Ian Bryan is presenting a workshop at the Tutor/Mentor Conference in Chicago on May 12th. The conference is free. Register here. If you do not register in advance, there is an admission fee.

3:00 pm to 4:20 pm

Leadership-Oriented Strategies for Sustainable Partnering with Business,
presented by Ian Bryan, www.sensiblecity.com

This workshop addresses nonprofit administration and development, exploring creative ways to find, forge and execute highly productive and sustainable partnerships between business and community interests.

Each year, an increasing number of businesses open their doors to creative partnerships with non-profit organizations, with the intention of designing a shared agenda that supports everyone involved. Traditionally, however, these partnerships often become under-productive or lose their momentum over time. This workshop will explore traditional and nontraditional approaches to these partnerships, focusing specifically on co-creative, sustainable pairings. Citing recent case studies and established best practices, participants will explore leadership-oriented strategies for creating long-term, healthy non-profit/for-profit partnerships.

Workshop topics will include:

• Foundation: Internal Strategy for Prospecting
• First Steps: The Most Important Dialogue of All
• Co-Creation: Manifesting the Win/Win Scenario
• Execution: Ensuring Sustainability and Effectiveness
• Motivation: Mobilizing and maintaining citizen support

RESERVE YOUR SPACE FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 14

Good Business: The Dialogue Between the Spirit and the Letter of Business Ethics

Corporate scandals have fostered new interest in business ethics. What are the big issues? Should businesses have ethical commitments beyond complying with the law? Why are ethics strategically relevant? How do good ethics affect financial results, and does that matter? Can good ethics energize changes in businesses and how they relate to their stakeholders? Our panel will explore these issues and lead our discussion.

Panelists:
Professor Robert W. Fogel, 1993 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, University of Chicago GSB.

B. Kenneth West, MBA’60, Chairman, National Association of Corporate Directors; senior consultant for Corporate Governance, TIAA/CREF; former Chairman of the Board of Harris Bankcorp; and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago.

Al Gini, Professor of Philosophy; Co-Founder and Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, Loyola University of Chicago.

Ian Bryan, Founder and President, The Sensible City, a Professional Group for Community Empowerment.

Moderator:
Gretchen Winter, VP of Business Practices, Baxter Corporation; Chair, Ethics Officer Association.

DETAILS:
6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

6:00 - 6:40 p.m. Registration and reception
6:40 - 8:30 p.m. Presentations and moderated panel discussion

University of Chicago Gleacher Center
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive

Several parking facilities are located nearby. If you park in the lot at 201 East Illinois you can validate your parking ticket to receive discounted rates.

$20 per person for reception and presentation

RSVP online at alumnievents.uchicago.edu or to Lisa Ballard at 773/702-2157.


Co-sponsored by the Graham School of General Studies

"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."-- July 3, 1980

"This determination is based on the solid conviction that what is hindering full development is that desire for profit and that thirst for power already mentioned. These attitudes and 'structures of sin' are only conquered - presupposing the help of divine grace - by a diametrically opposed attitude: a commitment to the good of one's neighbor with the readiness, in the gospel sense, to 'lose oneself' for the sake of the other instead of exploiting him, and to 'serve him' instead of oppressing him for one's own advantage."-- December 30, 1987

"We cannot pretend that the use of arms, and especially of today's highly sophisticated weaponry, would not give rise, in addition to suffering and destruction, to new and perhaps worse injustices."-- January 15, 1991

"The proponents of capitalism in its extreme forms tend to overlook the good things achieved by communism: the efforts to overcome unemployment, the concern for the poor."
-- 1993-->

"A disconcerting conclusion about the most recent period should serve to enlighten us: side-by-side with the miseries of underdevelopment, themselves unacceptable, we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissible. because like the former it is contrary to what is good and to true happiness. This superdevelopment, which consists in an excessive availability of every kind of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups, easily makes people slaves of 'possession' and of immediate gratification..."-- March 13, 1998

"Modern society has the means of protecting itself, without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform. I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary."-- January 27, 1999

"The Holy See has always recognized that the Palestinian people have the natural right to a homeland, and the right to be able to live in peace and tranquillity with the other peoples of this area."-- March 22, 2000

"NO TO WAR! War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity."-- January 13, 2003

"When war threatens humanity's destiny, as it does today in Iraq, it is even more urgent for us to proclaim with a loud and decisive voice that peace is the only way to build a more just and caring society. Violence and arms can never solve human problems."-- March 22, 2003