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Saturday, March 13, 2010
7:00 to 9:00pm

8:00 to 10:00pm





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Sponsored by Boston's Combined Jewish Philanthropies

Don’t forget to set your clocks one hour ahead!
Sunday, March 14, 2010: Establishing Your Vision
8:00am Registration opens
10:30am to 12:00pm Young Leadership Chairs and Directors Brunch
(by invitation only)
Participate in an intimate conversation with JFNA’s new President and CEO Jerry Silverman, and find out about new tools and resources for chairs and directors.
1:00 to 2:30pm Opening Session: Establishing Your Vision
Transformational leadership starts with the development of a vision, a view of the future that will motivate and inspire your community.     
     Greeting: Joanne Moore and Dan Backer, Chairs,
     National Young Leadership (NYL); Lisie Krieger and Matt
     Fox, Local Recruitment Chairs, Young Leadership
     Division, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater
     Boston
     Anthems: Members of the chorus of Gann Academy –
     The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston
     Welcome: Amy Chafetz and Bradley Sherman,
     Conference Chairs
     Speakers: Jerry Silverman, President and CEO, The
     Jewish Federations of North America; Dr. Erica Brown,
     Conference Scholar-in-Residence
2:45 to 4:00pm Breakout Sessions

Clarifying and Selling Your Vision
You’ve got a great idea—now you’ve got to sell it. Learn how to distill your idea into a key message, communicate that message effectively to different audiences, and get a complicated organization to embrace your vision.
     Speaker: Adam Smolyar, Senior VP,
     Marketing/Communications, JFNA
   
Moving Your Vision Forward, One Partnership at a Time
Expanding your connections—person to person or organization to organization—increases your reach and magnifies your impact. This workshop explores the building blocks for creating successful and strategic partnerships.
     Speaker: David Trietsch, Director, Leadership
     Development Institute, CJP
   
Navigating Federation Waters: A Crash Course
This interactive conversation will deepen your understanding of Federation politics, action and mentoring so you can successfully chart your leadership path and take full advantage of the resources available to you.
     Speakers: Keith Greenwald, Atlanta; Joanne Moore,
     Richmond and Washington,
     DC; and Alice Viroslav, San Antonio
     Moderator: David Saginaw, Managing Director,
     Development, JFNA

What Gets in the Way of Your Vision: Dealing with Difficult People
The best-laid plans can be thwarted when difficult people stand in our way—and sometimes we ourselves can stand between our own leadership visions and success. Learn to face difficult confrontations with confidence, paving the way for great leadership.
     Speaker: Dr. Erica Brown, Conference Scholar-in-
     Residence

4:15 to 5:00pm


 Sneak Preview
And now for something completely different: Grab a favorite Boston snack and gather for an exclusive look at an innovative on-line campaign, developed by JFNA to raise awareness about what Federation does and to involve as many young Jews as possible.
     Speaker: Adam Smolyar, Senior VP,
     Marketing/Communications, JFNA
6:15pm
 Board buses for evening program
Evening Join us at Fenway Park’s EMC Club—the VIP section of the stadium, perched directly above home plate with an amazing view of the field. Along with video games and great food, we’ll hear from financial guru and Red Sox minority owner Seth Klarman, who also happens to be a past Campaign chair at CJP.
Hosted by National Young Leadership Cabinet

Monday, March 15, 2010: Moving Your Vision into Action
6:45 to 7:45am
 Breakfast
8:00am


 Tikkun Olam and Social Action
Where does the idea of tikkun olam come from and why is it so central to Jewish life? We’ll look at sources that inspire us to get involved and make a difference in the lives of others—then we’ll get ready to put these ideas into action.
     Speakers: Dr. Erica Brown, Conference Scholar-in-
     Residence; Steven Weiss, Chair, Boston 2010 Service
     Project; Sheera Sadja, Director, Greater Boston Jewish
     Coalition for Literacy
9:15am Board buses for service project
10:00 to 11:30am
 Service Project
We’ll visit Boston public schools to share our love of books with the students, reading to them one on one and presenting them with books they can keep to help build their lifelong libraries.
11:45am Buses return to hotel
12:15 to 1:00pm Lunch
1:15 to 4:30pm Afternoon Program
  One Man’s Vision, From Idea to Reality: Michael Brown, CEO and co-founder of the nationally recognized City Year program, will share his own journey from dreaming about changing the world to making it happen.

Service Project Debrief: We’ll talk about our experiences during our morning in the Boston public schools and focus on what learnings we’ll take home with us.

Community Practices Exchange: Drawing on the wisdom and vision in the room, we’ll share ideas and community practices, tracing how vision becomes action and then discussing how to customize and implement these programs in our own communities.
4:45 to 6:45pm Why are you a Jewish leader?
We want to know! For a video on Federation young leadership, we invite your participation. Sign up in advance for your time slot at the registration table, and pick up a copy of the questions and guidelines.
Evening On your own, with old friends or new, explore the sites, sounds and tastes of Boston. Stop by the registration table for suggestions. At 9:00pm, meet us at Vox Populi, 755 Boylston Street, a few blocks from the hotel.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010: Bringing it Home
7:00 to 8:00am Breakfast
8:15 to 9:00am Putting the Jewish in Jewish Leadership
The third generation of his family to lead Timberland, President and CEO Jeffrey Swartz has helped to shape the company’s belief that doing well and doing good are inextricably linked. He’ll talk about how he balances Jewish community needs with a desire to repair the world in his personal and professional philanthropy.
     Speaker: Jeffrey Swartz, President and CEO, Timberland
9:15 to 10:30am

Breakout Sessions

Managing (Yourself) for Success
How do we know if what we’re doing works? In this practical workshop, we will use multiple reflective techniques and exercises to measure everything from how we create a vision of leadership to how we follow up on that vision and manage our time and priorities to achieve our goals. Be prepared for hard work ahead.
     Speaker: Dr. Erica Brown, Conference Scholar-in-
     Residence

Making the Ask: Just Do It!
Thoughtful preparation is essential to successful fundraising, but in the end, you have to “make the ask.” This session will prepare you to perform that mitzvah with excitement and passion instead of trepidation.
     Speaker: David Saginaw, Managing Director,
     Development, JFNA

Using Social Networking to Market and Recruit Effectively
The past few years have brought us a slew of new tools and platforms to boost our fundraising efforts, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Learn how to use these tools to conduct a successful online campaign.
     Speaker: Vincent Mota, Director of E-Philanthropy, JFNA

Bringing the Overseas Case Home
There’s nothing like a mission to dramatize the needs in Israel and other overseas locations—but how can we effectively demonstrate those needs to others in our own communities? Learn practical approaches for how to bring the overseas case home.
     Speakers: Katie Applefeld, Founder and Chair, JDC
     Advisory Committee, The Associated: Jewish Community
     Federations of Baltimore; Dr. Yarden Fanta-Vagenshtein,
     Post-Doctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Education,
     Harvard University; Danielle Mor, Vice President, Israel
     Education Fund, Jewish Agency for Israel and JFNA; and
     Dov Ben-Shimon, Executive Director for
     Strategic Development, JDC
     Moderator: Matt Adler, Co-chair, NYL Summer Mission to
     Israel

10:45 to 11:45am

Closing Session

Extreme Leadership: Packing it Up and Taking it Home
How can we use the strategies and insights we learned here to inspire and motivate us at home? We will talk about effective leadership in difficult times, and do some exciting big-picture visioning, stretching ourselves to reach higher.
     Speakers: Amy Chafetz and Bradley Sherman,
     Conference Chairs; Barry Shrage, President, Combined
     Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston; Dr. Erica
     Brown, Conference Scholar-in-Residence
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