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Thursday, June 4, 2009 • 8:00am – 4:00pm
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel • Marlborough, MA
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The 2009 Massachusetts Conference on Volunteering and Service will bring together nonprofit, public, and private sector leaders and service participants throughout the Commonwealth for an inspiring day of learning, connection, and dialogue. With dynamic leadership support at the local, state, and national levels, this is an opportune time to highlight the power and possibilities of engaging volunteers of all ages to address pressing social and community needs. Now more than ever, with public and private resources in dwindling supply, volunteering is an essential strategy to help individuals, organizations and communities grow and thrive.
The conference will include workshops to help practitioners of varying experience levels increase their ability to: recruit and support volunteers; engage deeply with communities; ensure effective use of resources by evaluating and improving volunteer programs; and use new technology to improve volunteer outreach and communication. A leadership track will convene executives and seasoned practitioners in roundtable sessions to enhance thought leadership, promote networking and collaboration, and build the field of volunteering and service.
Conference workshops will address issues and trends in 21st Century volunteer management by weaving together four broad strands: Leadership, Innovation, Volunteer Management, and Social Capital.
Who Should Attend?
- Volunteer management professionals
- Directors and staff of public, private, or nonprofit agencies and programs that use volunteers to serve communities
- Service-learning coordinators and others responsible for school/community partnerships in K-12 or higher education
- National Service or Commonwealth Corps members with responsibility for volunteer recruitment, volunteer management, or capacity building
- Volunteers serving in leadership, capacity building or volunteer management roles
 Keynote Speaker - Dorothy Stoneman
Founder & President, YouthBuild USA
Dorothy Stoneman is founder and president of YouthBuild USA, the national support center for 226 YouthBuild programs nationwide, and chairperson of the National YouthBuild Coalition of 1,000 member organizations.
In YouthBuild programs, low-income youth who left high school without a diploma build housing for homeless and low-income people while they earn their own GED or diploma in a supportive context that builds positive values through community service and leadership development. Since the YouthBuild Coalition succeeded in getting YouthBuild authorized and funded as a federal program in 1993, over 84,000 youth have rebuilt over 18,000 units of affordable housing in America’s poorest communities. One thousand organizations have applied to the government to bring YouthBuild to their communities.
Stoneman joined the Civil Rights Movement in 1964 and spent the next 24 years in East Harlem, New York, teaching in public schools and then developing community-based schools, youth programs, housing projects, and grassroots coalitions; designed to engage youth and their parents in community development and to increase public support for community-based programs. She was founder of the first YouthBuild program in 1978 and served as its director for ten years before orchestrating its replication nationwide. There are now 226 YouthBuild programs in 42 states, and enormous international interest in replicating this concept in developing nations, with programs already in motion in South Africa, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Scotland, and Israel.
Stoneman has a bachelor’s degree in History and Science from Harvard University, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Bank Street College of Education. She was awarded the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2007, the John Gardner Annual Leadership Award from the Independent Sector in 2000, and a MacArthur (“genius”) Fellowship in 1996. She served as a founding board member of Youth Service America and founding co-chair of the Ford Foundation’s Leaders for a Changing World. In 2007 she served on the Task Force to End Poverty of the Center for American Progress and is a Trustee of America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth. In 2008, she was awarded one of Non-Profit Times’ top 50 leaders and has become an Ashoka senior fellow.
She is married to John Bell, vice president of training and leadership development at YouthBuild USA, lives in Massachusetts, and has two children and 13 godchildren.
Statewide Planning Committee Member Organizations:
ACT Volunteer Center (DIAL/SELF)
AARP Massachusetts
Boston Cares
Common Impact
Corporation for National and Community Service
Mass Mentoring Partnership
Massachusetts Campus Compact
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Office of Governor Deval L. Patrick, Commonwealth Corps
The Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation
United Way of Central Massachusetts
United Way of North Central Massachusetts
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