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This course is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

This course is designed for community foundation staff with at least two years of experience in the field and with an in-depth understanding of the intricacies of their foundation, the community foundation field, and the civic infrastructure of their communities. Staff or board members of any size community foundation can benefit from this course. We welcome your foundation colleague if your board member cannot attend the course. Participation includes complimentary registration, meals during course hours, and course materials.

What Will You Learn

• How public policy work advances your mission
• How community foundations contribute to better public policy
• The breadth of opportunities to influence policy and policymakers
• How, when, and on what policy-related issues to engage
• Common policy activities to help build your policy-related skill
• How to assess your community foundation's current readiness for policy work and how to develop its policy capacity
• How to plan and assess policy work
• Basic IRS rules governing community foundations' public policy work
• Technical assistance resources on public policy
• The Council on Foundations' public policy activities and resources and opportunities for community foundation involvement

Who Should Attend

Each community foundation can send up to three representatives. We recommend: (1) the CEO; (2) the board chair or another board member who is responsible for advocacy, community engagement, and/or public awareness campaigns; and (3) a senior staffer who is responsible for advocacy, community engagement, and/or public awareness campaigns. However, please feel free to make substitutions based on availability.

Agenda

View the course agenda.

Faculty

Chatrane Birbal
Director, Government Relations
Council on Foundations

Birbal is responsible for implementing strategies and launching programs in support of the Council’s public policy and government relations functions. She raises the Council’s profile with Congress and other nonprofit organizations, raises awareness on the Hill about foundations and nonprofit activities, and assists and advises Council members on their legislative relations. Before joining the Council, Birbal was a lobbyist at the American Psychiatric Association, where she served as a liaison to the Food and Drug Administration, lobbied Congress, tracked legislation of relevance to the sector, and planned and executed the association’s annual advocacy day training session for membership.

Terri Freeman
President
The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region

Freeman is responsible for furthering the foundation's mission to strengthen the metropolitan Washington region by encouraging and promoting effective giving and demonstrating leadership on critical community issues. Under her leadership, the foundation's assets have grown six-fold since 1996, establishing it as the largest local grantmaker in the D.C. region and one of the top 50 foundations nationwide with grants of nearly $51 million in fiscal year 2012. Previously, Freeman was the founding executive director of the Freddie Mac Foundation, one of the largest corporate foundations in the D.C. area.

Kristy Tsadick
Staff Attorney
Council on Foundations

Before joining the Council in 2010, Tsadick practiced law in private firms and worked in government relations and in-house law at a Fortune 15 corporation. In her current position, Tsadick provides legal information to Council members and legal support for the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations, and serves on the Council’s in-house legal team. She is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars and holds a Virginia corporate counsel certificate.


Nancy Van Milligen
President and CEO
Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque

Van Milligen joined the community foundation as its first president and CEO in February 2003. She previously was vice president of institutional advancement at Clarke College. She is a past chair of the Iowa State Empowerment Board and the Iowa Commission of Volunteer Service and the immediate past-president of the Iowa Council on Foundations. She serves on the board of the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities and on the Council on Foundations Public Policy Committee. In 2006, she received the SIU Distinguished Alumni Award.

Hotel

Hotel Andaluz
125 Second Street
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 505-242-9090

Registration

Registrants who reside within 30 miles of the hotel are encouraged to commute to the course on a daily basis. To register for the course, download the registration form and return it by fax to 866-914-8107 by October 9.

For registrants who reside more than 30 miles from the hotel, the grant will cover two nights (November 7–8) of complimentary lodging with the Hotel Andaluz and the Council will reserve lodging on your behalf. To reserve accommodations and register for the course, complete the registration form and return by fax to 866-914-8107 by October 9. When you check in at the hotel, you will be asked for your credit card information to cover all incidentals during your stay. When checking out, your room rate and tax will be covered by the Council and you will be responsible for all incidentals. Check-in is November 7 and check-out is November 9.

Transportation

Please note that all transportation costs to and from Albuquerque, NM are the responsibility of the attendee or the attendee’s foundation. Parking vouchers will be provided.

Cancellation Policy/Fee

Registrants are strongly encouraged to attend the entire program. Registrants who fail to appear for the program will be charged a $50 cancellation fee unless they have notified the Council in writing by fax (703-879-0800) or email (confreg@cof.org) five business days prior to the event or send a substitute representative from their community foundation to attend the program. At the time of registration, registrants must provide credit card information. If the cancellation fee applies, the credit card on file will be charged $50. Exceptions to this policy will be considered on a case by case basis, for emergencies only.

Contact

Professional Development at 703-879-0768 or leaders@cof.org

Questions?