Brushy Fork Annual Institute

The Nuts and Bolts of Nonprofit Management

 

“I gained a great understanding for what needs to be done.”
“I really enjoyed my instructor and her teaching style. She kept the class interesting and I learned a lot.”

–comments from participants in the Nonprofit Management track

Track Description
This training opportunity focuses on the “back office” of a nonprofit organization—the business systems and processes that all corporations need to be successful. The track will touch on board development and management, financial management and reporting, personnel issues and other topics critical to managing a strong nonprofit. This training opportunity does not focus on programmatic work of nonprofits and as such will be most relevant to staff people who are in nonprofit management positions. It will be less relevant for folks doing program or mission work.

Track Limit: 20

Ginny Ann Blacksonhas worked in the nonprofit sector since 1981 and on education issues since the early 1990s. She directed Forward in the Fifth, an education nonprofit working in Kentucky’s Fifth District, for more than 20 years. During her tenure, she developed a leadership curriculum for low-income parents and received grants of more than $1 million to deliver the curriculum to 500 parents in six economically distressed counties of eastern Kentucky. Forward in the Fifth was also a recipient of a Reader’s Digest Fund Library Power grant, the first program operating in a rural area. She established a Student Entrepreneurship Program that worked with at-risk high school students on workforce readiness and a Student Leadership Program for rising eighth graders.After leaving Forward in the Fifth, Ms. Blackson worked as a fundraiser for Girl Scouts Wilderness Road Council and LexArts. She served as Executive Director of The Nest—Center for Women, Children & Families prior to accepting the position of Project Director for the Promise Neighborhood Initiative, returning to the mountains she loves and to her passion of educational improvement.

Ginny lives in Berea with her cat, Pyewacket. She has a grown daughter. When she’s not at work or reading a book, she spends her time driving the mountain roads in her beloved Miata, Stella Blue.