Generosity & Gratitude: Essentials for Fundraising
With Katie Howard

The prospect of raising friends and funds to fuel your nonprofit organization can be a daunting one. But it doesn’t have to be! This training helps participants master the skills essential to building relationships to raise money for your mission.

Participants will leave with new confidence, skills, and tools to:

• design a fundraising plan that fits your organization’s age, budget, and goals;

• learn the three crucial elements of storytelling;

• develop and practice telling your story; and

• put gratitude into action.

Need more help? Office hours 7:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. are available to workshop participants who want to practice their new skills and ask questions of the trainers.

Katie Howard has worked as a fundraising professional and consultant since 2000, helping organizations raise more than $236 million. She has worked with tribes and urban Native organizations since 2007.

Branding is a buzzword that sounds fancy but is actually quite simple. Your brand is the promise you make about who you are. Defining it is the first step to great marketing, fundraising, and grantwriting. Uncovering your brand is key to your communications strategy.

We know that there is one question that strikes fear into a nonprofit person’s heart: “What does your nonprofit do?” 

We all know, of course, what we do. The problem is that the question often leads to a 5-minute long response as we attempt to explain every program and initiative we've ever undertaken. And who can blame us? This happens because we're doing great work. You, the expert in your organization, know all of it and are trying to get across as much information as possible. However, your message gets lost without one concise sentence about who you are.

By the end of this training, you will be able to clearly answer the question, “What does your nonprofit do?” You will have a story that represents your brand. With these cornerstones, you will be ready to communicate your way to raising more money and building your movement.

Presenters

Allison Carney is a nonprofit communications consultant specializing in affordable, custom solutions for small and medium nonprofits. 

Jill Neumeister (Pawnee/Choctaw) is a brand strategist and marketing agency owner who helps Native, Government and Commercial clients across the country tell their stories.

Budgeting and How to Build a Financial Plan
With Nancy Bacon

Your budget is your financial plan. It represents your organizational values. It communicates your priorities to audiences inside and outside of your organization. An effective budget allows you to make good decisions for your organization and community. It gives important information to funders.

In this interactive session, we will build together a strong budget for your organization. We will talk about how your values and core beliefs are reflected in your budget. We will show you where they show up and how you can shape your budget to stand for your mission.

We will cover the core elements of a budget: chart of accounts, cost allocation, and the budgeting process. Our goal is to expand your confidence in talking about money with others on your team. You will learn how the audience of your budget—board member, foundation funder, donor, or government contractor— might change how you present it. Different people need different information, and we’ll show you what that means when it comes to your budget. You will leave this session able to plan your budget before sitting in front of a computer, write a budget that represents the trust cost of your work, craft the right budget for your audience, and talk about your budget with someone outside of your organization.

Need more help? You are welcome to take advantage of our office hours to get one-on-one assistance. Contact nancy@nancybacon.com to schedule.

Nancy Bacon is a teacher, instructional designer, and learning strategist who creates and delivers in-person and online learning events for nonprofit and public sector people. In 2013, Nancy created “Finance Unlocked for Nonprofits,” a finance workshop delivered across Washington State.

HR Practices in Times of Uncertainty
With Nancy Bacon, Skye Mercer of Skye HR Consulting and Melanie Montgomery (Quinault) the Executive Director of Hospitality at the Quinault Beach Resort & Casino

COVID-19 has presented one of the most complex and difficult circumstances in the modern workplace. Leading and supporting employees and serving clients amidst changing legislation, funding uncertainty, and the threat of illness in the workplace, is uniquely challenging. No leader should go it alone. Getting support for managing in times of uncertainty is critical for any leader. If you are looking for support, tools, and strategies for leading your employees through a global pandemic, then this workshop is for you.

HR Consultant and leadership coach Skye Mercer will lead us through an interactive session that will leave you able to:

• Describe how fear and uncertainty are manifesting in the workplace and name ways to simultaneously support your employees and keep moving forward with the work to be done.

• Identify key strategies for building personal strength, a critical foundation for managing in challenging times. 

• Put systems in place to keep employees safe, engaged, and productive. 

• Respond to the challenges and opportunities of Work From Home (WFH), with practical tools to help get good policies and practices in place.

We know you have a lot of questions, so we will set aside plenty of time for you to get answers to the most frequently asked HR COVID-19 questions, such as how to handle it if an employee is sick, and how volunteers fit into your HR planning.

Need more help? You are welcome to take advantage of our office hours to get one-on-one assistance.

Skye Mercer, MBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is a certified HR Consultant and Leadership Coach with over 17 years of HR experience. Skye consults with nonprofit organizations all over the US to provide on-call and project-based HR and leadership coaching solutions. Skye has a unique background in that she has worked both in-house as an HR Manager and externally as an HR Consultant for both large national and small, community-based nonprofits. Some of the nonprofits she's worked with include: YWCA Clark County, Goodwill Industries, Safe Passage Violence Prevention Center, and the Washington Association of Land Trusts. Skye grew up in Washington State and has spent a great deal of time in Central and Eastern Washington.

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Online Leading and Learning:
How to engage people in the virtual space with Nancy Bacon  

Do you find yourself leading meetings or trainings online? Are you wondering how to make the most of Zoom tools and engage people in the lesson or conversation? “Online Leading and Learning” is designed to give you the knowledge, tools, and actual practice you need to deliver online events that are productive and engaging.

During this three-hour interactive session, you will learn how to lead an online meeting that engages people using Zoom (or any online platform) or train people in an interactive way. We will cover the what, who, and how of online engagement including:

• Online meeting/training design

• Engagement tools using Zoom (other platforms have similar tools.)

• Tools outside of Zoom to increase participation while online

• Production logistics

• Tips and tricks for when technology doesn’t cooperate

This session is designed to be experiential. You will practice online skills in real time with peers. You’ll get feedback from others and hear from colleagues about what works for them.

By the end of our time together, you will know how to use a range of engagement tools on and beyond Zoom. You will feel more confident in how to implement these tools in your own facilitation or training. You will be connected with others who are similarly expanding their online learning and leading practice.

This session is designed for people new to online meeting/training delivery or are intermediate and seek more practice and feedback.

Need more help? You are welcome to take advantage of our office hours to get one-on-one assistance.

Nancy Bacon is a teacher, instructional designer, and learning strategist who creates and delivers in-person and online learning events for nonprofit and public sector people. She has delivered hundreds of workshops in-person and online. In 2019, Nancy published the ebook “How to Design for Action,” a free resource for learning about instructional design. Nancy regularly writes about learning on her website: nancybacon.com

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