Dear Colleagues,
Peter Drucker has been giving a great deal of attention
to non-profits lately and current focus is the social sector
organization.
"The more economy, money, and information become
global," he writes, "the more community will matter.
And only the social sector nonprofit organization performs
in the community, exploits its opportunities, mobilizes its
local resources, solves its problems."
The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management
provides interesting free newsletters. This is the first of the
two newsletters. The other is a new monthly newsletter titled
Meeting the Collaboration Challenge, coming next.
If it interests you, read further and go to this URL to
subscribe:
<http://drucker.org/subscribe/index.html>
Best regards,
Ken Friedman
January 16, 2002, Volume 3 Number 29
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* * Accepting Hesselbein Fellows Applications * *
Application guidelines for the 2002-2003 Hesselbein Community
Innovation Fellows program are now available by mail or from the
Foundation's Web site.
For more information see below or go to:
<http://pfdf.org/fellows/index.html>. Or call the Foundation at
212-224-1174.
* * Fall 2001 "Leader to Leader" Articles Available Online * *
Articles by Frances Hesselbein, Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K.
Smith, and Joe Lumarda, from the fall 2001 issue of "Leader to
Leader", are now available on the Foundation's Web site.
To read an excerpt of "A Splendid Torch" by Frances Hesselbein,
see below. For complete text of this and other articles, go to:
<http://pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/index.html>.
* * Register for the "Organization of the Future" Conference * *
The Drucker Foundation and the Conference Board present the 2002
"Organization of the Future Conference: From Ownership to
Strategic Purpose," February 28-March 1, 2002 at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel in New York City.
For more information see below or go to:
<http://www.conference-board.org/orgfuture.htm>.
Or call Conference Board customer service at 212-339-0345.
* * Drucker Foundation Workshops * *
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This week's innovation helps individuals with chronic mental
illness receive the treatment and assistance they need to manage
within a mainstream community.
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Are you interested in
- reaching individuals with chronic mental illness who
historically resist help?
- improving collaborations with government partners?
Thresholds, a Chicago-based organization working to prevent
unnecessary psychiatric rehabilitation and to reduce the stigma of
mental illness, developed the Thresholds Jail Project in 1997 to
help non-violent, chronic, severely mentally ill individuals
detained at Cook County Jail's psychiatric hospital. In
partnership with the courts, the project aims to help individuals
avoid re-arrest and receive the treatment and assistance they need
to manage within a mainstream community.
Thresholds Jail Project helps people whom many believe do not
belong in jail, but who repeatedly get into trouble and need
assistance to manage in a community. The occurrence of people
with mental illness being continually incarcerated is not unique
to Chicago. Their presence in jails helps clog court systems,
costs taxpayer dollars, and stifles the human spirit.
Thresholds Jail Project began with a dozen individuals with
chronic mental illness. By June 2000, all twelve had regained
some level of stability and were more lucid as a result of
medication compliance. Many have reconnected with their families,
and some are now looking toward the possibility of employment for
the first time in their lives.
The project was initially designed to be a two-year demonstration
project. The results of the program were so impressive that the
agency annualized the program, and it is now a permanent part of
the agency.
The discoveries in this program include effective use of:
- Alliances, partnerships
- Fund development
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Drucker Nonprofit Innovation of the Week
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January 16 to January 22, 2002
<http://pfdf.org/innovation/innov_of_week/index.asp>
See the complete Thresholds Jail Project profile with contact
information at:
<http://pfdf.org/innovation/innovation/innovation.asp?innov_id=143>
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Thresholds Jail Project
Thresholds
Chicago, IL
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This program is from the Drucker Nonprofit Innovation Discovery
Site. See it, and search for other effective programs, at
<http://pfdf.org/innovation/index.html>
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* * Accepting Hesselbein Fellows Applications * *
Application guidelines for the 2002-2003 Hesselbein Community
Innovation Fellows program are now available by mail or from the
Foundation's Web site. The program provides year-long educational
opportunities for experienced social sector leaders with a
demonstrated record of entrepreneurial performance and a plan for
innovation in their communities. Fellows will be provided with
intellectual resources, opportunities, and guidance designed to
encourage their vision of community innovation and support their
pursuit of excellence in performance.
Deadline for application: May 3, 2002
For more information and downloadable brochure, go to:
<http://pfdf.org/fellows/index.html>. Or call the Foundation at
212-224-1174.
* * Excerpt of "A Splendid Torch" by Frances Hesselbein * *
"Several years ago, I spoke to 40 Australian business leaders in
Melbourne at a luncheon hosted by a local bank. At the end of the
speech, as we were leaving, our host asked me to wait for a
moment. He returned from his office with a sheet of paper, which
he presented to me.
"I read it, and knew I had been given a great gift. I have shared
it widely ever since. Most of us have not read it before, even
though we think we know the works of George Bernard Shaw. Here is
the message the Australian banker shared with me:
"'I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and
as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work
the more I live.
"'Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got hold of for a short moment, and I want to make it
burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations.'
"Shaw's 'splendid torch' travels with me on my weekly flights to
somewhere in the United States or abroad. I find it reassuring
that, wherever I go, there are remarkable men and women, and boys
and girls, reaching out beyond their walls, changing lives in
thousands of ways and building community, the common bottom line
of the 1.2 million social sector organizations in the United
States."
For the complete text of this and other "Leader to Leader"
articles, go to: <http://pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/index.html>.
* * Register for the "Organization of the Future" Conference * *
The Drucker Foundation and the Conference Board present the 2002
"Organization of the Future Conference: From Ownership to
Strategic Purpose," February 28-March 1 at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel in New York City.
Participants will learn about organizations formed and bound by
strategic purpose rather than ownership. Speakers will include:
Peter F. Drucker (via pre-recorded video); Frances Hesselbein,
Chairman, the Drucker Foundation; Rob Johnston, President, the
Drucker Foundation; Alfred Babington-Johnson, President and CEO,
Stairstep Initiative; Alex Brigham, CEO, Corpedia Education;
Leland I. Forst, President and CEO, the Amherst Group Limited;
Carla J. Grantham, Commissioned Officer, the U.S. Coast Guard;
Dick Sethi, Vice President, Executive and Leadership Development,
Thomson Corporation; Sidney E. Harris, Dean, College of Business,
Georgia State University; Charley Beever, Vice President, Booz-
Allen & Hamilton; Joseph G. Bonito, Director, Worldwide
Organizational Effectiveness & Consulting Services, Pfizer
Pharmaceuticals Group; Tom McGlinn, Vice President, Corporate
Financial Services, Unisys Corporation; and Jay R. Galbraith,
Professor Emeritus, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, Senior Research
Scientist, Center for Effective Organizations, University of
Southern California.
For more information go to:
<http://www.conference-board.org/orgfuture.htm>.
Or call Conference Board customer service at 212-339-0345.
Drucker Foundation workshops
<http://pfdf.org/leaderbooks/SAT/schedule.html>
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Learn how to:
- use the Drucker Foundation Self-Assessment Tool with your
organization
- lead an organization through the self-assessment process
- meet the "Collaboration Challenge"
Workshops include:
~ Excellence in Performance: The Courage to Lead
(for Board Members and Executives of nonprofits)
~ Excellence in Performance: The Skill to Guide
(for Consultants and Facilitators who work with nonprofits)
~ Meeting the Collaboration Challenge
(exploring the assets nonprofits bring to alliances with
business, and a strategic framework for developing these cross-
sector collaborations)
See the Foundation Web site for registration contact information.
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Upcoming Self-Assessment workshops:
Potomac, MD ------------------ January 29, 2002
New Orleans, LA -------------- January 30, 2002
New York, NY ----------------- February 27, 2002
Tampa, FL -------------------- March 8, 2002
Upcoming Meeting the Collaboration Challenge workshops:
New Orleans, LA -------------- January 30, 2002
Eugene, OR ------------------- February 8, 2002
Milwaukee, WI ---------------- February 12 & March 12, 2002
(2 part series)
Pittsburgh, PA --------------- March 1, 2002
For additional information see
<http://pfdf.org/leaderbooks/SAT/schedule.html>
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