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Non-profit Innovation And Collaboration To Highlight Office Depot Foundation Weekend In Boca VI, May 17-18

Free Symposium Focuses on Capacity Building, Sustainability

Non-profit Innovation And Collaboration To Highlight Office Depot Foundation Weekend In Boca VI, May 17-18

Free Symposium Focuses on Capacity Building, Sustainability

Published 04-10-13

Submitted by Listen Learn Care Foundation

“If you don’t know where you’re going,” the old adage says, “you might not get there.”

Non-profit organizations face constant challenges Weekend_In_Boca_VIas they seek to find their way along the often-bumpy road to success and sustainability. For a day and a half on May 17 and 18, they’ll have the chance to find new direction and inspiration during the Sixth Annual Office Depot Foundation Weekend in Boca Civil Society Leadership Symposium. What’s more, the participants – who represent cultural organizations, social service agencies, schools and universities, faith-based organizations, chambers of commerce, local governments and more – won’t pay a cent to participate. It’s free!

The symposium will take place at Office Depot’s Corporate Headquarters in Boca Raton, where the independent, non-profit Office Depot Foundation is based. The event supports the Foundation’s commitment to supporting non-profit capacity building – or, as its strategic priorities state, “building the capacity of non-profit organizations through collaboration and innovation.”

Presented in collaboration with the Sagamore Institute, the SCORE Foundation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) and JKG Group, Weekend in Boca will focus on the theme “Innovation and Collaboration – Building for the Future.” The roster of high-powered presenters includes business leaders and non-profit professionals from across the country.

Sessions will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on May 17 and from 9 a.m. to noon on May 18. To view the full agenda and see profiles of the speakers, visit www.officedepotfoundation.org/weekendinboca. Twitter users can follow along with the hashtag #OfficeDepotFndnBoca.

Speakers scheduled to participate include:

  • Stacy Palmer, Editor, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Washington, D.C.
  • Lindsay J.K. Nichols, Communications Director, GuideStar USA, Inc.
  • Nicholas Ashburn, Program Director, Impact Texas, Austin, Texas
  • Richard J. Crespin, Senior Fellow, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center
  • Mark J. Dobosz, President, SCORE Foundation, Herndon, Va.
  • Jay Hein, President, Sagamore Institute, Indianapolis, Ind.
  • Akaya Windwood, President, Rockwood Leadership Institute, Oakland, Calif.

A special highlight will be the “Innovation Kick Start” – an interactive presentation in the afternoon on May 17 led by ?WhatIf! Innovation Partners. It’s billed as a “high-energy and high-impact, one-two punch of innovation training that fuses the learning of fundamental tools and behaviors with real-world application for immediate implementation and impact.”Weekend_In_Boca

“Weekend in Boca has grown dramatically since it began in 2007,” says Office Depot Foundation President Mary Wong. “Participants come from as far away as New York, Chicago and even California in addition to our core group from South Florida. We are confident that this year’s program will be relevant, stimulating and, above all, inspiring.”

Feedback from past participants suggests that the symposium is achieving its objectives. Notes past attendee Simone Velasquez Hoover, president of Operation Homefront-Florida, “I came away energized and eager to follow through on ideas and suggestions for taking the next step. Collaboration and financial sustainability are foremost in our minds these days. This was an opportunity to see it in a bigger way and from various perspectives.”

About the Office Depot Foundation

The Office Depot Foundation is an independent foundation – tax exempt under IRC Sec. 501(c)(3) − that serves as the independent charitable giving arm of Office Depot, Inc. In keeping with its mission, Listen Learn Care®, the Foundation supports a variety of programs that help children succeed in school and in life; enable civil society (non-profit) organizations to become more efficient and effective; assist people and businesses in preparing for disasters, then recovering and rebuilding afterwards; strengthen local communities through grants, product donations and volunteerism; and encourage community development through entrepreneurship and economic innovation. For more information, visit www.officedepotfoundation.org.

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As an independent, non-profit foundation, the Listen Learn Care Foundation (formerly the Office Depot Foundation) strives to make a difference to children, families and communities across the United States and around the world. In keeping with its mission, Listen Learn Care®, the Foundation supports a variety of programs that:

  • Give children tools to succeed in school and in life
  • Build the capacity of nonprofit organizations through collaboration and innovation
  • Help communities prepare for disasters, as well as recovering and rebuilding afterwards
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