In today’s highly competitive funding environment, understanding and communicating the impact of your organization is more important than ever before. This interactive workshop focuses on the art of determining meaningful and realistic outcomes for your work and introduces logic models as first steps in an effective evaluation process.
How to be a courageous communicator or why codependent communications makes your brand boring Nonprofits are so afraid of making someone mad or disappointing a donor, we tend to not take a stand. This fear of “we don’t want to say anything wrong so don’t say anything at all,” is keeping us from communicating honestly with our supporters. An organization that is confident in ...
So often we hear someone say “That’s a great idea, we should write a grant for it”, yet the process of seeking and securing grant funding can be daunting, especially when it comes to applying for and administering state or federal grants. The objectives of this workshop will be to discuss the grant writing profess for state and federal grants ...
The balanced scorecard is a strategy performance management tool - a semi-standard structured report, supported by design methods and automation tools that can be used by managers to keep track of the execution of activities by the staff within their control and to monitor the consequences arising from these actions. The scorecard has evolved to become an effective strategy execution framework and communication tool. ...
Volunteers can support your organization in a myriad of ways: time, resources, connections, and more. But how do you create and maintain a strong volunteer program which meets the needs of your agency while ensuring that volunteers are happy and engaged? In this interactive workshop, we'll discuss best practices for the basics of volunteer engagement, such as: Volunteer recruitment Volunteer ...
Do you wish to improve your organization’s grants program to increase income? Should you outsource grant writing or keep it in house? Do you need just a “writer” or are you looking for a grant professional to find opportunities, work with staff to prepare proposals and manage grants? What qualifications, experience and expertise should a grant consultant/writer have? Do success ...
Join Amy Altholz from RubinBrown to examine the contents of the recently issued exposure draft, Presentation of Financial Statements for Not-for-Profit Entities. This seminar will cover the highlights of the key proposed changes, review the proposed updated financial statement and footnote presentation format, and discuss what organizations should be doing now to prepare for future implementation.
Nonprofits today engage in a variety of evaluation approaches to meet their planning and reporting needs. This interactive workshop focuses on building a realistic approach to tracking program outputs and outcomes in order to measure organizational performance and plan for improvement.
Participants will learn: Best Practices in Hiring · Finding and Recruiting Qualified Candidates · Interviewing Tips · Using Social Media in Hiring · Use of Assessments · Reference Checking · Criminal Background Checks · Preventing Discrimination Claims · Onboarding Best Practices in Performance Management · Coaching and Counseling · Using Performance Reviews · Employee Disciplinary Process · Employee Misconduct · Managing Absenteeism · Responding to Employee Complaints · Investigation Process · Termination of Employment