• Daniel Ben-Horin: Founder and co-CEO, TechSoup Global
  Mr. Ben-Horin created TechSoup Global (as "CompuMentor") in 1987 by tapping volunteer resources on the WELL, one of the first online communities. Over the past two decades, he guided the TechSoup Global evolution from a small, local nonprofit to a globally respected entity with 170 employees and a budget of US$22 million. TechSoup Global now (7/09) provides technology information to individuals and organizations in more than 190 countries, has provided consulting services in more than 50 countries and, through its global network of capacity-building NGOs, manages product donations to more than 80,000 organizations in 24 countries. Currently, Ben-Horin focuses on creating new opportunities for corporate, foundation, and nonprofit partners around the globe to optimize their social benefit impact by utlilizing TechSoup Global's channel, resources, and relationships.
  
  
• Craig Reigel: Managing Director, NFF Capital Partners
  Craig Reigel is Managing Director, NFF Capital Partners, and came to NFF with a long history of solving the dilemmas of growth in diverse environments. He joined NFF after serving as a project based consultant to the nascent Capital Partners business for over a year. The core of his work is attracting essential patient capital to high potential nonprofits, improving the allocation of capital within the sector. He has been a consultant to for-profit industry leaders, both with Bain & Company and independently, advising on a variety of strategic, operational, and organizational issues. In seven years as a principal in Datagraph Systems, Inc. he has taken a small business delivering performance management tools literally from the basement to international success.

• Andrew Schwalm: Marketing and Communications Associate, NFF
  Andrew Schwalm is Marketing and Communications Associate at Nonprofit Finance Fund where he helps develop new techniques for delivering financial information and awareness to nonprofit organizations, foundations and the general public. He joined NFF from the Philadelphia-based First Person Arts, an organization dedicated to finding and fostering art from real life, whose annual festival runs from November 8th-14th, 2010. At First Person Arts, Andrew led the organization's embrace of social media and incorporated community-building into the design and implementation of new and existing programs.
  
  

How Nonprofts Can Grow in a Tough Economy

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1-2PM EST
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On Tuesday, we're bringing together leaders of organizations that have overcome the odds and expanded significantly in the last several years. We encourage participants to ask questions about what panelists learned along the way, where the money came from, and how they're sustaining a larger organization. NFF experts will also be there to address questions about what it takes from a balance sheet standpoint to "make it big" in a bad economy.

PANELISTS

• Mindy Propper: Senior Director, Network Growth & Sustainability, KIPP Foundation
  Mindy Propper joined The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), a national network of charter schools, in December of 2009. Working closely with key groups at the KIPP Foundation, Mindy leads a team focused on providing seamless support to the network's regions and schools to enable rapid and sustainable growth. Mindy transitioned to the nonprofit sector after 25 years of practice as a consultant with KPMG Consulting, (BearingPoint), where Mindy was SVP and Managing Director in the firm's Financial Services Practice and led the NY office.

• Muzzy Rosenblatt: Executive Director, Bowery Residents' Committee (BRC)
  Muzzy Rosenblatt is the Executive Director of BRC, one of New York City's most comprehensive social services agencies. Through its holistic and individualized approach to service, BRC helps thousands of homeless men and women gain the knowledge and skills they need to help themselves to overcome adversity and dependency; regain their health, mental health and sobriety; and restore their self-sufficiency and self-respect. Muzzy has led the agency through a period of growth that has strengthened its financial condition, improved the quality of services provided, and established BRC as a leader and innovator among nonprofit social services agencies. Today, BRC operates a continuum of 27 programs throughout New York City, with a fiscal year 2011 budget of $52 million, over 500 employees, and hundreds more volunteers. 

• Norah McVeigh: Managing Director, Financial Services, NFF
  Norah McVeigh is responsible for all aspects of NFF's financial products including lending, credit enhancement and asset-building products. She oversees the delivery of these products and manages NFF's credit process, loan and financial product portfolio, and staff training. She is also responsible for the capitalization of the loan fund. READ FULL BIO!

Live from SOCAP 2010! The Future of Nonprofit Financing

Tuesday, October 5, 12:00-1:00pm EST
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As nonprofit groups struggle in a tough economic climate, the needs of the people they serve keep growing—yet money to provide services is in short supply. As a result, many of the tried-and-true approaches to seeking revenue are insufficient. Nonprofits must devise new ways to attract the kind of large, multiyear support that will allow them to expand and create new programs in a sustainable way. How might nonprofit leaders finance their growth plans? How do they attract the capital they need to expand? And when should nonprofits focus on spreading their best ideas instead of directing resources toward growth?

Join us to chat with participants in SOCAP 2010, the third annual meeting of socially conscious investors, philanthropists, and others, as we look toward the future of funding and discuss the perspectives raised in SOCAP around funding nonprofit enterprises.

Panelists

• Managing in a Changing Economic Environment (November 12, 2009)
• Building Meaningful Alliances With Other Nonprofit Groups (October 29, 2009)
• Nonprofit Finance: What Board Members and Trustees Need to Know (October 15, 2009)
• Real Estate and Facilities: Understanding Your Options (October 1, 2009)
• Making Capital Campaigns Work in the Recession (June 25, 2009)
• The Changing Role of Foundations (June 11, 2009)
• New Ways for Arts Organizations to Finance Their Operations (May 28, 2009)
• Financial Management in Tough Times: Financing Options (May 14, 2009)