How can you raise enough revenue to cover your nonprofit’s costs AND grow (hint: It’s not often grants!)? I’ll show you how to choose the best funding model for your unique organization and create a fundraising plan that will help your organization thrive in the long-term.

Audience Takeaways: 

• Understand 5 Funding Streams: When it comes to fundraising, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution that works best for every nonprofit. I’ll show you the inner-workings of 5 possible funding streams for your organization, and how to assess which one(s) will meet the needs of your unique organization.
• Create a Fundraising Plan: Once you’ve got a handle on the possible ways you could generate revenue for your organization, I’ll show you how to create your Fundraising Plan, complete with your budget, chosen funding strategies, and action steps.
• Start Raising Money with Concrete Action Steps: I’ll get you started with some practical, concrete action steps you can take right away to start working towards raising money using your Fundraising Plan.

Want to start a nonprofit, but not sure HOW to start? I’ll show you how to validate and develop your nonprofit idea, flesh out the basics you’ll need to launch, define your mission and signature program, and review the process to file for nonprofit status in the USA.

Audience Takeaways:  

• Validate Your Nonprofit Vision: Learn how to complete effective community and market research and validate your idea so you can be sure your Nonprofit will make a genuine community impact AND be financially viable.
• Chart a Course for Your Nonprofit: Learn how to craft your mission statement, choose your first program, and define your nonprofit’s brand so you can launch with confidence!
• Prepare to File for Nonprofit Status and Launch: Understand the steps required to file for official 501(c)3 nonprofit status in the USA and create your action plan to get started.

Volunteer recruitment, engagement, and retention looks different now than it did just a few years ago. With trends showing a national decline – then rebound! – in volunteering and giving, nonprofits need to experiment with new strategies for recruitment and retention. In this interactive workshop, we’ll cover the basics of outcomes-focused volunteer recruitment, discuss current trends and their implications on volunteer management, and exchange new ideas for engaging volunteers in deeply impactful ways.

Audience Takeaways: 

• Volunteer recruitment basics with a focus on impactful learning and engagement
• How to determine ideal volunteer roles working backwards from your organization’s ultimate outcomes
• Current trends and their implications for volunteer recruitment and retention in the modern era
• Strategies to improve volunteer retention and help volunteers move into deeper roles with your organization

“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together”. African Proverb

What do a litter pick-up project and a nonprofit restaurant have in common? How can a food bank team up with a volunteer organization to combat political polarization? All around us are potential partners to amplify and streamline social impact – if you know how to look for them. In Creative Collabs, I’ll talk through real-life examples of innovative and impactful social impact partnerships and the basic steps to start thinking about how to team-up for good in your community.

Audience Takeaways: 

• Clarify your ultimate goals and outcomes for a social impact partnership
• What a creative and successful partnership looks like (with real-life example(s))
• Best practices for formalizing a win-win partnership

Contemplating nonprofit board service, or about to start your journey as a nonprofit board member? In this interactive workshop, we’ll cover the basics of board service and governance while taking a deeper look at the context of board service in our current and ever-evolving nonprofit ecosystem (spoiler alert: board service looks different today than it did 20 years ago!).

Audience Takeaways: 

• What nonprofit board governance is and why it is so important 
• The 3 fiduciary duties of nonprofit board members
• How board and staff dynamics, roles and responsibilities evolve based on the phase of the organization
• Current trends and conversations in the nonprofit sector and what they mean for board service
• How to assess your personal readiness to serve and find the right board

People are striving to find purpose and opportunities to make an impact in all aspects of their lives — especially their workplace! The good news is, more and more businesses are incorporating corporate social responsibility and employee volunteerism into their employee engagement efforts. Team members – especially HR, ERG, or CSR professionals – often lead or take on roles in these praiseworthy efforts — and are also charged with demonstrating how these efforts are effective and connect to employee recruitment and retention. In this workshop, we’ll talk through the connection between employee volunteerism and social impact programming and recruitment, engagement, and retention and develop strategies to align company values with social responsibility program best practices.

Audience Takeaways: 

• The latest research on how corporate social responsibility and employee volunteer initiatives impacts employee recruitment, engagement, and retention.
• Strategies to align company values, interest areas, policies, and practices with social responsibility initiative best practices
• Concrete next steps to launch or build upon social responsibility initiatives