The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties, Inc. and the United Way of the Valley and Greater Utica area hosted a nonprofit workshop with Dr. Susan Kenny Stevens on October 21. The workshop was open to all nonprofits, and 22 organizations were represented. Stevens spoke about the lifecycle of nonprofits and helped attendees understand the unique challenges and opportunities organizations face at different points of organizational development, and how to creatively and effectively navigate their individual situations. Pictured, from left, are Phil Hayne, Executive Director of the United Way, Susan Kenny Stevens, PhD. and Peggy O’Shea, President and CEO of The Community Foundation.
Representatives from 22 organization attended the October 21 workshop.
About Susan Kenny Stevens
Susan Kenny Stevens is a nationally recognized consultant and advisor to many local and national foundations. Over the past twenty-five years, she has written extensively on financial and management issues pertaining to philanthropy and the not-for-profit sector including five books, several journal articles and a variety of case studies used in university-based not-for-profit management courses throughout the United States.
Stevens’ award winning book, Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity, was published in 2001 and won the 2002 Terry McAdam Book Award sponsored by the Nonprofit Alliance, New York Community Trust and Chronicle on Philanthropy. Now out in its second edition, this book has sold more than 10,000 copies and serves as the cornerstone for many capacity-building programs across the nation, including the ADVANS Program in Syracuse.
Her books and case studies are used throughout the country by nonprofit managers, foundations, evaluators and academics to strengthen their understanding of nonprofit dynamics. In addition to Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity, she is also the author of All the way to the Bank, Investing in Capacity, and Budgeting Way to Financial Stability.
Dr. Stevens holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior. Her doctoral dissertation examined the entrepreneurial behavior of nonprofit founders.
She and her husband Pat have two adult sons and reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
