The NY Alliance, recognizing the ongoing staffing crisis, understands that many of our members and providers are unable to take part in a full on three day conference, even virtually. The content included in this year’s conference was carefully chosen to be the most impactful for you and your team members therefore we have created a different way for you to join the two largest sessions of our conference. 

The opening and closing Keynote presentations for this year’s conference promote forward thinking with an eye toward diversity, equity, and inclusion while providing tips and tools for you and your staff to use daily. These two sessions are now being offered as individual webinars that can be attended at a discounted registration fee without registering for the full annual conference. Learn more about each session below!

Opening Keynote Presentation: Wednesday, April 27 at 9:00AM

A View Toward the Future: Unlocking Our Potential to Build an Equitable and Inclusive World

Vu Le (“voo lay”), writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the former Executive Director of RVC

Amidst these rough few years, nonprofits have played a vital role in protecting, supporting, and strengthening our community. However, many of us are exhausted by the ongoing barriers and challenges we face in doing this work. What are lessons we can learn? What are hopeful signs that things are improving? What must we let go and do differently moving forward? How do we end the hunger games and walk the talk of equity, diversity, and inclusion? Let's own our awesomeness and unlock our full potential to create the kind of future we want to actualize.

Vu’s passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves.

Each week, Vu posts blogs on his website, nonprofitaf.com on various forward-thinking and innovative nonprofit topics such as EDiquette: 13 common courtesies every ED should follow; 21 irritating jargon phrases, and new clichés you should replace them with; Answers on grant proposals if nonprofits were brutally honest with funders; and his latest, The way we manage conflicts needs to take neurodiversity into consideration.

Join us on Wednesday, April 27 at 9:00am by registering below.

Prepare yourself for a humorous, challenging and thought provoking presentation!

Closing Keynote Presentation: Friday, April 29 at 12:00PM

Implicit Bias

Kesha Carter, Chief Diversity Officer, Coordinated Care Services, Inc.

Bias consists of attitudes, behaviors, and actions that are prejudiced in favor of or against one person or group compared to another. 

Implicit bias is a form of bias that occurs automatically and unintentionally, that nevertheless affects judgments, decisions, and behaviors. Implicit biases can manifest in the justice system, workplace, school setting, and in the healthcare system. Many different examples of implicit biases exist and range from categories of race, gender, and sexuality. 

Implicit bias can pose barriers to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. 

Removing these biases is a challenge, especially because we often don’t even know they exist. Recent research reveals interventions are effective.

Kesha Carter will discuss implicit bias, share examples of implicit bias and how not-for-profit organizations can address implicit bias within their agencies with awareness and effective bias-reduction strategies.

Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion, Coordinated Care Services Inc (CCSI) has developed a page for capacity building which includes several mini videos, learning opportunities and articles. To learn more about CCSI’s Diversity and Inclusion initiative and learning opportunities, click here.

The NY Alliance is learning from the best as we work with Kesha and CCSI to define our own Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work. We hope you will be able to join us to learn more about managing our Implicit Biases. 

Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom information for joining the session(s).

Please note: registration for these sessions individually or together DOES NOT include registration to the full annual conference. To register for the full annual conference, click here.