Wendy Keats est une experte-conseils en développement organisationnel avec près de 40 ans d’expérience de travail avec les organismes sans but lucratif, les petites entreprises, les coopératives, les entreprises à caractère social, les grandes sociétés et tous les paliers de gouvernement. Elle excelle dans la formation et l’animation, la gouvernance, la recherche, le développement organisationnel, la planification stratégique, l’évaluation et la gestion de conflit.
Wendy est également une médiatrice certifiée et a passé une décennie comme membre de la faculté du Centre d'étude des conflits de l'Université de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, où elle a enseigné les compétences de négociation fondées sur les intérêts, de médiation, d’animation et de communication aux propriétaires d’entreprises, aux cadres supérieurs, aux organismes sans but lucratif et autres souhaitant améliorer leurs compétences de gestion et de gouvernance. Elle a animé des centaines de séances en utilisant les approches fondées sur les intérêts qui s’assurent que les gens se sentent écoutés et en mesure de contribuer de façon significative.
Wendy est également spécialisée pour procéder à l’évaluation des besoins pour les programmes orientés sur la communauté et est une évaluatrice agréée pour le gouvernement fédéral.
Effective Partnerships for Non-Profits
As demands on non-profits increase and resources decrease, partnerships are more essential today than ever before. Whether it's to secure funding, increase capacity, or take collective action, non-profits must work effectively with partners and stakeholders. Wendy Keats has helped hundreds of non-profits increase their sustainability and impact through collaboration. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Identify the effectiveness and relevance of current partnerships and the gaps that exist
- Identify the gaps and opportunities and how to overcome the challenges of partnerships
- Better understand the types of partnerships and how each can make a difference for your organization
- Develop strategies to engage new partners or strengthen existing partnerships
- Work effectively with community, government and corporate partners to increase your organization's sustainability and impact
Anglais
Can be an online or in-person workshop - 6 hours (can be divided in 2 sessions)
Good Governance in Non Profits, Co-ops and Social Enterprise
This interactive course is designed for boards, directors and senior staff of non profits and aimed at building their knowledge and skills for good governance. Topics include:
• The Role and Legal Responsibilities of a Board and Directors
• Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest
• Efficient Board and Committee meetings
• Priority Results Agendas and Minutes
• Decision-Making Processes
• Monitoring and Measuring Performance
Anglais
Online Workshop - 6 hours (2 * 3 hours)
Making the Shift to Social Enterprise
This course focuses on the organizational and governance changes that need to take place for a traditional non-profit to successfully move into the social enterprise arena. It is particularly relevant to the Boards and senior staff of non profits however also of interest to funders and others interested in the emerging field of social enterprise. Through presentations, interactive group exercises, and case studies participants will learn:
- How to determine if social enterprise is right for their organization
- How to assess their non-profit’s readiness and capacity
- How to assess the feasibility of their business ideas
- The keys to launching a successful social enterprise
- What resources are available to help in NB
Anglais
Online Workshop - 5 hours (2 * 2.5 hours)
Measuring and Evaluating Impact
In today’s not-for-profit and social enterprise world, everyone from government to foundations, angel investors, consumers, and volunteers want to know what kind of a difference is being made by our organizations. It is important to be able to demonstrate the value and impact of the work we are doing, and this goes beyond anecdotal stories, to the measurement of impact and social return on investment.
Included in this interactive workshop are topics such as:
- What do You Want to Know and Show?
- Mapping Your Information Needs
- Measuring Impact and Demonstrating Value
- Social Return on Investment (SROI)
- How to use Performance Indicators
- Collecting and Analysing Data
- Using and Sharing Results
Anglais
Online Workshop - 4 hours (2 * 2 hours)
Social Enterprise
A social enterprise is a business with social goals that sells products/services in the marketplace and reinvests its profits into social, environmental or cultural goals. This course is geared to anyone interested in learning more about how the social enterprise model can meet their goals. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of what a social enterprise is and:
- Learn about the opportunities for social enterprise
- Better understand the risks and challenges
- Gain tools to help assess if social enterprise will work for your business idea
- Learn about the various structures of social enterprise
- Find out about resources to support social enterprise in New Brunswick and beyond
Anglais
Online Workshop - 2.5 hours
Social Finance and Social Innovation
Times are changing for nonprofits in Canada.
Funding through grants and donations is going the way of the dodo bird and being used less and less by government and foundations. Today, organizations are being expected to use social innovation and new tools under the social finance umbrella such as impact investing, outcomes-based funding, social procurement, and even investor tax credits to fund many of their programs and services.
Learn more about these new tools and about the federal government's Investment Readiness and Social Finance Funds that are rolling out across the country. This workshop is geared to anyone who wants to learn more about the new way forward in financing co-ops, social enterprise, and community initiatives.
Anglais
Online Workshop - 2 hours
