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Registration is now open for the 2012 Corporate Philanthropy Institute (CPI), NCG’s signature annual corporate event!
Designed to focus on the nuanced experience of a corporate grantmaker, the CPI is a day–long conference developed to focus on the most significant global and national trends impacting corporate philanthropy.
Social Impact. Social Change. Social Innovation. People are working in new and different ways to solve the world’s most pressing problems: developing businesses with social missions, adopting entrepreneurial strategies to further their community agenda, and engaging entire companies in the work of addressing social problems. We are also seeing increasing numbers of individuals actively engaged in talking about, investigating, exploring, and being directly involved in creating change.
At this year’s CPI we’ll explore many of the new ideas and concepts in social innovation—from social entrepreneurship to shared value to B corporations. We’ll talk about the different ways they are interpreted and experienced, how corporate philanthropy and citizenship may adapt or change in response, and how we use these approaches and opportunities to build “best in class” programs.
The CPI will provide participants with both the big picture of social change and innovation efforts in the nonprofit, business and philanthropy spheres and practical conversations about promising and effective practices. We’ll discuss how social innovation can be used in what we do in our philanthropy and community involvement efforts. The CPI will close with an exciting discussion with some of the visionaries who are leveraging corporate philanthropy and social media to build social movements.
Opening Plenary: New Dimensions in Social Change and the Role of Corporate Philanthropy
Morning Plenary: Solving Social Problems: Creating Change through Social Innovation
Lunchtime Plenary: Social Innovation in 3D: Companies Making Social Innovation Reality
Afternoon Breakouts:
Building Community Involvement Programs That Stick; Social Change through Employee Engagement
Increasing Impact, Enhancing Value–Strategies for a New Corporate Philanthropy from COF’s Corporate Philanthropy 2012 Project
Closing Plenary: Moving Customers, Employees, and Consumers to Action! How Companies are Helping to Build Social Movements
The CPI is designed to benefit corporate philanthropy and community relations professionals, as well as corporate senior leadership from the Northern California region and beyond. NCG membership is not required to participate.
$150 / NCG Member
$300 / Non-Member funder
To read a full program description and/or to register for this year’s Corporate Philanthropy Institute visit ncg.org/cpi.
I hope that 2011 has been going well for everyone thus far.
Hi. I’m Dion Ward, Program Specialist at NCG, and I am writing to convey how excited I am to help out in my new role as staff liaison to the Corporate Contributions Roundtable.
The new staffing arrangement will allow for my colleague, Program Officer Lauren Maher, to remain focused on her work with the Arts Loan Fund and Emergency Loan Fund, and to build NCG’s capacity to support other collaborative philanthropy efforts. I want to send a special thanks to Lauren for her past work with the Corporate Contributions Roundtable!
Many of you already know me, as I have assisted with some of NCG’s corporate programs since I joined the program team in mid-2007. Specifically, I have helped support international corporate grantmaking programs in partnership with the Council on Foundations. This drew upon my former experience as an Associate Program Officer at the International Community Foundation in San Diego, while completing my Masters in International Development. In addition, I recently assisted with the inaugural grant cycle of Full Circle Fund’s Global Economic Opportunity Circle.
Also, of relevance to corporate grantmaking trends, I have provided staff support to NCG’s Disaster Preparedness and Response Initiative work, and have contributed to the development of recent social media programming for our membership. Aside from working with our corporate members, I will continue to support development of NCG’s public policy programming and resources.
Currently, I am working with the CCR Steering Committee to plan this year’s Corporate Philanthropy Institute (a June date to be announced soon). I would appreciate hearing input from our corporate members on what would be the most helpful for you to get from this year’s CPI, and can be reached at dward@ncg.org or 415-777-4111, ext. 23. Thanks!