Friday, May 14, 2021
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
via Zoom
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
via Zoom
We cannot solve our most pressing social issues alone.
Collaboration allows us to tackle a common problem by bringing together different perspectives and skills. When it works, we can solve complex problems and achieve amazing results.
But mobilizing people and resources around a shared agenda is not easy.
At the Empowering Partnerships conference,
you will learn how your organization can work together with others to achieve social change.
But mobilizing people and resources around a shared agenda is not easy.
At the Empowering Partnerships conference,
you will learn how your organization can work together with others to achieve social change.
What You Can Expect:
The full collaborative spectrum, while often under-utilized and under-appreciated, can offer an essential vehicle for sustainable, equitable, and mission-driven change. Whether sparked by a pandemic, financial crisis, organizational competition, the departure of a key leader, a growth strategy, or directive from funders, the best collaborations break down silos, integrate communities, raise up new leaders, and fuel creative and innovative solutions to community-identified challenges.
This interactive and multi-faceted full-day conference will feature keynote speakers, stories from the field, breakout rooms, and a funders panel examining the spectrum, value, and challenges of collaborations; the underlying factors that foster impactful and creative partnerships; and how to advance equitable system change through collective impact and other innovative and integrative approaches. Participants will leave with tools, insights, and proven strategies to empower partnerships that are equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable.
Who's Behind It:
The Partnership Project is a collaborative of the Institute of Nonprofit Leadership and Community Development the University at Albany, Albany Law School, Alliance for Better Health, Nancy Meyers Preston, Ltd., and United Way of the Greater Capital Region.
Formed in August 2020, The Partnership Project's aim is to foster cross-sector collaboration to drive community-inspired change with a vision for vibrant, sustainable, and high-impact organizations that are responsive to community goals and values.
The full collaborative spectrum, while often under-utilized and under-appreciated, can offer an essential vehicle for sustainable, equitable, and mission-driven change. Whether sparked by a pandemic, financial crisis, organizational competition, the departure of a key leader, a growth strategy, or directive from funders, the best collaborations break down silos, integrate communities, raise up new leaders, and fuel creative and innovative solutions to community-identified challenges.
This interactive and multi-faceted full-day conference will feature keynote speakers, stories from the field, breakout rooms, and a funders panel examining the spectrum, value, and challenges of collaborations; the underlying factors that foster impactful and creative partnerships; and how to advance equitable system change through collective impact and other innovative and integrative approaches. Participants will leave with tools, insights, and proven strategies to empower partnerships that are equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable.
Who's Behind It:
The Partnership Project is a collaborative of the Institute of Nonprofit Leadership and Community Development the University at Albany, Albany Law School, Alliance for Better Health, Nancy Meyers Preston, Ltd., and United Way of the Greater Capital Region.
Formed in August 2020, The Partnership Project's aim is to foster cross-sector collaboration to drive community-inspired change with a vision for vibrant, sustainable, and high-impact organizations that are responsive to community goals and values.
conference Agenda
9:00 AM Welcome, Pamela Skripak, Executive Director, Institute of Nonprofit Leadership and Community Development
9:10 AM Overview and Context
9:25 AM Keynote Address: Sustainable Collaboration to Grow Community Impact, Nadya K. Shmavonian, Partner, SeaChange Capital Partners
10:35 AM Panel: Stories from the Field
11:25 AM Imagining Partnership Possibilities: Models of Impact Game, Dylan Hall, Director of Regional Community Engagement, Alliance for Better Health
12:00 PM Lunch Break
12:40 PM Chair Yoga with Nikki
1:00 PM Keynote Address: Partnerships that Empower: The Price of Admission for Collaboration, Fred Miller, CEO, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
2:40 PM Funders Panel
3:40 PM Call to Action
9:10 AM Overview and Context
9:25 AM Keynote Address: Sustainable Collaboration to Grow Community Impact, Nadya K. Shmavonian, Partner, SeaChange Capital Partners
10:35 AM Panel: Stories from the Field
11:25 AM Imagining Partnership Possibilities: Models of Impact Game, Dylan Hall, Director of Regional Community Engagement, Alliance for Better Health
12:00 PM Lunch Break
12:40 PM Chair Yoga with Nikki
1:00 PM Keynote Address: Partnerships that Empower: The Price of Admission for Collaboration, Fred Miller, CEO, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
2:40 PM Funders Panel
3:40 PM Call to Action
KeyNote ADDRESSES
sustainable cOLLABORATION to grow community impact
Nadya K. Shmavonian, Partner, SeaChange Capital Partners
In the wake of COVID-19, there has never been a greater need for nonprofits to explore innovative business models in order to build for sustainability. A worldwide pandemic, its economic impact, and a national reckoning with systemic racism have put unprecedented pressure on nonprofit leaders to consider new solutions for growing their community impact. In particular, the notion of sustained collaboration models. This session will:
In the wake of COVID-19, there has never been a greater need for nonprofits to explore innovative business models in order to build for sustainability. A worldwide pandemic, its economic impact, and a national reckoning with systemic racism have put unprecedented pressure on nonprofit leaders to consider new solutions for growing their community impact. In particular, the notion of sustained collaboration models. This session will:
- Introduce the continuum of formal, long-term sustainable collaboration models that nonprofits may consider as a strategy to grow their community impact (e.g., joint ventures, shared service models, network models, and mergers & acquisitions)
- Provide examples of successful nonprofit collaborations
- Describe funding models that philanthropies across the country are adopting to support nonprofits that are exploring and/or implementing a sustained collaboration
- Identify research questions surrounding the opportunities/challenges these efforts may pose from an equity lens
- Share information on a national network of initiatives that are working to advance the field of sustained collaboration in their communities and within sectors
Partnerships that Empower: The Price of Admission for Collaboration
Frederick A. Miller and Kate Richmond
This engaging session will focus on the process side of the collaboration equation including: the importance of creating a common language; keys to successful collaboration; the opportunity and requirement for inclusion, diversity, and equity in all systems/structures; and conscious actions we can all take to ensure inclusion and the creation of common ground.
Session Format: A plenary presentation with break out groups, group discussion, and Q & A.
This engaging session will focus on the process side of the collaboration equation including: the importance of creating a common language; keys to successful collaboration; the opportunity and requirement for inclusion, diversity, and equity in all systems/structures; and conscious actions we can all take to ensure inclusion and the creation of common ground.
Session Format: A plenary presentation with break out groups, group discussion, and Q & A.
KeyNote Speakers
Nadya K. Shmavonian, M.B.A.
Nadya K. Shmavonian is a partner at SeaChange Capital Partners and Director of the Greater Philadelphia Nonprofit Repositioning Fund. The Repositioning Fund is a pooled fund contributed by philanthropic partners that encourages and supports mergers and other types of formal, sustained collaborations among nonprofit organizations in the Greater Philadelphia region. Nadya served as president of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) from 2010–2012, where she presided over the responsible dissolution of the organization. Nadya also has extensive foundation management experience, having served as vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation, and executive vice president at The Pew Charitable Trusts. Ms. Shmavonian has served on many foundation and nonprofit boards, including the Center for Effective Philanthropy, The Lenfest Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation. She serves as Board President for Social Impact Commons, the nation’s first incubator and shared services platform for the fiscal sponsorship field.
Nadya is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management and teaches graduate seminars on nonprofit governance at the School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2) at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was awarded the 2018 Excellence in Teaching award. Nadya holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. with a concentration in health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was awarded the Kathleen McDonald Distinguished Alumna Award from Wharton Women in Business in 2011.
Nadya K. Shmavonian is a partner at SeaChange Capital Partners and Director of the Greater Philadelphia Nonprofit Repositioning Fund. The Repositioning Fund is a pooled fund contributed by philanthropic partners that encourages and supports mergers and other types of formal, sustained collaborations among nonprofit organizations in the Greater Philadelphia region. Nadya served as president of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) from 2010–2012, where she presided over the responsible dissolution of the organization. Nadya also has extensive foundation management experience, having served as vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation, and executive vice president at The Pew Charitable Trusts. Ms. Shmavonian has served on many foundation and nonprofit boards, including the Center for Effective Philanthropy, The Lenfest Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation. She serves as Board President for Social Impact Commons, the nation’s first incubator and shared services platform for the fiscal sponsorship field.
Nadya is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management and teaches graduate seminars on nonprofit governance at the School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2) at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was awarded the 2018 Excellence in Teaching award. Nadya holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. with a concentration in health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was awarded the Kathleen McDonald Distinguished Alumna Award from Wharton Women in Business in 2011.
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Frederick A. Miller
As CEO of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.— one of Consulting magazine’s “Seven Small Jewels” in 2010—Fred specializes in developing workforce strategies that accelerate results to deliver higher organizational performance. Fred has been honored as the OD Network’s youngest lifetime achievement award recipient, named one of the 40 Pioneers of Diversity by Profiles in Diversity Journal, and is a recipient of the Forum on Workplace Inclusion's "Winds of Change" award. In 2018, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from The Sage Colleges. Fred co-authored The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity; Be BIG: Step Up, Step Out, Be Bold; Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration: 4 Keys that Change EVERYTHING; and most recently Safe Enough to Soar. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.; he currently serves on the boards of Day & Zimmermann and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Manufacturing Innovation Center.
As CEO of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.— one of Consulting magazine’s “Seven Small Jewels” in 2010—Fred specializes in developing workforce strategies that accelerate results to deliver higher organizational performance. Fred has been honored as the OD Network’s youngest lifetime achievement award recipient, named one of the 40 Pioneers of Diversity by Profiles in Diversity Journal, and is a recipient of the Forum on Workplace Inclusion's "Winds of Change" award. In 2018, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from The Sage Colleges. Fred co-authored The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity; Be BIG: Step Up, Step Out, Be Bold; Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration: 4 Keys that Change EVERYTHING; and most recently Safe Enough to Soar. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.; he currently serves on the boards of Day & Zimmermann and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Manufacturing Innovation Center.
Kate Richmond, PhD
Kate Richmond, PhD., is Professor of Psychology at Muhlenberg College. She is widely published in the areas of multicultural psychology, gender ideology, and trauma. Her co-author undergraduate textbook, entitled Psychology of Women & Gender was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Publication Award by the Association of Women in Psychology. Kate has been nationally recognized on several occasions for excellence in teaching, facilitation, and mentorship, including being the recipient of the Florence Denmark Distinguished Mentoring Award and the Paul C. Empie Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is passionate about community-based organizing and most recently, has worked within the Lehigh County Corrections facility and is a former member of the SCI-Graterford Prison Think Tank. Kate works alongside individuals who are currently or formerly incarcerated, to increase access to higher education, reduce mass incarceration, and build healthy communities. Kate is also a licensed psychologist and maintains a private practice in Philadelphia, PA.
Kate Richmond, PhD., is Professor of Psychology at Muhlenberg College. She is widely published in the areas of multicultural psychology, gender ideology, and trauma. Her co-author undergraduate textbook, entitled Psychology of Women & Gender was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Publication Award by the Association of Women in Psychology. Kate has been nationally recognized on several occasions for excellence in teaching, facilitation, and mentorship, including being the recipient of the Florence Denmark Distinguished Mentoring Award and the Paul C. Empie Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is passionate about community-based organizing and most recently, has worked within the Lehigh County Corrections facility and is a former member of the SCI-Graterford Prison Think Tank. Kate works alongside individuals who are currently or formerly incarcerated, to increase access to higher education, reduce mass incarceration, and build healthy communities. Kate is also a licensed psychologist and maintains a private practice in Philadelphia, PA.
Funders panel
Winsome Foderingham, MPA, Moderator
Winsome Foderingham is 21-year higher education administrator. She has extensive experience in management and partnership-building and has gained a unique cross-sector perspective from years in nonprofit management, training and executive education and higher education administration. After a decade in higher education, Winsome joined Bank of America as the Community Relations Manager for Bank of America’s Charitable Foundation, overseeing New York Capital District and Hudson Valley regions. She returned to the University at Albany in 2007, joining the Division of Advancement’s Office of Corporate & Foundation Relations. She works to secure funds for faculty and staff through grants for research, campaigns, programs and projects. Winsome received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Masters in Public Administration from the University at Albany. She is an alumna and member of UAlbany’s Athletic Hall of Fame
Winsome Foderingham is 21-year higher education administrator. She has extensive experience in management and partnership-building and has gained a unique cross-sector perspective from years in nonprofit management, training and executive education and higher education administration. After a decade in higher education, Winsome joined Bank of America as the Community Relations Manager for Bank of America’s Charitable Foundation, overseeing New York Capital District and Hudson Valley regions. She returned to the University at Albany in 2007, joining the Division of Advancement’s Office of Corporate & Foundation Relations. She works to secure funds for faculty and staff through grants for research, campaigns, programs and projects. Winsome received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Masters in Public Administration from the University at Albany. She is an alumna and member of UAlbany’s Athletic Hall of Fame
Panelists include:
John Eberle, President & CEO, The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region, Inc.
Michelle Kelly, CFO, Alliance for Better Health
Kathy Lanni, Community Support Executive, SEFCU
Claire Reid, Chief Impact Officer, United Way of the Greater Capital Region
Ellen Sax, Vice President, Community Engagement, MVP
John Eberle, President & CEO, The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region, Inc.
Michelle Kelly, CFO, Alliance for Better Health
Kathy Lanni, Community Support Executive, SEFCU
Claire Reid, Chief Impact Officer, United Way of the Greater Capital Region
Ellen Sax, Vice President, Community Engagement, MVP
The Partnership Project is collaborative of the following organizations:
