NMAC Staff Presenting at USCA!
NMAC Staff Presenting at USCA!
Friday, October 30,
2009
SESSION 3: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00
p.m. - WORKSHOPS
Who Needs Social
Networking Anyway? How Online Social Networking Tools Can Strengthen Your
Organization
Presenters: Circe J. Gray Le Compte and Abdul M. Khan,
National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC
Location: Plaza A, Lobby Level
Track: Building Healthy Organizations
Level: Beginner
Research has shown that the communications vehicles used
by many HIV/AIDS organizations serving communities of color to communicate
information to the public – namely static websites and printed newsletters – are
not in sync with how their clients actually access information. Many do not
visit websites, per se; but
access information using online tools like Facebook, Twitter, and
community-oriented social networking sites. Moreover, these new tools offer
HIV/AIDS organizations a powerful medium through which to share immediate
information and updates, and forge partnerships with other HIV/AIDS
organizations, health care professionals, funders, and other stakeholders.
Attendees not only will learn about these new tools; but receive information on
how to best incorporate them into their overall outreach
strategy.
Fundraising in
Difficult Times
Presenters: Alphonce J. Brown, Jr., ACFRE, National
Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC
Location: Yosemite C, Ballroom Level
Track: Building Healthy Organizations
Level: Beginner
Many HIV/AIDS charities, CBOs and other nonprofit
agencies focus their primary fundraising efforts on securing grants from public
dollars to the exclusion of private external support. This session will provide
constituents with the tools for developing sustainable funds from individual,
corporate and foundation prospects. Attendees will look at the current trends in
external philanthropic fundraising, especially, within annual giving. Currently
80% of giving in America is generated from individuals, thus, the bulk of the
session will focus on developing a comprehensive approach to donor acquisition,
retention and stewardship. The range of other fundraising options also will be
explored, including planned and tribute giving. Lastly, constituents will review
the basics for soliciting support from corporations and
foundations.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Session 5: 10:45 a.m. – 12:45
p.m.
Dispelling Public
Misconceptions about HIV Vaccine Research
Presenters: Albert Hannans, National
Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC
Robin Kelley, National Minority AIDS Council,
Washington, DC
Gary Kreps, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
Location: Union Square 3 and 4, Fourth
Floor
Track: Prevention
Level: Intermediate
This session will examine a pilot program
designed to increase African American and Latino awareness, knowledge and
support for HIV vaccine research. The grassroots program mobilizes community
members to serve as messengers who introduce others to much-needed facts about
HIV vaccine research. Presenters will describe the program, share findings, and
discuss some of the theories that support the strategies utilized in the
program.
Session 6: 2:45 p.m. –
4:45 p.m. - Workshop
Getting
Communities Involved in the Search for an HIV/AIDS Vaccine
Presenters: Albert Hannans, National Minority AIDS
Council, Washington, DC
LaHoma Smith Romocki, North Carolina Central University,
Durham, NC
Kaijson Noilmar, HIV Vaccine Trials
Network, Seattle, WA
Alfredo Hernandez, Latino Health Institute,
Boston, MA
Location: Union Square 3 and 4, Fourth
Floor
Track: Prevention
Level: Beginner
This session will begin with a screening of
“Ending AIDS”, a documentary about the search for an AIDS vaccine. Afterwards,
presenters will describe innovative programs currently underway to foster
increasing support for HIV vaccine research within communities of color. Then
there will be an open discussion of various ways to get
involved.
Roundtable - Creating an
Evaluation Culture within your Organization during an Economic Downturn: Top Ten
Tips to Help Instill Evaluation Methodology within
Nonprofits
Presenters: Wilene Hare and Robin Kelley, Ph.D.,
National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC
Location: Union Square 6, Fourth Floor
Track: Building Healthy Organizations
Level: Beginner
Evaluations can help your organization, stakeholders and
communities-to-be served even in tough economic times. When hard choices have to
be made in order to sustain programming, this is a time to strengthen your
evaluation efforts. One tip is that having effective evaluation practices not
only aid in providing evidence for funding but are cost effective and
informative for programming evolution. This roundtable is an introduction to
best practices from the field that will include tips on transforming evaluation
theory into practice. We will discuss how to develop and use a logic model in
daily work and how to document evaluation efforts in order to be more data
driven in decision-making. Bring your questions, barriers and successes and
leave with ten tips for instilling a culture of evaluation within your
organization.
Treatment
Adherence for the "Aging"
Presenter: Melanie Graham, MSW, National Minority AIDS
Council, Washington, DC
Location: Union Square 8, Fourth Floor
Track: Treatment and Research
Level: Beginner
This is a roundtable discussion on the adherence
strategies and program development for the "aging". We will discuss strategies
and tools to provide effective services to the aging demographic to enhance prevention and adherence behavior. This roundtable will serve as a space
to share ideas and cutting edge strategies to serve and meet the unique needs of
the aging demographic. Organizations that work with this group are strongly
encouraged to participate and share ideas and interventions tailored for this
group.
