Thanksgiving Gift: You and Your Board

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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS 

 DECEMBER 15, 2011   

A Two-Day Event
Exclusively for Nonprofit  

Founders & Long-Term
Executives

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Early Registration: $375
(before 12/15/2011)
Registration Fee: $450 
Includes: continental breakfast and lunch (both days),
all session materials, a comprehensive resource CD and a complimentary book by either Tom Adams or Don Tebbe!


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December 15-16, 2011 

NeighborWorks Training Institute

Washington, DC  

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Registration Fee: $470   

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Greetings!

Best wishes for a continued thriving and leaderful 2011!

Thank You Nonprofit Leaders For All You Do 

The approach of Thanksgiving affords each of us the opportunity to step out of the daily pace of work and recognize and celebrate our many blessings. Each year at this time, we at TransitionGuides take time to say thanks to our readers and the leaders who make the organizations we work with such amazing forces for good.

These are not easy times in which to lead. In fact, our memories strain to recall a longer period of economic and political uncertainty and turmoil. Yet the organizations we work with and observe continue to bring together their unique brand of passion, commitment, and talent to work for a more just, caring and sustainable world. Despite economic hurdles, the nonprofit sector continues to serve a vital role in our global community.

This year we would like to call attention to and express our gratitude for one particular attribute of nonprofit leadership which often is under-appreciated or neglected -- creativity. Nonprofit leaders infuse amazing creativity and capacity for adaptation and innovation on a daily basis that advances their mission impact and contributes to real change in the world. We applaud and celebrate the creative sparks and innovative solutions across nonprofits that are sustaining communities around the world.  

Thankfully, this remarkable gift is not unique to one organization, one location, or one mission. At the local level, for example, we celebrate the woman in the Bronx who dedicated 30 years and built a trail blazing community health center. We have also seen the parents and friends of developmentally disabled individuals who built an organization serving two states because it would better serve their community. Across the country, we applaud the concerned activists who recognized a need and developed our national response to hunger with the food bank movement. These few examples hardly scratch the surface.

There is no doubt that it takes persistence and extraordinary resilience and self-care to survive in these times. To go beyond that, to keep a spirit of caring and hope, and to adapt and, in some cases even grow, takes remarkable creativity and a commitment to learning and developing as individuals and organizations.

Thanks to each of you for all you do each day to contribute to the unique and powerful work of your organization and our sector. As a token of our appreciation, we hope you will find this gift a useful document to share with your organization's leadership.  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tom Adams, President                 

Don Tebbe, Executive Vice President

TransitionGuides Team

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