Building a Better Milwaukee Series
A collaboration between the Cardinal Stritch University Leadership Center and the Marquette University College of Professional Studies
Conversations about our challenges - whether they be within a neighborhood, a city, or even a nation - often start from a place of what we do not have, what we lack, or what we need.
During 2011-2012, the Cardinal Stritch University Leadership Center and the Marquette University College of Professional Studies invited you to a different kind of conversation. The Building a Better Milwaukee series featured three workshops where participants sought what it means to unleash the power of our communities in order to build a better Milwaukee for all citizens.
Some of Milwaukee's most effective community leaders convened to share their experiences of Milwaukee's abundant gifts. Please read our 2011-12 Series Overview below to see how participants became inspired, and learned how to share in Milwaukee's adundance.
For more information about upcoming Building a Better Milwaukee series, please contact the Leadership Center at 414) 410-4646 or at leadership@stritch.edu.
2011-12 Series Overview
Part III: Leading for an Abundant Milwaukee
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Noon - 3 p.m. OR 5 - 8 p.m.
O'Donnell Park Pavillion, Miller Room
910 E. Michigan St., Milwaukee WI 53202
In the last conversation of the series, we explored the specific leadership qualities and tools required to create a paradigm shift toward a Better Milwaukee.
Co-sponsored with Food Service, Inc and Marquette University College of Professional Studies Building a Better Milwaukee Series
Ann Goggins Gregory spoke to innovative ways successful non-profits have responded to tough economic times and about the fundamental shifts in thinking by non-profits and funders to bring about breakthrough social impact. Ann is the Senior Director of Knowledge at Bridgespan Group and co-authored the "Nonprofit Starvation Cycle" in the Fall 2009 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review and "How Governments Can Spur High Charity Performance," published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy (December 2009). She has helped lead Bridgespan's national research on how nonprofits are "Managing in Tough Times."
Part II: Recognizing Abundance in Milwaukee
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Noon - 3 p.m. OR 5 - 8 p.m.
Sister Camille Kleibhan Conference Center, Cardinal Stritch University
6801 N. Yates Road, Milwaukee
Milwaukee is filled with talented leaders working to build a better Milwaukee. In this conversation, we continued our conversation from November, and got the opportunity to interact with four "abundance builders" working in Milwaukee:
Sharon Adams, Founder, Walnut Way Conservation Corporation
Christopher Boston, Director of Sustainable Communities, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Dr. Michelle Bria, CEO, Journey House
Ken Leinbach, Executive Director, Urban Ecology Center
Part I: Creating Abundance Together
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011
Noon - 3 p.m. OR 5 - 8 p.m.
Noon- 3 p.m. session: Alumni Memorial Union, Marquette University- or -5-8 p.m. session: Redeemer Lutheran Church, MilwaukeeJohn McKnight and Peter Block, co-authors of The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods, were joined by renowned Scripture scholar Walter Brueggemann, author most recently of Journey to the Common Good, to show us how associations, institutions, and citizens can build and nurture relationships that allow us to unleash our gifts and create a better community, to allow us to move from a narrative of scarcity to one of abundance.
