CHHSM Annual Meeting 2009

Skill Building Day: Workshops for Experienced and Emerging Professionals

Thursday, March 5
10 am-11 am
Managing Across the Generations
Today's workplaces can have employees from four generational cohorts: the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials. Learn how to manage across the ages and how your ministry can benefit from the strengths of each generation.
Presenter: Daniel Pryfogle, CHHSM

11 am-12 pm
Advocacy Do's and Don'ts
Through advocacy, not-for-profits can strengthen their ministries and advocate for public policy that benefits those we serve. Learn where the legal lines are drawn for non-profit advocates and what opportunities exist to raise your voice in the public square.
Presenter: Rebecca Wilson, CHHSM

12:15 pm-1:15 pm
Luncheon:
More Horsepower for Ministry: Capacity Building for Faith-Based Non-Profits
Elizabeth George, Vice President, Deaconess Foundation

1:30 pm-2:45 pm
Branding Boot Camp
How can your organization's greatest assets become your brand? Learn the basics of developing and sustaining an organizational brand for your ministry.
Presenter: Daniel Pryfogle, CHHSM

2:45 pm-3:45 pm
Working with the Media: Opportunity and Crisis
By working with the media, you can tell your ministry's story to people you need to reach--residents, donors, policymakers, and UCC members. Learn the basics of developing and implementing a media plan that will help you maximize opportunities and manage crises.
Presenter: Rebecca Wilson, CHHSM

Luncheon Speaker: Elizabeth M. George
Vice President, Deaconess Foundation
Elizabeth George joined Deaconess Foundation as vice president in April 2004 from The Rensselaerville Institute (TRI) where she provided consulting and training services to not-for-profits and their funding bodies. Prior to TRI she spent 9 years at Washington University, first as Assistant Dean of Admissions at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB) followed by 2 years as Director of the Arts & Sciences Career Center.

Elizabeth is active in the St. Louis community, currently volunteering at Flynn Park Elementary School, contributing to the GWB Alumni Board and belonging to St. Francis Xavier (College) Church. Elizabeth's educational background includes an MBA from Harvard University and an MSW from GWB.

Daniel Pryfogle
Director of Consulting Services, CHHSM
Daniel Pryfogle manages Walking the Talk as CHHSM's director of consulting services. For more than 15 years, he has provided innovative leadership to nonprofit organizations in senior housing and healthcare, education, advocacy, children's services, and community development. Daniel uses narrative and asset-based approaches to assist organizations with corporate discernment, leadership development, program planning, marketing and communications.

Prior to launching his consulting practice in 1999, Daniel managed the communications of senior housing and healthcare provider American Baptist Homes of the West and its subsidiary consulting firm Seniority, Inc. He frequently leads workshops and retreats, and has shared his perspectives on leadership and communications with a variety of groups. A former newspaper editor and an ordained American Baptist minister, Daniel teaches in the Duke University Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management and the Faith-Based Leadership Institute, CHHSM's Diakonal Minister Credential Program. Daniel earned his master of divinity degree from American Baptist Seminary of the West and his bachelor's degree in English from California Baptist College.

Rebecca Wilson
Director of Marketing and Communications, CHHSM
Rebecca Wilson consults with non-profit and public sector organizations in strategic communications and grantseeking. She has fifteen years of experience in non-profit and corporate work and specializes in projects that serve progressive communities of faith and children.

As an independent consultant since 2000, Rebecca has sought awareness and funding for projects in many non-profit and public areas. She manages organizational communications for several long-term clients, including CHHSM, and has coordinated coverage with print and electronic media across the United States and in several foreign countries. She has also managed and written many successful funding proposals to federal agencies and major regional and national foundations.

Rebecca holds a B.A. in English from Duke University and an M.A. in English from Kent State University.