Effective Marketing Communications on a Shoestring
Description: Most nonprofit organizations have extremely limited marketing communication budgets, but that doesn’t mean they can’t create and execute effective marketing plans. This webinar is...
View ArticleCreative Case Statements
Every organization has a unique story. When a potential donor asks: ‘Who are you? Why should I support you?’ does everyone in your organization tell the same story? Can you anticipate the key...
View ArticleMaximize Your Employee Relationships in Five Easy Steps
Despite the best of intentions, managers and their employees sometimes fall into relationship patterns that erode trust, create conflicts or hinder productivity. In this webinar, we’ll learn how to...
View ArticleAdvancement Best Practices: Advanced Cases Discussion
Join this problem-solving session on how to: Evaluate institutional readiness Identify who is pre-disposed to give Elevate annual giving to new levels Ask effectively Does your institution have...
View ArticleThe Power of Collaborative Solutions
This webinar focuses on building effective coalitions and partnerships for building healthy communities. We all spend too much effort in time-consuming and ineffective coalitions. We know what makes...
View ArticleThe Social Media Audit
A social media audit of systems, implementation, strategy, and culture offers a comprehensive evaluation of the state of your organization’s social media strategy, processes, and systems. Audits are...
View ArticleHow to Produce a Video, Put it on YouTube and Measure Results
YouTube is one of the most popular destinations on the world wide web, but nonprofits are underutilizing this free platform for video messaging. In this one-hour webinar, we’ll discuss strategies for...
View ArticleNaked Meetings: Using Unseen Structures to Achieve Results
Leaders rely on effective meetings to get work done. What if you could make your staff meetings, your board and stakeholder meetings, or your community meetings more effective and efficient? What if...
View ArticleBuilding Real Teams: A Leadership Perspective
Implementing truly effective teams is more difficult than often considered. In this webinar, we will take a realistic and practical look at how an organization’s leaders can foster successful teams....
View ArticleManaging Disruptive Employee Behaviors
Most managers can easily identify an employee performance issue, but what is difficult is effectively communicating this information. From the employee’s perspective when their manager does initiate a...
View ArticleBuilding An Effective Marketing Communications Team
The channels nonprofit organizations can use to engage their various audiences continue to proliferate…which is both a blessing and a curse. Drawing from her own experience building marketing...
View ArticleGetting the Most Out of a Technology Assessment
“Technology Assessment” — What comes to mind when you hear this phrase? Confusion? Excitement? Fear of falling into a giant financial black hole? While these are all legitimate responses, there is an...
View ArticleStrategic Planning Part 1: Cultivation & Organizational Development
Strategic planning should be a means not only to produce a strategy, but also to engage and cultivate stakeholders, develop leadership, and generate new energy, commitment and consensus around...
View ArticleGrant Writing 102
This session is all about efficient grant writing and how to make the most of the proposals you write. First, we’ll look at the broad concepts of grant writing – what to do and what not to do in terms...
View ArticleEffective Strategic Planning Part 2: Getting Results
Strategic planning has a dicey reputation for any number of reasons:1) it often is tedious and time-consuming;2) the issues it identifies are either obvious or not critical to the mission (or both);3)...
View ArticleHow to use your Home Video Camera to Film Nonprofit Testimonials
In this 1 hour webinar, attendees will learn to harness the untapped capabilities of today’s smartphones and home video cameras. We will concentrate on one of the simplest, yet most effective forms of...
View ArticleNaked Meetings II: Structuring Effective Meetings in Contentious Settings
We all have to lead contentious meetings from time to time. Either the topic or participants pose a challenge to a thoughtful exchange of ideas. There seems to be little hope of arriving at decisions...
View ArticleThe Case for Integrated Planning
The term “strategic planning” gets attached to a wide range of nonprofit planning—for programs and services, budgeting, communications, information technology, etc. But these address very different...
View ArticleStrategies for Success: Board Member Recruitment & Retention
Don’t have the board members you need to serve the organization and can’t keep the great ones you have recruited? Building a strong and reliable nonprofit board of directors is no easy task, but...
View ArticleBig Giving Results
How to align a fundraising team to secure “stretch gifts.” Ask appropriately to grow philanthropy. Gain insights to help your team discover, qualify, engage and ask donor-investors who are...
View ArticleNaked Meetings III: Going Virtual
Virtual meetings pose some unique challenges (and benefits) for getting work done across time and distance. In this session we look at the ways you can use structure to create naturally more effective...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Facilitating Groups
At some point, even experienced trainers, facilitators and managers find themselves standing before groups whose dynamics are all over the board. Everyone is expressing an opinion, ideas are flying at...
View ArticleDeveloping an Epic Facebook Strategy for Your Nonprofit
This session will walk participants step-by-step through creating an effective Facebook marketing strategy. We will discuss defining your audience, developing a content strategy, engaging with fans,...
View ArticleCollaboration: What Works and Why
It could be argued that collaboration is the quintessential characteristic of the nonprofit sector. Many of our webinars over the past three years have addressed collaboration in one form or another:...
View ArticleFree Nonprofit Board Portal
I will demonstrate the comprehensive and intuitive XCEO BoardPortal PLUS which provides a confidential environment for board members of nonprofit organizations to communicate and share information...
View ArticleOutput Is Everything!
Most people believe that creating a successful fundraising database happens through data entry. The reality is that data entry is only useful if the data allows you to get the output you need. This...
View Article2/15/2012: The Power of Collaborative Solutions
This webinar focuses on building effective coalitions and partnerships for building healthy communities. We all spend too much effort in time-consuming and ineffective coalitions. We know what makes...
View Article3/7/2012: Creating a Practical Marketing Roadmap
In this workshop, we’ll discuss the unique marketing needs faced by nonprofits and small organizations. With the vast “Universe of Marketing Possibilities”, many organizations don’t know where to...
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