A1. Put Yourself in Someone Else’s Shoes: Partnering for Success
Session Designer:
Nora Ferrell and Lori Fuller, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Session Description
Grantmakers are using more complex, long-term approaches to effect change. Many of these involve multiple partners, each coming to the table with different perspectives, roles and responsibilities. Even when organizations share a long-term vision, bridging different organizational structures, ideas and preconceived notions can be tricky. While contributors often understand their own place in the work, they have difficulty grasping the needs and realities of others around the table. During this role-play session, you will have the chance to try on a hat and perspective different from your own, working in a small group through a real-life, place-based social change scenario. Standing in someone else’s shoes, participants will collaboratively define success with partners, identify what it takes to develop agreements and learn together, and discuss the blind spots we bring to collective work.
Primary Points Of Contact
Lori Fuller, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Session Designers
Nora Ferrell, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Lori Fuller, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Speakers
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Karen McNeil-Miller, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Speaker Biography
Karen McNeil-Miller is the President of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem, NC. Through its Health Care Division, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust provides grants to serve the health and medical needs of the people of North Carolina who are financially unable to provide for themselves. In addition, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust provides grants through its Poor and Needy Division to improve the welfare of the people of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County with emphasis on those who need assistance with basic necessities for financial reasons.
Prior to joining Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Karen spent sixteen years with the Center for Creative Leadership, an international leadership development and research, non-profit organization headquartered in Greensboro, NC. Karen’s trained executives from the world’s major companies in twenty-four countries.
Karen is a former special education teacher and independent school head and is a native North Carolinian, hailing from Rutherford County.
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Lori Fuller, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Speaker Biography
Lori Fuller is director of Evaluation and Learning at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, an independent foundation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that funds healthcare statewide and human services in Forsyth County. Over the past fifteen years, she has built the evaluation capacity of the Trust, worked to improve its knowledge management and grants management processes, and helped to shape multiple strategic shifts as the Trust has moved from a charitable funder to one that engages in long-term, dynamic changemaking. Lori is a Truman Scholar, a national program for graduate studies towards a career in public service, and has an MSW from the University of North Carolina and an MBA from Wake Forest University.