Kelly Kleiman, Principal, NFP Consulting

This workshop will help nonprofit agencies discover how to make the most of high-skill volunteers—those lawyers, public-relations specialists, accountants and other professionals who are increasingly interested in donating their expertise. We’ll explore how to: identify major projects on which volunteers can be helpful; integrate them into those projects; smooth relations between staff and volunteers, and make paid personnel more effective in deploying and supervising their unpaid counterparts; know when to consider volunteers for leadership positions, including the Board of Directors; and keep them motivated (using “The Big MAC approach”) so you can truly rely on them.

The program is geared toward executive directors, program directors, and volunteer

coordinators, as well as any other staff or board member charged with overseeing volunteers.  All attendees will take home a fresh perspective on the potential for volunteer contributions to their agency, as well as concrete ideas about how to attract, train, and retain the very best free help.

Speaker Bio

Kelly Kleiman is principal of NFP Consulting, which provides Board development, strategic planning and communications advice to charities and philanthropies.  Through her consulting practice and in her guise as The Nonprofiteer, www.nonprofiteer.net, Kelly has spent the past 25 years helping small and mid-sized nonprofits organize themselves better and raise more money.  These days she focuses especially on helping them create systems for using high-skill volunteers.

Kelly holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago. She was a founding Board member of the Association of Consultants to Nonprofits.

Kelly is also a lawyer and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in newspapers including the New York Times; magazines including Chicago and Chicago Philanthropy; and on blogs including the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Huffington Post.  Her work is also broadcast regularly on Chicago Public Radio.