Nonprofit Executive Breakfast
Nonprofit Executive Breakfasts are held three times a year with the goal of bringing together the executive leaders of Kansas City s nonprofits for idea sharing and networking. At this breakfast, we will facilitate discussion around trending table topics including board development, increasing public awareness, oper...
Webinar - Equitable Representation in Nonprofit Marketing
Building Movement Project s national report on Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector, released earlier this year, demonstrates that women of color encounter systematic obstacles to their advancement over and above the barriers faced by white women and men of color. Further, race and gender influence career outcome...
Grow Your Individual Donor Base Using Smart Communication
What is smart communication? Donor-centered emails, direct mail appeals, event invitations, grant applications, newsletters (both digital and print), social media posts, annual reports, websites and giving pages yield much more than communication that doesn t focus on the donor. What is the simple change that jumpe...
Webinar - Your Questions Answered: New Foundation Directory Tour
As we work on making our organizations more inclusive, each of us must build strategies for how we can get a seat at the table, use that seat well, and bring people to the table who might face barriers that we do not. Join Dr. Shirley Davis for a webinar follow-up to the sold-out January program Inclusion 2019: Red...
Best Practices in Nonprofit Marketing Operations
Focusing on end-to-end marketing optimization from planning and budgeting to execution and analysis - is critical for nonprofits to increase efficiency and drive results. Learn how to choose the right systems, formulate performance metrics, build budget projections and streamline execution to achieve your organizat...
Funding & Growing Non-Profits: A Workshop
Join us for a workshop on funding and growing nonprofit organizations.
Who's at The Table? Board Recruitment Reconsidered
How do you get the right people around your board table? And once you have them, how do you keep those board members active and engaged in the work of the o...
Avoid a Failure to Launch… Five Essential Strategies to Ensure Your Career Soars
Join Us for a Coffee Talk to discuss Career Development! You may have heard that career success is as much about luck as it is about skill. Well don t believe the hype! You can make your own luck; you just need to follow a plan that incorporates calculated steps along with tried-and-true strategies. Join President ...
Understanding Nonprofit Financials
Are you a nonprofit board member or an experienced nonprofit professional that would like a refresher on financial statement basics? Are you new to the nonprofit sector and would like to learn the key elements of nonprofit financial statements? By law, a nonprofit s financial information is public information and av...
Mission Marketing Institute
One of the biggest challenges that nonprofit organizations identify is increasing public awareness. Nonprofit marketing is a multi-faceted effort that is constantly changing as attention spans shorten and new apps roll out. Communicating your organization s story requires both sides of the brain, all hours in the d...
Federal Grant Readiness
Billions of federal grant dollars are awarded to worthy causes each year, but both winning and managing federal grants is not easy. Join us to learn what you need before saying yes to federal $$$. In this grant management workshop, presenter Jasmine Markanday discusses the federal laws, governances, and appropriati...
Webinar - Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector: Race to Lead Report
Your board has recognized the need for diversity and inclusion. So how do you recruit authentically and avoid tokenizing candidates and new members? What changes do you need to make to truly transform your board? And is your organization ready? Please join Nicole Jacobs Silvey, President and Founder of Connection C...
Building a Culture of Volunteer Engagement
Through volunteer engagement, organizations have the potential to tap into an abundance of skills, talent, and resources. As the engagement manager or director, you have the potential to be an influential leader and change agent to help your organization down the path of mission-fulfillment. However, many of us enc...
Mission Marketing Institute
One of the biggest challenges that nonprofit organizations identify is increasing public awareness. Nonprofit marketing is a multi-faceted effort that is constantly changing as attention spans shorten and new apps roll out. Communicating your organization s story requires both sides of the brain, all hours in the d...
Nonprofit Connect Membership Orientation
Katie Castro, Director of Membership, will walk through all of the resources and benefits that your organization should be using day to day. You ll learn: How to access the Foundation Directory and GrantStation to find funding How to update your Member Profile, making your organization more visible to the community...
Mission Marketing Institute
One of the biggest challenges that nonprofit organizations identify is increasing public awareness. Nonprofit marketing is a multi-faceted effort that is constantly changing as attention spans shorten and new apps roll out. Communicating your organization s story requires both sides of the brain, all hours in the d...
Secrets from the Other Side: 5 Keys to Corporate Philanthropy
If you could just get to the right person, or come up with the perfect hook, getting companies to invest in your philanthropic mission would be a breeze, right? Not exactly. As someone who spent her career running a global corporate foundation and soliciting major gifts from corporations, foundations and individual...
