Agenda

LearnPhilanthropy Symposium,Chicago,28-29 July 2010

28 JulyDay 1
TIMESESSION
2:00- 3:00Opening Session
Who is here,why are we here,and expectations

Engage group to determine range of perspectives on critical questions (2 spectograms)

3:00- 3:30The Top Ten from the LPnet Team
Top ten insights/facts that shaped our thinking and will shape the coming “co-creation.”
3:30Break
3:45- 5:30From Problem to Solution:Collaborative Storyboarding
In small groups,we’ll take a set of user-perspective “problem statements” and develop positive user stories that imagine a better,more collaborative way to do this work.

2 minute presentations,gallery walk and posting stickies.

5:30Perspectives and Day One Close
Brief comments about the visions presented
Appetizers and Cocktails…
Dinner on your own
29 JulyDay 2
TIMESESSION
8:30- 9:00Meditations
Speakers will comment on what LPnet could mean for them,their organization,the field,what they hope rest of the day will bring.
9:00- 9:10Day 2 Agenda Preview
Establish clearly that upcoming session,and “heat map”,is not to arrive at binding answers,but to give intelligence to the groups that will wrestle with these after today
9:10-11:00Making the Storyboarding Real
We will lay out concept(s) determined from overnight consolidation of the storyboarding results. Small groups adapt the concept to where most in the group could support.

Create “heat map” with dots re preferred/plausible solutions.

11:00Break
11:15-NoonDeep Dive:Group divides by interest:

  • Making the Case for LP.Net:Communications,Engagement and Small p Politics
  • Functionalities:Issues around technology,framework,vetting,and others TBD
  • Business Model:Start up and Sustaining System
NoonLunch
12:30-1:15Deep Dive Presentations to Full Group
1:15-1:45Progress Roundup
1:45-2:45“Onward!”
“Straw man” presentation from leadership team for how this might go forward.

Ask people to comment,discuss,and say what they can do.

2:45-3:30Messages from this Meeting
Full group,with presenter at flip chart,maps out the answer to:
75 committed players came together in Chicago to engage in field-wide innovation. They shared a vision of a collaborative learning network that would deliver the knowledge,skills and connections to re-shape the future of philanthropy. And they…
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