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Touching Lives and Communities Training Video Workshops

Details About the Video Series

View the Touching Lives and Communities Training Video Workshops

Part I:
Capacity Building and Strategic Planning
Non-profit capacity building means knowing your mission, vision, and strategy. This workshop provides assessment tools that can be used to determine your current level of capacity and examples of how your organization can continually develop that capacity. Additionally, it provides a model strategic plan and highlights how organizations have used deliberate strategic planning and evaluation to ensure that their programs are effective and influential.

Part II:
Corporation and Foundation Giving
Non-profit leaders must both appeal to the interests of potential funders (including corporations and foundations) and effectively communicate the value of their program to attract funding. This workshop shares information about researching foundations and pursuing corporate donations; it also gives concrete strategies for raising the value of your program in the eyes of potential funders.

Part III:
Board Development and Individual Giving
This workshop includes presentations about building a strong and effective board and about effectively soliciting individual donations. Both efforts require an organization to gain the commitment and investment of individuals within the community. The workshop addresses building, diversifying, and purging your board to provide the most effective leadership for your organization. Because individual giving represents more than 75.8% of non-profit funding, non-profit organizations must rely upon effective individual fundraising strategies. Your organization can use the tools provided in the workshop to effectively solicit and plan for individual giving.

Part IV:
Government Grant Applications and Grant Management
This workshop takes you from the application process through the management of a Department of Labor grant. The workshop addresses how to read the solicitation for grant applications, how to organize your application, what the review process is for the grants, and finally, information about proper grants management for organizations who have received Department of Labor grants. Grants management topics include: calculating in-kind donations, fiscal and administrative requirements, financial and cash management, cost principles, and information about working with the Grant Officer Technical Representative (recently renamed Federal Project Officer). For more information about grants currently available through the Department of Labor, please visit www.dol.gov/cfbci.

Part V:
Program Evaluation
From the perspective of both non-profit staff and potential funders, it is crucial that a non-profit organization be able to evaluate the effect that its program has on the community. This workshop demonstrates the importance of program evaluation, explains the logic model using a sample program evaluation, and provides the viewers with an opportunity to construct a draft program evaluation for their own projects.



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