We provide classes, workshops and training sessions along with opportunities to attend convenings, peer roundtables and other issues-driven events that help you learn, forge collaborations and gain insights that grow your skills and amplify your impact.
The desire to have a highly functioning board is universal, but the journey to achieve this often starts before anyone is invited to join.
How an organization identifies, prepares, supports, and evaluates its board are often done inconsistently. Learning the strategies to implement a board building plan can ensure that your board is highly functioning and performing at its best.
Objectives:
• Learn the how to recruit year round
• Understand how to effectively cultivate potential board members
• Uncover ways to educate and support your board in its work
• Learn how to use board member evaluation effectively
Dave Sternberg, CFRM is an independent consultant with Loring, Sternberg and Associates, based in Indianapolis, IN, and is also a member of the faculty at the Lilly School of Philanthropy’s Fund Raising School. In 1996, he founded Loring, Sternberg and Associates, which provides counsel to educational foundations, social service organizations, higher education, membership organizations, children’s groups, and museums.
He has been a nonprofit professional since obtaining a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. As a board consultant, he provides counsel on such topics as strategic planning and fundraising. His clients describe him as a gifted strategist, adept at assessing and identifying solutions for organizational and board challenges, and brutally honest.
Get your organization ready to submit applications and receive funding!
Join Nonprofit Center Director Cathy Brown ONLINE for an interactive, 'start from the beginning' VIRTUAL workshop series on planning, developing and preparing a grant proposal for submission. If you have never developed a grant proposal before or want to go back at the beginning and fine tune the basics, this is the series for you!
Session 1 April 8, 2024 Organizational Readiness will help you prepare your organization to receive grants. Spoiler alert - there's more to it than "we need money!". Leave this session with a clear understanding of what your organization needs to have in place to be a strong grant applicant.
Session 2 April 22, 2024 Project Development will help you take your idea or ideas and turn them into fundable projects. We will work to develop all of the aspects of the project to support an application to Community Foundation of Broward, as well as many other potential funders. Leave this session with the knowledge and confidence to tell the story and develop the components needed for a successful application.
Session 3 May 6, 2024 Proposal Application will help you learn how to match your project to the right funder and refine the language to match funder priorities and values with yours. Leave this session with a peer reviewed proposal ready (or close to it) to be submitted to the funder of your choice, including CFB.
You may invite up to 3 people with your organization to participate, but please note that everyone who registers needs to register for and commit to all 3 sessions for the most effective use of time and the interactive learning strategy used for this series. The sessions are truly interactive, and all participants will be expected to actively participate.
If you are an experienced grant writer or have had numerous proposals successfully funded throughout your career, you will likely prefer our Grants Refresh session. That session will be specifically focused on those more experienced with this work. Check back for updates on our next session!
All programs offered through Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence are open exclusively to nonprofit organizations located in or providing services in Broward County, Florida.
Get your organization ready to submit applications and receive funding!
Join Nonprofit Center Director Cathy Brown ONLINE for an interactive, 'start from the beginning' VIRTUAL workshop series on planning, developing and preparing a grant proposal for submission. If you have never developed a grant proposal before or want to go back at the beginning and fine tune the basics, this is the series for you!
Session 1 April 8, 2024 Organizational Readiness will help you prepare your organization to receive grants. Spoiler alert - there's more to it than "we need money!". Leave this session with a clear understanding of what your organization needs to have in place to be a strong grant applicant.
Session 2 April 22, 2024 Project Development will help you take your idea or ideas and turn them into fundable projects. We will work to develop all of the aspects of the project to support an application to Community Foundation of Broward, as well as many other potential funders. Leave this session with the knowledge and confidence to tell the story and develop the components needed for a successful application.
Session 3 May 6, 2024 Proposal Application will help you learn how to match your project to the right funder and refine the language to match funder priorities and values with yours. Leave this session with a peer reviewed proposal ready (or close to it) to be submitted to the funder of your choice, including CFB.
You may invite up to 3 people with your organization to participate, but please note that everyone who registers needs to register for and commit to all 3 sessions for the most effective use of time and the interactive learning strategy used for this series. The sessions are truly interactive, and all participants will be expected to actively participate.
If you are an experienced grant writer or have had numerous proposals successfully funded throughout your career, you will likely prefer our Grants Refresh session. That session will be specifically focused on those more experienced with this work. Check back for updates on our next session!
All programs offered through Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence are open exclusively to nonprofit organizations located in or providing services in Broward County, Florida.
Webinars: The Fund Raising School: Lilly Family School of Philanthropy: Indiana University Indianapolis (iu.edu)Artificial intelligence is just the latest technological development that can influence your nonprofit’s fundraising. Jay Love, who created two of the most-utilized donor management systems (eTapestry and Bloomerang), will discuss how nonprofits, regardless of budget size, can best use technology to maximize their fundraising possibilities.
Join Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence's own Cathy Brown as she talks with Jay Love about how AI and other technology can help you grow your own fundraising efficiency and effectiveness.
This year's Ignite! conference serves as a beacon for nonprofit leaders and their teams, offering a comprehensive day of learning with practical and applicable insights that address their most pressing challenges.
With a new theme, "Inspiring Hope, Resilience, and Action," we embrace the transformative power of optimism, the strength of social sector professionals to persevere, and the impact of decisive and strategic movement. While the world around us is constantly facing a variety of hardships that can feel daunting to tackle, it is through nurturing hope, bolstering resilience, and undertaking meaningful action that we can forge a brighter future for Miami-Dade—a future where every individual has the opportunity to flourish.
This year, let's connect and thrive under the banner of hope, resilience, and action.