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02-01-10: Mancos to Host 2010 Rural Philanthropy Days Conference
June 9-11
01-27-10: Nation’s first female warden, author to be keynote
speaker at Southwest Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days
Conference
NEWS
From Southwest Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days
February 1, 2010
Mancos, Colorado, proudly located “Between Mesa Verde
and the Mountains,” will host the 2010 Southwest
Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days Conference – “Grow
Partnerships and Harvest Success,” scheduled for June
9-11.
Rural Philanthropy Days is a three-day conference sponsored by the Community Resource Center that brings together nonprofit organizations from Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma and San Juan counties with funding agencies from the Front Range area. Similar conferences are scheduled in seven other rural regions throughout the state, and each region hosts a conference every four years. The Southwest region last hosted a conference in 2006.
This year’s conference has been developed by a local steering committee of volunteers and representatives from Southwest Colorado nonprofit organizations. Co-chairs are Nancy Whitson, Executive Director of the Ballantine Family Fund, and Chuck McAfee, a community volunteer from Lewis, Colorado. Deanna Devereaux, an active community volunteer in La Plata County, serves as conference coordinator. Directory Plus is this year’s presenting sponsor.
More than 300 nonprofit representatives are expected to attend along with approximately
50 foundations, state agencies and other grant-makers from the Front Range. All activities will be held in Mancos to emphasize the unique characteristics of rural communities in Southwest Colorado.
The conference includes workshops covering everything from leadership and board development to marketing and branding to fund-raising. Representatives from the state’s leading foundations are expected to lead several of the capacity-building sessions. The conference also includes opportunities for nonprofits to network with other nonprofits. A Friday morning round-table session will give local organizations the chance to meet one-on-one with Front Range grant-makers.
“Our theme, ‘Grow Partnerships and Harvest Success,’ captures the essence of Rural Philanthropy Days. It’s all about getting to know who does what and who will fund what you do in Southwest Colorado,” said Devereaux. “Rural Philanthropy Days is the state's premiere opportunity for public agencies and nonprofit organizations to learn about the resources available to them in their own state. It also gives Colorado grantmakers an opportunity to learn more about the unique needs of rural areas beyond the Front Range. Every time we host RPD here, Southwest Colorado nonprofits generate millions of dollars in new grant support for their communities."
As a result of the relationships formed at the
2006 Conference, Southwest Colorado nonprofits received
434 grants totaling more than $8.8 million.
Non-profits in Southwest Colorado account for 7.2 percent of total employment in the Region 9 Economic Development District, according to the Colorado Nonprofit Association.
In Fiscal Year 2008, nonprofits in the
five-county region held total assets of more than $201
million and generated revenues of $128 million.
By budget, the largest nonprofits in Southwest Colorado are Southwest Health Systems, Southwest Colorado Mental Health, Southern Ute Community Action Program, Community Connections, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, the Fort Lewis College Foundation, and the Campaign for America’s Wilderness.
Twenty-four nonprofits have annual budgets exceeding $1 million.
For more information about Southwest Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days, visit the web site at www.southwestrpd.org.
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NEWS
From Southwest Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days
January 27 2010
Tekla Dennison Miller, author of The Warden Wore Pink, will be the keynote speaker for the Southwest Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days Conference set for June 9-11 in Mancos, Colorado.
Miller is a former warden who oversaw both a men’s maximum-security prison and a women’s multi-level-security prison outside of Detroit, Mich., and her book covers her 20-year career in the criminal justice system.
She is a social activist, writer and national speaker
focusing on women’s issues and criminal justice reform.
She has had several nonfiction articles published in
these areas.
Rural Philanthropy Days is a three-day conference sponsored by the Community Resource Center that brings together nonprofit organizations from Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma and San Juan counties with funding agencies from the Front Range area. Similar conferences are scheduled in seven other rural regions throughout the state, and each region hosts a conference every four years. The Southwest region last hosted a conference in 2006.
This year’s conference has been developed by a local steering committee of volunteers and representatives from Southwest Colorado nonprofit organizations. Co-chairs are Nancy Whitson, Executive Director of the Ballantine Family Fund, and Chuck McAfee, a community volunteer from Lewis, Colorado. Deanna Devereaux, an active community volunteer in La Plata County, serves as conference coordinator. Directory Plus is this year’s presenting sponsor.
More than 300 nonprofit representatives are expected to attend along with approximately
50 foundations, state agencies and other grant-makers from the Front Range. All activities will be held in Mancos to emphasize the unique characteristics of rural communities in Southwest Colorado.
The conference includes workshops covering everything from leadership and board development to marketing and branding to fund-raising. Representatives from the state’s leading foundations are expected to lead several of the capacity-building sessions. The conference also includes opportunities for nonprofits to network with other nonprofits. A Friday morning round-table session will give local organizations the chance to meet one-on-one with Front Range grant-makers.
Miller, now a Durango-area resident, is author of a number of fiction and non-fiction works, including her memoir about her 20-year career in corrections. Her experience uniquely positions her as this year’s keynote speaker. She understands how nonprofit organizations can provide the support services that individuals need – and that public agencies may not be able to provide – to prevent expensive incarceration, says SWCRPD Coordinator Deanna Devereaux.
“We’re thrilled to have a speaker of her caliber participating in Rural Philanthropy Days,” said Devereaux. “She’ll be an inspiration to those of us working hard to make our communities better through the work of nonprofits, philanthropy, and volunteerism.”
Miller was the first female probation officer in Oakland County, Michigan, and supervisor of the first prison camp for women in Michigan.
The Warden Wore Pink is required reading in criminal justice and women’s studies courses at a number of colleges and universities. She also is author of a childhood memoir called
A Bowl of Cherries, and published her first work of fiction,
Life Sentences, in 2005. A sequel, Inevitable Sentences, was published last year.
For more information about Southwest Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days, visit the web site at www.southwestrpd.org.
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