Download - Summit Program 2015
April 30 - May 1
Embassy Suites
Little Rock, AR
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
9:00 -10:00 AM Registration, Refreshments & Networking
10:00 AM Opening Session, Ambassador IV-VII
Opening Remarks: Sherry Middleton, Director
Division of Community Service & Nonprofit Support
10:30 - 11:45 AM Concurrent Session One
12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch, Ambassador IV-VII
Billie Ann Myers Paragon Award Ceremony
1:15 - 2:30 PM Concurrent Session Two
2:30 - 2:45 PM Afternoon Break
2:45 - 4:00 PM Concurrent Session Three
4:00 - 5:00 PM Annual Meeting, Ambassador III
Arkansas Volunteer Coordinators Association
Friday, May 1, 2015
7:45 AM Registration
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast & AVCA Awards, Ambassador IV-VII
9:00 - 9:15 AM Check-Out Break
9:15 - 10:30 AM Concurrent Session Four
10:45 - 12:00 PM Concurrent Session Five
Agenda
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Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1
Powerful Presentations in the
Workplace: Enhancing Your Skills
for Creating and Delivering
Presentations
Sarah Warren
This workshop provides strategies for preparing and deliver-
ing presentations, increasing audience engagement and
overcoming your fear of public speaking. Guidelines will be
provided for creating your presentation, from planning
through execution. Additionally, tips and tricks will be pro-
vided for building PowerPoint presentations and other visual
aids to enhance presentations. Some knowledge of Mi-
crosoft PowerPoint is recommended for this training.
Ambassador 2 Taxes for Nonprofits W C Mitchell This workshop will explore how nonprofit agencies can en-
sure IRS compliance.
Ambassador 3 Effective, Action-Oriented
Collaboration Techniques
Amy Whitehead &
Josh Markham
Partnerships between agencies is critical for non-profits and
other organizations. However, effective collaboration relies
upon setting an agenda that demonstrates a clear plan of
action and motivates everyone involved to stay engaged.
This session will outline techniques for setting an action ori-
ented agenda when collaborating with others, as well as
providing examples of important lessons learned from past
collaborative efforts.
Diplomat Fundraising 101 Georgia Mjartan Come learn how to raise monetary support for your organi-
zation or your program. This session will include tips on solicit-
ing donations from individuals and companies as well as
how to find and write grants.
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Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1
Powerful Presentations in the
Workplace: Enhancing Your Skills
for Creating and Delivering
Presentations
Sarah Warren
This workshop provides strategies for preparing and deliver-
ing presentations, increasing audience engagement and
overcoming your fear of public speaking. Guidelines will be
provided for creating your presentation, from planning
through execution. Additionally, tips and tricks will be pro-
vided for building PowerPoint presentations and other visual
aids to enhance presentations. Some knowledge of Mi-
crosoft PowerPoint is recommended for this training.
Ambassador 2 Taxes for Nonprofits W C Mitchell This workshop will explore how nonprofit agencies can en-
sure IRS compliance.
Ambassador 3 Effective, Action-Oriented
Collaboration Techniques
Amy Whitehead &
Josh Markham
Partnerships between agencies is critical for non-profits and
other organizations. However, effective collaboration relies
upon setting an agenda that demonstrates a clear plan of
action and motivates everyone involved to stay engaged.
This session will outline techniques for setting an action ori-
ented agenda when collaborating with others, as well as
providing examples of important lessons learned from past
collaborative efforts.
Diplomat Fundraising 101 Georgia Mjartan Come learn how to raise monetary support for your organi-
zation or your program. This session will include tips on solicit-
ing donations from individuals and companies as well as
how to find and write grants.
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Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1
Powerful Presentations in the
Workplace: Enhancing Your Skills
for Creating and Delivering
Presentations
Sarah Warren
This workshop provides strategies for preparing and deliver-
ing presentations, increasing audience engagement and
overcoming your fear of public speaking. Guidelines will be
provided for creating your presentation, from planning
through execution. Additionally, tips and tricks will be pro-
vided for building PowerPoint presentations and other visual
aids to enhance presentations. Some knowledge of Mi-
crosoft PowerPoint is recommended for this training.
Ambassador 2 An Untapped Resource: Creating
Partners in Higher Education Heath Bowman
Learn how your organization or agency can benefit from
creating collaborative partnerships with local colleges and
universities. This session will include an overview of past suc-
cesses and a blueprint that you can customize to your
needs and goals.
Ambassador 3 Fundraising and the Nonprofit
Board Keith Vire
This presentation stresses the importance of fundraising, as
well as the Board's role in fundraising. The responsibility of the
board as a whole, as well as the responsibility of individuals
members will be discussed. Participants will leave this session
with possible solutions to typical fundraising issues.
Diplomat Motivation: It's all up to You Bobby Hall
Motivation is like learning. You can be taught, but the learn-
ing is up to you. In Steven Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People”, he states that “Between stimulus
[inspiration, stimulation] and response [motivation], is our
greatest freedom, our freedom to choose.” During this
workshop participants will learn eight tips on how to moti-
vate themselves. Inspirational videos will be interspersed
throughout the presentation with stimulating messages for
everyone to take home.
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Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1
Powerful Presentations in the
Workplace: Enhancing Your Skills
for Creating and Delivering
Presentations
Sarah Warren
This workshop provides strategies for preparing and deliver-
ing presentations, increasing audience engagement and
overcoming your fear of public speaking. Guidelines will be
provided for creating your presentation, from planning
through execution. Additionally, tips and tricks will be pro-
vided for building PowerPoint presentations and other visual
aids to enhance presentations. Some knowledge of Mi-
crosoft PowerPoint is recommended for this training.
Ambassador 2 An Untapped Resource: Creating
Partners in Higher Education Heath Bowman
Learn how your organization or agency can benefit from
creating collaborative partnerships with local colleges and
universities. This session will include an overview of past suc-
cesses and a blueprint that you can customize to your
needs and goals.
Ambassador 3 Fundraising and the Nonprofit
Board Keith Vire
This presentation stresses the importance of fundraising, as
well as the Board's role in fundraising. The responsibility of the
board as a whole, as well as the responsibility of individuals
members will be discussed. Participants will leave this session
with possible solutions to typical fundraising issues.
Diplomat Motivation: It's all up to You Bobby Hall
Motivation is like learning. You can be taught, but the learn-
ing is up to you. In Steven Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People”, he states that “Between stimulus
[inspiration, stimulation] and response [motivation], is our
greatest freedom, our freedom to choose.” During this
workshop participants will learn eight tips on how to moti-
vate themselves. Inspirational videos will be interspersed
throughout the presentation with stimulating messages for
everyone to take home.
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Thursday 2:45 - 4:00 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1 Facebook, Funds and Friends:
Empowering Citizens Through
Social Media
DeAnna O'Malley
During this workshop participants will learn how to use Face-
book and other forms of social media to create a strong
community group, the importance of empowering individu-
als to participate in community projects, and how having a
hands-on group can benefit a community financially.
Ambassador 2 Winning at National Service Will Roark
This panel will consist of the Corporation for National and
Community Service representatives from across the streams
of service to discuss how your organization can benefit from
CNCS programs. We will also discuss the steps your organiza-
tion can take to apply for CNCS funds.
Ambassador 3 From Bored to Boom:
Transforming Your Board Merritt Royal
The purpose to this session is to provide insight into transform-
ing inactive and dispassionate nonprofit board leadership to
active and engaged leaders. Session attendees will devel-
op an understanding of what motivates board members to
serve, how to best utilize the strengths of board leadership,
and how to recruit new board members.
Diplomat Motivation: It's all up to You Bobby Hall
Motivation is like learning. You can be taught, but the learn-
ing is up to you. In Steven Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People”, he states that “Between stimulus
[inspiration, stimulation] and response [motivation], is our
greatest freedom, our freedom to choose.” During this
workshop participants will learn eight tips on how to moti-
vate themselves. Inspirational videos will be interspersed
throughout the presentation with stimulating messages for
everyone to take home.
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Thursday 2:45 - 4:00 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1 Facebook, Funds and Friends:
Empowering Citizens Through
Social Media
DeAnna O'Malley
During this workshop participants will learn how to use Face-
book and other forms of social media to create a strong
community group, the importance of empowering individu-
als to participate in community projects, and how having a
hands-on group can benefit a community financially.
Ambassador 2 Winning at National Service Will Roark
This panel will consist of the Corporation for National and
Community Service representatives from across the streams
of service to discuss how your organization can benefit from
CNCS programs. We will also discuss the steps your organiza-
tion can take to apply for CNCS funds.
Ambassador 3 From Bored to Boom:
Transforming Your Board Merritt Royal
The purpose to this session is to provide insight into transform-
ing inactive and dispassionate nonprofit board leadership to
active and engaged leaders. Session attendees will devel-
op an understanding of what motivates board members to
serve, how to best utilize the strengths of board leadership,
and how to recruit new board members.
Diplomat Motivation: It's all up to You Bobby Hall
Motivation is like learning. You can be taught, but the learn-
ing is up to you. In Steven Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People”, he states that “Between stimulus
[inspiration, stimulation] and response [motivation], is our
greatest freedom, our freedom to choose.” During this
workshop participants will learn eight tips on how to moti-
vate themselves. Inspirational videos will be interspersed
throughout the presentation with stimulating messages for
everyone to take home.
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Friday 9:15 - 10:30 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1 Managing and Maintaining
Nonprofit Personnel Policies Wayne Young
What are some interview questions you cannot legally ask?
Can you use the internet to augment background
checks? Why are updated job descriptions important? Why
are timely reviews important? Can a person be fired for a
tweet or post? Can an employer require access to a person-
al account (EX: Facebook or twitter) as a condition of em-
ployment? Come to this session to discuss these questions
and more involving nonprofit personnel practices and poli-
cies.
Ambassador 2 Foundations are People, too Melissa Hendricks,
CFRE
Learn techniques to stand apart from the crowd of grant
seekers. This session will include how to develop professional
relationships with staff and/or trustees of private foundations,
advice for ensuring your proposal reaches the top of the
stack and ways to cultivate and steward relationships with
private foundations so you might be funded more than
once.
Ambassador 3 Nonprofit Accounting Marc Lux
This session will cover a general Q & A on what Nonprofit
agencies want/need want from a CPA. We will discuss dif-
ferent level of attestation services, i.e. differences between
an audit, review, compilation & AUP. This session will also
review clarification on filing the Form 990 or 990-EZ, as well as
other filing requirements within the state of Arkansas. We will
also discuss upcoming changes from the FASB, GASB, and
OMB.
Diplomat Recruiting Volunteers
with Disabilities Billy Altom
This session will discuss some best practices for recruiting vol-
unteers with disabilities as well as answer some general
questions about what’s appropriate to ask or do with volun-
teers with disabilities.
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Friday 9:15 - 10:30 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1 Managing and Maintaining
Nonprofit Personnel Policies Wayne Young
What are some interview questions you cannot legally ask?
Can you use the internet to augment background
checks? Why are updated job descriptions important? Why
are timely reviews important? Can a person be fired for a
tweet or post? Can an employer require access to a person-
al account (EX: Facebook or twitter) as a condition of em-
ployment? Come to this session to discuss these questions
and more involving nonprofit personnel practices and poli-
cies.
Ambassador 2 Foundations are People, too Melissa Hendricks,
CFRE
Learn techniques to stand apart from the crowd of grant
seekers. This session will include how to develop professional
relationships with staff and/or trustees of private foundations,
advice for ensuring your proposal reaches the top of the
stack and ways to cultivate and steward relationships with
private foundations so you might be funded more than
once.
Ambassador 3 Nonprofit Accounting Marc Lux
This session will cover a general Q & A on what Nonprofit
agencies want/need want from a CPA. We will discuss dif-
ferent level of attestation services, i.e. differences between
an audit, review, compilation & AUP. This session will also
review clarification on filing the Form 990 or 990-EZ, as well as
other filing requirements within the state of Arkansas. We will
also discuss upcoming changes from the FASB, GASB, and
OMB.
Diplomat Recruiting Volunteers
with Disabilities Billy Altom
This session will discuss some best practices for recruiting vol-
unteers with disabilities as well as answer some general
questions about what’s appropriate to ask or do with volun-
teers with disabilities.
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Friday 10:45 - 12:00 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1 Cyber Security: Threats and
Affordable Solutions Philip Huff
Cyber security threats are very real for all organizations, but
they can leave you feeling hopeless and uncertain. This ses-
sion will break down real cyber threats to client information
and provide effective and affordable solutions to address
them.
Ambassador 2 An Untapped Resource: Creating
Partners in Higher Education Heath Bowman
Learn how your organization or agency can benefit from
creating collaborative partnerships with local colleges and
universities. This session will include an overview of past suc-
cesses and a blueprint that you can customize to your
needs and goals.
Ambassador 3 Disaster Preparedness Katie Belknap
This session will cover disasters in Arkansas including pictures
of recent disasters in Arkansas. It will also cover individual
and nonprofit preparedness tips. Finally, it will address what
the state is doing to protect its citizens and ways individuals
can help out.
Diplomat Recruiting Board Members Fran Carter This session will cover some best practices in recruiting a
strong board of directors for your nonprofit organization.
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Friday 10:45 - 12:00 Room Title Speaker Description
Ambassador 1 Cyber Security: Threats and
Affordable Solutions Philip Huff
Cyber security threats are very real for all organizations, but
they can leave you feeling hopeless and uncertain. This ses-
sion will break down real cyber threats to client information
and provide effective and affordable solutions to address
them.
Ambassador 2 An Untapped Resource: Creating
Partners in Higher Education Heath Bowman
Learn how your organization or agency can benefit from
creating collaborative partnerships with local colleges and
universities. This session will include an overview of past suc-
cesses and a blueprint that you can customize to your
needs and goals.
Ambassador 3 Disaster Preparedness Katie Belknap
This session will cover disasters in Arkansas including pictures
of recent disasters in Arkansas. It will also cover individual
and nonprofit preparedness tips. Finally, it will address what
the state is doing to protect its citizens and ways individuals
can help out.
Diplomat Recruiting Board Members Fran Carter This session will cover some best practices in recruiting a
strong board of directors for your nonprofit organization.
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Billie Ann Myers Paragon Award The DHS Division of Community Service & Nonprofit
Support presents the Billie Ann Myers Paragon Award to an
Arkansan whose volunteer efforts have impacted and
inspired others in Arkansas.
To be eligible for the award, an individual must meet the
following criteria:
Be a resident of the State of Arkansas
Have a history of volunteering and inspiring others to volunteer
Exhibit servant leadership in advocating changes for the better, working to
bring them about, and helping others bring them about
Have caused a significant improvement in the quality of life for
Arkansas as a result of these efforts
Previous recipients:
2001 - Billie Ann Myers
2002 - Willie Oates
2003 - Freeman McKindra
2004 - Randy Frazier
2005 - Ray Baker
2006 - Dr. Roby Robertson
2007 - Bob Torvestad
2008 - Pat Lile
2009 - Former First Lady
Ginger Beebe
2010 - Dick Trammel
2011 - Steve Jones
2012 - Former First Lady Betty Bumpers
2013 - Dr. David Sink
2014 - Al Schneider ( Pictured Below)
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Mission: to strengthen community resources, volunteerism and
national service in Arkansas.
The Arkansas Service Commission, a unit within DCSNS,
provides sub grants for AmeriCorps programs in Arkansas.
Summit Sponsor
For a detailed directory of services, come by our
displays while at The Summit or visit our website:
www.humanservices.arkansas.gov/dcsns
www.facebook.com/ardcsns
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Arkansas Community
Foundation (ARCF) is a nonprofit
organization that fosters smart
giving to improve
communities. The Community Foundation offers tools to help Arkansans
protect, grow and direct their charitable dollars as they learn more about
community needs. By making grants and sharing knowledge, the Commu-
nity Foundation support charitable programs that work for
Arkansas and partners to create new initiatives that address the
gaps. Since 1976, the Community Foundation has provided more than
$108 million in grants and partnered with thousands of Arkansans to help
them improve our neighborhoods, our towns and our entire state. Learn
more at www.arcf.org
UALR Institute of Government exist to
serve the people of Arkansas by ad-
vancing excellence in governance
and public service across the state.
We do this by helping governments
and nonprofits through applied re-
search, instruction, and training. The Institute of Government houses a na-
tionally accredited graduate program in public administration; graduate
certificate programs in nonprofit management and conflict mediation; and
specialized centers in survey research, nonprofit management, and com-
munity civics (public collaboration, conflict mediation, and civic govern-
ance). Learn more at www.ualr.edu/iog
Summit Partners
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Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
For nearly 40 years, the Winthrop
Rockefeller Foundation has helped
to build and sustain the organiza-
tions that serve and strengthen Arkansas. Through grant making and
strategic partnerships, we are working hard to help close the economic
and educational gaps that leave too many Arkansas families in persistent
poverty. Learn more at www.wrfoundation.org
Summit Partners
In Cooperation With
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SPONSORED BY Arkansas Department of Human Services
Division of Community Service
& Nonprofit Support
Summit Partners
Arkansas Community Foundation
UALR Institute of Government
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation