Leadership in the Non-Profit Sector

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Ukrainian Homestead – Lehighton, Pennsylvania, USA March 8-10, 2013

Welcome

Alexander Prociuk, ODWU President

ODWU & UNF Background & Update

UNF Basic Facts• UNF founded 1932• Active in 12 cities from British Columbia to

Quebec & governed by 24 member national board

• Affiliated Organizations– Ukrainian War Veterans Association 1929– Ukrainian Women’s Organization of O. Basarab 1930– Ukrainian National Youth Federation of Canada 1934– UNF Foundation & Ukrainian Weekly New Pathway-

Current Projects/Works in Progress• Launch of Paul Yuzyk Intitute for Youth

Leadership (2009)• Ridna Shkola Initiative • Summer Student Employment Projects• Strengthening Ties with International Affiliated

Organizations (IAO) & Ukraine• Strengthening involvement in umbrella bodies

we helped found: World Congress of Ukrainians & Ukrainian Canadian Congress

Paul Yuzyk Institute

• The Election Process• New Delegate Program Ukr. Cnd . Congress• Ottawa Parliamentary Program – piloted 2012• New Programs in Development

– History of Ukrainian Dance in Canada (Winnipeg)– Ukrainian Communities in Western Europe (UK,

France, Spain/Portugal)– Ukrainian Canadian Parliamentary Internship

Program (Ottawa)

Leadership through Good Stewardship

Taras Pidzamecky, UNF Immediate Past National President

What is Stewardship?

• Answers vary depending on whom you ask• Sometimes used in the context of a religious

or environmental organization• Academic literature shows a small industry

built around making it mean one thing or another – example: as a synonym for decentralized decision-making in international development

Stewardship is the ethic or an entity that embodies the responsible planning and management of resources.

Stewardship is now generally recognized as the acceptance or assignment of responsibility to shepherd and safeguard the valuables of others.

Excerpts from Wikipedia

Parable of the Talents Stewardship in the Religious Context

• ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’ "His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Matthew 14-30

Parable of the Talents Stewardship in the Religious Context

• He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man...., so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! ....cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

What is Stewardship

“Man has responsibility, not power.”

Tuscarora Proverb

What is Stewardship?

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.”

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960);Oil Magnate, Philanthropist

Organizational Leadership through Stewardship

An awareness that• You don’t own organization• You have been entrusted to care for & sustain

– It’s ideals or values– Members (human reasources) – It’s assets

• You are accountable

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A Stewardship-Focused Leader

• You share decision making and are responsible that there is a good decision-making process in place

• If you have the best idea/position, you must be focused on how to motivate and bring people on side

• You thinking about the good of the organization as a whole - not about one’s self interest or that of a particular group or clique

Awareness that you are not the owner

A Stewardship-Focused Leader

Awareness that you are entrusted with• Ideals and values • Have to make an effort to under-

stand what they are, how they evolved, and how to adapt them – obligation to know what was passed on to you

• Not just a matter of starting off with your uninformed self

• Nor abandoning values based on consumeristic approach of satisfy-ing member wants – principled organizations are not auto clubs

A Stewardship-Focused Leader

Awareness that you are entrusted with• Members (human

resources) • You have an obligation to lead

and motivate them • Ensure that you are developing

your members to take on new roles and responsibilities, interact constructively, provide succession

• Today’s program therefore includes volunteer development an managing organizational culture

A Stewardship-Focused Leader

Awareness that you are entrusted with• Assets • Knowing what they are

• Ensuring– they are safeguarded– used for good of the organization– not wasted or misdirected for

personal benefit of any individual

• Doesn’t just happen by assuming good will of members

• Today’s sessions on managing conflicts of interest and audit

Volunteer Development: Building Community Ties

Elissa M. Garofalo, President/Executive Director

Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Inc.

Workshop/Break Out Sessions

Dr. Paula Holoviak, Kutztown University MPA Program Coordinator

Nonprofit Organizaitonal Leadership Development – Branding Your

Organization

Managing Organizational Culture

Natalia Witiuk, MBAUNF National Board

KPMG Advisory Services

Luncheon Guest Speaker

Andrij Dobriansky, New York

The October 2012 Ukraine Parliamentary Elections: An Observer’s Perspective

Nuts and Bolts Roundtable

Financial Control and Role of Audit Dan Cherkas, C.A., Past UNF Treasurer

Developing a Conflict of Interest PolicyBohdan Diakow, UNF National VP

Special Guest Speaker

Iryna Balan, Winnipeg, ManitobaVasile Avramenko Researcher,

Curator of Taras Shevchenko Foundation Avramenko Exhibit