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Nonprofit Advisory Committee Meeting Notes

Summary of Inaugural Meeting of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences
Nonprofit Advisory Committee
March 2, 2007

Based on discussions at the ASC Nonprofit Advisory Committee breakfast (as well as through individual meetings leading up to that breakfast), we are all interested in creating a partnership of equals in which:

  • Nonprofit and community leaders are valued for their expertise, which include:

    • Understanding the questions and possible solutions that affect their own organizations ("We have a clear sense of what is pressing," Allen Proctor noted at our meeting.)

    • Special strengths and skill sets that grow from their work. Examples might include knowledge about strategic development and, expertise in communicating to groups (the performance of "teaching").

  • Ohio State faculty and graduate students would be valued for their expertise, which includes:

    • Research/analysis of data that is part of their roles as researchers at the university

    • Service on nonprofit boards, which can connect their research/scholarship roles with their "service" roles at the university

Together, we will begin by addressing at least two goals:

  1. Working together to train the next group of leaders of nonprofit organizations
    • Through nonprofits working with Ohio State students as volunteers, students in service-learning courses, interns, etc.
    • Through development of Ohio State infrastructure to provide the kinds of curricular and co-curricular experiences that prepare students for working in nonprofit organizations
  2. Finding ways to make interaction and access to the university and its resources simpler, including
    • Conducting an inventory of what is being done between Ohio State and local nonprofits
    • Finding ways to make existing resources easier to use

Next Steps

What this conversation suggested is several next steps:

  1. To set a time and agenda for a next meeting.
  2. Prepare materials that you requested at the March 2 meeting. We at Ohio State will prepare these materials and then send them to you for comments. These include:
    • An inventory of existing efforts at partnerships
    • Collected information about existing methods of access to existing programs.
    • A web site that will give you access to this information.