by the Foellinger Foundation, with Dawn Martz & Mike Stone Evaluation As Learning
Weds. June 129:15 – 11:15
Meeting Room C
Allen County Public Library Downtown
The Evaluation as Learning workshop is open to anyone wanting to learn more about using a logic model to effectively evaluate programs and use those findings to inform organizational mission and strategy.
This workshop will help you to learn how to use the logic model to:
Learn how to use a logic model as an evaluation learning tool
Promote deeper discussions about mission, strategy & organizational effectiveness
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Prospect research for fundraisers : the essential handbook / Jennifer J. Filla, Helen E. Brown Recession, recovery, and renewal : long-term nonprofit strategies for rapid economic change / Susan U. Raymond, PhD
Meet the Funders 2013 June 18 Registration opens at noon on May 21 at noon
Funder panel
9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
ACPL Theater
No limit on organization’s attendees
Invite board members or additional staff to learn more about the grant making process and funder-as-partner relationship
Forum portion
10:00 a.m.-12:35 p.m.
ACPL meeting rooms, with limited seating
Strictly limited to 2 representatives per agency Nine foundations participating
Registration will be required to attend the forum portion. Registration opens next Tuesday, May 21st.
Limited seating means registration fills quickly.
No registration required to attend the panel.
You may register through this website on May 21st at noon. A registration link will post early that morning. If you are signed up to receive our monthly newsletters, you will receive the link by email invitation.
Meet the Funders is our biggest and most popular annual event to give you the opportunity to learn local funders’ giving guidelines and updates. This is your chance to Meet the Funders.
You and your leadership team are invited to attend the 2013 Williams Lecture and workshop on June 25!
ERNEST E. WILLIAMS LECTURE
Please join your colleagues for the Foellinger Foundation’s 2013 Williams Lecture on June 25 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., with continental breakfast beginning at 7:30 a.m.
You may bring multiple people from your organization, and the foundation urges you to bring board members.
WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITY
At the conclusion of the lecture, you are also invited to attend a workshop, at which Mr. Zimmerman will explore the concepts presented in the lecture in more depth. You may bring a maximum of three (3) people to the workshop. Seating is limited.
Ernest E. Williams Lecture
8:00 to 9:30 a.m.
(Breakfast 7:30 a.m.)
Workshop 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
(Lunch included)
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
4000 Parnell Avenue, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Please RSVP to Vicki@foellinger.org by June 11 and let her know who you are bringing.
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Steve Zimmerman provides training and consulting in the areas of finance and strategy for community-based organizations, foundations and government agencies. He is co-author of the book Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability with Jeanne Bell of CompassPoint and Jan Masaoka of Blue Avocado. The book highlights Steve’s integrated approach to nonprofits which balances mission impact and financial viability. Steve also writes the Finance and Strategy column for Blue Avocado and has also written for The Nonprofit Quarterly and BoardSource.
Prior to starting Spectrum, Steve was a Projects Director with CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit consulting, training and research providers. His extensive nonprofit experience includes serving as a Chief Financial Officer, Development Director and Associate Director at community-based nonprofits. He is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a BA from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from Yale University.
What nonprofit do you serve in our community and how do you do it?
I am the new intern serving at the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center, located in Readers Services at the Allen County Public Library. With 20 hours a week I seek to help facilitate the underpinnings of the programs, classes, and communications of resources to patrons interested in beginning and/or aiding nonprofits that they are serving.
How did you come by this work?
The truth is I’m still not sure what I want to be when I grow up and when I became aware of the intern position at the PCNRC I saw it as a great educational opportunity. I applied for the open position and was very pleased to be considered and subsequently offered this chance to serve.
If you could have one wish granted, what would it be?
To have a million dollars.
If you had a million dollars, what’s the first thing you’d do?
Pay some mortgages. = )
What is your favorite part of your work?
I’ve just gotten started, but am excited about seeing tasks that I help complete affecting the organizations and individual lives of the community around me.
Ebook or traditional print?
I am a physical book kind of kid, but I do appreciate Ebooks and look forward to familiarizing myself with their ins and outs as they become more prevalent.
Do you have any pets?
My wife and I are the proud owners of two beautiful chinchillas. We bought them a couple of months apart and at first they did not get along. I am happy to report today, though, that it looks like they might become fast friends.
Who was your favorite teacher? What was s/he like?
My favorite teacher was probably Mr. Keller in 5th grade. He was tall and easy-going, with a wonderful shock of wavy gray hair. He said I had a good sense of humor. I rather took that to heart.
Prospect research is a process in fundraising wherein a researcher identifies and provides relevant information about potential or current donors to an organization.
May 23@4: Prospect Research May 23, 4:00
ACPL Downtown
Meeting Room B Register here to attend
Join our guest speaker, Mary Chamberlain, Associate Director of Grants and Advancement Services for Indiana Tech, as she guides us through the basics of prospect research and shows what a donor profile looks like.
Join us to discover how your organization can ethically and thoughtfully use this process in your fundraising.
POSITION TITLE: Walk to End Alzheimer’s Coordinator
REPORTS TO: Northern Indiana Director
STATUS: Non – Exempt, Part-Time
The Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Indiana has a part-time opening in our Fort Wayne office for a Walk to End Alzheimer’s Coordinator. The Walk to End Alzheimer’s Coordinator manages all aspects of the Walk to End Alzheimer’s for Fort Wayne and Warsaw and provides leadership to the WTEA committee in both areas. Job responsibilities include solicitation and cultivation of corporate sponsorships, recruitment and management of committee members, team recruitment and planning and implementation of fundraising and promotional strategies and management of all event logistics and volunteers.
Bachelor’s degree in sales or marketing or related field or equivalent work experience; and three years relevant experience and proven success in fundraising; and successful experience in coaching volunteers in fundraising activities are required.
The successful candidate will possess the ability to work effectively with volunteers, staff and external contacts. Must be able to prioritize and communicate effectively in person, in writing and electronically to a variety of audiences.
We’ve partnered with Access Fort Wayne to create a simple, free process for your organization to make a PSA.
Watch this PSA created by The Center for Nonviolenceand produced by Access Fort Wayne to see an example of the work:
Access Fort Wayne (AFW), a department of the Allen County Public Library, operates a full production facility with two television studios and editing facilities. AFW originates three cable access television channels (two public channels and one government channel) from the first floor of the Main Library on both Frontier and Comcast cable.
Last week, AFW’s Bob Ihrie and I spoke with dozens of development professionals about the possible uses of PSA’s to meet fundraising goals.
Consider how a PSA could help your organization:
launch a planned giving initiative with testimonials;
improve your annual giving campaign’s success;
begin to lay out your case statement for a capital campaign;
entice viewers back to your website to sign up for a newsletter with games, trivia, or playful invitations to join you in meeting your mission
Then consider where you would place your PSA to get the specific result you need:
On your website
On a special event Facebook page or your organization’s page
Shared on Facebook by your volunteers with influence
Embedded in a targeted email or your general newsletter
On broadcast network channels
On “community screens” – a TinCaps game or at Cinema Center
Share to local blogs or online media outlets. Consider blog purpose and audience.
Don’t forget to plan out:
1) How will you measure success with your PSA?
YouTube hits alone won’t tell you if you’ve moved the dial on a specific goal. Increased general awareness may feel overall useful, but with a specific goal in mind, you’ll know your fundraising time and energy were well invested.
2) What choices will you make to tell your story with PSA?
Will you prefer the controlled quality of using still images, or does live footage better suit your message? What words will you want on screen? What colors make sense? What brand message do you wish to reinforce in your PSA?
View local nonprofit PSAs - including other videos, not created by this project, to see the range of messages and delivery (dramatic, in-studio, on-site, with and without persons-served) to jump-start your own creative process.
Ready to learn more about creating a PSA at the library?
Once you’ve read through the PSA notes, the sample script and viewed the videos Access has made, contact the PCNRC to get started, or with additional questions.
The Cornerstone Youth Center, a youth development organization serving 7-12 grade youth located in Southeast Allen County, is seeking a Program Director for the Cornerstone Connections Project, a program funded through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant.
This is a full-time exempt position with responsibilities to run programs as well as monitor program staff with ability to achieve specific outcomes. The position will act as site coordinator and main program staff for the New Haven Middle School site of the program. Flexible hours required including weeknights until 6pm and occasional weekends.
Qualified candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree, 2-3 years management experience preferred and be experienced in education, youth development, youth ministry or possess a strong willingness to learn. Strong interpersonal skills and excellent computer literacy required.
Resumes accepted through May 17th to Cornerstone Youth Center P.O. Box 236 Monroeville, IN 46773 or via email at info@cornerstoneyc.org.
Librarians at the Allen County Public Library sometimes receive Advance Reading Copies and other free books from a variety of publishers. After reading, some of these books find their way onto this blog before being added to the permanent Library collection or given as gifts to our patrons.
The Evaluation as Learning workshop is open to anyone wanting to learn more about using a logic model to effectively evaluate programs and use those findings to inform organizational mission and strategy.
The Cornerstone Youth Center, a youth development organization serving 7-12 grade youth located in Southeast Allen County, is seeking a Program Director for the Cornerstone Connections Project, a program funded through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant.
