GMC's Collaborative Conversations brings together regional leaders, nonprofit professionals, educators, public officials, and community members to explore issues shaping the Monadnock Region.
The focus is on education and informed dialogue around topics that influence leadership, community well-being, civic responsibility, and regional opportunity.
Programs may take the form of leadership workshops, documentary screenings, panel discussions, or facilitated presentations led by subject-matter experts. Each event is designed to deepen understanding, strengthen regional awareness, and encourage thoughtful engagement across sectors.
The Essential Non-Profit Leadership Learning Series
Volunteer board members and executive directors have a responsibility to ensure the relevance, impact, and financial sustainability of the nonprofits they lead. Each has specific duties that they are responsible for: Boards for the strategic, fiduciary, and legal oversite of the organization, and ED’s to establish organizational culture, manage strategic direction, and lead day-to-day operations. The Essential Nonprofit Leadership Learning Series is designed to help leaders understand and carry out their roles, foster and maximize strong relationships, and to attract the best leaders to their cause.
The Greater Monadnock Regional Collaborative and Savings Bank of Walpole invite you to join facilitators, Artie Lang and David Ports from LPA Non-Profit Consultants, a non-profit consulting group, to attend some or all of these workshops to gain new and effective practices that will help you and your organization thrive.
Non-Profit Executive Director Institute
You wear a lot of hats. The question is: are you spending your time where it matters most? Putting out fires, managing budgets, fundraising, supporting staff, engaging volunteers, and working with your board can quickly fill every hour of the day. In this interactive session, LPA will help you step back from the day-to-day and focus on how to work smarter, not just harder.
Together with your non-profit peers, you’ll explore practical strategies for prioritizing your responsibilities, leveraging your board’s skills and passion, and building a staff team that shares the work effectively—so you can spend more time advancing your organization’s mission and less time simply keeping up.
Event Details
For: Non-Profit Executive Directors/Presidents/CEOs
Date: Tuesday, October 20
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 AM
(Enjoy coffee and networking from 8:30 to 9:00)
Location: Savings Bank of Walpole, 84 Marlboro St., Keene
Cost: No charge, registration required
Presented by: Savings Bank of Walpole, LPA, and GMC
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Past Events
"Gone Guys" Film Screening & Discussion Panel
When young people lose their path, whole communities feel it.
"Disconnected youth" refers to young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither in school nor working. Nationally, millions fall into this category, and the Monadnock Region is not immune. These are not young people who have given up. They are young people who haven't found a way in.
The consequences reach further than most of us realize. For the young people themselves, disconnection often means years lost to uncertainty, isolation, and shrinking opportunity. For our region, it means a workforce gap we can't afford to ignore — fewer people entering trades, filling open positions, or building lives and careers here.
Gone Guys is a 45-minute documentary inspired by Richard V. Reeves' Of Boys and Men. Set in rural Vermont, the film brings national data to life through the personal stories of young men, educators, mentors, and innovative programs working to re-engage boys and young men in their communities. The film tackles difficult but important questions about disconnected youth.
Following the screening, we will host a panel discussion focused on how our region can better support and engage disconnected youth, drawing on lived experience, education, workforce pathways, and community-based solutions.
For the chamber, this conversation is about helping more young people see a future for themselves here as connected community members with purpose, opportunity, and pathways into meaningful work.
This is a conversation for educators, employers, nonprofit leaders, parents, and anyone who believes that every young person deserves a real path forward.
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Event Details
Date: Wednesday, June 3rd
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Location: SHOWROOM, 20 Commercial St., Keene
Cost: Free to attend, registration required
Panelists
- Donald L Birx, PhD, President of Plymouth State University and Keene State College Interim President
- Gina Pasquale, PsyD, Executive Director of Maps Counseling
- Sarah Jenness, Director at Jobs for the Future, who cowrote a paper titled “Design and Implementation of College and Career Pathways on Rural Communities.”
- Evenor Pineda, CPSS Intervention Services Director, Manchester Police Athletic League
Event Details
For: Current ED’s and current or incoming board chairs
Date: Tuesday, May 19th
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 AM
(Enjoy coffee and networking from 9:00 - 9:30)
Location: Savings Bank of Walpole, 84 Marlboro St., Keene
Presented by: Savings Bank of Walpole, GMC, & LPA
