List of workshops
Thursday,
September 21
2:00 – 3:30pm ET
Building Your Development Team
Presenter: Yvonne Garcia, Senior Affiliate, Cause Effective
Have you ever wondered how to start building a fundraising team and whether it's worth the high cost of hiring development professionals?
Focused on small to mid-sized organizations, this workshop will address how to start building a development team based on your organization's model, outline the roles and responsibilities of each development staff, discuss how to convince the Board you need to staff up, and identify how to measure the return on investment.
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Thursday,
October 05
2:00 – 3:30pm
Federal Grants 101: Uncle SAM Wants You!
Presenter: Harriet Cutshall & Derick Dreher, Your Part-Time Controller
In fiscal year 2022 alone, 26 different federal agencies awarded over 56,000 grants to charitable organizations. Does your nonprofit know how to take advantage of these funding opportunities?
Join us for this introductory session on federal grants, where we will share how to search for federal funding sources and review best practices in federal grants management.
This session will:
Illustrate how to search for and identify sources of federal awardsthrough the grants.gov website.
Introduce the steps needed to apply for federal awards through thegrants.gov website.
Describe grants management policies and procedures that your nonprofit will need to have in place in order to effectively implement, report, and closeout a federal award.
Summarize the Uniform Guidance that governs federal grants policies, and common pitfalls to avoid.
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Thursday,
October 19
2:00 – 3:30pm ET
Digital Content + Keyword Strategy 101: Catering Your Content and Finding Your Audiences
Presenter: Evan Briggs & Erin Baright, Digital Marketing and Engagement, Wingo
In this collaborative workshop, you'll learn how to develop a content strategy that follows SEO (search engine optimization) best practices, centers your audience, and elevates the digital identity of your organization.
Together, we will explore strategies for getting the most out of your content–creating and organizing materials to be used and refreshed over the long term and across multiple digital platforms.
We will discuss tools to effectively locate and target your audiences with action-inspiring content.
And finally, we will take a tour through Google Ad Grants and work together to develop a keyword strategy that ensures your website and digital content is attracting as wide an audience as possible.
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Thursday,
October 26
2:00 – 3:30pm ET
Disarming Microaggressions
Presenter: Dr. Talee Vang, Urban Trauma
We all may have blind spots when it comes to how we interact with one another and with clients or program participants.
Microaggressions are invalidations that can include the words we use, our actions, or the message implied by our behaviors. Having the ability to recognize microaggressions and to intervene or disarm them, can help us create a safer and more welcoming environment for our clients and colleagues.
Join this 90-minute, interactive training where attendees will increase their ability to understand and recognize what microaggressions are, as well as learn strategies on how to disarm them.
By the end of the training, participants should be able to:
Recognize microaggressions
Differentiate between micro and macroaggressions
Discuss different ways of intervening with microaggressions
Practice addressing microaggressions
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Thursday,
December 07
2:00 – 3:30pm ET
Communicating the Financial Information that Matters Most to Your Board
Presenter: Rachel DeMatteo, Director, Your Part-Time Controller
In this session, we’ll discuss ways nonprofits can improve financial reporting to their entire board – not just the resident CPAs. We will also provide alternative presentation ideas that help direct the Board’s attention to the financial information that matters most.
Attendees will learn how their nonprofit finance team can:
Define your Board audience and their background.
Educate the Board on fiscal responsibilities and understanding key financial information.
Identify the financial message that needs to be conveyed.
Determine the best method to illustrate that message.
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Thursday,
January 18
1:00 – 2:00pm ET
Nonprofit Board Financial Management
Presenter: Rachel DeMatteo Director, Your Part-Time Controller
In this session designed for Board members, we will outline board financial responsibilities and share best practices that can be championed by board members, no matter their background. During this session, we will share an example audit report and Form 990 that will be used throughout the presentation to enhance learning.
This session will:
Define the nonprofit board member’s financial responsibilities and why they are important.
Explain common policies and procedures that should be in place at every nonprofit organization.
Explain effective practices on how to responsibly monitor financial activities (including review of key documents).
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Wednesday
June 1st, 2022
11am - 12:30pm ET
The Necessity of Non-profit Storytelling in the Digital Age: How to Use Social Media to Tell Compelling Stories
Presenter: David Castillo, Digital Director, Hispanic Federation
How can you harness the power of storytelling to grow your digital audience, to turn them into supporters, and even build your list of donors? In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn basic storytelling techniques and how to create strategic communications that can turn empathy into action to advance your mission using popular social media platforms. We will:
Review basics of big three social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Review case studies that feature different types of digital stories
Learn storytelling fundamentals like structure, conflict, and resolution
How to use an event as a hook for telling stories
Develop a story on-site about the workshop using one of the three social media platforms to present at end of the day
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Wednesday
June 15th, 2022
11am - 12:30pm ET
Succession Planning for the Chief Executive
Presenter: Emily McKay President/Managing Director, EGM Consulting, LLC
Does your organization have a plan in place in the case your chief executive decides to step down or is suddenly unable to fulfill the role? Two-thirds of nonprofits don’t!
Join us for a conversation with consultant Emily Gantz McKay and several nonprofits that successfully implemented a chief executive transition. Consider roles and implications for the Board of Directors, outgoing and incoming chief executive, other staff, funders and community. Learn the basic components of both scheduled and emergency transition plans and how to develop and implement them.
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Wednesday,
June 22nd, 2022
11am - 12:30pm ET
Everyone Leads: Finding Our Way to Performance, Contribution and Belonging
Panel Discussion: Rich Rivera of Renew & Reconstruction, LLC
These are times that call for leadership at every level of the organization. The nonprofit organizational challenges are multi-layered: switching from in person engagement to virtual programming, experimenting with hybrid staffing models, reducing dependency on a single source of funding, and keeping up with the latest updates on emerging viruses and the impact on staff, families, and communities. Leadership as currently defined can’t do it all and nonprofits need new strategies to address the pending and complex challenges. Meeting these challenges will require the talents and energies of staff at all levels of the organization.
Webinar Objectives/Topics
Reframing Leadership: Leading with influence and action regardless of title or position.
3 myths of leadership and what they will mean to facing challenges.
Tools/Practices: What it takes to create an organizational culture where everyone leads.
Learning from the field: Real life testimonies of leading frontline staff, influencing and taking action in their spheres of influence.
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Wednesday,
June 29th, 2022
11am - 12:30pm ET
Yes, You Can! Recruiting Effective Board Members
Presenter: Ivy Fairchild of Landmark Consultants
An effective board of directors is one of the most important ways to ensure the success of your nonprofit. Board building should be an ongoing process with year-round activities and clear strategic goals. In this webinar you will learn to move beyond recruiting the average applicant by creating a strategic framework to identify, recruit, engage, and develop the talents of board members. We will provide you with tools to help you build a pipeline of potential board members, build a board matrix to find the effective board members your organization needs, provide questions to engage prospective candidates and create clear engagement expectations.
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Wednesday,
July 20th, 2022
11am - 12:30pm ET
Acquiring Friends, Champions and Supporters—Establishing an Individual Donor Program
Presenter: Ivy Fairchild of Landmark Consultants
According to Giving USA, individual giving has been the biggest source of private giving for years, far outpacing foundation or corporate giving. Successful nonprofits aim to have diversified funding streams, and individual donors giving plays an important role in making this happen. This webinar will provide you with an overview of the fundraising landscape and walk you through the key components of an individual giving program. You will walk away with the ability to explain the importance of individual giving in your fundraising strategy; learn key steps to develop a successful individual giving program and understand how to draft a plan to begin or build upon your individual giving program.
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Thursday,
September 8, 2022
11am - 12:30pm
College Loan Forgiveness for Nonprofit Workers
Presenter: Amy Czulada, Outreach & Advocacy Manager, Student Borrower Protection Center
Join Hispanic Federation and the Student Borrower Protection Center for an online seminar highlighting updates to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and to see if you qualify for this benefit. The Department of Education recently overhauled the PSLF program, designed to allow nonprofit and public service workers who have been struggling under the weight of student loan debt a path to relief. In short, borrowers who were previously ineligible because they had the wrong loan, were making payments on the wrong payment plan, or were knocked off track due to processing errors can now receive credit toward forgiveness for those years worked in public service. Certain provisions expire October 30, 2022 and borrowers should act now to take full advantage.
In this discussion we will:
Determine whether your employment qualifies you for this program
Discuss the kinds of loans that are eligible
Provide guidance on how to navigate the new process before the
deadline to access this relief
Provide an opportunity to ask questions about accessing debt relief
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Wednesday
September 21,
11am - 12pm
Decoding the motivations and strategies of high capacity donors
Presenter: Dianne Bailey, Managing Director, National Philanthropic Strategy Executive, Bank of America
With the number of Americans giving to charity on the decline overall, many nonprofits increasingly rely on a smaller and more affluent circle of supporters to meet their fundraising goals. The importance and influence of these high capacity donors only increased during the past year.
The most recent Bank of America Study of Philanthropy, the 8 th in our series of reports on giving by wealthy U.S. households, illuminates many expressions of generosity by affluent Americans. The series offers practical insights into donor demographics including rising women, LGBTQ+ and ethnically-diverse donors. Our presentation will explore what motivates affluent donors to give and stop giving, and which organizations affluent Americans currently support. These insights can help build the confidence and increase the success of nonprofit staff and board members when seeking the support of high capacity donors, with the goal of securing transformational gifts to advance the nonprofit’s mission.
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Tuesday
October 4,
11am – 12:30pm
Tech Tuesday: Cybersecurity 101
Presenter: Dayonel Mejia, DNF Solutions
Are you doing the basics to secure your organization? Today’s IT and network capabilities have enabled the strategies that have kept many companies afloat during the pandemic. At the same time, cyber-attacks have increased and new data security laws have emerged, adding new challenges for agencies. There is an abundance of misinformation and confusion around cybersecurity, and nonprofit agencies are making the same common mistakes and misconceptions that plague other industries.
Agencies need to consider blending new cybersecurity investments with enhanced cyber knowledge to reduce their risks, optimize their budget for preventative measures, and make progress toward compliance requirements.
Dayonel Mejia, a cybersecurity professional who specializes in the needs of small and medium sized non-profits, will break down the concept of cybersecurity risk into easily understandable concepts. Attendees can use this information to begin thinking about the cybersecurity posture and start uncovering their risks immediately.
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Tuesday
October 11,
11am – 12:30pm
Tech Tuesday: Cloud Collaboration 101
Presenter: Dayonel Mejia, DNF Solutions
In the past 2 years, the demand to adapt technologically happened faster than many were expecting. We all got new tools to leverage cloud solutions and keep teams connected, but are we using them effectively?
In this webinar, we will discuss the tools, particularly within Microsoft 365, and strategies available to help teams work together, collaborate with external partners, and manage projects. We will cover Microsoft Teams; file sharing with OneDrive and SharePoint; and using Planner or Trello, Teams, and SharePoint to manage a project.
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Wednesday
October 26,
11am – 12:30pm
Facebook Content Strategy for Nonprofits
Presenter: Elana Levin, Program Director at New Media Mentors; Director of Trainings at Netroots Nation
Facebook may be part of your everyday life, but knowing how to post to it isn't the same as having a strategy of what to post and how to post it for your organization. In this course we will learn about the algorithm that dictates who sees your posts and best practices for creating engaging Facebook content. We will also provide a brief introduction to the world of Facebook Ads.
We’ll take some time to review the Facebook pages of a few of the organizations participating in the workshop.
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Tuesday,
November 15,
12:00 – 1:30pm
Advocacy and Lobbying 101: Legal Tips for 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Advocates
Presenter: Mallory Morales, Northern California Counsel, Bolder Advocacy Program, Alliance for Justice
501(c)(3)s play an important role in educating the public about policy issues and actions taken by elected officials. After this workshop you will have a clear understanding of how to maximize your organization's ability to engage in advocacy, the kinds of advocacy activities 501(c)(3)s can engage in, and when an activity is considered lobbying.
Participants will learn:
How federal tax law permits lobbying for charities and how lobbying is defined;
One easy step most charities can take to maximize the amount they’re allowed to spend on lobbying;
Yearly lobbying limits for charities;
Tips for taking advantage of the narrow definitions of lobbying – which will help charities make the most of their lobbying limit; and
The application of these rules to ballot measure activities.
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Thursday,
November 17,
12:00 – 1:30pm
When they go low… We go local: Advocacy & local campaigns
Presenter: Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet, Executive Director, Hope CommUnity Center
Working for social change hasn’t been easy lately. But we can still create change in our local communities. Join this dynamic workshop on how to create local advocacy campaigns that will impact the lives of thousands in your community.
Key Discussion Points will include:
Power Analysis
Identifying local issues
Creating winning coalitions
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Wednesday,
November 30,
11:00am – 12:30pm
Considering Contracts
Presenter: Mario Vasquez, Esq., Mario Vasquez & Associates PC
This workshop will discuss the basic issues every nonprofit should consider when creating or negotiating a contract. At some point, every organization has to enter into contract with another entity, for goods or services. It is important to know what to look for in these agreements if you are handed one, and what to put in them if you are drafting one. We will work with a sample contract and analyze its various parts and provisions.
If you have a specific contract you are interested in discussing or particular questions about contracts, please submit it via the registration form so that we can address them in the context of the session.
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Wednesday,
December 7,
11:00am – 12:30pm
Events that Keep on Giving
Presenter: Yvonne Garcia, Senior Affiliate, Cause Effective
Raising funds is no easy task and fundraising events can help create an opportune environment for engaging individuals in your organization's work and mission. Learn how to plan and execute a seamless event that can raise funds while building excitement about your organization and support for years to come.