2010 Community Leadership Series/Training Sessions
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Assessments and Measurements

Presenter: Greg Owen
Presenter: Greg Owen, PhD. Greg is a consulting scientist with Wilder Research
Contact information: greg@wilder.org ; (651)280-2714
Class description: The class will provide an introduction to outcome based program evaluation and logic models. Topics will include
• Selecting appropriate measures
• Conducting data collection
• Analyzing and reporting results
• Using data to support fundraising efforts.

Individual Coaching Appointments: Schedule an individual appointment with Greg to review your agency’s measurement and assessment tools. This is a perfect opportunity to share what your agency developed after last year’s training and fine tune your measurement tools with advice from an expert!

Characteristics of Healthy Organizations

Presenter: Jeanne Murphy, Strategic Solutions
Contact information: www.strategicsolutions.org ; (612)616-6861 or (651)351-9241
Class description: Learn the characteristics of a healthy organization by understanding each area of capacity building and assessing what your organization’s current strengths and challenges are. You will also gain knowledge about the life-stages of nonprofits and assess what critical things need to be done in each stage to be effective and sustainable.
Presentation: Healthy Organizations
Handouts: Healthy Organizations-Lifestages, Jeanne Murphy bio

Enhancing Governance Leadership

Presenter: Jeanne Murphy, Strategic Solutions
Contact information: www.strategicsolutions.org ; (612)616-6861 or (651)351-9241
Class description: Gain a framework for engaging you board and volunteer leaders at a higher capacity level. Topics will include:
• Roles & responsibilities of nonprofit board members
• Roles of the board chair and committees
• Tips for maximizing meetings
Presentation: Enhancing Governance Leadership

Practical Human Resources for the Small Nonprofit

Presenter: Maggie Kilpatrick, KilKenney Consulting, LLC
Contact Information: kilkenney.consulting@mac.com , (651) 699-1337
Class description:This workshop is designed to help build and maintain a strong staff of employees and volunteers by addressing the HR issues small non-profit organizations face every day. The attendees will learn valuable ways to: Find and keep good employees and volunteers, coach and develop managers and employees, recognize and reward employees & volunteers even with a tight budget. The course will also touch on the basics of HR policy and procedures and provide important tools for a small organization such as: Employee Handbook, Volunteer Guidelines & Policies, Documentation for HR practices like hiring, discipline and termination.

Individual Coaching Appointments: Schedule an individual appointment to ask Maggie any H.R. questions pertinent to your agency.  You may bring along any documents or materials you would like her to review and provide feedback on.

Updated Sustainable Fundraising Strategies

Presenter: Lori Jacobwith
Contact information: lori@lorijacobwith.com ; (952)949-2105
Class description:This session is constantly updated with fresh, new information to catapult attendees to a new level of awareness and participation in their individual fundraising & donor communication. The session provides tools to more succinctly share your mission, begin to remove fears & anxiety about asking for money, and shed awareness on missed opportunities in donor communication and cultivation.

Small Group Coaching: Telling your Story Powerfully: In this session participants will receive hands on coaching for one two minute story. Intention of the session is to allow each participating organization to learn powerful tools for sharing a story that conveys the importance and value of your mission.

Webinar: Coaching on “Telling your Story Powerfully”

Presenter: Lori Jacobwith
Contact information: lori@lorijacobwith.com ; (952)949-2105
Class description: In this session participants will receive direct coaching for one two minute story. Intention of the session is to allow each participating organization to learn powerful tools for sharing a story that conveys the importance and value of your mission.

Financial Management & Budgeting

Presenter: Michael Anderson, Loan Officer and Trainer, Nonprofit Assistance Fund
Class description: This workshop is designed to give nonprofit staff and board members a practical overview of nonprofit finance.  Learn financial terminology, gain a working knowledge of the nonprofit income statement and balance sheet, walk through the annual budgeting process, and learn to create accurate cash flow projections.

Individual Consulting Appointments: Schedule an individual consulting appointment to have Michael review your agency’s financial documents, provide feedback on the financial summaries you give to your board, and answer any specific questions you may have regarding budgeting.

Calculating True Program Costs

Presenter: Janet Ogden-Brackett, Loan Fund Manager and Trainer, Nonprofits Assistance Fund
Class description: Do you know what your programs cost?  Are you communicating their full costs to others?  This workshop provides an overview of program budgeting and allocations.  Learn to identify direct and indirect expenses, and then review different methods of allocating expenses to programs.  An understanding of true program costs is essential for management decisions, program administration, effective development work, and compliance on your 990.

Individual Consulting Appointments: Schedule an individual consulting appointment to ask Janet specific questions about how your agency is calculating your program costs.  Bring materials with you to the appointment.

Creating your Annual Fund Development Plan

Presenter: Lori Jacobwith
Contact information: lori@lorijacobwith.com ; (952)949-2105
Class description:This session will be an opportunity to create an annual fund development plan. Participants will leave having thought through the annual calendar for fundraising activities and donor & constituent communication. This is a working session with an outcome of having created the framework for a fund development work plan for both board and staff.   Since this is a working session, be prepared to bring your fundraising calendar, current fund development plan and  schedule of fundraising events to the training session. Attendance with your Board Chair and Fundraising or Fund Development Committee chair would be highly beneficial.

Managing Conflict at Work

Presenter: Maggie Kilpatrick, KilKenney Consulting, LLC
Contact Information: kilkenney.consulting@mac.com , (651) 699-1337
Class description: This workshop will help the attendees learn about their personal conflict style and how it affects their ability to resolve a variety of conflict situations in a small organization. The session will include a discussion of conflict theory, an individual assessment tool and practice using the results on work related situations.

Webinar:  Coaching on your Annual Fund Development Plan

Presenter: Lori Jacobwith
Contact information: lori@lorijacobwith.com ; (952)949-2105
Class description: Participants must submit a completed annual fund development plan to receive coaching on their plan. This session would be excellent for your agency’s Executive Director as well as your Board Chair and Fundraising Committee Chair.

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