*** Please note, due to a situation beyond our control, we have had to postpone this webinar series. We apologize for any inconvenience.***

Cultural competency is more than just understanding the value and importance of diversity... it's an ongoing journey.

Ensuring public land leadership teams and partnerships bring a wide range of perspectives has long been a goal, but sometimes is difficult to realize in practice.  To gain greater cultural competency is to commit to a life-long journey of raising your awareness of your own cultural location and how the lenses through which you see interact with the lenses of others.

Old fashioned approaches to “diversity training” have focused on learning specific traits of other cultures and being “sensitive” to them. Cultural competency invites you to enter a much larger framework of self-awareness and institutional awareness to enable the dominant culture to shift positions and to become one of many perspectives that can work toward shared values and common goals.

What YOU will learn: 

This is a two-part webinar series:

• Tuesday, August 19, 2014 from 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
• Tuesday, August 26, 2014 from 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT

 
Presented by APPL, in partnership with
Maryland Nonprofits

Presenter: Brigette Rouson, J.D., M.A.
Brigette Rouson, J.D., M.A., is Principal of Rouson Associates, a consulting practice that offers genuine partnership, creativity, expertise and knowledge resources to transform organizational and community life. She brings more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, with a focus on building effectiveness and high-impact initiatives. Brigette is involved in innovative work on cultural competency (racial/ethnic, linguistic, generational, rural, LGBT, immigration status, disabled, and other identities), ethical standards for capacity building, and community-engagement governance. She contributes to the knowledge base through publications as well as training and facilitation on cultural competency, fundraising, collaboration, business planning, evaluation of capacity building, and other timely issues. Brigette served as a contributing author and project coordinator for the newly released book Embracing Cultural Competency. In philanthropy, Brigette has been active through consulting and training, grant review, organizing donors, fundraising strategy and engagement, and other nonprofit effectiveness support

Each person wanting to participate in the webinar must register. Registration includes both the August 19 and August 26 webinars. Content from the first webinar will be used as a foundation for the second webinar, therefore participation in both webinars is strongly recommended (and registration for just one of the webinars is not available).

Webinar information: You will receive a confirmation email once you register. Information on logging into the webinar will be emailed to you the day prior to each webinar.  Please note, you will need an internet connection and phone line to participate in the webinar using the AdobeConnect platform.