Third Annual

2008 Leadership Forum for

Women Executive Directors

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."   Alice Walker, novelist

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP...

Building Momentum for Social Change

June 5 & 6, 2008 

Cedar Creek Conference Center, New Haven, MO       [Registration Information ]

NSC is pleased to present our Third Annual Leadership Forum for Women Executive Directors scheduled on June 5 & 6, 2008.  We return to Cedar Creek Conference Center in New Haven, Missouri to connect, network and learn with our colleagues among the beautiful rolling hills of Missouri.   

[View Reflections from 2007 Participants] 

This year's theme, Women in Leadership... Building Momentum for Social Change, will offer participants an opportunity to reaffirm, reinforce and recognize their voice and power as we become greater advocates for social change. 

Featuring

Linda Stout, director, Spirit in Action

Linda Stout will open the 2008 Leadership Forum for Women Executive Directors and help us experience and learn about developing a collective vision that propels us into the future and inspires and energizes us toward creative action. Learn to create an atmosphere of openness, allowing respectful dialogue about controversial issues and supporting each other even if we disagree. Understand how differences strengthen us and help us create a movement for change.

Linda Stout, director of Spirit in Action, has been a grassroots organizer and activist for three decades. A thirteenth-generation Quaker born to a tenant-farming family, Linda founded a successful grassroots organization in 1984 in a conservative region of North Carolina. The Piedmont Peace Project worked successfully to forge extraordinary alliances across race and class lines and won major public policy changes. The project also won the National Grassroots Peace Award.  

Registration Information

The Leadership Forum for Women Executive Directors is open to 60 female executive directors of nonprofits located in Missouri and Southern Illinois.

COST: Registration Leadership Forum is $75.00 per person, includes meals and materials.  Sorry, no cancellations or refunds.

ON-SITE LODGING:   Cedar Creek Conference Center has limited on-site lodging available on a first come, first served basis for a rate of $75.00 per person (includes all fees). Lodging reservations are accepted when you register for the Forum.

OFF-SITE LODGING:   Sleep Inn, 104 South Point Road, Washington, MO 63090, 636.390.8877

Reflections of the 2007 Leadership Forum

"From start to finish it was a wonderful time of training, networking, learning and dreaming.  The only deficit was that it ended too quickly."

"The sessions at the 2007 Women’s Forum were informative and engaging.  I enjoyed getting to know so many women on a personal level.  We shared not just our challenges, but our many successes.  It was great fun!"

View more photos and read more comments from attendees at the 2007 Women's Forum!