Annual Conference 2008

November 7, 2008

Hyatt Regency Baltimore

300 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Register Online NOW>>

Download the Conference Brochure>>

Download Registration form>>

Quick Links:
Conference Speakers>>
Conference Schedule>>
Tracks and Breakout Session Descriptions>>
Fees and Registration>>
Directions>>

Scholarship Opportunities>>

Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities
Sponsorship>> (Click to download more info)
Exhibitors>> (Click to download more info)

Join more than 500 of your peers at this year's conference - celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Standards for Excellence® Program, and featuring 10 top notch breakout sessions, our popular exhibit hall, and much more. The theme of this year’s conference, Excellence in Doing Good, encourages attendees to look introspectively at what it means to push, set, and strive for higher standards across all aspects of their organization. What does it take to have greater impact? How do we assure integrity in our operations? How do we assure that we are, in fact, “doing good”? This full day event will concentrate on how we develop and implement goals that serve to stretch, challenge, and improve what we do. The 2008 conference features Kojo Nnamdi as the morning keynote speaker, sector professionals leading focused breakout sessions, and Michael Edwards as the luncheon speaker, a global authority on organizational governance and successful cross-sector partnering (Can you say: philanthrocapitalism?). Our 2008 Conference will concentrate on how we develop and implement goals that serve to stretch, challenge, and improve what we do in everything from fundraising to marketing, board governance to individual leadership, human resources to legal issues, and public policy to organizational development.

2008 marks the 10th year of Maryland Nonprofits’ Standards for Excellence® Program, a nationally recognized project originated by Maryland Nonprofits in 1998. The Standards for Excellence® promotes a first of its kind, comprehensive system for improving organizational management in the nonprofit sector. The code’s eight guiding principles cover 56 individual benchmark standards, which nonprofit staffs and board-members can use to educate themselves, evaluate their present efforts, implement change, and, if they are ready, apply to become certified and earn the Seal of Excellence through a rigorous process of peer review – an accreditation component that only 200 organizations have accomplished across the country.

Conference Speakers:

Morning Plenary - Kojo Nnamdi Host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU 88.5, Nnamdi, a native of Guyana, lends a global perspective to front page headlines and explores emerging stories before they are news. “Maybe the best interviewer in town,” according to The Washington Post, Kojo’s inviting on-air style encourages guests and callers to discover new points of view, embrace controversy and spark new ideas. The Kojo Nnamdi Show airs on WAMU weekdays, noon to 2 pm.

Luncheon Keynote - Michael Edwards Former director of the Ford Foundation’s Governance and Civil Society Unit in New York, Edwards has just written another widely acclaimed book, Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism. Business involvement in philanthropy is increasing day by day, but is it a blessing, a curse, or somewhere in between? Just Another Emperor? is the first book to take a comprehensive and critical look at this vital new phenomenon. Whatever position you take, this will be one of the most important debates of the next 10 years.

Conference Schedule (subject to change):

Fees (pre-payment required for nonmembers):

Register Online>>
Download Registration form>>

Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities
Sponsorship>> (Click to download more info)
Exhibitors>> (Click to download more info)

Please join us in thanking our Conference Sponsors:

Exhibit Hall
         

 Tote Bag

Game Card

Registration Co-Sponsors
        


Neckwallets

Bookstore   



Track Sponsors
                

     
    

Scholarship Sponsors
                

Notepad

General Corporate Sponsors: