July 10, 2008
Nonprofit Essentials: The Nuts and Bolts of Practical Management

Breakout Session I

• Board Basics from the Organization's Perspective
• Your Fundraising Plan: Where Mission & Money Meet
• Keeping Your Finances in Good Working Order
• HR Basics

Breakout Session II

• Identifying Foundation and Corporate Grant Prospects
• Marketing and Communications
• Creating High Performance Board and Staff Relations
• Essentials of Supervision

Breakout Session III

• Legal Requirements and the Importance of Being Transparent
  Handout 1 Handout 2
• Your Fundraising Plan: Where Mission & Money Meet
• Grantwriting: Getting the Most Out of Your Proposal
• Leading from the Middle

Breakout Session IV

• What Happened? Cost Effective Evaluation
• Recruting, Retaining and Rewarding Your Volunteers
• Web 2.0
  Read Aaron Landry's Blog Post
• Developing and Sustaining Peer Networks
  Handout 1 Handout 2 Handout 3 Handout 4

June 9 - 10, 2008
The Future of Leadership,
2008 Nonprofit Leadership Summit

Monday, June 9

Intergenerational Leadership Experience

• Presentation Slides
  
  
• Notes from various table topic discussions, about 5 target areas: Advancing Your Leadership, Engaging Younger Leaders, Leadership Transitions, Working Across Generations, and Working for a Baby Boomer (or someone from a generation different than your own)

Tuesday, June 10

Early Morning Breakout Sessions

• Influencing Strategies for Leaders in the Middle
  
• Sustainable Leadership Principles: Practical Ways to Creating Your Organizational Future and Legacy

Late Morning Breakout Sessions

• Moving Leadership to the Center of Our Lives: Discovering Our Personal Call to Leadership
  Handout 1 Handout 2
  
  
• Financial Issues for Emerging Leaders
  Handout 1 Presentation Slides

Networking Lunch: This I Believe

• This I Believe Statement from Coral Popowitz
• This I Believe Statement from Kiely Todd Roska

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

• Keeping it Fresh: The Life and Times of the Mid-Careerist
  Handout 1 Handout 2
  
• Navigating Through a Leadership Change
  Handout 1 Handout 2

March 27, 2008
Message + Medium + Mission, 2008 Nonprofit Technology and Communications Conference

Early Morning Breakout Sessions

• Marketing and Communications 101
  
  
• Web 2.0 101 (Technology Terminology from MCN)

Morning Keynote Session

• Nonprofits in an Age of Social Media (resource handout) Also see Beth's Blog, the blog of Keynote speaker Beth Kanter

Morning Breakout Sessions

• Media Relations in the Age of New Media
  Handout 1 Handout 2 Handout 3 Handout 4
  
  
• Digital Youth and Analog Adults - No handouts at this session
  
  
• Why I Hate Facebook
  
  
• Where Technology and the Workplace Collide - NO HANDOUTS at this time
  
  
• Put the Develop Back into Development

Lunch - 2008 Dot.Org Awards

• The Complete Pack Award - The International Wolf Center
  View the certificate
  
  
• The Wisdom of Volunteers Award - KFAI, Fresh Air Radio
  View the certificate
  
  
• The Bright Idea Award - Minnesota Energy Challenge
  View the certificate
  
  
• The Think Global, Act Global Award - New Tactics in Human Rights
  View the certificate

Early Afternoon Breakout Sessions

• Strategic Web Site Design: Once Again, Form Follows Function
  Handout 1 Handout 2
  
  
• Conversation Marketing: New Media Communication Strategy (please note: link to another Web site, not handout)
  
  
• Ten Things You Can Do to Lower Your Data Integration Costs
  
  
• Technology Leadership for the Technically Challenged
  
  
• Accessing Public Sector Resources
  Handout 1 Handout 2

Late Afternoon Breakout Sessions

• How to Get Graphic Design to Work for You
  Handout 1 Handout 2 Handout 3
  
  
• Targeting: Not Just for Elections
  
  
• Advanced Tools 2008
  • Drupal and CiviCRM - CiviCRM Handout 1 Handout 2
  • GIS
  • Google Analytics
  • RSS
    
    
• Social Media Game
  Handout 1 Handout 2 Handout 3 Handout 4
  
  
• Generate More Individual Gifts Using Your Donor Data and Your Web Site

December 11, 2007
Communicators as Change Agents, part of the 2007 Nonprofit Communicators Series

• Presentation
• Communications Plan Model and Templates (50 page PDF document, 232 KB)
• Communications Plan Model and Templates (50 page Microsoft Word document, 1.18 MB)
• Leading from the Middle

December 4, 2007 (morning workshop)
Development Planning for Success, morning workshop

• Development Planning for Success PowerPoint Slides - Audrey Kintzi
• Development Activities Chart
• Development Plan Format
• Development Strategy Matrix
• Memorandum of Acceptance
• Donor Constituency Circles
  

December 4, 2007 (afternoon workshop)
Minnesota Foundations 2008

• Minnesota Foundations 2008 addtions and changes
• Andersen Foundations family tree

July 11, 2007
Media Strategies for Nonprofits, copresented by the Twin Cities Media Alliance.
All documents are Microsoft Word documents created in July, 2007, intended for you to download and modify for your personal use in nonprofit media work.

• News Release Form
• News Release Example
• How to Write a Protest Letter
• Ten Commandments for Letters to the Editor
• Click-through Tour
• E-Newsletter Basics
• Pioneer Press Contacts 2007
• Star Tribune 2007
• Suburban Newspapers
• Greater MN Newspapers
• Community and Ethnic News Media 2007
• Minnesota Public Radio Contacts 2007
• Electronic Media Contacts
• and a few more contacts.doc
  
  

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