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Finding a Balance with Marya Besharov
A workshop for senior leaders and other nonprofit professionals interested in learning practical strategies for balancing the seemingly competing demands of mission and margin.
Nonprofits face increasing challenges to sustain their mission and remain financially viable. Government, foundation, and individual support are increasingly hard to secure. Yet societal challenges nonprofits work to address continue to mount. These twin conditions make it all the more imperative that leaders continue the vital work of delivering on their organizations mission, yet do so in a way that is financially sustainable given the new economic realities.
This workshop will explore strategies and practices for managing these seemingly competing demands of mission and margin. We will:
Consider the value of being a pluralist leader who turns potential conflicts between mission and margin into productive tensions that fuel creative solutions to improve both social outcomes and financial health.
Learn techniques leaders can use to manage interpersonal tensions between staff and/or board members how prioritize mission and those who primarily emphasize financial viability.
Discuss how leaders can enlist external stakeholders to serve as guardrails helping organizations stay true to their mission on the one hand, and remain financially viable on the other.
Explore how leaders can develop new, more sustainable approaches to pursuing their organizations mission through low-cost experiments in the form of pilot programs and partnerships, and how dedicated measures of social and financial outcomes can provide feedback to identify those experiments that merit further investment.
Throughout, the workshop will emphasize both/and approaches that help nonprofit leaders sustain their organizations mission and assure its financial viability, rather than either/or approaches that sacrifice one for the other.
Marya Besharov is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the ILR School at Cornell University. An organizational theorist with a background in organizational sociology, she studies how organizations and their leaders navigate competing goals. Much of her research focuses on social-business hybrid organizations such as social enterprises and mission-driven businesses that combine social and commercial goals. Maryas work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Academy of Management Learning and Education, and others. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science. In addition to her academic roles, Marya is actively involved in the nonprofit community in Ithaca, NY, where she currently serves as Board Chair of the Womens Opportunity Center. She received a BA in Social Studies, an MA in Sociology, and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. She also holds an MBA from Stanford. Prior to her academic career, Marya worked as a researcher and consultant in the health care field.
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LocationBorg Warner Room, Tompkins County Public Library (View)
101 E. Green St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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