Free Upcoming Nonprofit Trainings
Real Time Strategic Planning with David Marzahl
Thursday, November 12 from 10am to noon
(Moved from Bainbridge Performing Arts to Bainbridge Community Foundation at 299 Madison Ave N.)
Non-profit consultant David Marzahl will address challenges faced by organizations when they plan for the future. In today’s volatile world, an organization’s recently completed strategic plan might already be out of date. That’s not a planning failure. It’s a sign that strategies need to live in ongoing conversation and deliberation, not in a document reviewed two years ago. This session will build on real-time strategic planning principles. It will give attending board members and executive leaders practical tools for making strategic planning a regular part of how they work together, not a once a year event. Organizations will leave with a concrete action plan for making strategic planning an ongoing part of their work together.
Designing Efficient Communications Strategies with Matt Longmire
Thursday, December 3 from 10am to noon at Bainbridge Performing Arts
With 16 years in nonprofit communications, including serving as Marketing & Communications Director at Bainbridge Performing Arts and consulting with nonprofits across the region, BCF’s own Matt Longmire will lead a practical session on how nonprofits can get more out of their communications efforts without adding more to the plate. This workshop will help participants identify what’s working, what’s not, and where their time and budget are best spent. This class will include auditing your current communications channels, building a communications calendar around audience and purpose, creating simple metrics that connect to real goals, and an honest look at how AI tools can help, and where they can get you in trouble. Participants will leave with a framework for a minimum viable comms plan they can actually execute heading into the new year.
Improving Core Financial Reporting with Erin Thomasson has unfortunately had to be cancelled and we will work to reschedule for another time.
Recent Workshops
End of Year Fundraising with Brittany Kirk
Thursday, September 17 from 10am to noon at Bainbridge Performing Arts
Fundraising consultant Brittany Kirk will lead this practical, encouraging workshop to help nonprofits execute a focused and manageable yearend fundraising season. Participants will explore strategies for electronic and print appeals, peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns, events, giving days, and more. You’ll leave with clear priorities and realistic next steps to strengthen donor relationships and raise more between October and December– without creating unnecessary stress or complexity.
Nonprofit Program Design (mini-course) with David Harrison
Thursdays, October 1, 8, 15, and 22 from 3pm-5pm at Bainbridge Community Foundation
This four class course is being offered by David Harrison, senior lecturer emeritus from the University of Washington’s Evans School.
It will focus on every aspect of how nonprofits can make certain that the existing programs they strengthen or the new programs they design and develop will meet standards of excellence and best serve their communities. It is intended for executive directors and senior staff members who have a solid understanding of core nonprofit management principles. The course will explore how to: align an organization’s strategies and resources; examine current and prospective markets and means of support; develop new programs or significantly improve current ones; and analyze program alternatives to determine which is likely to be the most effective.
If you have questions, please feel free to email nicole@bainbridgecf.org or call the BCF office at 206-842-0433.
About the BCF Nonprofit Education Series
BCF strives to help nonprofit leaders develop and implement the best possible practices in carrying out their programs and advancing their missions. Our surveys of nonprofits on Bainbridge Island and throughout Kitsap County have identified these priority needs for ongoing education and training:
- Improving Marketing and Communication
- Building Quality, Efficiency and Depth of Programming
- Maintaining Effective Board Governance
- Developing Powerful Strategic Plans
- Securing Sufficient Resources
- Assuring Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Each year, BCF offers a series of workshops and mini courses to meet these needs. Each of these sessions is free. In addition to presentations by skilled trainers/facilitators, they include responses and additional guidance from experienced local nonprofit program managers, and lively discussions by all participants.
BCF also hosts a quarterly roundtable to help nonprofit organizations to focus upon diversity, equity and inclusion. BCF has asked trainers and facilitators to integrate DEI practices into all mini-courses and workshops.
