[KEYSeNews] December 1, 2006

[Diane Brandon]

KEYSeNews December 1, 2006

1) Save the date: True Collaboration: How Work Really Gets Done in  
Communities — The Move From Silos to Systems, Wednesday, January 17,  
2007;  12 Noon to 5:00 PM; Jay Connor (Details below)

2) 80+ Participate in 2-State, 3-County Economic Summit Follow-up  
Meeting on 11/29; next meeting is being planned

3) Alliance for Community Transportation (ACT) brings together people  
interested in transportation in Rockingham, Strafford, and York  
Counties - next meeting Jan. 3rd at 1pm

4) December 6, 4:30-6:30pm: York Hospital Center for Community Health  
Promotion Open House, Landmark Hill, 518 Rte 1, Kittery

5) Mental Health Task Force topic for Jan. 5 changed to homelessness  
and mental illness


Details

1) True Collaboration: How Work Really Gets Done in Communities — The  
Move From Silos to Systems
Wednesday, January 17, 2007;  12 Noon to 5:00 PM;  (lunch provided)   
The McConnell Center, Dover, New Hampshire

Access to Health Care – Poverty – Planning Issues – Workforce  
Shortages – Clean Air

When communities uncover and explore their highest aspirations, and  
support and sustain systematic, strategic efforts to reach them, they  
create lasting change. Through research and hands-on experience, Jay  
Connor and the Collaboratory for Community Support have identified  
what local communities need to do to foster holistic, community-wide  
solutions to pressing community conditions. Their work is founded on  
the premise that communities today are challenged to create  
systematic, locally-based solutions to complex problems by working  
across organizations and sectors. This session will focus on the  
Collaboratory’s research on the community change process and  
strategies for developing the skill of “intentional” community  
collaboration.
Topics Include:
• Historical organizational impediments that have resulted in  
nonprofits not having strong community connections
• Examples of International Best Practices successfully getting to  
community solutions
• Boards who govern “vertically” vs. “horizontally” and the need to  
balance both
• Staying agile and connected and forming an open rapport with the  
community
• Moving from “surface” collaboration to “intentional” collaboration
• Why nonprofits must exist to serve a community need and what that  
means for the future
• How to engage to achieve effective collaboration results

PRESENTER:
Joseph A. “Jay” Connor, JD/MBA
Jay is the Founder/CEO of The Collaboratory for Community Support, an  
Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan, and author of  
Community Visions, Community Solutions (2003). From his work with  
leaders of diverse constituencies, Jay and his team concluded that in  
order to be effective, our community leaders must be comfortable at  
the intersection not only of organizations and cultures but also at  
the intersection of the nonprofit, business and governmental sectors.
Before founding The Collaboratory, Jay was President/CEO of Nonprofit  
Enterprise at Work (NEW), in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has written for  
the National Civic Review, Foundation News and Commentary, Board  
Member, PNNOnline, and NonProfit World, and has more than 20 years of  
experience in senior business management at the multi-billion dollar  
corporate level.

Fee: Member: $50 Member, Not-yet-member: $75  (Lunch provided)
Two or more people from the same organization: $40 per Member, $65  
per Not-yet-member

To register:  www.nhnonprofits.org

Through a Community Response grant from the United Way of the Greater  
Seacoast, NHCN is pleased to offer this program at a reduced rate.


2) 80+ Participate in 2-State, 3-County Economic Summit Follow-up  
Meeting on 11/29: The turnout and energy were great, and the meetings  
will continue, with planning being led by SMRPC, Greater Yorks Region  
Chamber of Commerce, Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, and  
Rockingham Economic Development Corporation  - details in the next  
KEYSeNews.

3) Alliance for Community Transportation (ACT) brings together people  
interested in transportation in Rockingham, Strafford, and York  
Counties - next meeting Jan. 3rd at 1pm in Dover. For details,  
contact Becky Silvia bsilvia at straffordnetwork.org

4) December 6, 4:30-6:30pm: York Hospital Center for Community Health  
Promotion Open House, Landmark Hill, 518 Rte 1, Kittery

5) Mental Health Task Force topic for Jan. 5 - changed to  
homelessness and mental illness; the at-risk youth topic is being  
postponed;  "youth firestarters" will be the topic of the May  
meeting. The Intensive Outpatient Treatment program formerly at PRH  
is now based at the Seacoast Mental Health building in Portsmouth,  
and you can get details by emailing Lorraine Soukup at  
lorraine.soukup at hcahealthcare.com


These and other calendar items may also be found at http:// 
www.keysregion.org/whatsnew.htm

Comments, questions, suggestions? Items for next KEYSeNews?   Email  
diane at keysregion.org








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