Dancing Outside the Box: Innovative Marketing in Times of Crisis

Virtual Workshop

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 ...

$15

Emergent Learning

Webinar

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 ...

$10

Grant Research: Identifying Private Grant Funders

Virtual Workshop

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 ...

$35

Motivational Interviewing

Virtual Workshop

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 ...

$15

Strategy Basics: Moving Your Mission Forward

Virtual Workshop

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 ...

$35

Reviewing Teamwork and Teambuilding Planning

Virtual Workshop

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 ...

$25

Fundraising 101/102

Virtual Workshop

Join AFP St. Louis for two half-day virtual learning sessions and dialogue about the basics of fundraising. Designed for those new to the fundraising and nonprofit management professions, these interactive seminars offer an overview of a range of topics in fundraising, development, and management including the nature of nonprofits, prospect research and management, annual giving strategies, donor cultivation and stewardship, ...

Fundraising 101/102

Virtual Workshop

Join AFP St. Louis for two half-day virtual learning sessions and dialogue about the basics of fundraising. Designed for those new to the fundraising and nonprofit management professions, these interactive seminars offer an overview of a range of topics in fundraising, development, and management including the nature of nonprofits, prospect research and management, annual giving strategies, donor cultivation and stewardship, ...