Nonprofit Roundtable Annual Meeting
June 12, 8:30am - 11:00am (8am Breakfast)

       Jim Asendio            Tamara Copeland       Leslie Crutchfield        Robert Egger
     WAMU 88.5 FM              Washington             Forces for Good         V3 Campaign
                                       Grantmakers                                      DC Central Kitchen

• How can nonprofit leaders raise the profile of the value, strength, and impact of Greater Washington's nonprofit community?  What ought to be our messages?  How do we best reach our targets?  Add your ideas to those of our conversation-starting panel moderated by Jim Asendio (WAMU) and including Tamara Lucas Copeland (Washington Grantmakers), Leslie Crutchfield (Forces for Good and Ashoka), and Robert Egger (V3 Campaign and DC Central Kitchen).
• For Roundtable Members.  (For Membership information, contact Eduardo.)
• Sponsored by Capital One
• RSVP to Taneem and include one way we can raise our voices collectively.

The Roundtable is excited to announce the launch of the Future Executive Directors Fellowship, a new leadership development program for mid-senior level nonprofit professionals who aspire to lead a small or medium-sized community-based organization as the next step in their career. Applications due Friday, May 30, 2008. 

Press 
Washington Business Journal
Chuck Bean:  "We've been watching the research over the last two years ... and we knew it was time that we really needed to do something," said Chuck Bean, executive director of the Nonprofit Roundtable, a network of the region's nonprofit organizations. "If we can accelerate someone entering a nonprofit leadership position and hitting the ground running, that's what this program is for."

The Examiner

Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out, the largest national survey to date of 6,000 emerging nonprofit leaders, finds that low pay, work-life balance, and lack of leadership development and mentoring are major disincentives to taking on executive leadership positions in nonprofit organizations. 

Click here for more about how the Roundtable engages current and emerging nonprofit leaders.

This groundbreaking result of a yearlong effort to answer, "What difference do nonprofits make?" was released, in collaboration with the World Bank Group, in November, 2007.

Through nearly 100 examples, Beyond Charity reveals some of the many ways in which nonprofits raise the quality of life for all of us in Greater Washington, and are the lifelines to our most vulnerable neighbors.  Return on investment is about more than dollars and cents.  When local nonprofits collaborate with government, business and concerned citizens in pursuit of a common goal -- a stronger Washington-area community -- everyone profits.  Download the report.

The report was featured in: 

• Kojo Nnamdi's Dec. 12 program on WAMU-FM 88.5 featured Chuck Bean (Roundtable Executive Director), Maria Gomez (Mary's Center) and Leslie Crutchfield (Forces for Good). (Real Audio or Windows Media)
• Washington Post "The study's authors said the report is designed to show businesses and individuals that charitable giving is not just a feel-good investment, but one that makes economic sense, too." (Nov. 26)
• Washington Business Journal "The report argues that after-school programs, social services and housing programs save the public money by preventing the need for far more costly services -- like prisons and emergency rooms -- in the future." (Dec. 3)
• Washington Post online discussion Chuck Bean said, "Nonprofits are indeed charitable, but their impact also makes economic sense and is good public policy. As we give with our hearts, we can also invest with our heads." (Nov. 26)
• WAMU-FM 88.5 News: (Real Audio or Windows Media) (Nov. 26)
• and these blogs: Evangelisting, Experience, Nonprofit Law Prof, Pitch Consulting, the Washington Area Women's Foundation and Washington Grantmakers.