Capacity Buliding Project

From left, Moderator JuWon Choi-Vice President for Educational Services of Foundation Center, Panel Albert Chung - Senior Communications Associate of Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Miguel Bonilla - Director of Strengthening New York City Nonprofits at United Way of NYC, Randall Quan - Managing Director of Community Resource Exchange, Bill Chong - Deputy Commissioner of NYC Department of Youth and Community Development

[Capacity Buliding Project] 2009 Giving Conference

Successful Key for NPO management

: Human Resource Capacity

On August 7, the Foundation hosted the Second Seed of Giving Conference at the UJA-Federation of New York from 9AM 3:30PM, focusing on the “Empowering of Human Resource”.

About 90 people from different organizations had come to the conference. It was an opportunity for different non-profit organizations to learn about how to strengthen and sustain human resource functions. Especially the conference was very useful for 3 types of core HR groups in NPOs: Board of Directors, Executive Staffs, and Volunteer Managers.

In the panel discussion, capacity building experts from government, public foundation, and private foundation emphasized that the process of capacity building should be started from reviewing their mission first of all. Then it is needed for every NPOs to forecast 5-10 years of their organizations and consider what what the community needs are and what the organization can offer for the community.

After the panel discussion, there were some group sessions, where participants could choose which session to attend; BOD Capicity1, 2 & Volunteer management. Through whole sessions of the conference, the participants of non-profit organizations were able to think about how to wisely use the human resources that they have especially at this economy recession.

[Capacity Buliding] Financial Management Workshop

On August 14 and 21, as one of our capacity building project, Financial Management Workshops were held for non-profit organizations. These workshops are for the Korean-American service organizations to improve their financial management capability and ability to mobilize resources to improve the sustainability of their programs.

These workshops gave organizations a chance to learn :

* how to set up and execute a budget plan

* how to fill out the IRS990 Form

* how to use QuickBooks software program

* how to deal with financial crisis

Fiscal Management Association consulted the contents for the workshops and Mr. James Yoo (AICPA) gave the lectures. Thank you so much Mr. Yoo and we thank all of you who attended and completed the financial courses.