Does your grant narrative feel stale? Have your read your needs statement so many times you can’t objectively evaluate its impact? Have you been using the same language to describe your program for the last five years? Many grant professionals work in offices where they are the only grant writer. We all need someone to review our work and who ...
Whether a beginner, intermediate or advanced presenter, we can all benefit from improved public speaking skills. The better your public speaking, the greater your success - in business and in life! Giving an effective presentation is all about connecting with your audience. It's showing your passion, sharing stories and keeping it simple. This workshop will help get your audience listening ...
2020 forced nonprofit professionals to re-imagine everything: programs, fundraising, service delivery, budgets—and marketing! Join us in February to hear from Erin Prange about how Big Muddy Dance Company leveraged creative marketing strategies to keep stakeholders engaged through every "stage" of a global pandemic. Erin Prange received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Spanish at Colorado State University and a ...
As evaluators, we think a lot about learning. Good learning is key to getting evaluation findings used in a way that improves decisions and increases impact. And good learning can also happen when there is no evaluation, using evidence from practice. But good learning is hard to do. This session will explore one approach to creating powerful learning conversations that ...
This class is designed to give participants (nonprofit employees and board members) hands on experience in identifying foundation and corporate funders that are likely to give to their organization. Participants will learn how to identify appropriate funders, how to verify the funder is a good fit, and how to outreach the funder for more information. Participants will leave class with ...
Did your project stop dead in its tracks? Is your grants team stuck in the mud? Is your client indecisive, or maybe even ambivalent? As grant professionals, we often find ourselves stuck in the middle of this madness. Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based treatment often used in a clinical setting to help clients explore ambivalence and boost motivation and commitment ...
Yuck! Strategy! Wow! Strategy! You may have had both responses when it's time to develop or update your strategy. Six months - 2 years -3 years, 5 or 10...there are lots of ways to build strategies and lots of ways to engage (or disengage!) your board. Join us at this "get real about strategy session" where you will learn: Participants ...
This workshop will focus on the structures and dynamics of teamwork, the common challenges and strategies to address "team brownout and team burnout" and explore activities and opportunities inherent in the current virtual workplace that can help retain team connection and cohesion. Team building and teamwork are developed when there is an intentional plan to develop and sustain a culture ...