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Building Bridges Leadership Institute 2021
2021-07-30 09:00 - 2021-12-17 11:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
This series is offered by The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.
July 30th, August 27th, September 24th, October 29th, November 19th, & December 17th
9:00 – 11:00 AM
Registration Fee: $25, Scholarships are available
Please note, if you attended this session last year you are asked NOT to register for this year, but instead recommend BBLI to a friend or colleague.
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A to Z of Human Resources: HR Compliance
2021-11-02 10:00 - 12:00
This series is offered by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
November 2, 2021
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Registration Fee: $45 for Members, $65 for Nonmembers. Email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org for the discount code.
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Small and medium-sized nonprofits typically don’t have the resources to create a human resources department with an experienced HR professional. The job of HR may be done by the executive director, the chief financial officer, a manager or administrative staff – wherever there is a little capacity or a little interest. So how do you know you’re really doing the right things, complying with the laws, and adhering to best practices?
In this session, we’ll highlight Minnesota and federal employment law so you better understand how to apply and integrate your legal obligations. Examples of what we’ll cover include a core understanding of HR’s legal alphabet soup:

EEO, ADA, ADEA, and the Minnesota Human Rights Act
Employment at will
FLSA and exempt status
Independent contractors
Federal and state leave of absence requirements
MN wage theft law
Miscellaneous Minnesota employment laws

Event Details
This workshop is one session of a two-part series. The second session is HR Best Practices on November 9 from 9 – 11 a.m Central. Use the registration button on this page to register only for the HR Compliance workshop, or register for the full series for $65 for members and $90 for nonmembers.
Speaker Information
Arlene Vernon is a human resource strategist with over 35 years of experience as a consultant and trusted resource for a diverse group of small and medium-sized organizations. She’s seen first-hand what nonprofit leaders face every day, and her results-oriented consulting and training successfully fills that gap. Having worked with over 200 nonprofit and 400 for-profit organizations since starting her firm HRx in 1992, she partners with leaders to develop and implement do-able strategies for the success of your organization. With an MBA in organizational behavior and a Master of Education in counseling, Arlene is both a studied and practiced authority in human resources and human relations. She offers practical, real solutions through her consulting, advising, and training that you can apply today.
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Facilitative Leadership
2021-11-03 10:00 - 13:00
This series is offered by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
November 3, 2021
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
Registration Fee: $45 for Members, $65 for Nonmembers. Email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org for the discount code.
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Facilitation is an essential leadership competency. Facilitative leaders take a step back and nurture collaboration, capacity, and commitment with employees, colleagues, and stakeholders. With effective facilitation, groups can work together to assess a situation, analyze information, create a plan, and make group decisions that stick. The results of facilitative leadership are engaged participants, stronger teams, and efficient collaboration.
In this workshop we explore the qualities, values, and benefits of facilitative leadership. Participants will learn techniques for facilitating meetings that are designed to activate the power of the group: including the focused conversation method of facilitating group discussion and decision-making and the carousel method of synthesizing ideas. Throughout, we will discuss common barriers to facilitative leadership and how to overcome them.
Participants will leave with instructions and further resources for each of the techniques presented.
Event Details
This event will have AI captions via Zoom’s transcription function. Please note that these captions are automatically generated by the computer software and may not always accurately transcribe what is said. If you need professional captioning, or have another accessibility accommodation, please email MCN’s program assistant with your request at least two weeks prior to the start of the event. Although we will attempt to meet all accessibility requests, late request may not be fulfilled.
Speaker Information
Sarah Cohn is a principal consultant at Aurora Consulting. She helps her clients discern their audience’s needs; think about their roles and opportunities as departments, organizations and within broader networks; and build their internal capacity to measure the impact of their organizations and programs. In her experience, complex collaborations with diverse partners succeed when they build in time for listening and honest reflection. She sees her clients as the content experts and herself as the facilitator of nuanced conversations.
Al Onkka is principal consultant at Aurora Consulting. Al is experienced in promoting data-based decision making and organizational learning having worked in the field of evaluation since 2009. Al uses, and builds the capacity of others to use, an evaluative lens to help organizations develop, understand, and improve at the programmatic and organizational level. Al has a master’s degree in evaluation studies from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development and is a member of the Minnesota Evaluation Association’s board of directors.
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Diverse Recruitment and Hiring Strategies
2021-11-03 14:00 - 16:00
This session is offered by the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits.
November 3, 2021
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
Registration Fee: $15 for WVNPA Members, $29 for Nonmembers. Email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org for the discount code.
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Please join us for an engaging discussion designed to empower you in taking bold, strategic action! You’ll learn more about auditing and revamping your nonprofit’s recruitment and hiring strategies through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and leave with at least a handful of immediate levers to pull on your teams.
As part of this training, you will walk out with an understanding of:

Understand the key components of a recruitment and hiring process audit through the lens of diversity and inclusion, from employer branding all the way through to interviews and onboarding
Have the opportunity to hear a case study about a local non-profit’s recent hiring audit and revamping journey
Feel they have concrete tactics for implementing in their own organizations
Have takeaway resources to leverage as next steps

Cost and Registration: National Council Affiliates: $15 / Non-Members $29
Featured Presenters: Viva Asmelash, Inclusion Strategist & Consultant
Viva’s professional purpose is to create environments where people feel truly seen and are inspired to be their best and most authentic selves. She brings this to life as a strategic and intuitive people operations professional with 15 years of experience in purpose-driven branding, high-impact DEI work, leadership training & development, and career-focused marketing. Her sweet spot is the intersection of inclusive messaging, driving people-centered strategic outcomes, and facilitating critical conversations with grace.
For over seven years, she developed the employer brand at Galileo Learning that drew an annual average of over 7,000 applicants, launched and co-led the multi-faceted DEI strategy, managed multiple thought leadership initiatives, and worked to ensure Galileo’s consistent recognition—including being named one of The SF Business Times’ Best Places to Work in the Bay Area (with over ten consecutive years on the list), a Real Leader Magazine Top 100 Impact Company, and one of Forbes’ 25 Best Small Companies in America.
She is a first generation Eritrean-American woman, whose mother—while pregnant with her—emigrated to the United States as a political refugee with three other small children. This has given her a unique, life-long perspective on race, gender, culture, belonging, privilege, and access to education.

A to Z of Human Resources: HR Best Practices
2021-11-09 10:00 - 12:00
This series is offered by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
November 9, 2021
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Registration Fee: $45 for Members, $65 for Nonmembers. Email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org for the discount code.
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Small and medium-sized nonprofits typically don’t have the resources to create a human resources department with an experienced HR professional. The job of HR may be done by the executive director, the chief financial officer, a manager or administrative staff – wherever there is a little capacity or a little interest. So how do you know you’re really doing the right things, complying with the laws, and adhering to best practices?
In this session, we’ll conduct an audit of your HR practices from employee entrance to exit to ensure you’re on track. Examples of what we’ll cover include practical approaches and solutions to:

Hiring practices
Orientation and onboarding
Performance management
HR administration and personnel files
Employee handbooks
Corrective action and termination
What to outsource and what to DIY

Event Details
This workshop is one session of a two-part series. The first session is HR Compliance on November 2 from 9 – 11 a.m Central. Use the registration button on this page to register only for the HR Best Practices workshop, or register for the full series for $65 for members and $90 for nonmembers.
This event will have AI captions via Zoom’s transcription function. Please note that these captions are automatically generated by the computer software and may not always accurately transcribe what is said. If you need professional captioning, or have another accessibility accommodation, please email MCN’s program assistant with your request at least two weeks prior to the start of the event. Although we will attempt to meet all accessibility requests, late request may not be fulfilled.
Speaker Information
Arlene Vernon is a human resource strategist with over 35 years of experience as a consultant and trusted resource for a diverse group of small and medium-sized organizations. She’s seen first-hand what nonprofit leaders face every day, and her results-oriented consulting and training successfully fills that gap. Having worked with over 200 nonprofit and 400 for-profit organizations since starting her firm HRx in 1992, she partners with leaders to develop and implement do-able strategies for the success of your organization. With an MBA in organizational behavior and a Master of Education in counseling, Arlene is both a studied and practiced authority in human resources and human relations. She offers practical, real solutions through her consulting, advising, and training that you can apply today.

Tactical Technology Planning
2021-11-09 13:00 - 14:00
This series is offered in partnership with TechImpact.
November 9, 16, 23, 30, December 7, 14, 2021
1:00 – 2:00 PM ET
Registration Fee: $160 for Members, $200 for Nonmembers for the entire series. Login to the Member Portal to find the the discount code.
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Pre-Work: Introduction to the Planning Process (Prior to November 8)
Let’s set the stage for a great learning experience. Complete your pre-course self-assessment, learn the difference between tactical and strategic planning, and form your technology planning committee.
Session 1: Infrastructure and Security
After introductions and an overview of the course, we’ll dive into hardware best practices, choosing the right software programs and platforms, and how to audit your security infrastructure. You’ll learn how to answer such questions as, how often should you replace computers? What networking equipment should you buy? What kinds of systems should you use for file sharing and collaboration?
Session 2: Data Management
You don’t need to be a data scientist in order to make smart decisions that lead to better outcomes for your nonprofit. Here we’ll cover what it means to be a data–informed organization, along with tools and platforms to help you. Most importantly, we’ll help you learn how to make sense of data and how to use it to strengthen your organization.
Session 3: Technology for Digital Marketing, Outreach, and Fundraising
Whether you are trying to raise money, educate, recruit, or persuade, technology can help. A nonprofit’s digital communication toolkit includes its website, email strategy, social media platforms, messaging, and reporting. In this session, we’ll cover how to create effective communication goals that can determine your strategies and tactics. We’ll also review your website functions and structure, email tools and strategy, and social media use.
Session 4: Technology for Program Service and Delivery
If you’re in the habit of thinking of technology as a back-office utility, it’s time to consider the many ways it can directly help you advance your mission. In this three-part lesson, we’ll cover ways to use technology to increase your reach to people in remote areas or who struggle with barriers to receiving services in person; using prompts and feedback mechanisms to enhance experiences; and connecting communities together.
Session 5: Technology Strategy and Governance
Technology strategy and governance is the way you align technology decisions and practices to your organization’s mission. Strategy relates to the way you align technology decisions to your organization’s mission through roadmaps and blueprints of your overall approach to technology. Governance refers to practices and policies that state how technology should be used. In this session, we’ll cover elements of both strategy and governance, including budgeting and planning, policy creation and staff training, and supporting technology use.
Session 6: Creating Your Tactical Technology Plan
Now that we’re covered the five main areas of technology in nonprofits, you’ve likely identified multiple projects and improvements you want to make. In this last session, we’ll provide frameworks to help identify essential projects and ways to prepare yourself and your project for funding requests. At the end, you’ll put the final touches on your Technology Action Plan and review your next steps.
Who should take this course?
The course is primarily designed for small– to medium–sized nonprofits at a low–to–medium level of technology maturity. However, organizations of all sizes and stages have benefited from this experience. If you have any questions about whether the course is right for you, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
To get the most out of your training investment, we recommend having two people from your organization participate, including the person with primary responsibility for technology and the person who has authority to approve technology expenditures and changes. Allow up to two and a half hours of each homework after each session.
Audience
Accidental Techies, Executives who approve tech

About Our Instructors
Eric Leland
Founder and Director, FivePaths
Eric Leland has spent 15 years working with progressive organizations and businesses tackling online and offline technology challenges. Eric is a founding partner of FivePaths (fivepaths.com), a technology firm that brings unparalleled strategic technology consulting, information architecture, and web CMS and CRM platforms development expertise to each project.

Melanie Meyer
Tech Advisor, Tech Impact​
Melanie works directly with nonprofits to help elevate their technology use to further their mission. Melanie has a 20-year history working with a nonprofit for the overall strategic direction of technology, systems and processes, marketing, communications, and event management.

Building Better Boards: A three-part series for Board Leaders & Executive Directors Session 3
2021-11-09 13:00 - 14:30
This series is offered in partnership with the Maine Association of Nonprofits.

Increasing Board Engagement: Governance as Leadership
Tuesday, October 6, 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Fortifying the Board-Executive Director Partnership
Tuesday, October 27, 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Who’s Next: Proactively Navigating Successful Leadership Transitions
Tuesday, November 9, 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Registration Information:
Single Sessions:
$49 Members/$69 Nonmembers, $20 off additional registrations from the same team (applies to both members and nonmembers). Click HERE to register.
DESCRIPTION:
We’re excited to welcome back international governance consultant Susan Meier to lead this three-part series for board leaders and executive directors as a chance to collectively discuss the various challenges nonprofits face in board development and how to overcome them by fostering a healthy board culture built on trust, candor, and mutual respect. Participants can register for single sessions or the entire series. You will find intended audiences within each session description specific to current and future board leaders and executive directors. Attending as a team is highly encouraged for maximum benefit; discounts on multiple registrations from the same organization.
Session #3: Who’s Next: Proactively Navigating Successful Leadership Transitions
November 9, 1pm-2:30pm EST
Strong leadership is integral to our ability as nonprofits to be adaptive and responsive in advancing our missions. Leadership transitions are inevitable, and yet we rarely prepare for them and we seem surprised when they ‘suddenly’ appear. By avoiding the topic, one challenge is simply traded for a different one and a prime opportunity to strengthen the organization is missed. It’s time we reframed the conversation and shift the mindset about succession planning to one of deeper sustainability planning.
Join us for this interactive session to explore emerging practices in both executive and board leadership transitions. How are these processes different in the nonprofit sector vis a vis the corporate sector? What is the role of the executive director in succession planning? How do we ensure that our practices and procedures are culturally sensitive? Are we intentionally cultivating diverse candidates for leadership opportunities?
In this session, we will:

Explore important considerations of nonprofit leadership transitions and change management
Deepen our understanding of the promising practices and emerging trends regarding executive succession planning
Identify concrete steps to better cultivate board members for leadership roles
Discuss lessons learned about what to do and what not do to increase the chances of a healthy, smooth, and positive transition

Who should attend Session #3
This session is for current and future Board Leaders and Executive Directors interested in using succession planning as a strategy to ensure the sustainability of their missions. Discounts on team registrations!
Learn about Session 1.
Learn about Session 2.
Register for Session 3 HERE or for the entire Series HERE.
PRESENTER BIO:
Susan Meier, Principal at Susan Meier and Associates, LLC and Senior Governance Consultant with BoardSource, brings over 30 years of governance and nonprofit experience to her work. From 2004 through 2011, Susan served as the vice president of consulting and training for BoardSource, the nation’s premier governance resource for nonprofit organizations. She works collaboratively with nonprofit executives and board leadership to identify governance challenges and opportunities and to implement proven strategies to address a broad array of governance issues.
Susan works with all types and sizes of nonprofit organizations from charities to associations to foundations who are advancing their missions in the U.S. and around the world. Much of her work has focused on increasing board engagement, the board/staff partnership, and addressing culture and dynamics in the boardroom. Specifically, she engages boards in a deeper understanding of roles and responsibilities, strategic and generative thinking, governance structures, concrete ways to maximize board meetings, and leadership transitions.
In addition, Susan has served on a number of boards of directors and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Ripon College Board of Trustees where she graduated cum laude. She has served as guest faculty for the Kellogg School of Management Nonprofit Executive Education program, American University, and George Washington University. And, she is the author of the BoardSource publication The Board-Building Cycle: Finding, Engaging, and Strengthening Nonprofit Board Members, Third Edition.
Testimonials about Susan Meier and her work
“Your workshop was one of the BEST I’ve ever attended. Your presentation was excellent. Frank, honest, to the point, and right on target. It seemed that you were able to look into my head and see all of the concerns and you spoke directly to them! Thank you for this excellent workshop.”
—Executive Director, Winter Harbor, Maine
“In spite of having decades of experience on boards and staffing boards, I learned a TON at Susan’s governance training.”
—Senior executive, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Desktop: QuickBooks Made Easy for Nonprofits November 2021 Fundamentals
2021-11-09 14:00 - 16:00
This series is offered by Quickbooks Made Easy.
November 9th – 11th
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Registration Fee: $115 per day or $249 for all three days! WVNPA Members save $50 when attending all three days! Email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org for the special coupon code.
This three day series focuses on QuickBooks materials – all nonprofit-focused!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE DESKTOP SESSION
Day 1: Tuesday, November 9th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST)
The material will cover the basics of setting up and entering transactions specifically for Nonprofits, an overview of the software updates included in the QuickBooks® 2021 as well as advanced topics including:

Welcome to QuickBooks – The different choices and which version is right for you.
What’s new in version 2021 that you may need.
Getting used to the screens and navigating around.
A lesson in accounting QuickBooks style!
Setting up the correct Accounts.
Entering Your Programs.
Adding Your Annual Budget.
Cutting and Pasting from Excel into QuickBooks
Entering Your Donors, Members or Students.
*Topics are subject to change.

Day 2: Wednesday, November 10th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST)
This section will cover advanced material to really help you do some helpful and amazing things:

Entering Your Income – Two Methods.
Entering Donations and Grants.
Entering Membership Dues and Tuition.
Entering Program Service Revenue.
How to get the most out of Items.
Entering and Paying Bills.
Spreading Costs to Programs/Grants.
Essential Reports for the Board/Auditor.
Attaching Scan Documents for free.
*Topics are subject to change.

Day 3: Thursday, November 11th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST)
This section will cover advanced material to really help you do some helpful and amazing things:

Entering Credit Card activity.
Tracking Pledges.
Tracking Restricted Grants.
Tracking Special Fundraising Events.
Printing personalized Donor Thank-You Letters directly from QuickBooks®.
Two Ways to get year-end donor-Acknowledgements.
Recording In-Kind Contributions.
Advanced method of Auto-Allocating Expenses to Programs/Grants.
And More!
Topics are subject to change.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE DESKTOP SESSION
Price: $115 Per Day or $249 for all three days! WVNPA members, save $50 when you register for all 3 days, email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org to request the coupon code.
Earn 6.0 hours of CPE credit! (2.0 each day)
All Participants will receive log-in information prior to the webinar!
MEET THE SPEAKER
Since 2000, QuickBooks® Made Easy™ has been teaching QuickBooks® seminars around the country for various groups, conducting webinars, providing technical support to hundreds of clients, one-one-one consulting, and offering industry-specific streamable training. Our leader and primary trainer Gregg S. Bossen, CPA is not only an expert in the program, but he is the nation’s leading expert when it comes to Nonprofits that use QuickBooks®. Gregg’s teaching style is funny and entertaining, and his energy and knowledge of Nonprofits make his classes a unique experience. Gregg has taught new users as well as other CPAs, who are themselves considered experts in the software. In total, we have taught over 3,500 seminars to more than 55,000 students.
We currently teach for over 24 Nonprofit State Associations, as well as annually at Scaling New Heights, QuickBooks Connect, Grant Station, and TechSoup.

Online: Quickbooks Made Easy for Nonprofits November 2021 Fundamentals
2021-11-16 14:00 - 16:00
This series is offered by Quickbooks Made Easy.
November 16th – 18th
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Registration Fee: $115 per day or $249 for all three days! WVNPA Members save $50 when attending all three days! Email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org for the special coupon code.
This three day series focuses on QuickBooks materials – all nonprofit-focused!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE ONLINE SESSION
Day 1: Tuesday, November 16th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST)
The material will cover the basics of setting up and entering transactions specifically for Nonprofits, an overview of the software updates included in the QuickBooks® 2021 as well as advanced topics including:

Welcome to QuickBooks – The different choices and which version is right for you.
What’s new in version 2021 that you may need.
Getting used to the screens and navigating around.
A lesson in accounting QuickBooks style!
Setting up the correct Accounts.
Entering Your Programs.
Adding Your Annual Budget.
Cutting and Pasting from Excel into QuickBooks
Entering Your Donors, Members or Students.
*Topics are subject to change.

Day 2: Wednesday, November 17th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST)
This section will cover advanced material to really help you do some helpful and amazing things:

Entering Your Income – Two Methods.
Entering Donations and Grants.
Entering Membership Dues and Tuition.
Entering Program Service Revenue.
How to get the most out of Items.
Entering and Paying Bills.
Spreading Costs to Programs/Grants.
Essential Reports for the Board/Auditor.
Attaching Scan Documents for free.
*Topics are subject to change.

Day 3: Thursday, November 18th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST)
This section will cover advanced material to really help you do some helpful and amazing things:

Entering Credit Card activity.
Tracking Pledges.
Tracking Restricted Grants.
Tracking Special Fundraising Events.
Printing personalized Donor Thank-You Letters directly from QuickBooks®.
Two Ways to get year-end donor-Acknowledgements.
Recording In-Kind Contributions.
Advanced method of Auto-Allocating Expenses to Programs/Grants.
And More!
Topics are subject to change.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE ONLINE SESSION
Price: $115 Per Day or $249 for all three days! WVNPA members, save $50 when you register for all 3 days, email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org to request the coupon code.
Earn 6.0 hours of CPE credit! (2.0 each day)
All Participants will receive log-in information prior to the webinar!
MEET THE SPEAKER
Since 2000, QuickBooks® Made Easy™ has been teaching QuickBooks® seminars around the country for various groups, conducting webinars, providing technical support to hundreds of clients, one-one-one consulting, and offering industry-specific streamable training. Our leader and primary trainer Gregg S. Bossen, CPA is not only an expert in the program, but he is the nation’s leading expert when it comes to Nonprofits that use QuickBooks®. Gregg’s teaching style is funny and entertaining, and his energy and knowledge of Nonprofits make his classes a unique experience. Gregg has taught new users as well as other CPAs, who are themselves considered experts in the software. In total, we have taught over 3,500 seminars to more than 55,000 students.
We currently teach for over 24 Nonprofit State Associations, as well as annually at Scaling New Heights, QuickBooks Connect, Grant Station, and TechSoup.

GrantStation Tour
2021-11-18 11:00 - 12:00
Thursday, November 18th, 11:00 AM
Fee: FREE
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Is GrantStation right for your organization?
Are you a member of the West Virginia Nonprofit Association and want to learn more about your member benefit?
Join us for a free tour of GrantStation on Thursday, November 18th at 11:00 AM EST
Learn more about how to make GrantStation work for your organization. This overview tour of GrantStation is a great resource for Members to ensure that they are getting the most out of their Membership, and for potential Members to see GrantStation in action! During the hour-long tour, you’ll see GrantStations many learning resources, as well as some new tools, like The Benchmarker. We’ll also discuss best practices for research in the interactive grant-opportunity databases. Sample searches will use real examples based on the mission of the first few organizations to register!

Developing Your Personal DEI Statement
2021-11-18 14:00 - 15:30
This session is offered by the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits.
November 18, 2021
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET
Registration Fee: $15 for WVNPA Members, $29 for Nonmembers. Email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org for the discount code.
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Championing diversity, equity or inclusion within an organization requires that individuals reflect deeply on their own lived and personal experiences, belief systems, and culture. By understanding your own core values, leadership strengths, privileges, and skills, you will be a stronger advocate for equity and will develop the confidence to stand up for the organization’s shared values. This workshop will provide you a process and tools for reflection to draft the first iteration of a personal DEI Statement.
As part of this workshop, you will:

Build a draft of a personal DEI statement
Create a personal inventory of meaningful reflections about your values and goals for DEI
Develop confidence to stand up for the organization’s values shared or need to develop DEI practice, policies, and procedures

Cost and Registration: National Council Affiliates: $15 / Non-Members $29
Featured Presenter:
Teniqua Broughton, M.Ed., CNAP
Founder & CEO
VerveSimone Consulting
As the founder and CEO of VerveSimone Consulting, a minority woman owned small business providing consulting services to individuals and organizations. Teniqua Broughton is noted for her impact in both national and local sectors. Leading with passion, she identifies strategies that support the sustainability of organizations by leveraging her experience, initiative, and insight gained throughout her professional career. Her services focus on nonprofit governance consulting, arts and culture project management and equity, DEI workshops and assessments.A focus of her work is leading Equity, DEI assessments and workshops with staff and boards. The goal is to help teams begin equity work, reform practices, and develop a deeper understanding of conflict and race, and attitudes and hidden biases.In 2017, AZ Central selected Teniqua as the Who’s Next award, for emerging leaders making a difference in the arts. By her peers, she was selected as the Arizona Champion Award for the Central Arizona region from the Flinn Foundation’s Arizona Center for Civic Leadership, for significant contributions to the civic leadership. She was individual nominee for 2020 Governor’s Arts Award. Early this year, ASU awarded her the MLK Servant Leader- Leadership award and Phoenix Business Journal’s 2021 Most Admired Leader recipient.Teniqua has her master’s degree in education with a focus on Educational Administration and Supervision, and her bachelor’s degree in educational psychology, with an emphasis on theater for youth. With certifications as a Certified Nonprofit Accounting Professional (CNAP) and in Equity and Inclusion from Nonprofit Leadership Alliance.

Developing Your Evaluation Strategy and Plan
2021-11-23 11:00 - 13:00
This session is offered by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
November 23, 2021
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
Registration Fee: $129 for Members, $169 for Nonmembers. Email hilaria@dev.wvnpa.org for the discount code.
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Nonprofits with a strategy and plan for evaluation gain new insights about their work, have stories to share with funders and other stakeholders, and generate ideas to strengthen their programs. Without an evaluation strategy and plan, nonprofits may waste valuable time and resources on surveys and other data-gathering methods that don’t provide helpful insights.
In this three-part virtual training, you’ll learn how to develop an evaluation plan designed to inform strategy and decision making for your program or organization.
This training will be highly interactive – combining presentations, conversations, and individual reflection and work. By the end, you will have the tools and training to craft a complete evaluation plan for a program, small organization or department of your choosing.
As a result of participating in this training, you will be able to:

Define a clear purpose for your evaluation;
Plan for evaluation activities; and
Overcome common challenges.

Learners will experience engaging interaction with the training team throughout the training and will have access to their expertise during and between sessions. There will be assignments during sessions and suggested work between sessions so that by the end of the third session you will have a complete or nearly complete evaluation plan for a program, small organization, or department of your choosing.
Event Details
This training is over the course of three days: November 23, November 30, and December 7 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. central each day.

In addition to reserving time to attend the two hours of live training each week, you will also need time to work on developing your evaluation strategy and plan; this may be an additional 2 or more hours each week.
Participants will be most successful if they have a program in mind that they would like to create an evaluation plan for.
This event will have AI captions via Zoom’s transcription function. Please note that these captions are automatically generated by the computer software and may not always accurately transcribe what is said. If you need professional captioning, or have another accessibility accommodation, please email MCN’s program assistant with your request at least two weeks prior to the start of the event. Although we will attempt to meet all accessibility requests, late request may not be fulfilled.
Event FAQ
What if I have a conflict with one of the three dates?
Each session builds upon the previous session. Therefore, if you have a conflict with one or more of the sessions, we recommend not registering for this training.
Will the sessions be recorded?
Because of the highly interactive nature of this training, which will include ongoing conversation via chat and polls, it will not be recorded. Instead, materials summarizing the week’s lesson will be provided.
Can registrations be shared between people?
Each individual wanting to attend the event must register separately. Please see our Event & Registration FAQ page for instructions on how to register a group.
Speaker Information
This training will be led by The Improve Group’s experts in evaluation capacity building. The Improve Group is a St. Paul-based, international consulting firm focused on research, evaluation and strategic planning. The Improve Group team has worked with hundreds of nonprofits, including building the capacity for evaluation with many of these clients. For nearly 20 years they have been helping nonprofits measure and demonstrate impact, which in turn leads to improved services, innovation and increased ability to build support. The team is keen at making evaluation meaningful, engaging and fun! With a team approach to training, The Improve Group is able to drawn on a broad range of on-the-ground experiences, providing participants applicable tips and examples of why and how to conduct evaluations in their organizations.
