FREE NONPROFIT WEBINARS

Do you budget to replace a third of your laptops every year? Is your cybersecurity patching and antivirus up to date? How often do you hold cybersecurity staff trainings? How can you ensure your big IT migration doesn’t happen the same month as your big annual conference and stress everyone out? To fully utilize the power of IT to support your nonprofit, you need to have a plan. You don’t have to be an IT expert to incorporate basic IT budgeting and timelines into your strategic planning. Join Johan Hammerstrom, CEO of Community IT Innovators, to learn actionable first steps and view some templates for creating a simple IT Roadmap that can help your nonprofit succeed.

To be truly inclusive, website designers and content creators must consistently produce websites and social media posts that are both accessible and usable. This presentation will provide guidelines for ensuring that information can be used by everyone, regardless of ability. The presenters, both of whom live with vision loss, will demonstrate what end users experience when interacting with accessible and inaccessible content. The differences between accessible and usable content will also be discussed. Finally, the presenters will highlight tips and tricks for producing content that anyone can access and use.

Revolutionize your approach to donors with nonprofit professional and foundation advisor Sybil Ackerman-Munson of Do Your Good. Sybil will show you how to unlock the donor mind to build amazing relationships with prospective givers, and teach you the top 3 things that work amazingly well but that almost no one does. You’ll learn how to identify and analyze donor behavior so you can build stronger relationships with current and prospective givers, work on honing your pitch to create meaningful conversations that encourage donors to give more generously, and discover the best techniques for making real connections with donors and turning your cause into theirs.

This workshop will help you unlock and leverage the power of your program data. Join presenter, Sarah Merion as she reviews a 6-step framework your team can use to start moving to being a data-informed organization. Attendees will learn the steps to consolidate, analyze, and visualize your program information to create data-driven messaging that will fuel more program funding from grants, partners, and major gifts donors. Best of all, this framework requires no budget and no technical resources from your team!

Which marketing tactics will be most effective for your nonprofit to invest in in 2023? Community Boost wanted to find out. So, we launched The 2023 Nonprofit Acceleration Survey, and gathered the latest insights from over 1200 nonprofit professionals to study the high-performing marketing strategies used to advance nonprofits' missions today. And now, we’re ready to uncover all of our learnings distilled from the data, so you can create a marketing strategy designed specifically to help you accelerate your growth in 2023.
Join Candace Cody, Digital Events Manager at Community Boost, and dive into the top nonprofit marketing trends from the report. Don’t just follow nonprofit marketing trends. Be at the forefront!

Nonprofit websites are complicated! They have to speak to several audiences (program participants, donors, partners, and many others) while still representing your work well. With so many competing requirements, it isn't easy to know if things are actually "working." By knowing what to look for, you can identify areas for improvement and ensure your online presence supports your mission and grows your community. Participants will walk away from this workshop with a better understanding of how to evaluate if your website is serving as an asset for your organization, how to identify problems within your nonprofit's website, and the steps to take to fix those problems!

Are you frustrated that few people give through your e-newsletter? Do you want to solve your problems and help your e-newsletter make money for your nonprofit? Join Mazarine Treyz for this free webinar on July 6th and learn: Potent Calls to Action for your E-newsletter, 16 kinds of headlines to help your donors give, The 5 reasons people share your e-newsletter and specific words to get Donors to Click Donate, based on Treyz's 15+ years of experience in helping nonprofits raise more with email than ever before.

Learn why focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is just as important of a fund development strategy as it is a social imperative. Learn how organizations that focus on DEI are raising more funds and are on the trend to raise even more in the future. Engage in a conversation about why focusing on DEI at your staff level is not enough. Learn why focusing on DEI across your organization, from your staff to your board to your supplier/vendor policies, has become more important to funders. Engaging in DEI intentionally and holistically takes time, investment, and planning. If you are not yet on the DEI track and need a fund development reason to get on the track, this webinar is for you. If you are already on your DEI journey, learn how to maximize your funding opportunities by telling your story. In this webinar, there will be actionable steps for organizations at every stage of their DEI journey.

We all encounter ethical dilemmas in our daily work with and for community, but rarely do organizations focus on ethics related to volunteer engagement. This session provides an opportunity for practitioners to understand the difference between personal, organizational and professional ethics. The core values and principles identified by the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA) will be shared. Participants will learn a process for ethical decision-making that can be applied in any situation, and then practice this using real-life scenarios related to volunteers. Finally, several specific strategies will be offered for increasing awareness of ethics within an organization and helping both volunteers and staff become more effective at handling ethical dilemmas.

This masterclass will help support your role in creating inclusive environments and establishing relationships aligned to your core values. This includes the relationship with yourself as well as relationships with people you connect with. By the end, participants will have tools to incorporate practices of building aligned relationships that lead to more inclusive communities and environments.

We’re taking participants behind the content curtain to learn more about the three factors everyone should use to inform and elevate their writing: voice, audience and tone. This workshop encourages learners to pause before putting pen to paper in order to find the voice of the organization they're working with, understand the audience they’re speaking to, and pick a tone that elevates their message clearly enough to engage effectively.

Having a clearly defined Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategy can be extremely beneficial to the growth and sustainability of an organization. A DEI strategy can help prioritize efforts, align stakeholders, properly allocate resources, and create a shared vision and investment within the organization. In this webinar participants will understand how creating a DEI strategy promotes inclusion and staff engagement. They will also learn about the key phases and components of a DEI strategy and leave with tools to help them begin to craft a strong and sustainable DEI strategy.