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• Date: 01 July 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30338
• Published date: 01 July 2017

JULY 2017

9

NONPROFIT BUSINESS ADVISOR

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DOI: 10.1002/nba

Resources

New webinar explores

‘data maturity’

The Foundation Center will host a webinar titled

“Assessing Your Organization’s Data Maturity” on

July 13 at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

According to the center, having and using current

valid information about your members is essential to

thriving nonprots. The rst step is understanding

where your organization is on the spectrum of data

maturity—that is, whether you don’t collect or track

any information at all about your members or if you

rely on a sophisticated customer relationship manage-

ment model.

This webinar, hosted by staff from Idealware, will

help nonprot leaders understand where they are on

the continuum of data maturity and how to move

forward on the data maturity spectrum, including ap-

propriate tools and tactics and what to expect based on

their starting position. Webinar content will be based

on Idealware’s new report on data maturity, which

came out in June.

Fees for this event are $50.

For more information, visit http://bit.ly/2rq7OkD.

Foundation Center webinar

tackles board fundraising

The Foundation Center will host a webinar titled

“Moving Your Board Beyond Events-Based Fund-

raising” on July 20 at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

According to organizers, when it comes to engag-

ing board members in fundraising, special events

are familiar territory. Board members nd sponsors,

sell tickets and network like pros at the event itself.

Afterward, however, they often relax and disengage

for much of the year until gala time rolls around

again. But there is an alternative to this cycle, the

Center said.

Attendees of this webinar will learn how to

turn events into a launching point for their board

members to recruit new supporters (particularly for

major gifts), deepen existing relationships, and get

out and ask year-round. The webinar will be led by

Judy Levine from Cause Effective, who will share her

lessons from years of helping boards move toward

building long-term donor relationships, using events

as only one of many strategies in their year-round

friend-raising arsenal.

Fees for this event are $50.

For more information, visit http://bit.ly/2s5aTmt.

Charityhowto.com webinar

looks at volunteer training

The nonprot resources website Charityhowto.com

will host a webinar titled “Make it Stick! How to De-

sign Volunteer Orientation & Training That Engages

Learners” on July 25 and Aug. 2 at 3:00 p.m. EDT and

1:00 p.m. EDT, respectively.

According to organizers, this webinar will show

participants how to develop training that both engages

new volunteers and improves the quality and consis-

tency of the services they offer their organization.

The webinar will be led by Tobi Johnson, president

and founder of VolunteerPro, an online learning and

networking community for volunteer managers. Par-

ticipants will walk away with a host of tips that will

make their volunteer training programs more effective,

including how to develop learning goals for training

programs, how to choose the best methods and materi-

als for your audience and budget, how to plan course

timing so it doesn’t overwhelm volunteers and how to

evaluate training programs to see if they are working.

Fees for this event are $87.

For more information, visit http://bit.ly/2r6Kg3o. ■

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