Leadership Strategies Graduate Course Class

A group of 11 South Carolina nonprofit leaders were selected for the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina’s first nonprofit leadership graduate course. The course, a collaborative effort with Columbia College, is an expansion of the Foundation’s Learning Academy which offers free daylong workshops and training to staff and volunteers of nonprofit organizations addressing poverty across the state.

Leadership Strategies, the graduate course, challenges leaders to extend their learning of executive leadership and is designed around patterns of thought and practices of effective leadership. Class members meet once a month for two consecutive days for five months and themes range from ethics and strategic leadership to politics and policy for social impact.

Members of the Leadership Strategies Fall 2009 class are:
Vanessa Frazier, Christ Teens
Arthur Hodge, Goodwill Industries of the Upstate
David Kunz, The Cooperative Ministry
Betsy Marlow, Miss Ruby’s Kids
Cecilia Meggs, Lighthouse Ministries
Dorothy Priester, Cherokee County First Steps
Lila Anna Sauls, St. Lawrence Place
Janet Smith, The Children’s Center
Beck Sullivan, Municipal Association of South Carolina
Jane Tuttle, House of Hope of the Pee Dee
Preston Winkler, Greater Columbia Community Relations Council

Foundation Awards $89,900 to Catholic Sister-Affiliated Programs

Nine Collaboration for Ministry (CMI) grants totaling $89,900 were awarded to programs associated with women religious (Sisters) in South Carolina.

The Foundation recognizes the needs and challenges facing congregations of women religious in South Carolina. These CMI grants were established to support congregations of women religious in their efforts with the poor and underserved in South Carolina.

For more on the CMI Initiative and to view organizations and programs receiving funding, click here.

South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families Recognized as a Promising Practice

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Family Assistance recently released a report, Emerging Findings from the Office of Family Assistance Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grant Programs: A Review of Select Grantee Profiles and Promising Results, which features the South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families as a Promising Practice. 

Promising Practices are defined as programmatic functions, activities and processes for which an evidence base does not yet exist, but for which staff programmatic experience, experts in the fields and experienced technical advisors agree are beneficial to overall program functioning. The report, featuring eight Healthy Marriage programs and eight Responsible Fatherhood programs, will be used to inform White House Administration, Congress and practitioners in the field about promising practices of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood programs.

For more information and to view the full report, click here.

Team Skills Workshop

The Foundation is accepting applications for its Team Skills Workshop on Wednesday, October 21 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

This workshop will provide the basic tools to enhance working relationships which, in turn, increases efficiency and productivity. Learn what makes a good team, how to achieve maximum potential and individual and team goals to get there.

To apply for the Team Skills Workshop on Wednesday, October 21, click here. Applications are due by October 2, 2009.

Caritas Grant Application Deadline: November 3