End the silos. Unite your teams. Amplify your impact.
Nonprofit missions thrive on collaboration—but all too often, internal silos, misaligned priorities, and turf wars undermine effectiveness. Inspired by Patrick Lencioni’s Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars, this interactive session explores the hidden costs of organizational silos and provides practical tools to overcome them. Through real-world nonprofit examples, participants will learn how to foster cross-functional alignment, build trust across departments, and refocus everyone on shared goals. Whether you're in programs, development, operations, or leadership, this training will help you create a more unified and mission-driven organization.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the common causes and consequences of silos within nonprofit organizations.
Apply strategies to promote cross-departmental alignment and reduce internal competition.
Implement a rallying cry to unify teams and drive collaborative decision-making around shared priorities.
Trainer: LaVal Brewer
LaVal Brewer is the proud President & CEO of South County Outreach in Irvine, CA, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to prevent hunger and homelessness by helping people help themselves. LaVal possesses more than 30 years of experience in nonprofit management and more than a decade of experience in executive and development roles.
As President and CEO of South County Outreach, it is LaVal’s goal to transform the organization’s Food Pantry into a place where people who are in short-term crisis situations can feel like they are shopping for nutritious, healthy food in a normal grocery store environment without having to pay. He also hopes to partner with cities, funders, and corporate groups to create revenue that will allow the organization to help people who have fallen behind on rent and utility payments, and then find ways for people to better themselves so that they can ultimately escape the hunger and homelessness cycle.