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Governance and Management Training Sessions
A combined strong management team and nonprofit board of directors is an essential component to maintaining organizational effectiveness. Governance and Management Training Sessions for nonprofit board members and agency staff provide educational opportunities regarding governance issues, nonprofit trends and best practices. In addition, these sessions also provide a basic overview of nonprofit board service, training designed for new board members and prospective board members. Nonprofit Partnership member organizations are encouraged to use the Governance and Management Training Sessions as ongoing training for board and staff members. Pre-registration required.
For more information regarding registration, call the Nonprofit Partnership at (814) 454-8800 or e-mail TNP@thenonprofitpartnership.org
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The Story Project
NPP's 2010 training in the power of story combines the leader's personal story, the organization's elevator speech, and the organization's story of transformation into a compeling narrative that moves audiences. Participants leave the session with a recording that can be used for marketing purposes.
Facilitated by Robert Wooler and Heidi Kerner.
Tuesday, August 10, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm at WQLN, 8425 Peach Street, Erie
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The Grantsmanship Center Training Workshop Comes to Erie August 16-20
This summer The Nonprofit Partnership will again host the world-renowned Grantsmanship Center training program, an intensive full week of immersion in best-practice grant-finding and grantwriting skills. This training will be held at the Bayfront Center for Maritime Studies and is limited to 30 participants, so reserve your spot today by following this link. The Nonprofit Partnership will pay $400 toward the $895 tuition fee for current members.
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Hot Topics in Nonprofit Human Resources
Presented by Attorney Dan Miller, MacDonald, Illing, Jones & Britton
Friday, September 17, 9:00 to 11:00 am at the Jefferson Educational Society, 3207 State St., Erie
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RSVP to 454-8800 or tnp@thenonprofitpartnership.org
e-Marketing and Web 2.0 Solutions for You
Through an educational partnership with the eMarketing Learning Center at the Center for e-Business and Advanced IT, we are pleased to be able to offer a variety of workshops to accelerate your organization's progress with e-marketing and digital communication to enhance your organization's position in the nonprofit marketplace. A series of hands-on workshops in e-marketing and succeeding in the online channel are ongoing and just for nonprofits.
Upcoming in 2010 are the following session topics:
Social Media Integration Strategies
Building Effective Online Communities
Detailed information is available in the download below:
Learning Circles—Real World Answers to Real World Problems
- Network with colleagues who face similar challenges and opportunities
- Get support and coaching from peers
- Take actions and learn from them
- Experiment with new ideas “before taking them public”
- Achieve personal goals
Learning Circles are based on an internationally known process called action learning. People learn best when they actually apply new information and materials to real world, current challenges. The same principle indicates people learn best when they share ongoing feedback about their experiences. Learning Circles are comprised of seven peers who meet monthly to discuss current projects, share insights and materials, support and challenge each other and develop action plans. The program includes an orientation session for participants followed by monthly meetings. Learning Circles are offered in peer coaching and training formats.
The Nonprofit Partnership is now conducting an Executive Director's Learning Circle facilitated by Gary Ravetto. Participants are involved in education, discussion, and peer coaching to hone their skills as leaders and managers.
The Story Project
To tell their stories effectively, the leaders of today’s nonprofit organizations need to build or re-discover the essential skills and elements that are involved in compelling stories that engage listeners and readers – stories that will communicate our essential message to the general public. These stories must have simple and direct language and contain the essential elements of a classic story – a beginning, middle, and end, a sense of building suspense, a memorable character or protagonist, and a message that resonates loudly at the end. These are the critical story elements that have probably atrophied over the years – a natural consequence of writing too many high-language funding proposals. The Story Project will utilize Learning Circles in the training format to build or re-build these skills for Erie organizations.
Components of the Story Project Learning Circles:
- A general workshop or educational forum for leaders of organizations that introduces the nuts and bolts of good storytelling with concrete examples of how stories can be used to transform organizations in the eyes of funders and the general public through a wide array of products: new website homepages, podcasts and audio downloads on websites, mainstream media applications, story cards, stories played on your telephone hold systems, in-person presentations, and more.
- A full day single-session “learning circle” format that takes a small group of nonprofit leaders step by step through the process of developing compelling stories about their organizations, stories that can be told about the organization itself and its transforming qualities, and stories that clients who have been transformed can tell about their experience through audio recording and editing.
- A published guide on the use of story to transform organizations and the way they present themselves to their stakeholders.
As we look to build these skills for nonprofit leaders, The Nonprofit Partnership has enlisted Heidi Kerner, an Erie-based communications specialist, to partner with us to build the skill base and the creative orientation of local nonprofit leaders. As the project moves forward through its training and implementation phases, our evaluation strategies will include tracking increases in donations, increases in website traffic, increases in volunteerism, and anecdotes that demonstrate new levels of connection and breakthrough with stakeholders and the general public. Combining these results with the compelling products of The Story Project, we hope to elevate this strategy as a promising new model for marketing and community renewal.
To reserve your spot, contact The Nonprofit Partnership at 454-8800 or e-mail at TNP@thenonprofitpartnership.org.
The Story Project is part of a national pilot project of the Independent Sector. The focus of the pilot project revolves around recent research regarding the perception of the nonprofit sector by the general public.