Are You Missing the Non-Profit Consulting Boom?
by Penelope Cagney MA, CFRE
Su10, Sunday, October 24 - 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM
Description:
The nonprofit sector has been growing far faster than either the private or public spheres and offers new opportunities for consultants to ply their trade. The author of “Essentials of Nonprofit Consulting” (Jossey-Bass/Alliance of Nonprofit Management Sept. 2010) will share more than two years of research into this market and ways in consultants can best address nonprofit needs.
Objective / Value:
Participants will learn:
-l10 major differences in consulting with nonprofits
-10 key ways to adapt practice and consultative approach for success
-5 areas where consulting needs are and will be greatest
-how consultants can best position themselves for success in the market
Speaker Biography:
Penelope Cagney, MA, CFRE, President of The Cagney Company, management consultants to nonprofits, is the author of a new and ground-breaking book on consulting with nonprofits, “Esssentials of Nonprofit Consulting: What Every Consultant and Nonprofit Needs to Know,” that will be published by Jossey-Bass and the Alliance of Nonprofit Management in September 2010. IMC is featured prominently in the book. Penelope Cagney, has more than 20 years experience as a consultant in North America, Europe and Africa and as an international presenter: she was the featured speaker on Philanthropy Day in Mexico City in 2007, speaker at the 2008 Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Hemispheric Congress and also presented at the 1989, 2006 and 2007 AFP International Conferences on the topic of consulting. She has also spoken at state conferences and local AFP Chapters (Phoenix and Las Vegas). Her clients have included the Charities Aid Foundation of London, the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and the National Cultural Centre of Egypt. She has taught graduate nonprofit management courses for the School of the Art Institute and Columbia College, Chicago, and created an arts management program for American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Speaker Web Site: www.thecagneycompany.com
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