Greater Boston Food Bank's campaign, Fighting Hunger, Feeding Hope, has just begun with tremendous energy and leadership support from Bank of America, Mellon Financial, Liberty Mutual, The Yawkey Foundation and a number of other generous friends. Led by Ted Cutler and Joanne Jaxtimer, the campaign promises to be a great success. Development Guild has worked with GBFB for many years in a variety of ways including planning, executive search, feasibility study and now campaign counsel. Congratulations GBFB! And…if you'd like to help victims of hurricane Katrina, you can do so through the GBFB at http://www.gbfb.org/disasterfund.

The conference theme "Overview of Fundraising in an Academic Environment " will be the subject of the opening presentation by Karen Lieberman-Daly, Senior Vice President and Principal at Development Guild/DDI. For more details about the conference and/or a copy of Karen's presentation, please contact her at kldaly@developmentguild.com.

Development Guild/DDI Exhibits at Fundraising Day NY on 6/24
6/24/2005

Development Guild/DDI exhibits at the AFP NY Fundraising Day on Friday, June 24 at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan . You can register at http://www.frdny.org/ Please stop by our booth to visit!

Development Guild/DDI's President, William Weber, and C.E.O. Suzanne Weber present at the CASE I conference January 22-25, 2005 at the Sheraton Boston.
1/1/2005

Development Guild/DDI looks forward to seeing you at the CASE I conference January 22-25, 2005 at the Sheraton Boston where President Bill Weber is leading a session called “Pathways for Emerging Leaders.” C.E.O Suzanne Weber will be participating in a Think Tank entitled “ Managing Up, Down & Sideways: Relationship Management in a Relationship Profession .” Look for us at the Development Guild/DDI booth, where we can answer your questions or just say hello. See you there!

Nobody Asked Me, But…

Thought provoking presentation and facilitated group discussion on topics including: reasons the general public does not perceive fundraising as a profession; and how to recognize when strategic planning is used to prevent change and stifle critical decision making.

For more information on Fundraising Day in New York, please visit www.frdny.org.

Claire Reinelt, DG/DDI Senior Consultant, is organizing a session on Evaluating Social/Systemic Change Strategies: A Focus on Personal Transformation and Network-Building in Leadership Development for Creating Space V, the national gathering of the Leadership Learning Community (LLC) in Boston, May 13-15. In addition, DG/DDI is supporting the LLC Equity Access Fund to defray participation expenses for members of the LLC to attend the national gathering.

For more information on Creating Space V and the LLC, please visit www.leadershiplearning.org.

For resources and information about evaluating leadership development and a description of the session visit the Evaluation Learning Circle at the LLC website http://www.leadershiplearning.org/circles/evaluation/.

Debunking Leadership Fallacies

For United Way leadership to make far more of an impact on their communities in the future, they must first question today's assumptions of that leadership. Dr. Weber will tackle assumptions as diverse as strategic planning; intergenerational transfer of wealth; 20/80 formula for major giving; and common myths in resource development and board leadership.

For more information visit: www.uwnys.org/conference/2004.shtml

Development Guild/DDI is leading an evaluation of six international Population Leadership Development Programs funded by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation) and by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation). This formative evaluation will assess the design and implementation of these six programs, and identify outcomes that are occurring in four focus countries -- Ethiopia, India, Mexico, and Nigeria. The ultimate goal of the evaluation is to provide information that will strengthen the impact of population leadership development programs, and assist The Gates and Packard Foundations to achieve their long-term strategic objective to improve the quality of, and access to, reproductive health care. The evaluation will be completed in December 2004.

Development Guild/DDI is partnering with Pathfinder International and The Leadership Learning Community. Together, these three organizations bring a wealth of expertise and knowledge in the areas of reproductive health and family planning in developing countries, effective leadership development program models and an excellent combination of qualitative and quantitative evaluation skills. For further information about the evaluation please contact Claire Reinelt (creinelt@developmentguild.com).