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October 2009 Forum: Best Practice and New Trends in Fundraising
...and! Springboard and our community celebrate the Forum's first birthday with a Springboard Fundraiser Evening of Fun and Strategy!
This month marks our twelfth monthly forum - an entire year of meeting, planning, sharing, launching, and learning. We've even shed a tear or two while being inspired and moved. The year marked the launch of ChangeXchange, many new ventures for the good, new partnerships and alliances, and a community of doers bent on improving the world. Share the evening with us as we push us all to keep the momentum going with a fundraiser for Springboard and the work we do for you.
Party at Urban Grind NE! 2214 NE Oregon St, same place where it all started!
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Dinner, cake and a toast! Join us for serious fun.
We start with highlights from the year - yours and ours - and share the exciting progress of making a difference that comes from Portlanders like you, (while you have dinner). Then, after cake, we jump right into serious workshops on how to build financial sustainability into your organization's 2010 plans. Two sets, ALL NEW. A very sweet deal. But, we did say it was a fundraiser, didn't we?!
A WIN-WIN FUNDRAISING PLAN
$30 for the evening workshops
and to support the 2010 Social Innovation Forums.
Two ways to make a difference:
1. If you don't need to learn how to do fundraising,
sponsor a worthy nonprofit who does!
~or~
2. Attend for the $30. You learn many strategies for raising funds
AND support future Forums.
OK, I'm in. How do I pay?
You can purchase a ticket online by clicking on the "Donate" link on any page (or below).
Be sure to add "October Forum" in the comment box at the bottom of the payment page. Or you can pay by check or cash at the door.
How do I request a sponsorship?
If you are a nonprofit or thinking of starting one and would benefit from the
Forum's high-end fund development workshops, contact Anna Raksany
anna@springboardinnovation.org or at (503) 452-6898
and get your name on the list.
What will my $30 donation do?
Your $30 will allow us to continue holding Social Innovation Forums in 2010. Springboard has been underwriting them throughout 2008 and 2009, and we'd like to keep doing them!
So, in celebration of the first-year anniversary of the Springboard Social Innovation Forum, October’s event will serve a dual purpose: raising funds for 2010, and providing focused training on raising funds for small and growing nonprofits. The evening’s lineup will include high-level workshops on fundraising given by Portland’s leaders in fund development and structures for change. The fundraising asking price is $30. You still get dinner, PLUS cake and champagne. Students pay $10.
WORKSHOPS: Fund development strategies ~
NOTE:
These workshop sessions will NOT be repeated. FIRST SET OF SESSIONS: 6:45 p.m.
- Fundraising through Special Events: Planning the right-sized event
—Carol Vogel, Chief Development Officer for Morrison Child & Family Services, and Warren Karmol, NAMI Walks Director
Both Carol and Warren share their substantial experience planning and conducting major fundraising events, from national walks, to golf tournaments and auctions. They will talk about the tips and tricks of doing events for raising funds, helping you create a right-sized event for your organization.
- Cracking the Code of Planned Giving: Best Kept Secret of Large Nonprofits
— Eric Maher, Northwestern Mutual; Ken Cararro, Financial Advisor, Ameriprise; and Charles Maclean, Consultant, Philanthropy Now.
How do they do it? Hospitals, universities, and large nonprofits benefit by alumni and other individuals of high net worth donating large amounts in wills or through insurance or gifts. Financial planners help crack the code of planned giving. Learn how to tap into these kinds of channels for change.
- New "Hybrid Business Structure for Nonprofits": The L3C — Angela Wilhelm and Yameen Ali, Willamette University Atkinson Graduate School of Management
Learn about the variations on this new legal structure that has been called the best new strategy to create "hybrids of standard nonprofit and for-profit entities." Over ten states are seeking to pass the legislation to make them legal, Oregon among them. Learn what this structure offers to those seeking to create a mission-driven organization.
- Plugging in Online for Connections, Contacts, and Sources of Support
— Tom Bennett, Client Strategist, the New Group and Anna Raksany, Springboard Innovation
Which widgets, online social media spaces, and tools really provide social innovators the right kind of visibility and connections? Where should your organization's name be listed, added, posted, and RSSed? Learn about the over 20 sites worth plugging into.
- Building Social Investing at Home: The New "Investor Groups" and "Giving Circles" — Jeanne Kojis, Executive Director of the Nonprofit Network of SW Washington
Learn what Clark County already knows - people will gather and give, right in their own community. Find out how we can open the door to meaningful donor relationships through models like the Nonprofit Network Giving Circle of Clark County Women. Hear how they did it, and what we need to do here in Portland - now!