Events/Workshops

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Workshop Tracks

Advocacy and Communication

• ABC’s of Advocacy
• Evaluating Your PR: Meeting Management Objectives
• Improving Nonprofit Web Sites to Reach Persons of All Literacy Levels
• On the Firing Line: Communicating During A Crisis
• Out of the Box Marketing
• Lobbying - You Can Do It!
• Rules and Regulations for Election - Related Activities of 501(c)(3) Organizations

America’s Promise/Mentoring

• America’s Promise Corporate Toolkit: Ten Steps to Corporate Engagement
• Implementing All Five Promises - Special Events for Kids!
• The Makings of a Mentoring Collaborative
• The State of Mentoring in Michigan

Citizen’s Corps/ Emergency Preparedness

• Camp 911 for Seniors: Preparing Older Adults for Emergency Situations
• Disaster Set-Up for Volunteer Centers and Other Nonprofits
• Volunteer Roles in Citizen’s Corps

Faith-Based Programs

• Building a Strong Volunteer Program in Your Congregation
• Building Bridges: Helping Faith-Based Organizations Establish Community Partnerships
• Growing Healthy Families
• Outcome Based Evaluation (OBE) for Faith-Based Programs
• What Works and Doesn’t Work: Faith-Based HIV/AIDS Outreach on Community Issues

Nonprofit Management and Governance

• Anatomy of Change: Recreating a Nonprofit Organization
• Effective Committee Leadership and Performance
• Full Board Engagement
• Measuring the Difference We Make: Effective Evaluation of Community Based Programs
• The Annual Audit: Why Must We Suffer This Ordeal? (Kidding!)
• What is the Difference Between Goals, Outcomes and Impacts? (Is This a Trick Question?)
• Who is Minding the Store? Sharing Responsibility for Nonprofit Leadership

Resource Development and Sustainability

• Basics of Grant Writing
• Engaging Youth in Finding, Writing, and Coordinating Community Grants
• Finding Nonprofit Funding Electronically
• Raising More Money: Building Lifelong Donors
• What Everyone Should Know About E-Philanthropy and Volunteer Management

Service-Learning and Education

• Creating A Harmonious Relationship Between School and Agencies!
• Laugh & ROAR Your Way Through Service-Learning
• Mno Widotage: Academic Service Learning Meets Potowatami Culture
• Risk Management and Liability for Higher Ed Service-Learning
• Teen Action Through Citizenship, Leadership, and Service
• The Best of Both Worlds: Higher Education and Volunteer Center Partnerships
• The Building Blocks of Service-Learning

Volunteer Program Management

• Educating Up: Gaining Organizational Commitment with Susan J. Ellis
• 2-1-1: Get Help Give Help - What’s Your Plan?
• Corporations and United Way: Partners in Service
• I.T. for Volunteer Programs: Choosing, Upgrading and Maintaining Your Systems
• Planning for Success: Making Service Projects Work
• The Nonprofit Good Practice Guide: Find Answers to Virtually Any Volunteer Management Question
• The Use of Technology to Engage and Embrace Volunteers
• Volunteer Program Self Evaluation: A Tool to Assess Volunteer Programs

Volunteers: The Human Touch

• Board Members are Volunteers, Too!
• Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Volunteer Compassion Fatigue
• Establishing 9/11 as a National Day of Service
• Helping Senior Volunteers Serve the Needs of Children in Special Circumstances
• The Heart of Listening
• Understanding Volunteer Motivation & Recognition
• Volunteers are Your Ambassadors: The Power of Word of Mouth

Youth Service and Leadership

• How to Recruit and Sustain Youth as Volunteers
• Making a Difference? Youth Evaluation and Community Change
• Youth Can Be Board Members!

Out of the Box

• Building Community Through Collaboration
• Earned Income Tax Credit Coalition: A Community’s Effort in the Fight Against Poverty