Multicultural Leadership Engagement: Strategies for an Inclusive Board

Speaker Armando Rayo
Vice President of Engagement Cultural Strategies Armando Rayo is Vice President of Engagement at Cultural Strategies, a Latino and Multicultural marketing and communications firm based in Austin, TX. His experience is deeply rooted in the community and nonprofit sector. He specializes in building capacity & creating change with a focus ...

Vice President of Engagement
Cultural Strategies



Armando Rayo is Vice President of Engagement at Cultural Strategies, a Latino and Multicultural marketing and communications firm based in Austin, TX. His experience is deeply rooted in the community and nonprofit sector. He specializes in building capacity & creating change with a focus on Hispanic Engagement, project management, leadership development & social innovation.


 


Armando has over 12 years experience in community engagement, volunteerism & social media, and has developed innovative engagement strategies (grassroots to social media), multicultural programming and trainings for many nonprofits & businesses including United Way of Capital Area, MPower Foundation/RISE Entrepreneurship Conference, Hahn, Texas, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Goodwill Industries of Central Texas, CASA of Travis County, OneStar Foundation, Greenlights for Nonprofit Success, Austin Independent School District, City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, Capital Area Food Bank, Active Life Movement and United Way of San Antonio. 


 


Armando serves on the national Points of Light Institute & Hands On Network’s Neighboring Taskforce and is a frequent panelist/presenter at local & national conferences (United Way of America, Points of Light Institute/Hands On Network, OneStar Foundation, United Neighborhood Centers of America, Keep Texas Beautiful).  He has been recognized in Austin American-Statesman’s Texas Social Media Awards, Top Blogs & the Austin (Twitter) List; Austin Social Media’s Top 100 List and Austin Under 40 Awards. Armando writes for GivingCity Magazine, blogs at ElMundodeMando.com & TacoJournalism.com and has been featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, New York Times, NPR’s MarketPlace, Austin American-Statesman and Austin Monthly.


Full Description
Does your nonprofit board of directors reflect your community? Do you want to have a more inclusive and multicultural board? Multicultural Leadership Engagement will give you the tools to develop relationships with multicultural leaders in the community, increase the awareness with existing board members of the importance of a diverse and inclusive board and provide strategies that will make your board more multicultural and relevant to your community.
 
Attendees will leave with
  • An understanding of the leadership gap in nonprofit boards
  • A process an organization can go through to increase its diversity
  • An understanding of engagement principles
  • Key insights about motivations and trends of multicultural communities
  • Basic tools on how to engage multicultural leaders
 
Engage501 Training Series
This session is part of the Engage501 Continuing Education Series - In this series participants learn the basic tools to engage multicultural communities.  They will be introduced to population changes, cultural insights and motivations, and this will position to engage and market to diverse populations. 
 
About Engage 501
We understand how the population change is impacting nonprofits in Texas. Engage501 intends to be the bridge between nonprofits and diverse communities. Engage 501 is a multicultural engagement initiative that utilizes an inclusive and culturally relevant approach to community engagement. The goal is to build the capacity of the nonprofit sector in Texas by creating meaningful connections, understanding multicultural communities and providing engagement tools.  Put simply, this initiative will help you create advocates, volunteers, board members and donors through building cultural sensitivity assets that will broaden nonprofits’ relevance to their communities and diversify their growth.
 
Engage501 will provide a process: Multicultural Engagement
Multicultural Engagement is a process of building community, relationships, & trust with multicultural communities. Multicultural Engagement utilizes authentic engagement strategies that create advocates for people, neighborhoods & issues within communities. It is an inclusive, innovative & culturally relevant approach that informs, educates, engages & strengthens communities.
 
Engage501 Tools
With Engage 501, you will learn the basic tools to engage multicultural communities by understanding population changes, cultural insights and motivations.  In addition, you will learn ways your organization can start to engage and market to diverse populations. We have a set of tools that will help nonprofit organizations create authentic relationships with multicultural communities in Texas, including the following
 
Engage501 Webinar Q&A Series
Engagement Trainings and Workshops
501Engage: The Shift Breakfast Series
Engagement Toolkits
Forums and Community Conversations
Communications, Marketing and Engagement Consulting Services
 
Engage 501 is an initiative of TANO - Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations and Cultural Strategies, Inc
Organizer Mary Beth Harrington

When?

Tue, Sep. 20, 2011
9 a.m. - noon US/Central

How Much?

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Where?

Austin Community Foundation
4315 Guadalupe, Suite 300
Austin, TX 78751