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The Power of Collaboration
Date: April 1, 2010Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm325 Michigan Street
Toledo, OH 43604 Driving Directions:
Parking Information: The library opens for the general public at the following times:
Monday: 12:00pm
Tuesday: 12:00pm
Wednesday: 9:00am
Thursday: 9:00am
Friday: 9:00am
Please park in the parking garage below the library accessible from Adams Street. You will be able to enter the library through the garage entrance early for workshop registration. All other entrances will open at 9am or 12pm respectively. Your parking will be validated only if you park in the library garage.
Course Description:
This workshop will explore the best practices of successful collaborations that can make an organization more effective in fundraising, advocacy, program delivery and/or administration. Participants will:
- Discuss the universal principles of successful collaborations
- Identify issues on which they can collaborate
- Identify potential partners with whom they can work
- Share current challenges and recent/past successes.
About the Presenter:
Frank Abdale has nearly twenty years experience as an executive and consultant in the nonprofit sector, with extensive experience in strategic planning, capacity building, policy development, conference planning and fundraising - particularly in corporate, foundation and individual donor development.
As Executive Director of the International Association of Nutrition Services Agencies (ANSA) 2002-2008, Abdale built an effective advocacy program from the ground up. He developed and introduced legislation in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate calling for a White House Conference on Food and Nutrition in 2010, founded the National Nutrition Collaborative, served as a member of National Anti-Hunger Organizations (NAHO), developed several policy-related publications, coordinated a grassroots and national advocacy effort, built partnerships that brought nutrition for the chronically ill into the larger worlds of senior nutrition and the anti-hunger movement, and launched a growing international program focused on nutrition and HIV/AIDS in South Africa, Namibia, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Collaboration was an essential component of ANSA's success.
Today, Abdale is a consultant based in New York City working with a wide range of nonprofits throughout the United States. His primary focus is helping clients find creative and effective ways to respond to the global economic crisis, often by establishing and facilitating traditional and non-traditional collaborations.