Sunshine and Showers: A Nonprofit Forecast for 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:42PM 
by Nathan Magel
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Should this year not mark the end of the world, as some calendars predict, we’ll all be finding ourselves working through it. Some big features of 2011 were an emphasis on innovation and creativity in the ways organizations work to fulfill their missions. In article after blog post after tweet, it seemed the bud of what Daniel Pink termed the Conceptual Age came into some blossom last year. That said, belt-tightening across the board brought with it an ever more clarion call for data-driven impact assessment. And guys like Mark Kramer promulgated the doom of the siloed org, the silver bullet, sharing ways we might work across organizations and sectors to find “silver buckshot” through Collective Impact.
So what does 2012 hold? What big ideas are coming down the pike? What themes will be shaping our work and the way we think about it? Don’t ask me. But let’s ask Senior Fellow for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Marcia Avner and Executive Director of the Minnesota Citizens for the Arts Sheila Smith!
And what better to do so than to enlist the help of our friends at the Theater of Public Policy!
Join us on January 27th to hear what our local luminaries have to say about the year ahead; and subsequently, see how these pearls of wisdom might take theatrical form through the art of improv comedy! Be it an insight into the upcoming legislative session or a much needed barrel laugh, you’re sure to be pleased.
TICKETS: $5 for YNPN-TC members, $10 for non-members. (All proceeds go to the Theater of Public Policy and the Lowry Lab Theater.)**
Not a member of YNPN yet? Register today in our membership directory and you’re in!
**Payment for this event is made through The Theater of Public Policy’s PayPal account, so you’ll see the name “Tane Danger” when you register.
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