The Community Development Society (CDS) is hosting a webinar series, Funding for Your Cause – Effective Tips for Funding Non-Profits in Challenging Times!, for 6 consecutive Thursdays beginning on January 20, 2011 ( Jan 20, 27, February 3, 10, 17, 24) from 2:00 – 3:00 CST.
Session 1. Thursday, Jan. 20 -What’s Your Hook? – How to make your grant proposal stand out from the rest - In this session, learn how to put those special touches on your grant application that make it stand out from the others to get noticed by funders.
Presented by: Carey Kaltenbach, Grant Administrator-Missouri Department of Corrections.
Session 2. Thursday, Jan 27- Building Wealth for Your Future - Capturing the wealth in your community for public benefit – Understand the resources that are available in your own community and how to capture these for public benefit. Through the development of community foundations, you can move towards community self-reliance and engagement in grant making.
Presented by: Don Macke, Director of Strategic Engagement-Center for Rural Entrepreneurship-RUPRI and Doug Friedli, Director of Community Fund Development-Nebraska Community Foundation.
Session 3. Thursday, Feb 3 – Build in Evaluation to Communicate Public Value – Demonstrating outcomes to funders and stakeholders – With more funding agencies moving to outcomes based grant funding, the importance of building in evaluation has become imperative to funding your cause. Learn how to use evaluation in the design of your program, documenting impact that funders can understand and communicate.
Presented by: Ellen Taylor Powell PhD, Distinguished Evaluation Specialist-University of Wisconsin Extension
Session 4. Thursday, Feb 10 – How to Make your Organization Sustainable through Mission-Related Social Enterprises - Hear about Café Reconcile, an innovative life skills and job training program assisting young people (ages 16–22), from severely at-risk communities, who desire to make a positive change in their lives. Café Reconcile is an inspirational example of using a social enterprise successfully to meet the needs of the population it serves, while also providing a revenue stream to help fund the organization’s mission.
Presenter: Sr. Mary Lou Specha, PBVM-Executive Director-Reconcile Café
Session 5. Thursday, Feb 17 - Building Partnerships to Leverage Additional Resources – Presenters will provide case study examples of programs and initiatives, where developing strong partnerships provided a vehicle through which to leverage substantial funding assistance. Case Studies featured will be: the Stronger Economies Together (SET) Program and the Community Progress Initiative, an innovative approach to community economic development developed through partnering organizations.
Presented by: “Bo” Beaulieu, PhD-Director-Southern Rural Development Center/ Professor-Department of Agricultural Economics-Mississippi State University.
Connie Loden CEcD-Executive Director-Economic Development Corporation – Manitowoc County
Session 6. Thursday, Feb 24 Being an Effective Fund Raiser for your Non-Profit – Tips you should know! - Learn best practice tips for being an effective fund-raiser and communicating the value of your cause.
Presenter: To be confirmed.
Registration for the webinar can be found by clicking HERE. (http://www.comm-dev.org/attachments/046_Webinar%203%20registration.pdf)
Or contact: Lori@assnoffices.com Ph 614.221.1900, ext.227 for more information. If you would like to participate in the planning or presenting of future CDS Webinars, please contact Connie Loden at Cloden@edcmc.org
The Community Development Society “provides leadership to professionals and citizens across the spectrum of community development.” The CDS website offers methods of engaging community groups through community development practices.Topics of interest to rural residents include creating business networks, boosting entrepreneurship in local economic development, strategic partnering, and capturing the character of rural communities through tourism development. CDS members come from all walks of life including education, health care, social services, government, utilities, economic development practitioners, and citizen groups.
Source: Rural Community Building blog
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