2018 Madison Nonprofit Day Conference
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Deborah Herman

Is your smartphone in charge of your life? Does email drive your day? Wanna put yourself back in the driver's seat? Check out these Top 5 Tips for getting control of your devices - and your time.

Jerry Moore

Are you asking the right questions? Are we using quality evidenced based practices proven to work in our target area? Are you doing good, accurate data collection? What are we observing? Are we the…

Josh Klemons

When you blog, you automatically become an expert in your field. Blogging is a powerful tool to tell your story, grow an audience, gain their trust and keep them coming back for more. In this session,…

Melanie Schmidt

You can't avoid change, so you need to communicate about it in order to help people through it. Learn how to make a game plan for communicating change to those affected by it, and gain a better…

Sue Grace Krokosz

Breaking down a simple yet effective plan for sustainable fundraising is a key component to any nonprofit's long-term success. The concepts will be adaptable for any size organization looking to…

Sarah Kissel

Learn how your organization can approach creating and maintaining an Employee Handbook as a proactive policymaking measure. Explore a few employment scenario and discuss how they could be approached…

Emily Peffer

Learn ways to engage and connect staff; the data tells us that teams with high psychological safety perform better. How do you create that within your team? Learn experiential methods and practices…

Elizabeth Schroeder

Many of us have heard that Facebook has become a ‘pay to play’ market, a frightening phrase for those of us who have little to no budget to spend on social media advertising. Fortunately,…

Megan Cooley

A fast paced, peer to peer session where we focus on scenario work for fundraising asks. You’ll learn techniques for developing your pitch and have time to practice!

Ben Williams

How do you move from conversation to action? If you have ever participated in meetings that seem to be all talk and little actual action/accomplishment, then you’ll want to attend this quick introduction…

Kelly Rauwerdink

Branding is about making impressions and building relationships with your audience. Your brand allows people to see the importance of your work and why it matters. A brand will show that your efforts…

Marissa DeGroot

Learn how to raise more and spend less on your fundraising appeals. Direct mail is not dead! Now more than ever it’s important for your fundraising appeals to be engaging yet cost effective. Learn…

Lisa Curley

Spend less time recruiting volunteers by framing persuasive asks that play to their strengths and interests. Learn how to ask for help in a way that makes volunteers want to say ‘Yes!’.…

Mary Helen Conroy

How do you build genuine business relationships Ð the kind that will lead you and your organization to long-term friendships, personal growth, and (just maybe) fundraising dollars? Let's replace…

Katherine Kamp

Nonprofits express their mission and equity focus in how they focus their program and manage finances. Let’s look at how tying your mission to your organization budget can reflect organizational…

Amber Swenor

Public Relations is a key component in supporting your overall marketing and non-profit initiatives. PR allows your organization to communicate and relate to the market, create a…

Laneice McGee

The growth mindset is a concept that can be applied to businesses large and small, nonprofits, startups & entrepreneurs.--It is a concept the can be used in building all kinds of relationships.…

Gary Messinger

We'll give an overview of the TimeBank and our unique strategies for building resilience in our community. This includes active participation in a game that shows how we engage individuals and organizations…

Kate Atkins

With the recent adoption of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, tax-exempt organizations will be facing some serious changes. In this brief session, we will discuss what reporting changes exempt organizations…

D.P. Knudten

In Hollywood, there’s an axiom that if you want to share a big story, you’ve got to tell it small. The fact is, every nonprofit has a mammoth story to tell. How can you do so via effective,…

Carol Ayars

Gracias! Danke! Merci! Grazie! Mahalo! In any language, ‘thanks’ is such a simple word, and it comes in many forms— some quick and easy, others more time-consuming and crazy. No matter…

Sharon Lezberg

During this interactive workshop, participants will learn and practice the skill and art of facilitation. We will use a combination of large group, small group, and paired discussion formats to teach…

Marty Petillo

Nonprofit staff use many management tools to recruit, support, and guide volunteers in the workplace to get work done. While managing volunteers is difficult, keeping a stable, productive volunteer…

Dr. Laci Coppins Robbins

Do you know how to "work" the room, an event, or conference? Believe it or not, it begins before the day even arrives. Today's the day and it is time to go to work! Learn key preparation…

Lauren Andraski

Understand the importance of measuring your organization's impact, learn the customer-centered approach to social impact analysis, build your impact model, develop your theory of change, and discuss…

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