Make plans to join VAFRE on Tuesday, September 14th for our half-day workshop, Do Business Better – or Go Out of Business. Which Will Your Nonprofit Choose? with Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE, at the Jepson Alumni Center at the University of Richmond.
You will want to bring your leadership team – board members, volunteers, executive staff, and development officers – to this highly informative three-part workshop, and VAFRE has made it easy to do so with discounts available for multiple registrants.
The global economic crisis should serve as a wake-up call for doing business better. But such a tough wake-up call is really painful. And, far too many organizations aren’t waking up anyway.
It’s past time to learn how to operate as a truly adaptive organization. It’s way past time for critical self-examination, learning, and change.
Learn this stuff today. Then your nonprofit will have a better chance of recovering now – and surviving the next bad times. Get it together better now – and your organization will be ready when the bad times start to improve.
Attend this workshop and you can help build a stronger nonprofit for any time, all times, forever. Topics include: what it means to build adaptive capacity and make change; core elements of strategic planning to define your organization’s future and raise more money; defining what it means to operate as a customer-centered and donor-centered organization; and, exploring the role and skills of staff to do this work.
Our Speaker: Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE, an expert in fund development, strategic planning, and board development, provides consulting services to all types and sizes of nonprofits. She teaches philanthropy at the university level, speaks at conferences worldwide, and regularly serves on boards. Her books, Keep Your Donors: The Guide to Better Communications and Stronger Relationships and Strategic Fund Development: Building Profitable Relationships That Last, receive rave reviews. The 3rd edition of Strategic Fund Development will be released in spring 2011. Simone has also written chapters in The Fundraising Feasibility Study and Philanthropy in 7 Words, and is a web columnist for The Nonprofit Quarterly.
As a volunteer, Joyaux founded the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, a social justice organization, and is a past chair of CFRE International. Simone has been recognized as RI’s Outstanding Philanthropic Citizen, “demonstrating outstanding generosity and inspiring others,” and as “an outstanding individual who has demonstrated her commitment to the community” by Leadership RI. Professionals and volunteers around the world describe Joyaux as “one of the most thoughtful, inspirational, and provocative leaders” in the philanthropic sector. Simone’s website is full of free downloadable resources. Her weekly blogs and free e-news provide professional tips, pet peeves, and personal rants.
Schedule: Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., the program will begin at 8:55 a.m. and conclude at 1:30 p.m.
Take advantage of special cost savings for the workshop by registering more than one person from your organization:
- VAFRE member – $50
(no additional fee for members who hold a Season Pass) - First Non-member guest – $75
- Additional Non-member guests – $65
(for each additional non-member guest from the same institution)
To register on line, click here. To register multiple individuals, use our downloadable registration form.
This invaluable program will not only benefit you, but also your CEO, board members, and other representatives from your “team.” Don’t come alone!
Fee includes workshop, which qualifies for four hours of CFRE continuing education points (applied for), continental breakfast and lunch. Fees support program costs and administration.
Questions? Contact VAFRE Administrator Mary Kidd, CMP, at (804) 288-2950 or by e-mail to vafre@catapult-inc.com.
