GRANTMAKERS FORUM

OF NEW YORK

A Grantmaker's Workshop

Outcome Management:

A Powerful Tool for Understanding and Increasing Funder Impact

May 17-18, 2006    
Esperanza Mansion, Bluff Point, NY

 

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Registration is limited. Please respond by April 20, to ensure time for preworkshop readings.

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Esperanza Mansion

3456 Route 54A

Bluff Point, NY  14478

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Fee, includes lodging, meals, and materials:

$1,100 members of Grantmakers Forum

$1,350 nonmembers

 

 

 

 

Contact Us:

Grantmakers Forum of New York
919 Winton Road South
Rochester, NY 14618-1633

gfny@grantmakers.org

 

Outcome Management is a one and a half-day workshop designed for grantmaker boards and staff with several years of grantmaking experience.

Focus on the accomplishments and community impact of all aspects of your grantmaking organization, including management, policies, leadership, grantmaking, and investment.

If you measure, or would like to measure, the impact your organization has in your community, Outcome Management will give you the tools.

Instructor, Bill Phillips, Director of the Center for Outcomes at the internationally known Rensselaerville Institute, will lead participants through a multidimensional assessment to improve grantee and grantmaker effectiveness.

This workshop will be held at the historic Esperanza Mansion, overlooking Keuka Lake, in the beautiful Finger Lakes.

 

Workshop Schedule:

Wednesday,
May 17, 2006
   
  4:00pm Registration
  5:00pm  Meet your colleagues
  6:00pm Dinner
  7:30pm

Evening Discussion:

  • Why are you here? Summary of Participant Survey and Discussion of Issues
  • Session overview and Target: What does success for our time together look like?
  9:30pm Free Time

Thursday,
May 18, 2006

   
  7:30am Breakfast
  8:30am 

Workshop Continues

  • What is outcome management and why should Foundations Care?
  • Funder/Donor versus Investor Perspective
  • Let's Try It!
  • Overview of Major Outcome Models
  10:15am Break
  Noon Lunch
  1:30pm

Workshop Resumes

  • Two Foundation Case Studies:
    • In an Initiative
    • As Capacity Building
  • Your Applications
  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • Final Discussion
  4:00pm Adjourn

 

  About the Instructor

WILLIAM J. PHILLIPS, Vice President and Director, Center for Outcomes, Rensselaerville Institute
Bill Phillips joined The Rensselaerville Institute in 1989 as the co-creator of its organizational development practice, which has become a nationally recognized center for public service focused work. More than 500 projects in 40 states, the United Kingdom and Canada have been conducted over this period by The Institute's national network of staff and consultants. Phillips has personally led projects with federal, state and local government, foundations, United Ways, and a wide range of non-profit groups. His international portfolio includes projects in the UK, Canada, and with the United Nations. These projects have resulted in impressive outcomes in program impact and cost efficiency in the areas of health, human services, housing and economic and community development, among others. Bill also directs The Institute's Center for Outcomes, which conducts training seminars, discussion roundtables and develops practice ready tools for non-profit, government and philanthropy.
 
Prior to his position at Rensselaerville, he served as Director, Bureau of Program Development & Demonstration, New York State Department of Social Services, Division of Family and Children Services, where he led a major expansion of program developmental and demonstration activity which included responsibility for all state and federally funded special projects in the program areas of child protective services, domestic violence, foster-care prevention, adoption, day care, teen pregnancy, and special legislative grants. Phillips oversaw the management of over 950 projects by 50 staff totaling over $30 million. He also headed the development of the Division's successful efforts to become a national leader in Child Welfare program development, initiated and implemented significant improvements in the way government distributes competitive funds to local governmental not-for-profit organizations.
 
Phillips earned a B. A. in Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, and an M.S.W., SUNY Albany School of Social Welfare, concentrating on Social Welfare Management Research, and is involved in numerous community activities, including serving on the Albany Public School System District-Wide Strategic Planning Committee
 
Phillips is the co-author of Outcome Funding: A New Approach to Targeted Grantmaking (1996) and Outcome Frameworks...an overview for practitioners (2004) as well as a range of articles on government innovation and outcome topics .
 
Seminar Development and Leadership (a sampling)
 
•  Executive Briefing on Outcome Frameworks
•  Introduction to Outcome Management
•  Outcome Thinking Immersion Seminar
•  Advance Practices in Outcome Thinking and Management
•  Strategic Mapping...an action alternative to conventional planning
•  Using Outcome Thinking to Achieve Case Management Success
•  Visionary Leadership
•  Outcome Tools and Mindsets for Non-Profit Boards
 
Recent Workshops and Keynote Addresses
 
•  National Governor's Association Health Policy Advisors
•  International Personnel Management Association, Eastern Regional Meeting “Leadership and Innovation in Human Resources”
•  “The evolution of performance management in workforce development: an Invitational Roundtable
•  Outcome Practitioners' Seminar
•  Transatlantic Innovation Event                  
•  Outcome Finance for Non Profits
  
     

Grantmakers Forum of New York , 919 Winton Road South, Rochester, NY  14618
ph. 585.232.2380  fax. 585.232.8413  email. gfny@grantmakers.org