The COVID pandemic has altered much about how we work, including an increase to nonprofit employees working remotely. This workshop will take you through best practices on managing remote staff for sustaining a well-run office culture, even when everyone isn't able to be in the office. In addition to maintaining staff remotely, this workshop will include best practices for hiring ...
Grants 101 is designed to provide attendees with an overview of the grant writing process. Participants will learn about different types of grant funders, the core components of a grant application, common attachments, how to work within their organization to find the information they need, and how to build and manage relationships with funders. Participants do not need to have ...
2021 is finally here, ready or not. It's time to dust off those yearly budgets and find the funds to make this year a success! Join us for this interactive workshop to add new tools to your fundraising toolkit and hone in on healthy habits that result in fundraising success. Topics covered include better donor engagement, adding a gift table ...
Choose your own virtual adventure! At our annual roundtable event, you'll be able to select the three sessions that most interest you. Advanced professionals (those with 10+ years of experience) will host important conversations as the world has gone virtual and changed for fundraisers, donors, and within our communities. Learn how non-profit professionals have adapted, lead change, and re-imagined the ways in ...
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 ...