The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University will host two contest in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2008, focused on nonprofit addition and effectiveness. Nonprofit staffers, foundation leaders and accumulated admiral absorbed in the amusing area are encouraged to appear one or both events.
Claremont, CA -- The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University will host two contest in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2008, focused on nonprofit addition and effectiveness. They'll affection Karen Baker, Secretary of Service and Volunteering for the State of California, and Wendy Kopp, CEO and architect of Teach for America.
Nonprofit staffers, foundation leaders and accumulated admiral absorbed in the amusing area are encouraged to appear one or both events.
A appointment on nonprofit capability will be captivated from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the California Science Center. In accession to a lunchtime keynote abode by Baker, presenters will cover assembly from the Drucker Institute, the Bridgespan Group, the National Human Services Assembly, and the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership.
Later that evening, the Drucker Institute will host a bright banquet at the Music Center in city L.A. adulatory the winners of the 2008 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonproft Innovation. Kopp will keynote the dinner, which will aswell affection an aboriginal documentary on this year's first-place accolade winner: KickStart International, a San Francisco-based alignment that fights abjection in Africa by creating and affairs simple accoutrement that advice poor entrepreneurs access their income. Among its innovations is the MoneyMaker Irrigation Pump, which allows small-scale growers to aftermath high-value crops year-round and accomplish the alteration from affluence agriculture to bartering agriculture.
To apprentice added about both contest and to acquirement tickets, amuse appointment www.druckerinstitute.com/store.
About the Drucker Institute
The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University is a anticipate catchbasin and action catchbasin whose purpose is to activate able administration and ethical administration above all sectors of society. It does this, in ample part, by advancing the account and ethics of Peter F. Drucker, the ancestor of avant-garde management.
The Institute acts as a hub for a common arrangement of Drucker Societies, volunteer-driven organizations that are application Drucker's article to affect absolute change in their bounded communities.
In addition, the Institute maintains a agenda annal of Drucker's papers; undertakes analysis that builds on Drucker's writings; offers a above cost for nonprofit innovation; produces curricular actual that distills Drucker's decades of leading-edge thinking; applies Drucker's plan to accepted contest (including through a approved online cavalcade in BusinessWeek by Institute Director Rick Wartzman); presents a accelerate appearance exploring the "Responsibility Gap" --society's aggregate abortion to be acceptable and ethical admiral of our resources, humans and institutions; and hosts visiting advisers with Drucker-like insights and values.
The Institute is a abutting accessory of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. For added on the Institute and its programs, go to http://www.druckerinstitute.com/.
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