ONLINE TRAINING

Fall Fundraising Series – Overview

Designed for development staff at small to medium-sized organizations, this series of workshops will build skills and engage different dimensions of fundraising.

Attend the free first session—a series overview held virtually—to learn strategies for strengthening practice and relationships in all areas of fundraising. At the end of the overview, presenters from each of the topic-specific workshops (fundraising strategy, grant writing, individual giving/annual appeals, online-giving and events) will give 5-minute introductions to their session so that you can chose which sessions you want to attend. You may choose to attend 1 or all! (For the best value, attend all sessions.)

Presented by Michelle Bibbs, Consultant, The Alford Group

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*This overview is free. Please click the link to see detailed pricing for the series.

WORKSHOP

Fundraising Strategy

So you have a mission and a vision, but what is your revenue generation plan or fundraising strategy to make your programs happen? Complete session description coming soon.

Presented by Anedra Kerr, Senior Consulting Associate, Morten Group

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WORKSHOP

Creating Well Crafted Appeals and Engaging Your Annual Fund Donors

Learn tips for crafting appeals to engage your annual fund donors. Participants will explore annual fund revenue goal setting, donor segmentation and tracking, and key components of appeal letters.

Presented by Sidney Freitag Fey, Director of Development and Communications, Delta Institute

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ONLINE TRAINING

Growing Your Digital Fundraising Audience

Gain a solid foundation of online fundraising and digital marketing that will help you increase donations – all based on data, testing, and research. Nathan Hill shares learnings from NextAfter’s first-of-its-kind digital fundraising research lab with the Axelson Center audience.

Presented by Nathan Hill, Consultant, Vice President of Marketing, NextAfter

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WORKSHOP

Re-Thinking Nonprofit Events Post-Pandemic

The pandemic has turned the event industry upside-down. Some nonprofits were able to pivot, while others are trying to identify a strategy that will help them fundraise while minimizing risk. At this workshop, we will look at the components of a successful event and identify the risk associated with event management.

Presented by Melissa Lagowski, Founder/CEO, Big Buzz Idea Group

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WEBINAR

Axelson Access

Building Bridges Across Generations and Cultures: Women in Leadership

Hear organizational insights and personal stories from women leaders representing a variety of backgrounds and nonprofit subsectors. What are the lessons that women leaders can learn from one another? What cross-generational wisdom can be shared? Axelson Access is an opportunity for leaders to reimagine the work that they do.

Invited panelists: Irene Jisun Sohn, Executive Director, Hanul Family Alliance; Britney Robbins, CEO, The Gray Matter Experience; Linda Xóchitl Tortolero, CEO Mujeres Latinas en Accion

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WORKSHOP

Evidence-Based Grant Writing

We will share time-tested strategies for writing proposals that are grounded in evidence and set the stage for sound implementation, monitoring and evaluation.  We will show you how to develop a program logic model and take you through the entire grant cycle from ideation to project close. You will have an opportunity to apply lessons learned to prepare a mock pitch to funders and get feedback from your peers and instructor.

Presented by Valerie Leonard, Founder, Nonprofit Utopia, LLC

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WORKSHOP

Budgeting and True Cost

A viable financial management strategy needs to address a vision for the future as well as incorporate an understanding of the past and present financial position of the organization. This workshop will help participants develop a well-designed budget process that facilitates programmatic, strategic, and fiscal discussions among the leadership team, resulting in a mission-driven budget.

Presented by Gillian Gorra, Senior Consultant, BDO FMA

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WORKSHOP

Managing People Effectively

Balancing one’s primary duties AND managing people may sometimes make managers feel like supervision of staff is the secondary component of their role. This session will help you change your paradigm of management to increase your overall productivity and satisfaction, while providing methods to build your skills to ensure your entire team is effective and efficient. 

Presented by Cori Moschberger, Integrated Advising

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