Binghamton University Event

Please watch your e-mail and this blog for information about an upcoming forum about nonprofit lifecycles at the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University. The College, along with the Community Foundation for South Central New York, the Hoyt Foundation and the Southern Tier AIDS Program are co-sponsoring a half day forum on September 25th that will run from 11:00 to 3:00 at the new University Downtown Center on Washington Street, across from the arena in Dowtown Binghamton.


The forum will focus on the challenges nonprofit organizations face early in their development. Susan Chambre, a prominent researcher from Baruch College at the City University of New York will keynote the event and discuss her work on the development of AIDS organizations in New York City over the past 25 years (detailed in a recent book and several scholarly publications). At lunch, Karen Wright, Executive Director of Stillwater, will discuss her organization's development over the past ten years, including the challenges she has faced and how she has addressed them. Finally, the afternoon will conclude with a funder's panel, at which funders will discuss how they look at lifecycle and capacity building issues. Dan O'Connell of the AIDS Institute and Joanne Florino, Executive Director of the Triad Foundation are already confirmed for the event, a third invitation is still outstanding.


The event will provide a great opportunity for professional development. Participants will learn about new research in organizational development and hear practical approaches to addressing the real challenges organizations face early in their development. There will be a $25 registration fee which covers lunch. Registration materials will be sent out in early August. You can e-mail me any inquiries about the event at dcamp@binghamton.edu. I'll post follow up information later in the summer, including a link to registration materials.


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I will not be able to attend the Steering Committee meeting on July 22nd due to a prior commitment at Cornell; however I'll follow up with additional posts about this and related Binghamton University projects in the weeks ahead.