The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center
The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center
Read below to check out descriptions of our upcoming trainings!
In this session, you will learn techniques and gain tools needed to effectively attract and engage volunteers and participants for the programs that your organization offers. Volunteers like engagement and information about the organization and its stories. Participants are more interested in learning what they gain out of being involved. We will cover the specific marketing tools to engage both these audiences effectively so that you have the knowledge needed to grow.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Jeff Kelly founded AssetLab to get closer to the people he serves and to his family. After a 13-year corporate technology career, marketing technology was a natural fit. Jeff enjoys building things, solving problems, and mentoring people.
In this session, Dr. Beverly A. Browning, a 51-year nonprofit and municipal grant writer, evaluator, and trainer will teach participants how to qualify potential funding opportunities, assess their grant seeking readiness, find multiple revenue streams for their organizations and agencies, build long-lasting relationships with funders, and what funders expect to see in award winning grant requests.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Dr. Beverly A. Browning has been training grant writers for 50 years. Her clients have included small businesses; career, volunteer, and combination fire departments; chambers of commerce; faith-based organizations and units of local and county municipal governments; state and federal government agencies; school districts and colleges; charter schools; social and human service agencies, hospitals, service associations, foundations, and Fortune 500 corporations. Dr. Browning has assisted clients and workshop participants throughout the United States in receiving more than $750 million in awards.
Dr. Browning is the author of nearly 48 grants-related publications, including seven editions of Grant Writing For Dummies,™ Nonprofit Kit for Dummies,™ Fundraising for Dummies,™ Grant Writing for Educators, How to Become a Grant Writing Consultant; Faith-Based Grants: Aligning Your Church to Receive Abundance; Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals and Perfect Phrases for Fundraising; Nonprofit A—in-One for Dummies, and Rule of Thumb: A Guide to Small Business Sustainability.
This lively session will focus on how change happens and ways that individuals and groups can navigate change.
Objectives:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting
Suzanne Smith, MBA, serves as a coach and consultant for social organizations seeking to maximize the impact of their social strategies and achieve real, measurable results. For nearly three decades, she has generated innovative and breakthrough social ideas. With deep local and national social sector expertise, she has been widely recognized for her success in building and implementing award-winning programs and initiatives within the sector. Suzanne holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where she was a CASE (Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship) scholar and studied under Greg Dees.
Outside of Social Impact Architects, Suzanne is an adjunct professor in the school of management at The University of Texas at Arlington and SMU. She is also a member of the prestigious Society of Organizational Learning (founded by Peter Senge) and National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers. She is also honored to serve on the board of Aileron to help entrepreneurs go to the next level.
Suzanne also authors Social TrendSpotter (@socialtrendspot), one of the sector’s top blogs according to the Huffington Post. Known for its relatable way of blending important concepts and new ways of working with storytelling, Social TrendSpotter has been hailed by readers as “the only blog I read each week.” She is frequently interviewed by regional and national media on social issues and social entrepreneurship and has published articles in Forbes, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, See Change, Nonprofit Business Advisor, Upstart and Grantmakers in Health. For her outstanding work as a leading thinker, she was recognized with the Next Generation Social Entrepreneur Award by the Social Enterprise Alliance.
Suzanne is a dedicated community leader and has worn many hats, including serving the City of Dallas on over seven boards and commissions and working pro-bono/low-bono with many projects and nonprofits across North Texas.
This presentation seeks to inform nonprofit organizations about the purpose and need for an effective Investment Policy statement for their organizations and how this can benefit agencies.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, you will understand:
Mr. Cabean has more than 29 years of professional investment management experience. Prior to founding Grand Street Capital Management in 2009, Mr. Cabean had worked as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch, and as a portfolio manager for Wachovia Bank, Comerica Bank, and Wilmoco Capital Management respectively. At Wachovia Bank, Mr. Cabean was responsible for managing $271 million in his book of accounts.
While at Comerica, Mr. Cabean had discretionary authority for $107 million in investment assets under management. The investment team at Wilmoco Capital Management grew from $5 million to $150 million in assets under management during his tenure. Mr. Cabean holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Michigan, a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Bowling Green State University.
