How would you like to go from ideas on paper to launching your own beautiful, professional website WITHOUT hiring a freelancer?
This course shows you how.
If you’re a service based solopreneur, startup, or other independent entrepreneur who has been meaning to establish their own online presence, then you’ve come to the right place!
No prior knowledge & no techie skills needed.
Tell me if any of this resonates with you…
You’ve tried watching videos on YouTube to learn how to build a WordPress website, but you feel like you’re getting nowhere
You may have invested in a Kindle book, Udemy course, or other resource for learning WordPress website creation, but these resources were too long, too confusing, and/or didn’t really give a clear step by step plan (adding to your frustration)
You’ve given other website builders a try (such as Wix or Weebly) but keep getting stuck and/or could use some extra guidance on what goes into making your own professional website
You are NOT tech savvy and don’t like the idea of dealing with any code
You feel lost, overwhelmed, and/or don’t even know where to begin
If you said “yes” to any of the above, then you’re in the right place!
It seems everyone is telling you to share stories.
That’s the magic fix for all your fundraising challenges. Right? Actually, no.
The truth is our storytelling has gotten lazy. We put a picture on a page, share a few facts about the person in the picture, and call it a story. That’s not enough to get people to take action.
Storytelling is both an art and a science. When well done, sharing a story about your impact can be one of your most powerful communication tools.
This session is about how you can transform basic, boring stories into brilliant, action-causing examples of your work. There is a secret weapon to story sharing that will be shared in this Advanced Storytelling session.
Join Lori L. Jacobwith, master storyteller and fundraising culture change expert for a session that will teach you how to make changes in your communication that will have long-lasting effects.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Lori L. Jacobwith is a nationally-recognized master storyteller and fundraising culture change expert. Lori has delivered coaching and training sessions that have helped nonprofit organizations raise nearly $300 million dollars from individual donors. Her proven strategies & tools teach staff and board members to share their stories powerfully and effectively. Lori holds a BA from the University of Minnesota in speech-communications and Political Science and has additional training from Indiana University’s Fund Raising School. Lori is a longtime member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Twin Cities Chapter in Minneapolis, MN.
During this session, in practical hands-on training, we cover the essential steps you can follow to help you feel secure in your new role and set up communication strategies that will keep you succeeding after your first 90 days.
You’ll learn:
How can you deal with new job overwhelm AND get it all done?
What are the three conversations you MUST have with your boss to be successful?
How can you gather a team of people around you to help you achieve your goals?
How can you successfully negotiate for a higher nonprofit salary?
How to get recognition for your accomplishments?
How can you get more responsibility and learning opportunities at your job?
BONUS: Real Case Studies of how people moved on up in their careers
It’s hard to find useful nonprofit career advice. Many people just say “Stick with it! You’ll be rewarded!” But according to the Bridgespan Group, most nonprofit staff are NOT being groomed for leadership, and only 33% of the time do people from inside the nonprofit even attempt to fill senior leadership level positions. That means most of the time, you will have to make a leap to another nonprofit to move on up. But once you’re in your new role, how do you succeed?
In this hands-on, how-to session by the author of Get the Job! Your Fundraising Career Empowerment Guide (rated 5 stars by Nonprofit.About.com), you get advice and materials that are easy to use and created especially for you, the busy fundraising professional who barely has time to eat lunch. We’ll make it easy for you to succeed in your first 90 days.
Let this session show you the right way to secure an early win. This workshop provides sound advice on must-do tasks for your first days on the job, and guides you every step of the way through the first meetings with your new boss. Whether you’re looking get an early win, or communicate better with your boss and co-workers, this workshop will help you. Intrigued?
STEP-BY-STEP LIVE DEMONSTRATION
During this session, we will go through how to show your accomplishments when your measurements can’t be dollars raised, and go over key conversations you need to have with your boss step by step.
Learn exactly how to become more accountable to your funding sources and increase sustainable revenue — as quickly as possible!
EXCELLENT VALUE PRICE
What You Will Learn
Module 1 – Transparency and Accountability
Module 2 – Nonprofit Accounting Objectives
Module 3 – GAAP for Nonprofits
Module 4 – Nonprofit Accounting Methods
Module 5 – Nonprofit Fund Accounting
Module 6 – Nonprofit Functional Based Cost Accounting
Module 7 – Nonprofit Chart of Accounts
Module 8 – Nonprofit Budgets
Module 9 – Nonprofit Financial Statements
Module 10 – Nonprofit Internal Controls
Module 11 – Direct Cost Allocations
Module 12 – Indirect Cost Allocations
Module 13 – New FASB Rules for Nonprofits
Module 14 – Nonprofit Software Checklist
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Joseph Scarano, a former CPA, has over 35 years experience working with nonprofits. He is the CEO of Araize, Inc., developers of cloud-based FastFund Online Nonprofit accounting, fundraising and payroll software solutions to help your nonprofit become more transparent, accountable and sustainable.
Your free mini-course from GrantsMagic U includes a series of lively, interactive training videos running about 90 minutes total – that you can watch any time, on your own schedule – as often as you like!
You’ll also get downloads of all the fill-in-the-blanks templates, step-by-step guides, and other course materials that you can save to your own computer, print out, and use over and over again for all your grants projects.
Learn from an up and coming designer on how to use a strategic eye to creating an amazing design. From ideation to sketching and final product, Symone Fogg will guide you through her process of how ideas are brought to life.
What You’ll Learn:
– Design principals
– How to strategize your designs, how you can apply different strategy methods to design and other real-world problems
You have expertise that someone needs – whether that’s your staff, your volunteers, or the world.
But today (and for who knows how long?) live seminars are a non-starter.
That’s why the demand for recorded online education and training courses for nonprofits is exploding!
But you have questions…
What format do you use?
What equipment do you need?
Will it be expensive?
And certainly more.
In short: how do you get started?
That’s why Matt Hugg, President and Founder of Nonprofit.Courses, and Cindy Nicholson (AKA “The Course Whisperer”) are teaming up to bring you “Course Creation for the Nonprofit Audience: a Kickstart”
This is a free, one-hour mini-course on how to get started to build online courses.
Our e-learning course was designed for the fundraising professional who is tired of leaving gifts on the table, for the fundraiser who no longer wants to work within the confines of “major gifts” or of “planned gifts.”
The course offers a time-efficient and cost-effective way to on-board a new major gift fundraiser. The Four Decisions Online solves your training problem through its five inter-active lessons designed to get the new hire up to speed quickly, affordably, and effectively.
The Four Decisions Online is more than a webinar.
The student is an active participant in this e-learning experience, not a passive listener.
Each lesson includes printable forms, checklists and templates applicable to that lesson.
Each lesson includes a Knowledge Assessment (quiz) and post-lesson assignments to help you apply general concepts to how your organization works.
Why ONLINE?
The Four Decisions is offered online to make it accessible to each student at his/her convenience–in the office, at home, or on the road.
Benefits for the Student
Get up to speed FAST. Learn &review basic concepts, then how to apply them at your organization. Learn major gift fundraising skills before you apply for the job.
Benefits for the Manager
The course gives you a template and a timeline for training each new hire. Use the course to recruit talent as part of a thorough on-boarding process, significantly reducing the time you previously spent on such training.
Benefits for the Organization
Make new hires productive faster than ever. Reduce your staff turn-over rate with all its associated costs.
[By way of transparency, this is a Premium (paid) course for which Nonprofit.Courses receives an affiliate fee when you sign up. It in no way impacts your total cost, and is a great way to support all the great content on Nonprofit.Courses.]
Are you looking to turn a tragedy into something meaningful?
Do you have a heart to change the lives of people?
Do you want to share your passion with everyone?
Then maybe you thought… or someone suggested… that you start a nonprofit!
Great idea?
If you start out right, you might just, literally, save the world.
If you start out wrong, you could be in for years of headaches and grief – or worse!
Join Aashi Mital and Matt Hugg in four insightful sessions to get you started right!
Part 2: Governance (or How your board really should work!)
Friends and family? The rich and famous? Experts and Odd Balls? What is a nonprofit board, how does it differ from a corporate board, what does it do, and who should be on it?
“Governance” can’t be overlooked in an emerging nonprofit – because if you don’t get it right from the start, you’ll suffer greatly for your haste and omissions later.
Are you looking to turn a tragedy into something meaningful?
Do you have a heart to change the lives of people?
Do you want to share your passion with everyone?
Then maybe you thought… or someone suggested… that you start a nonprofit!
Great idea?
If you start out right, you might just, literally, save the world.
If you start out wrong, you could be in for years of headaches and grief – or worse!
Join Aashi Mital and Matt Hugg in four insightful sessions to get you started right!
Part 1: Know your Why: Look beyond your passion to start off right
Nonprofits are all about passion, right? There’s a problem in the world and you’re doing your part to fix it!
Yes… and so much more.
Whether your nonprofit is an unshared dream, starting down the path to reality, or just learning to walk before it runs (no matter how old it is!) , you need to know your “why” and so much more.
In this kickoff to our four-part series, you’ll see what you need beyond your passion to make your passion sing!
