In today’s world, collaboration, partnership and ‘adding value’ are important to any recipe for success of a non-profit organization. But you can’t do it alone. In order to achieve results and impact, organizations and their leadership must expand beyond their traditional partners and stakeholder groups in order to create synergistic and innovative relationships that energize, excite and lead to change. By developing broad based networks, leaders of organizations can increase their influence, relationships and ability to deliver on their organization’s mission. Building a network can be daunting for many. This presentation will help you to develop a framework for building your own network, and in doing so you will see that building a network is not the same thing as networking, that it really is better to give than to receive , and how two “no’s” do, in fact, make a “yes”.
Five Good Resources
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
- The Republic, by Plato
- In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed, by Carl Honore
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Getting Even, by Woody Allen – some light relief after Crime and Punishment!
Rahul Bhardwaj
President & CEO, Toronto Community Foundation
Rahul is the President & CEO of the Toronto Community Foundation. He was formerly a corporate lawyer with a leading Canadian law firm, Vice President of the Toronto 2008 Olympic Bid and then CEO of United Way of York Region.
He has a long history of community service, including serving as a Board Member of the Stratford Festival of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation, Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation, United Way of Greater Toronto and past Chair of the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, among others.
In 2007, Rahul was named by the National Post as one of the “Next Generation of Toronto Civic Leaders.” Most recently Rahul was named as a member of Toronto Mayor David Miller’s Blue Ribbon Fiscal Review Panel.
Rahul is a popular presenter and speaker, particularly on issues relating to the city, community and leadership as well as Toronto’s Vital Signs®. He has been featured in local Toronto media as well as international media including CBC Newsworld, CNN and the national Daily News in China.
