Sustain-A-What?

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PAIKKA | 550 Vandalia Street, #165 Saint Paul, MN 55114

June 23, 2016

We invite you to join together with other nonprofit and philanthropic leaders to dig into the foundational fears, challenges, and alternatives facing the nonprofit business model. How do we evolve beyond the grace of philanthropy towards a rally cry of sustainable giving—pivoting our sector to become more adaptive in creating market-based strategies to earn new mission-supporting revenue?

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What is one of the biggest barriers haunting the nonprofit sector? Our name: nonprofit.

There is a disturbing mythology of scarcity driving the motives, decisions, and business culture radiating throughout the nonprofit sector. It’s a mythology rooted in a deficit-driven narrative and it has damaging consequences on how we justify the value of our services.

Pollen and GiveMN invite you to join together with other nonprofit and philanthropic leaders to rip this conversation wide open and dig into the foundational fears, challenges, and alternatives facing nonprofits. How do we evolve beyond the grace of philanthropy towards a rally cry of sustainable giving—pivoting our sector to become more adaptive in creating market-based strategies to earn new mission-supporting revenue?

In this conversation, Kate Barr, executive director of Nonprofits Assistance Fund, will push a raw and honest discussion about navigating this critical moment in the nonprofit business life cycle.

We will hear about the real challenges and hopes of nonprofits as they barrel forward into entrepreneurial business models sustained by the “double bottom line.”

Then, turning the conversation inward to the audience, we’ll discuss together what this means for the future of not only the sector, but also our specific organizations. What does it mean to provide value as nonprofits and how can that value be realized through earned income support? How do we begin to rally our mission-driven community to become a leading force of social enterprise activity?

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WHERE PAIKKA
550 Vandalia Street, #165
Saint Paul, MN 55114

Thursday, June 23, 2016
7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Light breakfast will be served.

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SPEAKERS

Kate Barr, Nonprofits Assistance Fund
Jake Blumberg, GiveMN
John Fetzer, Northwest Area Foundation

Jamie Millard, Pollen

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What is the refund policy?
We understand life happens. However, in order to receive a full refund, we do require a minimum of 24 hours notice prior to the event. Please email [email protected] to make this request if needed.

Where’s the best place to park?
200 free parking spots in the surface lot adjacent to the building.

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Speakers

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Kate Barr

Executive Director, Nonprofits Assistance Fund

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Kate Barr

Executive Director, Nonprofits Assistance Fund

Kate Barr is the executive director of Nonprofits Assistance Fund, whose mission is to strengthen the community by investing capital and expertise in nonprofits. She oversees strategic and business planning, development, and external relations. Under her leadership NAF has become a premier resource for financing and training, and Kate is a national leader on nonprofit strategy and finance as a speaker, blogger, and author. Before joining NAF in 2000, Kate was a bank executive and an arts administrator. She has been on the adjunct faculty at Hamline University and University of Minnesota and has served on numerous nonprofit boards.
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Jake Blumberg

Executive Director, GiveMN

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Jake Blumberg

Executive Director, GiveMN

Jake is pretty much obsessed with fundraising and believes that a successful strategy, campaign, and message can expand the impact of the nonprofits and schools doing incredible work in our communities. He has helped lead record-breaking and history-making fundraising efforts—and is totally invested in helping Minnesota earn the title “The State of Giving.”

Jake was named executive director of GiveMN in 2015, and brings a background that spans leadership roles in nonprofits, politics, and higher education. As the senior director of development and community engagement at Open Arms of Minnesota, Jake launched multiple online giving campaigns that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. As co-finance director of Minnesotans United, he helped lead a multimillion dollar campaign in Minnesota to win the freedom to marry for same sex couples. And in Washington D.C., Jake concurrently attained a master’s degree in political management from The George Washington University while working as a speech writer and associate director of development for The George Washington University Law School.
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John Fetzer

Program Officer, Northwest Area Foundation

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John Fetzer

Program Officer, Northwest Area Foundation

John is passionate about the potential of the philanthropic sector and strives to improve the way it operates so it is more inclusive, accessible, transparent, and humble. As a program officer for Northwest Area Foundation, he supports organizations that help people build assets through good jobs and financial capability. Prior to that, he worked on the Bush Foundation’s Native Nations team as a program associate, supporting tribal nations as they reimagined their governing systems. He also spent time as a legislative aide to Kent Conrad, former U.S. senator from North Dakota.

Away from work, John loves being near water or trees, traveling to new places, getting lost in music, and having conversations around a meal. He was born and raised in Bemidji, Minnesota, and is a product of his northern Minnesota upbringing – he feels at home in the woods, can barely eat spicy food, and always lets in a merging car on the highway (he can’t help it).

John is a citizen of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation. He graduated from North Dakota State University.
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Jamie Millard

Executive Director, Pollen

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Jamie Millard

Executive Director, Pollen

Jamie Millard is the executive director of Pollen, a digital platform that breaks down the barriers of narrative, networking, and opportunity to build better connected communities. Jamie has been identified as a “2015 40 Under 40” by the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal, as a “100 People to Know in 2015” by the Twin Cities Business Magazine. Nationally, Jamie was recognized in the Huffington Post as one of four millennial leaders “doing important work to move us toward a more just and equitable society.”

Over the past seven years, Jamie has poured her soul into deepening and expanding the connections between people. “With connection comes relation and empathy. And as communities begin to cross-pollinate, we connect across our differences, and we begin to unlock the potential of equitable possibility.”