2020 Life Sciences & Healthcare Nonprofit Pitch Challenge - Brought to you by MassBio and Life Science Cares

November 4, 2020 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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Add to Calendar 11/4/2020 3:00:00 PM 11/4/2020 4:30:00 PM 2020 Life Sciences & Healthcare Nonprofit Pitch Challenge - Brought to you by MassBio and Life Science Cares

The application period has ended. Please still register to join us for the event!

A Pitch Event for Life Science and Healthcare Non-profits in Massachusetts Designed to Stimulate Innovation, Visibility and Connections

  • Meet members of the local life sciences and healthcare non-profit ecosystem
  • Learn how non-profit organizations are fueling our biotech and healthcare cluster’s growth
  • Hear pitches from five non-profit innovators on how their mission is impacting the future
  • Discover how your organization can benefit from non-profit partners

Be sure to join us for this unique event as five finalists pitch their nonprofit organization to our expert panel of judges. 

Not sure if this event is for you? Hear what our previous winner Dr. Laura Kleiman of Reboot Rx (formerly Cures Within Reach for Cancer) has to say on how the 2018 Nonprofit Pitch Challenged helped her move forward the organization’s mission to find cures for cancer through drug repurposing.

Still wondering how this event will be of benefit to your organization? The first prize winner will receive a one-year MassBio nonprofit membership and a $2,500 cash award courtesy of Life Science Cares. First and second runners-up will receive gift cards of $250 and $150 respectively. All the finalists will also be offered free professional coaching on how to structure and deliver their pitch prior to the event.

Who should attend? This event will be engaging for everyone, from those interested in supporting and growing our local life sciences and healthcare nonprofits, to those who would like to launch a nonprofit of their own!


Non-profit Pitch Agenda:

3:00pm – 3:10 pm:          Introductory remarks/rules of the road/introduction of judging panel

3:10pm – 4:00 pm:          Pitch competition—5 pitches, 5 min presentation + 5 min for questions from judges

4:00pm – 4:15 pm:          Break while judges deliberate to select competition winner

4:15pm – 4:30pm:           Winners announced
 

Sponsored by MassBio, our Nonprofit Forum Working Group, and Life Science Cares. Special thanks to Life Science Cares for their partnership and support.

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Consultant to Nonprofit Leaders and Organizations and Nonprofit Pitch Challenge Coach
Jonathan Spack served as CEO of Third Sector New England for 34 years. Under his stewardship TSNE (now TSNE MissionWorks) became a regional and national leader in several fields of nonprofit capacity building, including fiscal sponsorship, executive transitions, social purpose real estate development, network-based grantmaking and values-based human resources and compensation practice. A natural collaborator, Jonathan was a co-founder of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, the Nonprofit Centers Network and the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network. He also incubated the Nonprofit Quarterly magazine at TSNE from 1997-2006, when it spun off as an independent publication, and he spearheaded TSNE’s acquisition and development in 2004 of the NonProfit Center in downtown Boston as a focal point of social justice activity in the city. Jonathan is a co-author of the Executive Director’s Guide (2001; still in print) and has contributed to several books on nonprofit leadership and collaboration. In 2019, Shared Space and the Nonprofit Workplace, which Jonathan helped to edit and to which he contributed a chapter, won the prestigious Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Terry McAdam Book Award. Prior to joining TSNE, Jonathan served as a legal services attorney, a federal discrimination complaints examiner and director of the family advocacy program at the Cape Cod Child Development Program. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, a Master’s in Human Services Management from the Heller School at Brandeis, where he served as Executive In Residence, and a J.D. from NYU Law School. Since 2017, Jonathan has provided consulting and coaching on nonprofit leadership, organizational culture and governance to a wide range of organizations and individual leaders.