About the Workshop: Sometimes you join a board and you don’t know what’s expected of you. Come to this session to learn about board roles and responsibilities and how to help your nonprofit thrive. In the workshop, you’ll learn about understanding and owning your board roles and responsibilities. The session will include focus on: Role of the Executive Director Governance ...
About the Workshop: In this 2 hour workshop, participants will: Learn techniques to connect and engage with your audience Learn techniques to overcome fear and calming nerves to help in your success as a public speaker Learn ways to build confidence as a public speaker Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best when he said, "All the great speakers were bad ...
About the Workshop: This fast-paced, two-hour interactive workshop is designed for development professionals early in their career who want to hit the ground running with healthy habits that will last a lifetime. Build your working toolkit with techniques you can put to immediate use for individual fundraising - including major gifts and digital platforms - plus best efforts to secure ...
About the Workshop: Teambuilding, Teamwork and Collective Impact are requiring leaders and managers to negotiate the challenges of deadlines, projects, and people. Inherent in growth and movement is conflict and often we work to resolve conflict without developing strategies and approaches grounded in experience and supportive training. This session will address and review the key principles of conflict resolution; assistance in preparing ...
Conflict Resolution Teambuilding, Teamwork and Collective Impact are requiring leaders and managers to negotiate the challenges of deadlines, projects, and people. Inherent in growth and movement is conflict and often we work to resolve conflict without developing strategies and approaches grounded in experience and supportive training. This session will address and review the key principles of conflict resolution; assistance in preparing to ...
Diversifying Funding Streams Ever wonder why it’s so hard to break out of the mostly grant-funded model and into more diverse funding streams? In this hands-on 2-hour workshop, explore the Stanford Social Innovation Review 10 Funding Models to see the public’s perception of your nonprofit. Then, discuss ways to start building an individual giving program from scratch. This is a ...
10 Things to Know about Federal Grants This class is designed for participants to dip their toes into the vast world of federal grants. It is especially helpful for organizations that have never received federal funding or recently received their first federal award, those that are receiving state or local government grants that are federally originating, and those that are ...
Self-Care Summer Series Summer time and the livin is…still hard? Let’s make the most of this summer to focus on US and what we need to stay well while doing our important and sometimes draining work. This series of brief, one-hour seminars are designed to be taken as stand-alone sessions or you can really sizzle this summer by attending all ...
Strategy Basics: Getting Ready for a Strategic Plan Does strategy make you yawn? Grimace? Run? Unlock the basics of an effective strategic planning process that is engaging, real and can help you bring your organization to the next level. We’ll give you tools to have an inclusive, thoughtful and energizing strategy process with outcomes that are measurable and satisfying. You’ll ...
Support, Empower + Mentor: Supporting Black Women in the Workplace Do you mentor, support, or supervise black women? Are you a black woman that aspires to climb the ladder to achieve leadership in your field? In this session, we will unpack the lived experiences of black women navigating barriers, challenges, and oppression in their climb to leadership. Through hands-on engagement ...