Strategic Café
What are the Most Important Conversations
to Have This Year?
Guest Panelists:
Steve Norton, Executive Director at the
NH Center for Public Policy Studies
Betsy Gardella, President & CEO at New Hampshire Public Radio
Senator Harold Janeway
M. Christine Dwyer, Senior VP of RMC Research and Portsmouth City Councilor
Facilitator:
Doris Burke, Community Development Manager
PSNH
The economic crisis and the impact it has had at the national, state and local levels has left us all recognizing that the old rules simply don’t apply any more. To find a new way, create new systems, stay resilient and begin working together with our business and government partners, what are the important conversations nonprofit leaders must initiate?
Margaret Wheatley writes in Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future:
"There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about."
What are the questions we, as a community of nonprofit leaders, need to ask? As board and staff leaders, can we be the spark for the conversations which will need to take place?
During this session, we have asked four thoughtful and creative leaders, Steve Norton, Betsy Gardella, Senator Harold Janeway and M. Christine Dwyer to share their perspectives from their experiences working on public policy, within the media, as board members, legislators, community members and civic leaders about the conversations we need to have in the year ahead.
Facilitator Doris Burke will share her perspective from her close work with communities and with the nonprofit sector in all the regions of the state. She will engage the audience in a lively conversation about what they feel are the most important conversations to have this year.
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