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Partnership for Excellence: Shifts, Innovations, and Lessons from Pandemic Forward
October 20, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm PDT
Join us on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 for a virtual event highlighting nonprofit-funder partnerships, re-connecting members of our sector, reflecting on the past year and a half, and moving forward in a pandemic-informed world.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 – 9am- 12:30pm
The past 18 months have been difficult and demanding for our nonprofit sector in ways too numerous to list. Today, our workforce is on the frontlines of community and systems change through programs, services, and business as our world earnestly reopens amid ongoing health guidelines.
We are hopeful and we are exhausted.
We are committed and often over-committed.
We are compassionate, resilient, and strained.
At the Partnership for Excellence 2021, how might we reconnect to share, renew our spirits, and explore pathways to collectively strengthen our community together?
This fall, Community Connections will highlight some of the many positive shifts, new alliances and important lessons in our region in response to simultaneous pandemic/economic challenges and social justice movements/ DEIA advances. This year’s program elevates new and strengthened partnerships, funding models, programs and services, equity issues and awareness, and factors influencing our ways of working and grantmaking. Imagine hearing from your peers about what changes organizations, foundations, and leaders want to keep, build on, or let go of in our communities.
During this program, join peers on the new ZoomEvents platform to engage in community building and reconnection through storytelling and conversations together. A presentation of the initial findings from the Santa Barbara Foundation’s countywide Nonprofit Leader Survey will launch the day’s programming. Our featured Community Conversations highlight partnerships with local organizations and funders sharing their stories – innovations, tough lessons, unexpected outcomes – and illustrating our communities’ resilience. Breakout conversations will provide spaces for participants to reflect, relate and gain new perspectives. These continued conversations among participants may open other focused ideas for listening to and learning from one another.
The Partnership for Excellence welcomes representatives from nonprofits and foundations with the intention to represent the diversity of our community. Staff and board members from 501c(3) nonprofit organizations and foundations serving Santa Barbara County community members are invited to register. We welcome grassroots, small and larger organizations as well as a variety of roles in the sector from throughout the county. Consultants currently serving Santa Barbara County nonprofits are also welcome.
To help broaden perspectives, organizations are invited to register up to (5) persons for this virtual event. Participating organizations are encouraged to diversify your registrants, and the PFE gathering, by including staff from two or more county locations (north/mid/south), as well as representatives from foundation leadership, programs, community outreach/advocacy, executive/development, and board members. This virtual PFE program is audio/video accessible to all registered guests with computer, internet access and installed Zoom app version 5.7.6. This program will not be available by mobile phone.
With generous sponsorship from The Foundation Roundtable members, this year’s virtual Partnership for Excellence is free to guests as described above.
Registration deadline: Friday, October 15, 2021
NOTE: You must register in advance to participate in any part of virtual PFE 2021
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