Imagine what we might achieve if nonprofit organizations and donors had a shared, community-centered framework for building and funding nonprofit organizations through the lenses of racial and social justice and systems thinking. What might nonprofit outcomes look like if both practitioners and funders held themselves accountable to communities’ voices and lived experiences? Rebecca Riccio created the RISE Framework for Social Change 15 years ago in response to the imbalance of power she saw between nonprofit organizations, donors, and the communities they served in the U.S. and around the world. Today the framework is more relevant than ever.

Join us to learn how the RISE Framework can help your nonprofit improve program design, community building, and major donor retention.

On July 14th, Tech Networks of Boston (TNB) will host a free Nonprofit Roundtable session featuring Rebecca Riccio of Northeastern University.

Rebecca has continued to refine the RISE framework as a tool for creating, managing, governing, assessing, funding, and teaching about high-performing nonprofit organizations. The most recent iteration brings an even more critical lens to the ways predominantly white nonprofit organizations and foundations may unintentionally perpetuate the very inequalities they purport to address in communities of color. In this workshop, Rebecca will present the RISE Framework as a tool nonprofit organizations can use for a variety of needs including:

• stress-testing new program designs
• deep strategic planning
• assessing relationships with communities
• relationship building with major donors

About Our Presenter:

Rebecca: Rebecca Riccio is the Juffali Family Director of the Social Impact Lab (SIL) at Northeastern University where she develops experiential learning models that challenge students to reimagine how we address complex social problems through the lenses of systems thinking, ethical reasoning, and racial and social justice. Rebecca is a global expert in experiential philanthropy education, a teaching methodology that challenges students to grapple with the power and practical and ethical implications of controlling scarce resources in the face of enormous need through authentic grant-making. She is a long-time faculty advisor to the Learning by Giving Foundation and Millennium Campus Network, an Ashoka U Change Leader, and a member of the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Racial Justice Initiative leadership team. Prior to joining Northeastern in 2008, Rebecca managed international development projects around the world at the Council on International Education Exchange and SATELLIFE and ran her own nonprofit consulting practice. Rebecca’s personal activism includes being an adult ally and mentor to high school and college student activists fighting racism and climate change. A Sovietologist by training, Rebecca holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and M.A. from the University of Michigan and studied as an undergraduate and graduate student and the Pushkin Institute in Moscow.

This session is ideal for nonprofit professionals involved at any level in program design and implementation, evaluation, fundraising, financial management, marketing and communications, or community relations. Join us on July 14th to participate in this workshop.