Sessions II
1:15 - 2:45 PM
- Thursday May 17th 2012
Story Telling to Raise More Money at Your Next Event
The special appeal is the biggest opportunity to raise funds the day of your event. Do you have a strategy in place for how to execute your special appeal?
Topics will include:
- Telling your story effectively to engage donors
- Placing your appeal at the best point in your program to maximize donations
- Leveraging challenge gifts or grants
- Identifying giving levels
- Working with your emcee and auctioneer to ensure a fantastic appeal
Presented by: Samantha Swaim, Director/Event Strategist
♦ Renaissance (Third Floor) ♦
Change is a word we use constantly and something we all desire, but the mechanics of making it happen is not something we fully understand
David will discuss organizational assessment - readiness for change, creating a shared vision, bringing your stakeholders along with you, managing the message (internal and external), and making sure all the pieces are in place to ensure that the change is successful.
Learning objectives:
- how to get stakeholders past the fear of change
- how to build a shared vision
- how messaging is so tied to successful changes
Presented by: David Cohen, Executive Director - Friends of Tryon Creek State Park
♦ Library Room (Second Floor) ♦
Mutual respect and trust are essential to effective teams and organizations. But how do we create that? This workshop will give you concrete tools for cultivating trust and respect, and nurturing creative, strong and effective teams
We all want to live in, and cultivate, environments of mutual respect and trust, but too often, we instead find ourselves feeling judged, or judging others, usually without very much real information about what other people are experiencing or thinking.
This interactive workshop will:
- Use a story-based exercise, done it triads, to explore what makes us feel respected, and disrespected, and what happens to us in each case (what respect nurtures)
- Explore ways to stand in curiosity, and to use curiosity to identify assumptions, misunderstandings and confusion, to troubleshoot conflicts and problems, and to build understanding, collaborative spirit, and effective partnerships
- Learn to translate “why” questions into “what” questions, and explore how that moves from that fogginess and defensiveness into a more concrete and forward-looking energy
- Learn some powerful “what” questions that help us stay in curiosity when that is challenging, and focus on solutions rather than who is “right” and who is “wrong".
Learning objectives:
- Identify what makes us feel respected and disrespected, and what respect nurtures, and learn – though experience – concrete ways to cultivate mutual respect in teams and organizations
- Learn, and practice, powerful tools for identifying assumptions, misunderstandings and confusions; troubleshooting conflicts and problems; and building understanding, collaborative spirit and effective partnerships
- Learn and practice a simple technique for creating clarity and concrete ways to move forward when you, or your team/organization, are bogged down in fogginess, defensiveness, or unproductive conflicts
Presented by: Tasha Harmon, Founder - New Perspectives Coaching, Training and Facilitation.
♦ Card Room (Second Floor) ♦
A smart and practical assessment of the strategic value of peer-to-peer social fundraising drives, a promising trend in online giving, for NPOs large and small
Software vendors invest heavily in marketing and advertising online fundraising systems to potential clients in the nonprofit sector, taking particular care to highlight the massive amounts of online donations they have collected for large national charities.
For a Development Officer or Executive Director it's difficult to predict the strategic value these systems will bring to your organization. Do these systems do anything to inspire increased giving for small or mid sized groups? Are very large charities thriving because of the software they use, or in spite of it? This presentation provides a framework for evaluating the strategic value of online giving systems and takes a closer look at a very promising trend in online fundraising, peer-to-peer social fundraising drives.
Participants will:
- Examine how tried-and-true fundraising principals were applied in three real-world case studies to build successful online giving and peer-to-peer fundraising drives
- Discuss the relevance of strategies presented in three real-world case studies to their own organization's culture, donor base, mission, and capacity
- Leave with an understanding of some current peer-to-peer fundraising systems, and, perhaps more importantly, a framework with which to evaluate new and emerging fundraising systems
Presented by:
Noah Kleiman, Nonprofit Ambassador - OpenSourcery.
Holly Ross, Executive Director - NTEN
♦ Billiard Room (Second Floor) ♦
Engaging the younger generation in giving and community
Millennials are the fastest growing group in the workforce and a critical demographic to the future success of non-profit organizations. While the “we generation” is committed to creating positive change in the community there are many struggles in understanding the appropriate vehicles to engage these “flexible loyalists.”
With experience and insights from Net Impact, Oregon Environmental Council, FMYI and The Bus Project, Graeme Byrd and Scott Stein share best practices, case studies and tools to engage and involve these change agents.
With Direct Measurable Experience, Graeme Byrd and Scott Stein have worked closely engaging this generation with a variety of businesses and organizations committed to creating change. Additionally, both gentlemen are collaborating on the Portland Impact session for the Bus Project at the 2011 Net Impact conference focused on millennial engagement.
Learning objectives
- Best Practices and examples
- Tools for engagement
- Speaking the language
Presented By:
Graeme Byrd, Business Development & Collaboration Manager - FMYI [for my innovation]
Chapter Leader - Net Impact Portland Professional Chapter
Scott Stein, Development Director - The Bus Project
Membership - Net Impact Portland Professional Chapter