Board Governance
Entrepreneurial Strategic Thinking for Nonprofit Organizations
02/09/2012 - 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Faculty: Elizabeth Scott, President and CEO, Brighter Strategies, LLC
Course Objective: Learn the key principles of strategic thinking and how to leverage your organizational culture for success
This training will discuss the principles of strategic thinking and the critical facets of organizational culture that must be in place to actualize strategic thinking. Create a plan to construct the right culture and strategy to manage your organizational success.
Registration Fee: $49 for Center members; $89 for all others
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
Engaging and Energizing Your Board
03/01/2012 - 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Faculty: Mary Ann de Barbiari, President, de Barbieri & Associates
Course Objective: Create a plan for recruiting and engaging board members
How do you ensure that your organization has board members who are actively engaged in fulfilling their individual responsibilities? What steps can your organization take to build and maintain an involved and energized board? This session will provide tips and tools that can be adapted to fit your organization’s needs when working with board members.
Registration Fee: $49 for Center members; $89 for all others
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
Logic Model Development: A Program Evaluation Tool
03/15/2012 - 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Faculty: Dr. Margo Bailey, Brighter Strategies, LLC
Course Objective: Learn how to create tangible goals and create accountability for your organization’s programs
This course provides a hands-on overview of program evaluation and will cover how to create a logic model, how to apply it to a program, and how to develop outcomes and goals for the program based on the logic model. Each participant will have the opportunity to create a basic logic model during the session. Discussion will also take place around how to use a completed logic model as a management tool to manage the program, identify gaps, write implementation plans and establish program goals.
Registration Fee: $49 for Center members; $89 for all others
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
Communications and Marketing
The Flash Crisis: Manage Negative Online Issues Quickly and Effectively
02/08/2012 - 9:30am - 11:30am
Faculty: Adele Cehrs, President, Epic PR Group
Course Objective: Create a crisis plan to defend against bad social media publicity
A “flash crisis” happens when negative posts on Facebook, Twitter or other social media go viral and create a firestorm. Join us as we explore the resources nonprofits need to launch successful crisis communications. The session will include practices for responding to negative blogs, posts or reviews.
Registration Fee: $49 for Center members; $89 for all others
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
The Social Media Explosion and Its Affect on Nonprofits
03/07/2012 - 9:30am - 11:30am
Faculty: Daniel Martinage, CAE, The Association Coach™
Course Objective: Gain an understanding of how your organization should use social media
The Social Media revolution is well underway, creating new and powerful ways for people to connect, align, and foster joint action. This interactive workshop will cover the fundamentals of Social Media and discuss how nonprofits are leveraging social networking to expand their impact and pool diverse resources.
Registration Fee: $49 for Center members; $89 for all others
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
Financial Management
Best Practices in Organizational Time-Keeping
02/16/2012 - 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Faculty: Nicholas Holcomb, Vice President Technology, Payroll Network, John Werth, Payroll/HR/Time and Attendance Consultant, Payroll Network
Course Description: Gain a better understanding of the time-keeping process for your organization.
Gain detail and accuracy in capturing your organization’s labor hours. Learn time saving techniques and eliminate redundant data entry. This course will include documenting employee payroll expenses by: grant allocation, PTO, job, employee and/or department. The high-level overview begins with non-profit best practice from hours-worked capture, to real-time monitoring and managing hours worked. The course will conclude with an overview of reports or internal and external needs (including audits).
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
Federal Grants Compliance for Nonprofits
02/28/2012 - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Faculty: Paul Calabrese, Senior Manager, Rubino & McGeehin; John Mericsko, CFO, National Association of City County Health
Course Objective: Review case studies, checklists and forms that can be used for grant compliance
This session will delineate between federal circulars and agency-specific regulations, the unique nature of cost reimbursable grants and policy on unobligated balances. This session will also touch upon program income, procurement procedures and sub-recipient monitoring. Participants will receive financial management system flowcharts, diagrams and a sample cost ledger report.
Registration Fee: $49 for Center members; $89 for all others
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
The Financial Health of an Organization- Understanding Your Financial Statements
03/07/2012 - 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Faculty: Eric Fraint, Founder, Your Part-Time Controller
Course Objective: Learn how to assess your organization’s financial health and how that translates to your stakeholder
Understanding your organization's financial statements is crucial for determining your financial preparedness. Come to this interactive session and learn strategies for assessing and improving your organization's financial health. Demystify the nonprofit accounting process and discuss how to present your financial health to stakeholders in a more concise and productive manner.
Registration Fee: $49 for Center members; $89 for all others
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
Asking for Major Gifts: What Do I Say and Why?
03/14/2012 - 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Faculty: Sandra Renner, Principle, Renner Consulting
Course Objective: Practice strategies for making solicitation calls and one-on-one solicitation asks
Asking for a major gift is just part of a process that engages and cultivates donors. This session will introduce you to the world of major gifts. Topics covered include what factors influence donors to make major gifts, strategies for cultivating major donors, using volunteers and what happens during a solicitation meeting. Attendees will have an opportunity to practice making a solicitation call with one another.
Registration Fee: $49 for Center members; $89 for all others
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
Basic Budgeting for Nonprofits
03/21/2012 - 9:30am - 3:30pm
Faculty: A. Mike Gellman, CPA, Rubino and McGheehan
Course Objective: Learn how to fully integrate non-financial managers into your organization’s budget process
Budgets can be extremely intimidating, but they do not have to be! This interactive presentation will explore the concepts behind behavioral-based budgeting and how to fully integrate the non-financial manager into the budget process to help your organization realize its full potential and maximize the use of its limited resources.
Special Cost: $109 for Center members; $189 for all others. Includes a networking luncheon.
Location: Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006
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