The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Five Years Later: What Happened After the Ice Melted?

Maggiano's Little Italy 2 The Boulevard, Richmond Heights, MO, United States

May 14 Luncheon | The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Five Years Later: What Happened After the Ice Melted? Tuesday, May 14 | 11:30am–1:15pm Maggiano's Little Italy | 2 The Boulevard | Richmond Heights, MO 63117 $35 Members | $49 Nonmembers | $35 Students In the summer of 2014, The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge dominated social media news feeds and raised over 100 million dollars ...

Emotional Intelligence – Why Being Smart isn’t enough to be Successful!

Network for Strong Communities 8050 Watson Rd. Ste 240, St. Louis, MO, United States

Emotional intelligence, also called EQ, is the ability to be aware of and to manage emotions and relationships.  It's a pivotal factor in personal and professional success.  IQ will get you in the door, but it's your EQ, your ability to connect with others and manage the emotions of yourself and others that will determine how successful you are in ...

$60

2nd Quarter Christian Volunteer Managers Network Meeting

Lutheran Hour Ministries 660 Mason Ridge Center Drive, St. Louis, MO, United States

High Value, No Cost! Gather with others from St. Louis area churches & agencies to discuss what works, what doesn’t, and how to best manage your volunteers. This quarter’s topic: Crafting Culture, Leading Change: Helping Volunteer Policies Take Root.

Designing and Updating Documents for Volunteer Programs

Network for Strong Communities 8050 Watson Rd. Ste 240, St. Louis, MO, United States

Are you creating a new volunteer program or looking to update your existing program? Start with your volunteer management documents! In this interactive workshop, we’ll address best practices for designing and updating the documents that keep a volunteer program running smoothly, including: Documents for volunteer recruitment: strategic recruitment plan, recruitment appeals Documents for volunteer intake: application, interview form, reference requests ...

$60

What Your High Net-Worth Donor/Clients Want You to Know

Saint Louis Club 7701 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, MO, United States

Guest Speaker: Vivan Loy, CFP Senior Wealth Strategist, PNC Wealth Management About the presentation: In depth studies have been done by the Nonprofit Community to determine what motivates Major Donors, but more importantly what these high net-worth donor/clients expect of their professional advisors.  Above and beyond the legal and tax components, which are expected, these motivated individuals expect EVERY member ...

Teamwork: Creating and Sustaining Collaborative Working Relationships

Network for Strong Communities 8050 Watson Rd. Ste 240, St. Louis, MO, United States

Teamwork has become a buzz word in all professional worlds.  The importance of developing and sustaining collective team projects and activities drives the work in the nonprofit world.  Often we believe we are forging ahead as a team, until it's time to access our work or evaluate our success and that is when we begin to understand the difference between ...

$60

Stop the Measurement Madness: Measurement Strategies that are Meaningful and Manageable

St. Louis Public Library (Central) 1301 Olive Street , St. Louis, MO, United States

All too often, nonprofits either measure too little, trusting in their intuition that their work is impactful, or they measure everything, losing sight of what matters most. In this GFC workshop, Sarah Buek, MSW, LCSW, founder of Insight Partners Consulting, LLC, will help participants explore several strategies for finding the happy medium, including: how to find and select appropriate standardized ...

Webinar: Fundraising For Introverts: How To Raise More By Finding Confidence in Networking, Face-To-Face Asks, Telephone Calls and More..

Award-winning fundraisers Nikki Bell and Simon Scriver, who have overcome anxiety and self-doubt to become public speaking contest winners & successful relationship fundraisers, will share their learnings of how to achieve your fundraising goals when all you really want to do is hide behind your desk. You’re empathetic, creative and skilled in spotting opportunities, all qualities to be a great ...

$89

Generational Giving Strategies

2-Part Webinar Series Part 1: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 from 2:00-3:00 PM CDT Part 2: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 from 2:00-3:00 PM CDT Fundraising is about getting to know your donors’ values, beliefs, and experiences. Knowing and understanding their generational tendencies (i.e. Matures, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z) is one way to help build stronger relationships. Learn the characteristic ...

$30

Meeting Management – The Art of Effective Meetings

Network for Strong Communities 8050 Watson Rd. Ste 240, St. Louis, MO, United States

According to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report, approximately $37 billion is wasted in the United States each year due to unnecessary meetings. Meetings come in all shapes and sizes, from the convention to a quick huddle in an office hallway. This presentation will focus on mid-to-small-size working meetings with groups who have a job to do requiring the ...

$60