A Continental Breakfast and Lunch is included.
Check-in is from 7:30am-8:00am
Program begins at 8:00am

Keynote Speaker:

Egger posits that nonprofit professionals are "the closest to what is happening on the ground" and therefore our voices need to be heard in government decision making - especially during elections. He is an enthusiastic and positive voice - especially nice during this time of dismal recession messages. Come find out how policy affects practice, which affects policy, which affects practice! And thats just Part 1!

Part 2: Harnessing the Power of VA's Nonprofit Sector--

Take advantage of this opportunity to build and implement an action plan for getting the voice, value and vote of nonprofits counted in the 2009 statewide election.  Your state association stands ready to support grassroots efforts to engage candidates for public office on the issues that impact nonprofits statewide. 

Facilitated by Deborah Barfield Williamson, VANNO Executive Director, and Robert Egger, V3 Campaign Founder.

Robert Egger is the Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen, where unemployed men and women learn marketable culinary skills while foods donated by restaurants, hotels and caterers are converted into balanced meals. Since opening in 1989, the Kitchen has distributed over 20 million meals and helped over 700 men and women gain full-time employment. 

While Robert still maintains a day to day presence at the Kitchen, he devotes much of his time nationally, as the Director of the V3 Campaign (www.v3campaign.org), which is working to get the voice, value and votes of the nonprofit sector recognized in every election in America.

Robert was a Co-Founder of Foodchain (the National Association of Prepared Food Programs) and the Co-Convener of the first ever Nonprofit Congress in 2006.  Locally, Robert was the founding Chairperson of both the DC Mayor’s Commission on Nutrition and Street Sense, Washington’s “homeless” newspaper.

Robert was included in the Nonprofit Times list of the “50 Most Powerful and Influential Nonprofit Leaders” in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was the recipient of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington’s 2007 Duke Ziebert “Lifetime Achievement” award and the 2004 James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year award. He has also been named an Oprah Angel, a Washingtonian of the Year, a Point of Light and one of the Ten Most Caring People in America, by the Caring Institute. He is also a 14-gallon blood donor to the American Red Cross.

Robert’s book on the nonprofit sector, Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient and Rewarding For All, which was released in 2004 by HarperCollins, received the 2005 McAdam Prize for “Best Nonprofit Management Book” by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.