ensure it gains traction within their respective organization. In addition, the third session will introduce the function and role of human resources as a tool to shift an organizational internal culture to best practice models of governance and leadership.

During sessions four and five, participants will apply the knowledge gained and organizational plans to a self-selected experienced non-profit leader in an interview format to learn about his or her organization’s leadership and governance, strategic and/or business model, financial sustainability, social impact goals, marketing and communication plan, and public policy strategy. This step is essential, as it will help consolidate the knowledge, competencies and tools for improved leadership and governance.

BEST PRACTICE PRESENTATIONS

• Project Management: Resource Management; Managing People; and Transitional and Generational Leadership
• Financial Controls
• Marketing and Communications
• Human Resources and Ethics
• Building Alliances, Partnerships, Mergers and Affiliations
• Influencing Systems and Policy Change

READINGS

Each participant will be provided with a copy of Social Innovation and Impact in Nonprofit Leadership published by Tine Hansen-Turton & Nicholas Torres. This book was co-authored by many of the nation’s social sector leadership and organized as a comprehensive practitioner’s guide toward better governance and leadership.

In addition, participants will receive Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Collins, J.; Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, and The Prince by Machiavelli. Additional relevant articles will be provided and are listed within the sessions themselves.

Location: Oxford Mills: 100 O: 100 W. Oxford Street, Philadelphia, PA

Register Now!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leading-non-profits-june-2-29-30-sept-21-oct-6-tickets-32652410238

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-enterprise-models-social-impact-locally-and-globally-tickets-32332486337

Social Enterprise takes a participant through the process of developing a mock social enterprise including idea exploration, testing and plan execution. Social Enterprise specifically teaches participants with an interest in working in the social sector how to create and maintain an adaptive and generative orientation to grapple with the complex social reality that challenges our world. Social Enterprise is designed for those who have a deep interest in the development, leadership, and management of the 4th Sector, where the boundaries between the public, government, private, and not-for-profit sectors are blurred as many pioneering organizations and entrepreneurs have been blending social and environmental aims with business approaches.

DATE AND TIME

Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 9:00 AM – Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 4:30 PM

LOCATION

PHMC
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-enterprise-models-social-impact-locally-and-globally-tickets-32332486337

Through interactive workshops and curriculum modules, participants from a variety of disciplines will imagine, refine, and pursue their own enterprises and innovations to solve social problems. They will learn from experts with real-life experience and research knowledge how to create social sector market opportunities, design new business models, and attract both seed money and sustainable funding from philanthropic and government sources.

Our virtual lab framework provides participants with the tools and knowledge in the form of lectures (concepts) and modules (self-study practice) directly into the hands of social innovators across the globe. The Feedback and Certification options allow for expert and peer feedback on an individual/teams respective development stages of a social enterprise allowing for social idea evolution. Social Innovations Partners provides face-to-face 1-3 Day Social Innovations Labs and 6-8 session Labs over 2-4 months. However, even though face-to-face is the ideal setting to incubate social enterprises, the limitations of geography have demanded a virtual lab framework. By putting the tools and knowledge into the hands of social innovators across the globe we will build the capacity for more SOCIAL innovation changemakers who WILL change the world.

http://www.socialinnovationsinstitute.com/