The ASU Center for Nonprofit Leadership & Management's 8th Annual Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness - An Outstanding Success!

Aspiring to Excellence: Navigating in Changing Times proved to be a timely topic of discussion at this year's Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness. The forum provided two national and thought-provoking speakers including Marsha Evans, Former President and CEO of the American Red Cross and Irv Katz, President and CEO of the National Human Services Assembly. Attendees had the important opportunity to dialog about accountability and the coming trends that will impact this sector overall.

The Think Tank on Nonprofit Oversight & Regulation compared and contrasted the pros and cons of sector self regulation versus governmental regulation of nonprofits. The conclusions and results of this think tank will form the basis of a proceedings paper that the Center will publish.

In the closing session Andrew Ortiz introduced the Center's Newest program Principles of Effectiveness for Nonprofit Organizations and facilitated a panel discussion about the project. The Principles program has been three years in the making, and its intended impact is to empower nonprofit organizations to assess their strengths and weaknesses, and to advance along the continuum of organizational effectiveness. For more information about the Principles of Effectiveness, please contact the Center at (602) 496-0500.

If you would like to view the program booklet from the Annual Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness, please visit http://www.asu.edu/copp/nonprofit/ASUForumBooklet.pdf. The program also featured articles from the Nonprofit Quarterly's Special Issue on the Nonprofit Regulatory Landscape. Those articles are still available for FREE DOWNLOAD at http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/.

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