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How Giving USA Can Inform Your Fundraising Strategy
The annual Giving USA report on philanthropy provides the field with a deluge of useful information. How do the findings apply to your organization and how can they be implemented in a fundraising strategy? Join us for an engaging discussion about Giving USA 2017 data and learn how you can put the research to work for you and your organization.
Find out more »Planning for Successful Fundraising
Do you feel your organization approaches fundraising haphazardly? This workshop puts a laser focus on proper planning for a successful fundraising program. It offers an overview of how and why planning is important to successful fundraising and how to write a fund development plan.
Find out more »Team Engagement Strategies: A Workshop for Executive Directors
This interactive workshop will inspire and invigorate executive directors. We'll explore techniques to help you lead through thoughtful delegation, use best practices to manage board relations, and move from reactive to proactive leadership strategies.
Find out more »Value-Based Purchasing: Innovative Opportunities for Nonprofits
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), with the steady implementation of payment changes to value-based purchasing (VBP), is creating unexpected opportunities for community-based organizations (CBOs) that provide social services. Nonprofits sometimes approach the design of innovations responding to VBP with a community benefit perspective (and funds). These present new and expansive opportunities to social service CBOs.
Find out more »Strategy and Evaluation in Grantmaking
This course will delve into different approaches to developing strategy, systems thinking tools, and various approaches to evaluation, levels of evaluation, and tools for system learning.
Find out more »How to Tell Your Story
Sharing a relevant, meaningful story is key to the success of any organization. This hands-on workshop will help you identify your organization's best story and explore ways to share it to drive your mission forward.
Find out more »Financial Analysis in Grantmaking
We strongly believe only the assigned program officer has the ability to understand fully the context, implications and impact of financial issues upon the success of any grant. In response, we created Financial Analysis in Grantmaking.
Find out more »Nonprofit Board Certification
The Nonprofit Board Certification Program offers guidance for those serving or planning to serve on nonprofit boards. Designed as an engaging experience with opportunities for learning, discussion and practice, participants, regardless of experience, become more knowledgeable and strategic organizational leaders.
Find out more »Planning for Your Organization’s Future
Leadership transitions can move an organization forward or hold it back. Good succession planning can help insure the long-term sustainability of an organization. This workshop will help both staff and board leadership understand the need for succession planning, as well as provide insights on drafting such plans.
Find out more »What It Really Means to Be an Executive Director
As an executive director, how can you move from being the one that does it all to the one that facilitates it all happening? That’s the question we’ll address during this interactive workshop. You will learn how to move out of the role of chief hero that does it all and into the role of chief host, facilitating the success of your entire team.
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