United Way of Westchester and Putnam Hosts Nonprofit Leadership Summit

From United Way of Westchester and Putnam:

For the 14th year, the area’s largest nonprofit conference will bring together more than 700 professional and volunteer leaders in the nonprofit sector. The conference helps identify emerging challenges and opportunities for area nonprofits, and shapes new leadership strategies.

Two inspiring speakers, author and founder of Pencils of Promise Adam Braun, along with the president of the Jonathan Rose Companies, Jonathan F.P. Rose, will be the keynotes at this year’s Not-For-Profit Leadership Summit.

In addition to two keynote speakers, attendees will choose from sixteen breakout sessions covering topics mergers, small nonprofit fundraising, board governance with passion, building your brand, legal and HR practices, diverse workplace harmony, volunteer engagement, benefit corporations and cyber security.

Co-presented by United Way of Westchester and Putnam and the Community Foundation, the conference takes place Monday, May 2 with registration at 8 a.m. Breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m. alongside presentation from Braun, with breakout sessions at 10 a.m. Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. alongside presentation from Rose, with a second round of breakout sessions at 1:30 p.m. There will be a networking reception at 3 p.m. The event will be held at the Doubletree Hotel Tarrytown,located at 455 S. Broadway in Tarrytown.

Adam Braun is a New York Times bestselling author and the founder of Pencils of Promise. By the age of 31, he had already been named to Business Insider’s“40 Under 40,” Wired Magazine's “50 People Who Are Changing the World” and was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s first ten Global Shapers. The idea for his organization, Pencils of Promise, came to him when he was traveling abroad in India. Seeing a young boy begging, Braun asked the child what he wanted. The reply was simple: a pencil. Using his unique “for-purpose” approach, Braun meshed for-profit business acumen with non-profit idealism, proving that anyone can build a movement that matters.

Jonathan F. P. Rose is the president and founder of Jonathan Rose Companies LLC. The company is a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning and investment firm that touches many aspects of community health; working with cities and not-for-profits to build not only affordable and mixed-income housing, but also a cultural, health and educational infrastructure. The company has successfully completed more than $1.5 billion of work. Rose is also a vice-chair of Enterprise Community Partners and serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. Rose and his wife, Diana, are also co-founders of the Garrison Institute. Rose’s book on resilient cities, "The Well-Tempered City," will be published by Harper Collins in September.