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Corporates and not-for profits: closing the gap

Friday, March 18, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom
Corporates and not-for profits: closing the gap

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Non-members Ended £125.00 £8.15
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Corporates and not-for profits: closing the gap

Innovative approaches to building corporate and not-for profit sector relationships in an economic downturn to harness the benefits associated with cross-sector collaborations

 
An event designed for NCB Members to bring together companies and charities to build relationships and share learning in handling an economic downturn. The corporate speakers will share their experience of economic downturn management strategies; managing staff morale and successful mergers and sharing services.

 

9.00 Registration and informal networking opportunity
9.30 Welcome and introduction by the Chair
9.45 Ministerial Keynote Address

An opening Ministerial address that underlines the importance of businesses making stronger links with not-for-profit organiations (voluntary and community, social enterprises etc) in order to help this sector prepare for local spending cuts without weakening the necessary social capital that it generates.
10.05 Redesigning the offer: utilising economic downturn management strategies

• Generating economic downturn management strategies and measureable tactics to support these initiatives
• Employing sustainable practices around graduate recruitment, flexible working hours and human resource functions
• Streamlining organisational structures and processes without harming outputs
• Identifying processes that underpin project delivery for not-for-profits to achieve their objectives and fulfil commitments to stakeholders
10.30 Break and informal networking opportunity
10.50 Keeping staff; keeping morale

• An overview of KPMG's Flexible Futures strategy and how it creates talent and engages its workforce
• Learning the lessons from the previous financial downturns to lessen the impact this time around
•Creating sufficient flexibility in the workforce to react quickly and efficiently to future events without redundancies
• Utilising strategic HR policies to create innovative staffing solutions whilst maintaining trust
11.10 Making mergers work

• Enhancing the relationship between business and not-for-profits at a regional and local level
• Recognising the most effective techniques of approaching potential partners: formal pitches, networks and cold approaches
• Maintaining partnerships through SLAs and the establishment of monitoring protocols
• Innovative ways in which businesses and the third sector can work together to harness the benefits associated with cross-sector collaborations
11.30 Achieving effective pro-bono support

• Establishing the type of pro-bono support of most value to not-for-profits: volunteering, business networks, consultancy, PR and branding, financial, legal
• Ascertaining the benefits of contributing to the not-for-profit sector and the practical lessons of providing this support to ensure mutual benefit to both partner organisations
• Providing tools and techniques for businesses to demonstrably contribute to the not-for-profit sector
• Creating quantitative evaluations to measure the wider social and economic benefits implicit within pro-bono initiatives
12.00 Sharing services: strategies for sharing and support in not-for-profits

• Overview of range of arrangements available
• Alliance or merger – which is the best option?
• What to focus on - tools and checklists for collaboration between not-for-profits and not-for-profits and the corporate partners
12.30  Lunch and informal networking opportunity
13.15

Networking sessions

These networking sessions are designed to broker a relationship between corporates and not-for-profits. Here 4 different organisations offer their advice about specific aspects of surviving in an economic downturn (participants from NCB membership can be asked ina dvcance for input into this session).

A. Mergers and acquisitions – what needs to be considered? (Freshfields)
B. Downsizing your staff (KPMG)
C. Working in partnerships within the sector (NCB)
D. Accessing business support (Beachcroft)
14.45 Business and the third sector: building relationships

An opportunity to quiz the panel of expert speakers on any aspect of today’s agenda around ways in which businesses and not-for-profits can work together to harness the benefits associated with cross-sector collaborations.
15.30  Close of conference and informal networking opportunity