FORUMS/TRAINING
Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits (a Nonprofit 911 Webinar)
how to promote, motivate and raise more money
DATE: August 3 at 1:00pm
FREE
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Effective Partnerships between the Public Workforce System and Libraries
View slides from the July 19th webinar about the Federal effort to promote workforce-library partnerships:
FORUMS/TRAINING
Foursquare for Charities: Why Location Matters
(live online discussion hosted by the Chronicle of Philanthropy)
DATE: June 22, 2010 12pm
COST: Free
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Show Me the Money’ Grant Workshop
Community Partnerships Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) will host a “Show Me The Money” grant workshop in Shamokin Dam (near Selinsgrove) from Monday, September 20 to Friday, September 24, 2010. The author of the grant workshop curriculum is Denise Schlegel – a national trainer, facilitator, and grant writer with more than 25 years of experience in grant writing. Denise has a 90 percent success rate in grant funding and was instrumental in forming the Department of Homeland Security. Larry Schardt, Ph.D., will facilitate the course. He is a federal coordinator for the Natural Resources Conservation Service and a Penn State University professor with 20 years of experience in grant writing.Sam Price, executive director of Community Partnerships RC&D, and Natural Resources Specialist Kevin Morgan will also assist with the course.
DATE: Sept 20-24
COST: $535 (early registration submitted byFriday, September 3, 2010). After that, registration is $585.
MORE INFO: For more information and to register, call (717) 248-4901 or email cpartnerships@cpartnerships.com.
Forums/Training
June 15 Guide to Online Grantseeker Resources
This 60 minute guided tour will show all the free resources on the Foundations Center’s web site
COST: FREE
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Calendar of other webinars from Foundation Center:
Forums or Training
The Chronicle of Philanthropy will have a live discussion on “Raising Money for Endowments — and Spending It” on
Tuesday, May 4, at noon U.S. Eastern time.
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FORUMS/TRAININGONLINE DISCUSSION (live): “Online Fund Raising in Today’s Financial Climate” and the results of The Chronicle’s annual survey of online fund raising.
sponsored by The Chronicle of Philanthropy
DATE: Tuesday April 20, 12:00pm
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“Making a switch: how to change things when change is hard” (webinar)
Sponsored by Network for Good
DATE: April 23rd 1:00pm
FREE
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Read the transcript: “Make Sure Your Board Complies with the New Form 990,” hosted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy:
Check out the many FREE recorded webinars on fundraising on the Russ Reid site
WebJunction’s Technology Essentials recorded conference sessions include Fundraising with Stephanie Gerding and more
WEBINAR “BTOP & BIP: How to Connect”
DATE: Friday, February 5th 1:30-2:30pm EST
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Recordings of the NTIA and RUS webcasts/workshops were to have been available for reference 3-5 days after streaming but have not appeared so far. Monitor the site.
Important documents related to filing a Broadband Stimulus application with the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) or the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) are available here.
The application window opens on February 16 and closes on March 25th.
NTIA Secretary Strickland has encouraged all those who did not receive an award in the first round, to re-apply.
Feedback on last round’s applications will not be made available. Beside difficulty due to the volume involved, significant changes have been made from the first round that comments from that round would not be helpful for the second. Because of changes also in the Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA), it is suggested that the new NOFA be read before applying.
Applicants are also advised to look for partners here
A blogger offers tips from the workshop.
On January 15, 2010 RUS and NTIA announced the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the last round of broadband stimulus funding.
The non-profit New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative has published analyses for the RUS and NTIA NOFAs as well as applications guides to help interested parties apply for broadband stimulus funding:
Read BIP Changes and other Details
Read BTOP Changes and other Details
Settles, Greg. “Ready, Set for Broadband Race Round 2” Daily Yonder.Com, January 26, 2010 link (February 4, 2010).
Also, the American Library Association continues its site “Know Your Stimulus,” with the important links and a section entitled “Lessons Learned.”
RUS AWARDS from Round One:
The USDA Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) announced awards of $313.5 million for broadband programs. Pennsylvania was not included.
The Department of Agriculture’s–Rural Utilities Service (RUS)–has issued a list of Frequently Asked Questions regarding the Broadband Infrastructure Program (BIP).
The Foundation Center offers grant-seeking courses in Philadelphia, DC and other cities across the nation. The courses may be a little pricey for a small library ($125 – $195) but they do offer scholarships for their full day training seminars.
Course info
January 26, 2010 12:00pm “Smart Approaches to Overhead Costs”
Live, online discussion on how to break the “non-profit starvation cycle;” sponsored by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
COST: FREE
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January 29, 2010 1:30pm ” Library Futures: Staying Ahead of the Curve
“Making the Best of a Shrinking Budget” (Teleconference)
Presenter: Leslie Burger, Alice Calabrese-Berry and Mary Case
COST: FREE
SATELLITE COORDINATES AND WEBCAST INFO
February 10, 2010 ONLINE WEBJUNCTION CONFERENCE
Online conference with speakers on funding, outreach, technology planning, virtual libraries, marketing, staff training, services and programming and your library’s web presence.
COST: FREE
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