Serving Nonprofits. Strengthening West Virginia

WVU: Promoting Organizational Change and Leadership
2015-05-14 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | WVU Health Sciences Center, John Jones C, Morgantown, WV
May 14, 2015, 1pm-4pm, WVU Health Sciences Center, John Jones C (Room G285C), Morgantown, WV
Promoting Organizational Change and Leadership
HaeJung Kim, PhD, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University School of Social Work
CEUs: 3 Social Work hours; 3 GPC hours (Skill Area: Management); 3 CECNPM hours (Core Area: Human Resources Development – Management)
Registration Fee: $35 (Early bird rate of $31.50 by March 27, 2015)
Target Audience: All levels of practitioners
This workshop is designed to expand nonprofit professionals’ knowledge and understanding on human service organizations and to provide approaches for managing human services organizations effectively. Organizational management and leadership theories will be introduced and discussed. Workshop participants will be exposed to various management practices in administering public and private not-for-profit organizational programs. This workshop will provide participants with the fundamentals of organizational culture change and discussed the role of leaders in nonprofit organization. Topics includes; assessment of organizational culture; organizational change theory and its applications, traditional and current leadership theories in nonprofit organizations.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will define their organizational culture; be able to analyze the structure and dynamics of human service organizations and understand leadership theory; and be able to determine their leadership style that are successful in promoting a healthy organizational culture.

WVU: How to Make the Most Out of Your Special Event
2015-05-14 09:00 - 12:00 | WVU Health Sciences Center, John Jones C, Morgantown, WV
May 14, 2015, 9am-12pm, WVU Health Sciences Center, John Jones C
(Room G285C), Morgantown, WV
How to Make the Most Out of Your Special Event
Jacki Englehardt, MSW, ACSW, Professional & Community Education Coordinator, WVU School of Social Work
CEUs: 3 Social Work hours; 3 GPC hours (Skill Area: Management); 3 CECNPM hours (Core Area: Financial Resource Development)
Registration Fee: $35 (Early bird rate of $31.50 by March 27, 2015)
Target Audience: All levels of practitioners
Whether it’s a fundraiser, an annual meeting or an educational conference, event planning requires attention to detail and a thoroughness that often is learned on the job and/or through missteps. Attend this workshop to learn the ins and outs of this important process, from planning to execution, anticipating glitches to assessment and evaluation. Best practices and resources will be shared including helpful checklists, relationship building, marketing ideas, contract negotiation, sponsorship, and the use of advisory/planning committees to name a few. This workshop will give you the tools you need to plan a great event for your organization.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to define the primary roles and tasks of a special event planner/organizer; define the different types of corporate and social events; outline and summarize the details of planning any special major event; identify best practices in event planning; describe the pros and cons of utilizing advisory and planning committees; describe the importance of networking, relationship building, and marketing to the event planning process and execution; understand basic concepts of contracts and banquet event orders and identify cost saving methods such as sponsorship and in-kind donations.

Transforming West Virginia's Nonprofits - Wheeling
2015-05-13 10:00 - 14:00 | Catholic Charities West Virginia, 2000 Main Street, Wheeling, WV, 26003
THE CHALLENGE
Nonprofits are viewed by investors and donors as mission-driven organizations, and the evaluation of success focuses on a nonprofit’s impact in the community. Though mission-driven, nonprofits are business enterprises as well, with business models that make programs and organizations operate and succeed. As community leaders, it is our responsibility to ensure that nonprofits in West Virginia transcend public scrutiny ensuring purpose of mission, ethical practices, accountability and transparency.
During this series of regional gatherings, nonprofits will come together for dialogue and discussion around guiding principles in the unveiling of West Virginia’s Principles and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence and the future of the nonprofit sector in the Mountain State.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
All Nonprofit leaders, staff, and volunteer board members.
WEST VIRGINIA PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE
West Virginia’s nonprofit organizations provide a wide variety of valuable services and products that are essential to communities across the state. The success of these nonprofits is dependent upon public confidence and support. The West Virginia Nonprofit Association, in partnership with Dr. Susan Aloi of West Virginia Wesleyan College and a team of stakeholders, has developed these Principles & Practices to serve as a model for West Virginia nonprofit organizations to guide their operations and practices, enabling them to meet their missions.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR WEST VIRGINIA’S NONPROFITS?
Communities throughout West Virginia are having deep conversations about our state’s future by asking What’s Next for WV? The same applies to the nonprofit sector, and in this session we bring nonprofit leaders and representatives together to allow for fresh, innovative thinking to emerge on the future of West Virginia’s nonprofit sector.
Download the Flyer (PDF): 2015 Transforming WV Nonprofits Tour

Nonprofits LEAD: Nonprofit Capacity Building Conference
2015-05-08 08:30 - 16:00 | Marietta College, 215 Fifth Street, Marietta, OH, 45750, United States
Friday, May 8, 2015
8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Marietta College
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Early Bird Registration (March 13 – April 10): $25
Regular Registration (April 11 – May 8): $35
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Meeting community needs through the work of nonprofit organizations, grassroots groups, and social enterprise can be extremely rewarding. It can also be challenging. Join nonprofit staff, volunteers, board members, funders, and community members from the Mid-Ohio Valley and beyond as we explore how we can sustain our work and ourselves and succeed both personally and professionally.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Keynote Speaker
Paul Daugherty is the President and CEO of Philanthropy WV.
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External Factors Panels
Three External Factors Panels will be held in the morning. Panelists will explore how these factors impact organizations, both internally in terms of their capacity as well as externally in terms of their missions and community impact. The three External Factors Panels are:

Economic Opportunity: Oil & Gas
Health Care
Policy & Advocacy

Plenary Lunch Speaker
Suzanne Allen is the President and CEO of Philanthropy Ohio.
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CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
During registration, participants will be asked to choose two workshops
out of the following six to attend during the afternoon sessions.
Sustaining Ourselves

Becoming Better Leaders
Work-Life Balance

Sustaining Our Resources

Diversifying Your Organization’s Funding
Is Your Staff Invested?

Sustaining Our Work

Grant Writing and Program Planning
Strategic Planning

Transforming West Virginia's Nonprofits - Martinsburg
2015-05-05 10:00 - 14:00 | Holiday Inn – Martinsburg, 301 Foxcroft Ave , Martinsburg, WV, 25401

WVU: Ethics in the Workplace
2015-05-01 09:00 - 16:00 | Randolph County DHHR, Elkins, WV
May 1, 2015, 9am-4pm, Randolph County DHHR, Elkins, WV
Ethics in the Workplace
Wanda S. Wyatt, MS/ADC-S/LSW/SAP/ICADC, Therapist, Seneca Health Services, Inc.
CEUs: 6 Social Work hours (approved for 6 SW ethics hours); 6 GPC hours (Skill Area: Management); 6 CECNPM hours (Core Area: Human Resource Development – Management)
Registration Fee: $65 (Early bird rate of $58.50 by April 3, 2015)
Target Audience: All levels of practitioners
Ethics made easy. Ethical dilemmas can be avoided if we can understand the role ethics play in the workplace. Areas of focus: why do we have ethics, define ethics and the place ethics has in the workplace, dual relationships, dealing with minors, and dealing with stress (care for the worker).
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to identify the difference between moral and legal standards of conduct; understand and apply the NASW Code of Ethics; explore personal values and beliefs; apply principles to ethical dilemmas; and deal with countertransference and burn out.

Philanthropy WV: Philanthropy’s Ethical Leadership in Economic Crisis
2015-04-30 08:00 - 10:00 | Four Points by Sheraton Charleston, 600 Kanawha Boulevard East , Charleston, WV, 25301
hosted by Philanthropy WV and The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
Generously sponsored by The Maier Foundation, Inc.
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A Visit & Guest Presentation with
Rip Rapson, President & CEO of The Kresge Foundation of Troy, MI
(For Mr. Rapson’s full bio, visit here: http://kresge.org/sites/default/files/Uploaded%20Docs/Rip-Rapson-bio2015.pdf)
The progress of any town, city, county or state relies on a strong base of sector leadership including Private (business, industry, and labor), Public (local, county, state, and federal government), and Independent (philanthropy and nonprofits). If these three sectors are strong, we see economic progress, civic growth, and overall quality of life improvement. When one is weak or collapses, the others are challenged to step up to lead and assist with a community’s revitalization, preservation and growth.
This role of philanthropy’s ethical leadership, in WV or elsewhere, is key in good times and in bad. To demonstrate how the sectors of community-economic development, government, business, and many others can work together for progress, Philanthropy WV and the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation are thrilled to host Rip Rapson, President & CEO of The Kresge Foundation.
Mr. Rapson will provide an energizing and insightful breakfast presentation on Thursday, April 30th at Four Points by Sheraton in Charleston, WV. Mr. Rapson will discuss the city of Detroit and the role Ethical Leadership Foundations played in partnering with the private and public sectors to revitalize his community, region and state. The cost is $20/person for Philanthropy WV/WVNPA Members and $30.00/person for Non-Members.
He will share his experiences of recovery from the Great Recession in Michigan, The Kresge Foundation’s work to bring different sectors together for progress, and share insights from his time at the McKnight Foundation. You will be surprised to see that WV and Michigan have in common, especially as we move our states forward for economic prosperity.
This program is part of Philanthropy WV’s 2015 Launching Solutions in the Mountain State Series.
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WVU: Participatory Management in Non-Profit Settings
2015-04-24 12:30 - 15:30 | Gaston Caperton Center, Clarksburg, WV, United States
April 24, 2015, 12:30pm-3:30pm, Gaston Caperton Center, Room 148, Clarksburg, WV
Participatory Management in Non-Profit Settings
Debra Hunt Young, EdD, EdS, MSW, Program Coordinator – Charleston/Beckley WVU School of Social Work
CEUs: 3 Social Work hours; 3 GPC hours (Skill Area: Management); 3 CECNPM hours (Core Area: Human Resource Development – Management)
Registration Fee: $35 (Early bird rate of $31.50 by March 27, 2015)
Target Audience: All levels of practitioners
Managing non-profits can provide both reward and challenge for social work managers, and having a management approach that promotes employee morale and ownership can increase the rewards. This workshop will help social work managers identify participatory management strategies that promote morale, retention, and ownership in the non-profit setting with stakeholders and employees. Using a variety of interactive tools, media, and discussion, participants will explore how to be an effective and ethical leader, identify strategies to incorporate in the workplace, and develop a better understanding of organizational structure influences and participatory management approaches to non-profit agency settings.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to identify participatory management strategies to incorporate in the non-profit setting; develop an understanding of individual leadership style; identify formal and informal organizational structure hierarchy; and influences in the agency setting, and identify ethical and effective management functions.

Transforming West Virginia's Nonprofits - Parkersburg
2015-04-22 10:00 - 14:00 | Our Community’s Foundation, 1620 Park Avenue, Parkersburg, 26102

Transforming West Virginia's Nonprofits - Morgantown
2015-04-15 10:00 - 14:00 | American Red Cross, 1299 Pineview Drive, Suite 300, Morgantown, WV, 26505
Please note: The location for this event has been changed to the American Red Cross office at 1299 Pineview Drive, Suite 300, in Morgantown.
THE CHALLENGE
Nonprofits are viewed by investors and donors as mission-driven organizations, and the evaluation of success focuses on a nonprofit’s impact in the community. Though mission-driven, nonprofits are business enterprises as well, with business models that make programs and organizations operate and succeed. As community leaders, it is our responsibility to ensure that nonprofits in West Virginia transcend public scrutiny ensuring purpose of mission, ethical practices, accountability and transparency.
During this series of regional gatherings, nonprofits will come together for dialogue and discussion around guiding principles in the unveiling of West Virginia’s Principles and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence and the future of the nonprofit sector in the Mountain State.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
All Nonprofit leaders, staff, and volunteer board members.
WEST VIRGINIA PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE
West Virginia’s nonprofit organizations provide a wide variety of valuable services and products that are essential to communities across the state. The success of these nonprofits is dependent upon public confidence and support. The West Virginia Nonprofit Association, in partnership with Dr. Susan Aloi of West Virginia Wesleyan College and a team of stakeholders, has developed these Principles & Practices to serve as a model for West Virginia nonprofit organizations to guide their operations and practices, enabling them to meet their missions.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR WEST VIRGINIA’S NONPROFITS?
Communities throughout West Virginia are having deep conversations about our state’s future by asking What’s Next for WV? The same applies to the nonprofit sector, and in this session we bring nonprofit leaders and representatives together to allow for fresh, innovative thinking to emerge on the future of West Virginia’s nonprofit sector.
Download the Flyer (PDF): 2015 Transforming WV Nonprofits Tour

VolunteerWV: Strength-Based Grant Writing
2015-04-15 - 2015-04-17 | Beckley Dream Center, 224 Pinewood Drive, Beckley, WV, 25801
Strength-Based Grant Writing is intended to help build new capacity for nonprofit organizations. This hands-on, intensive training will help aspiring and experienced grant writers approach grant writing from a strength-based perspective. Strength-based grant writing seeks collaboration, shared understanding, and commitment to action by the organization and the larger community in identifying opportunities for change and new direction. At the end of this training, participants will not only understand all the components of a grant application, but will also have a new way of looking appreciatively at what works in their organization and community.
More than 300 people have attending this workshop since its inception. One participant recently wrote:
I had the absolute pleasure of participating in your Strength Based Grant Writing Workshop this past October. I cannot express to you how extraordinary and worthwhile I found the entire process.
So far, my organization has been approved for two of the grants that I have written – there is no doubt in my mind this would not have been feasible without the tools and knowledge I gained through your workshop.”
Come and join the growing network of nonprofit professionals approaching grant writing from this unique and energizing perspective. Registration is limited to the first 50 people.
We will be asking questions such as:

What are our organization’s strengths? What can we build on? What makes us unique? How do we use our strengths to get results?
What are our stakeholders asking for? How can we reframe challenges to be seen as exciting opportunities? What new skills do we need to move forward?
What do we care deeply about? What do we want more of? What strategic initiatives would support our aspirations?
What meaningful measures would indicate that we are on track to achieving our goals?

What resources are needed to implement our most vital projects?
WVU Continuing Education Certificate in Nonprofit Management
This training is approved for the WVU Continuing Education Certificate in Nonprofit Management. All hours completed during the three days can be counted towards the certification. For more information or to enroll in the program you can visit http://socialwork.wvu.edu/continuing-education/continuing-education-certificate-in-nonprofit-management or contact Jacki Englehardt at 304-293-3280, jacki.englehardt@mail.wvu.edu

Training Times

April 15: 10am-5:00pm
April 16: 9am-5:00pm
April 17: 9am-12:30pm

Cost
Registration is $199 per person. This fee covers all materials, lunch on Wednesday and Thursday and breaks each day. Members of the West Virginia Nonprofit Association are eligible to attend at a discounted rate of $149. Please make checks payable to Volunteer West Virginia. We would be happy to send an invoice if that is more convenient for you or your organization. We are unable to accept credit card payments.
Lodging
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Fairfield Inn, 125 Hylton Lane, Beckley, WV 25801. If you would like to be included on the room list and have the lodging cost added to your invoice, please indicate this on your registration form. If you prefer to make your own reservation, you can call 304-252-8661 and ask for the Volunteer West Virginia room block.
Instructors
Alice Ruhnke, the founder and chief operating officer of The Grant Advantage, works with nonprofit organizations to help them increase their organizational capacity and secure funding.
www.thegrantadvantage.net
Trish Hatfield, president of CharacterEthics, helps people build skills, co-create solutions, and explore tough issues that lead to better performance as individuals and communities.
www.characterethics.com
Questions?
Please contact Moya Doneghy at 304-558-0111 or moya.doneghy@wv.gov.
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Transforming West Virginia's Nonprofits - Charleston
2015-04-14 10:00 - 14:00 | Habitat for Humanity Restore Education and Community Center, 815 Court St., Charleston, WV, 25301, United States

Transforming West Virginia's Nonprofits - Beckley
2015-04-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Beckley Dream Center, 224 Pinewood Drive, Beckley, WV, 25801

WVU: Ethical Challenges of Social Work Supervision
2015-04-09 09:00 - 16:00 | WVU-Eastern Division, Erma Byrd Health Professionals Center, Martsinburg, WV
April 9, 2015, 9am-4pm, WVU-Eastern Division, Erma Byrd Health Professionals Center, Multimedia Room, Martinsburg, WV
Ethical Challenges of Social Work Supervision
Patricia Chase, LCSW, EdD, Clinical Associate Professor, WVU School of Social Work
CEUs: 6 Social Work hours (approved for 6 SW ethics hours); 6 GPC hours (Skill Area: Management); 6 CECNPM hours (Core Area: Human Resource Development – Management)
Registration Fee: $65 (Early bird rate of $58.50 by March 20, 2015)
Target Audience: All levels of practitioners
Ethical practice in social work supervision carries with it a number of familiar and new challenges that can require thoughtful and reflective practice to successfully navigate. Working with power imbalances, assessing and ensuring worker competence in the midst of high work demands, managing dual relationships and role changes, providing useful and meaningful evaluation and feedback, supporting workers through traumatic critical incidents, all carry potential ethical dilemmas that are difficult but at least familiar. Sorting through the ethical conflicts of social networking, helping workers ethically integrate spirituality into social work practice, maintaining client service amid diminishing budgets and increasingly complex policy/practice changes are less familiar but equally challenging. This workshop will explore with participant involvement these ethical risks to supervision. Ideas will be shared on how to avoid potential pitfalls as well as possible solutions worth examining.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will reflect on their own supervisory practices to examine potential ethical challenges that may be inherent in their work; identify social work ethical standards that apply to supervision; gain ideas from fellow participants about how to manage ethical dilemmas they may encounter in supervision; and increase their understanding of the ethical challenges unique to modern social work supervision.

Transforming West Virginia's Nonprofits - Huntington
2015-04-08 10:00 - 14:00 | Christ Temple Church, 2400 Johnstown Rd, Huntington, WV, 25701

NPQ Webinar: Executive Transitions
2015-03-31 13:30 - 14:30 | Webinar
BoardSource, NPQ, and Raffa, P.C. Are Proud to Present . . .
A Complimentary, 4-Part Webinar Series on
Executive Transitions: Critical Guidance for Boards and Executives (Whether a Transition Is Imminent or Not)
Recent research indicates that nonprofit CEOs are aging in place—that is, that approximately 40 percent have been in their jobs for over ten years, and a majority are over 50 years old. This translates to a significant potential for turnover, whether planned or unplanned. With that turnover of longstanding execs or even founders come opportunities but also real and serious risks . . . to reputation, organizational relationships, and—generally—the sustainability of your organization.
How do you find the right match and set the right table so that you can attract and keep the leader your organization needs for its best possible future?
Executives should be able to move out of leadership with the strategic and management capacities of the organization robust and vibrant and broadly held. Succession planning and executive transition, done well, deliver this.
This series of webinars involves some of NPQ’s most expert authors on the issue, addresses the components of good succession planning and transitions, from deepening the leadership “bench” to creating exit agreements.
Webinar #1 The End Game: An Organizational Sustainability Framework for Executive Transitions
March 31, 1:30–2:30 pm EST
Presenters: Ruth McCambridge, Editor in Chief Nonprofit Quarterly and Tom Adams, Director of Sustainability, Succession and Transition Planning, Raffa P.C.
This session will define some terms associated with succession planning and executive transition, and will take a quick look at the variables involved in various scenarios. Additionally, we will discuss what part succession planning plays in nonprofit sustainability. What are the factors that need to be attended to for the organization not to lose ground during a transition, and how should these generally be approached? What are appropriate and inappropriate end goals for an executive transition? Among the topics that will be addressed are the role organizational culture plays in transitions and the importance of using the moment to examine your enterprise model, strategic directions, and the leadership competencies needed for success.
You will be able to sign up for the entire exclusive four-part webinar series:

Webinar #2 CEO Confidential: Making, Communicating, and Implementing Your Organizational Exit (April 28, 2:30–3:30 pm EST)
Webinar #3 The Common (and Sometimes Pernicious) Traps in Executive Transitions (May 19, 1:30–2:30 pm EST)
Webinar #4 Preparing for the Inevitable: The Board’s Role in Succession Planning (June 16, 1:30–2:30 pm EST)

Make sure to sign up today, and NPQ will send instructions on how to join the session!

WVNPA Webinar - Funding Rural America: Finding New Grants for Small Communities
2015-03-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Webinar
When has it ever been easy to secure funding for rural communities? Is there a way to level the playing field so rural nonprofits as well as small towns and counties/boroughs can compete for both government and private sector grants? What are the other options for financially supporting a rural project whether you are a nonprofit or local government? Are collaborative efforts worth the effort? And, of course the biggest question: Who is funding rural America? These, and other relevant questions, along with current trends affecting rural funding will be addressed in this webinar presented by Cynthia Adams, CEO of GrantStation.
90 minutes, plus 30 minutes for questions and answers.
About the Presenter
Cynthia Adams has spent the past 40 years helping nonprofit organizations raise the money needed to do their good work. Many of her early efforts centered on raising funds to set aside wilderness areas in Alaska. In 1990 she started her first company, the Alaska Funding Exchange. This endeavor served as the testing ground for a national company, GrantStation, which opened its Internet doors in the fall of 2001. Cindy built this business because she believes that grantseeking requires a thorough understanding of the variety and scope of grantmakers and sound knowledge of the philanthropic playing field. Her life’s work has been to level that playing field, creating an opportunity for all nonprofit organizations to access the wealth of grant opportunities across the U.S. and throughout the world.

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Nonprofits LEAD: You Cannot Not Communicate
2015-03-19 17:30 - 19:00 | DaVinci’s Restaurant, 215 Highland Avenue, Williamstown, WV, 26187, United States
Communication is a powerful tool. Whether you are a director, staff member, volunteer, or board member, what you have to say is important and how you say it is vital. The way in which we communicate with one another can help propel our work and our causes forward or bring them to a grinding halt. Join Dr. Robert McManus as he explores the concept of communication and its importance to nonprofit staff, directors, leaders, volunteers, and board members. He will provide basic tips and guidelines to help more effectively communicate both verbally and non-verbally with all stakeholders.
Heavy hors d’oeuvre and beverages will be provided. Networking will be from 5:30 – 6 p.m. Dr. McManus’ presentation will begin at 6 p.m.

Cost:
Intended Audience:

$15
Scholarship funding can be requested.
Executive directors; nonprofit staff; board members; volunteers; interns
Dr. Robert McManus is the McCoy Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Communication at the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business at Marietta College, Ohio. He is also the co-author of Understanding Leadership: An Arts and Humanities Perspective. Dr. McManus holds an MBA as well as Ph.D. in Communication Studies. He regularly teaches courses on leadership studies and lectures on the intersections between leadership and communication.
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Nonprofits LEAD: Executive Directors Learning Group
2015-03-11 08:30 - 09:30 | Our Community’s Foundation, 1620 Park Avenue, Parkersburg, 26102
The Executive Directors’ Learning Group is open to any and all person’s leading a nonprofit organization in the Mid-Ohio Valley. The group meets every other month and rotates between Washington County Ohio and Wood County West Virginia. We meet from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. The topics, issues, and ideas discussed are identified by the participants. The sharing of articles, videos, and other resources is encouraged. Light refreshments are provided.
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WVNPA Webinar - Building a Powerful Grants Strategy for 2015
2015-03-10 13:00 - 14:30 | Webinar
This webinar will take participants through the process of establishing a grants calendar for the next 12 to 18 months. Fast-paced, and filled with action steps, Cynthia Adams, CEO of GrantStation, will discuss how to design and adopt a Grant Decision Matrix before beginning the process of building a specific grants strategy for each project. All participants will also receive a set of worksheets that they can use to create their own approach to building an overall grantseeking strategy for their organization. This webinar is for beginning, intermediate and advanced grantwriters.
75 minutes, plus 15 minutes for questions and answers.
About the Presenter
Cynthia Adams has spent the past 40 years helping nonprofit organizations raise the money needed to do their good work. Many of her early efforts centered on raising funds to set aside wilderness areas in Alaska. In 1990 she started her first company, the Alaska Funding Exchange. This endeavor served as the testing ground for a national company, GrantStation, which opened its Internet doors in the fall of 2001. Cindy built this business because she believes that grantseeking requires a thorough understanding of the variety and scope of grantmakers and sound knowledge of the philanthropic playing field. Her life’s work has been to level that playing field, creating an opportunity for all nonprofit organizations to access the wealth of grant opportunities across the U.S. and throughout the world.

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WVNPA Webinar - Government Grants and Contracts: Getting Reimbursement for Your Nonprofit's Indirect Costs
2015-02-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
The new reforms make clear that a nonprofit’s indirect costs are legitimate expenses that need to be reimbursed and that nonprofit organizations receive at least partial reimbursement of their indirect costs from states, local governments, and other pass-through entities for services they perform under federal awards.
New federal rules aren’t just for nonprofits with federal grants. Whether your nonprofit receives funds directly from a federal agency or federal funds are mixed into your state and local contracts and grants (which you may not even be aware of), the new rules from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) went into affect at the end of December and apply to you. Most notably, the OMB Uniform Guidance makes clear that state and local governments are required to reimburse you at least a portion of your nonprofit’s indirect costs (sometimes called overhead or administrative costs) when federal funds are involved. But, this is not the only change nonprofits need to be aware of to ensure governments pay their fair share of the costs. To maintain good standing, nonprofits must also be aware of and comply with other changes as well.
Join us for a one-hour webinar where you’ll learn:

What the major changes in the OMB Uniform Guidance are that will affect your organization;
What your organization needs to do to take advantage of and comply with the new rules;
What you can do to ensure state and local governments implement the changes as OMB intended.

This webinar will be presented by David Thompson, Vice President of Public Policy, and Beth Bowsky, Policy Specialist – Government-Nonprofit Contracting, both at the National Council of Nonprofits. For more information about the changes, visit:
http://www.councilofnonprofits.org/public-policy/omb-guidance-indirect-costs.
Bring your questions– Beth and David will be happy to address them.

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Nonprofits LEAD: Conflict Resolution
2015-02-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Our Community’s Foundation, 1620 Park Avenue, Parkersburg, 26102
Do you love conflict? For most of us, the answer to that question is “absolutely not!” However, whenever you work with people, conflict is going to be a part of your professional life. Each of us has the power to reduce our anxiety about conflict and actively engage it as a force for personal, professional, and organizational growth. This introductory level workshop will give participants theory, skills, and strategies to understand conflict better and manage it more effectively.
Participants will learn about: principled negotiation, family systems theory, the various conflict management styles and how to decide which to use in a given situation, and how to decide when to employ mediation or other external resources. Participants will also engage in hands-on activities to build skills such as active listening, re-framing, and facilitation that can be applied to conflicts in various situations and settings. Participants will leave the workshop with a better understanding of their own conflict management styles and skills that can improve their effectiveness in supervision of staff and volunteers, collaboration with colleagues, work with or on a board, and even in your personal relationships.
Cost: $25 Refreshments will be provided. Scholarship funding can be requested.
Intended Audience: Executive directors; staff members; board members; volunteers; interns
Maribeth Saleem-Tanner holds an MA in conflict transformation with a concentration in peacebuilding and development from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Her research at EMU focused on understanding differing perspectives on community development in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, where she lived and worked for over ten years at High Rocks, an award-winning youth leadership development program. She also worked with nonprofits throughout the Allegheny Mountain and taught English and Management courses through New River Community College. Saleem-Tanner currently oversees the Office of Civic Engagement and teaches courses within the action component in the McDonough Leadership Program.
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West Virginia Policy Institute: Ethical and Effective Practices in Public Policy Affairs Programs
2014-12-05 11:00 - 15:00 | State Capitol Complex/House Chamber, Charleston, WV, United States
[A joint program of Philanthropy West Virginia and the West Virginia Nonprofit Association.]
Mark your calendar for the West Virginia Policy Institute in Charleston on December 5!
With featured speaker Tim Delaney, President and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits.
The West Virginia Policy Institute will make nonprofits and foundations familiar with ethical practices of policy engagement for making meaningful improvements for the state’s nonprofit sector.
With more than 6,000 nonprofit organizations employing more than 10% of West Virginia’s workforce, the philanthropic and nonprofit sector plays a critical role in advancing our state. This four-hour program will assist nonprofit and foundation board members, trustees, CEOs, staff, and volunteers on how they can ethically and effectively be involved in the public policy and government relations realm to advance the work of their organizations and the needs of our citizens and communities.
“Many times philanthropy and nonprofits want to be engaged in the public policy and government relations process, but don’t know how to do it or what they can or cannot do. This program provides an outstanding opportunity for nonprofits and foundations of all sizes and varieties to join us and learn the ethical and effective strategies they can undertake to advance their public policy and government relations work,” says Paul D. Daugherty, president and CEO of Philanthropy West Virginia. He adds, “we will be providing sessions for the Novice to the Moderate to the Expert throughout the Policy Institute and unveil our joint Public Policy priorities for the 2015 WV Legislative Session”.
Philanthropy WV and the WVNPA are thrilled to host this program with the support of the Maier Foundation focused on Ethical & Effective Practices in Public Policy Affairs Program. The program includes National Council of Nonprofits President & CEO Tim Delaney to provide an overview on national issues, Congressional relations, and approaches on the local level for nonprofits to advocate for their work. A variety of presenters will provide ethical practices for policy engagement, tracks for novices, moderate, experts; and unveiling of the 2015 legislative priorities for the sector will conclude the day.
Registration is $20 for members and $40 for non-members.
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IdealWare: Digging into Program Data
2014-12-03 13:00 - 14:30 | Webinar
Three sessions, every Wednesday 1:00 – 2:30 PM Eastern, December 3 – December 17.
[WVNPA Members receive a $25 discount. Email lauralee@dev.wvnpa.org for details.]
In a condensed three-part look at our very popular class from this spring, we’ll take a complete look at how data can inform and effects your organization by defining the questions you want to answer with data, looking at the existing places you can find important organizational data, and what actual metrics you should track. We’ll continue with the all-important discussion around how should you think about it, measure it, and present it to others. Finally, we’ll wrap up thinking about how it can inform your decision making process.

WVNPA Webinar: Employee Handbooks: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2014-12-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Webinar
Join Matt McMillion, a leader in management and human resources, who will share his expertise in Employee Handbooks. Matt will share why it’s smart to have one, essential policies you should consider, and how one can mitigate organizational risk.

For those registering online, we apply a 8.5% convenience fee to cover the processing cost of providing this service to you. We still accept standard registrations by check to do so please download the form and send in payment for this event in advance.
Mail-in registration form

WVU: Creating Public Value for Your Agency or Organization
2014-11-14 08:30 - 11:30 | Gaston Caperton Center, Clarksburg, WV, United States
Allison Nichols, Ed.D., Clinical Extension Professor and Evaluation Specialist,
West Virginia University Extension
CEUs: 3 Social Work hours; 3 CECNPM hours (Special Topics/Electives)
Registration Fee: $35 (Early bird rate of $31.50 by October 17, 2014)
Target Audience: All levels of practitioners
As private, state and national funds become harder to obtain for our programs, it has become increasingly important to be able to articulate the “public value” of our work. So often we measure the “private value” of our efforts – how it affects individuals — but fail to determine how our programs benefit the public as a whole. This workshop will help you learn how to identify the public value of your work and write and disseminated effective public value statements and stories.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to distinguish between private and public value; have determined the public value of their own program; have written one or more public value statements and/or stories; and have ideas for communicating public value to their stakeholders.

Ask the Experts: Nonprofit & Foundation Legal Issues
2014-11-13 11:00 - 12:15 | Webinar
[Presented by Philanthropy West Virginia and the West Virginia Nonprofit Association.]
JOIN US for a joint webinar with Philanthropy WV and the West Virginia Nonprofit Association on Nonprofit & Foundation Legal Issues. Our legal experts will provide a brief presentation followed by Q&A with webinar participants. From operational concerns to best practices, please join us and “Ask the Experts!”
This event is FREE to Philanthropy WV and WVNPA members. Cost is $30 for non-members. Non-members will be invoiced.
Contact Philanthropy WV at 304-517-1450 or by email at info@philanthropywv.org for more information.
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Nonprofits LEAD: Growing Donors
2014-11-13 09:00 - 12:00 | WVU Parkersburg, 300 Campus Drive, Parkersburg, WV, 26104, United States
Are you new to donor-based fundraising or looking for a refresher course on asking donors for funding? Growing Donors will look at the basics of fundraising from identifying prospects to first time gift and from first time gift to committed donor. Like a garden, fundraising requires commitment, cultivation and harvesting, and in this course we will identify what you need to get started, how to prepare a donor for the ask, thanking the donor for their gift and maintaining the donor for future asks.
About the speaker: Sarah Burton is is the Senior Analyst and Grant Specialist at Ethos Leadership Group, LLC, an executive coaching and employee training consultancy with clients from corporate businesses, institutions of higher learning, non-profit organizations, and political campaigns. Sarah has a rich professional background. She formerly served as Director of Advancement at Ohio Valley University. She has also served as Executive Director of Marion County Foundation (WV) and as a lead manager for a Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation grant through Marion County Chamber of Commerce (WV). Sarah has written and managed grant projects ranging in size from $10,000 to $1.8 million and frequently serves as a grant consultant and evaluator.
Cost is $15 per person. Scholarship funding can be requested here.
Register HERE.
For more information contact Heather Eichner, Program Manager, at heichner@nonprofitslead.org or 740-376-4559.

WV Center on Budget & Policy: Summit on Race Matters in Appalachia
2014-11-10 - 2014-11-11 | Unnamed Venue, Charleston, WV, United States
The Summit will offer a unique opportunity for people from throughout West Virginia to participate in a constructive, in-depth conversation about the complicated history of race relations and racial inequality in the state. Participants will examine the causes and consequences of structural inequities that exist across social, political, education and financial systems and how those inequities negatively affect everyone. It will encourage strong leaders, working together, to commit themselves to building a community that improves the well-being of all West Virginians.
The event will include a screening of “Cracking the Codes: Social Determinants of Racial Inequality” on Monday evening, November 10th and workshop discussions about this powerful movie on Tuesday, November 11th. The event will also feature keynote speakers, including Dr. Gail Christopher, Vice President for Policy and Senior Advisor, W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Mike Wenger, author of My Black Family, My White Privilege, and senior fellow at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC.
November 10, 5PM-9PM
The Culture Center, State Capitol Complex
November 11, 8AM-5PM
Four Points Sheraton, 600 Kanawha Blvd, downtown Charleston
[REGISTER NOW]
Contact
Linda Frame
West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
304-720-8682
lframe@wvpolicy.org

Bust the Overhead Myth: Own Your Own Costs
2014-10-23 15:30 - 16:30 | Webinar
[Presented by the National Council of Nonprofits and Jitasa]
Do you know how to properly account for the costs of your nonprofit’s programs and activities? Your mission matters. Knowing what it costs to deliver your mission does too. In the past critics have discouraged donors from donating to nonprofits with “high overhead costs” but increasingly nonprofits are able to show that “overhead” or ”administrative costs” are essential to their missions.
Join the largest network of nonprofits in the country as we “bust the overhead myth” together by first learning how to Own Your Own Costs. Guest presenter: Jeff Russell, CEO and founder of Jitasa, an accounting and bookeeping firm dedicated to helping nonprofits thrive.
This basic level webinar is for nonprofit finance committee members, bookkeepers and accountants, executive directors, and others who manage or oversee financial operations at a charitable nonprofit.
Register today!
