Financial Review and Audits – May 19, 2023
In this session, we will provide an overview of Financial Reviews and Financial Audits for nonprofit organizations. These financial examinations are meant to provide varying levels of assurance for readers of financial statements. This presentation will focus on the differences and similarities between the two types of examinations as well as best practices to keep your accounting system ready for a review or an audit.
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Grant and Project Based Accounting – May 16, 2023
In this session, we will dive into Grant and Project Based Accounting basics. This is a unique form of accounting that differs from the objectives of traditional accounting. This presentation will focus on the core elements of Grant and Project Based Accounting providing the necessary tools to be able to set up an efficient system to properly track grants and projects.
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Identifying and Reviewing State and Federal Funding Opportunities – May 12, 2023
In this session, we will highlight several resources to identify state and federal grant opportunities. We will also review a few funding opportunities together to and highlight key areas to consider including alignment with what the sponsor wants to fund, eligibility requirements, and how to address cost share requirements.
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Resources for Nonprofit Organizations – May 11, 2023
In this session, we will share free or low cost resources for nonprofit organizations to support several areas of nonprofit organizational capacity building including identifying grants, grant writing technical assistance, grant and project management tools, free and low cost legal resources, technology resources, and even maximizing information gathering through the local library system.
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Internal Controls and Procedures for Nonprofit Organizations – May 9, 2023
How the money is managed and who manages is an important part of an organization’s fiscal process. In this session, we will share best practices for the management of grant funds in a nonprofit organization. We will also present strategies on how to create an internal control process for organizations with limited staff and volunteer structure.
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Award Expenditures 101: Allowable and Unallowable Costs – May 4, 2023
In this session, we will discuss costs incurred on grant-funded projects. We will review costs that are typically allowable (approved in a grant budget) and costs that are typically (unallowable) not approved in a grant budget. We will also discuss cost principles for federal awards.
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Best Practices for Award Administration & Compliance – May 2, 2023
This presentation is a a deeper dive into managing grant funded projects from various types of funding agencies. We will share insights on how to shape the grant proposal and lay the groundwork for award management. We will share strategies on how to navigate sticky contract language as well as best practices in tracking project activities, managing a budget to actuals, and creating progress reports.
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Grant Management 101 for Not for Profit Organizations – April 26, 2023
In this session, we will review best practices and strategies for the management of funded awards from foundations, and federal, state, and local agencies. We will discuss tracking milestones, budgets, and general reporting requirements.
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Technology Solutions – April 25, 2023
Tools, tools, and more tools. Learn how to increase your productivity and become more time efficient while working on your computer. In this presentation, you will discover how to save hours of time per week using tools to automate common annoying and tedious tasks.
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Website Fundamentals for Nonprofit Organizations – April 20, 2023
Learn about the must-dos and the do-nots for making your nonprofit website more successful. This presentation will give you actionable insights into User Experience (UX), Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and other ways to get visitors to your website and how to encourage them to take action.
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Diversifying Fundraising: Five Elements of Defining your Direction – April 18, 2023
In this presentation we will learn about the following steps to diversify fundraising strategies for your organization: 1. Creating Your Own Pyramid; 2. Identify, Assess, and Develop Your Donor Base; 3. The “Magic Wand” of Resources; 4. Spider Mapping; and 5. Words that Count. This training will share the critical steps you must identify, define the “what and how” your organization’s resource development team engages in, and the outcomes you desire.
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Staff and Leadership Roles and Dynamics in a Successful Organization – April 14, 2023
Navigating and clarifying roles and dynamics at all levels of your organization creates healthy communication, effective collaboration, and authentic trust. All of which can improve performance, service delivery, and levels of positive engagement. This training provides simple and applicable tools to create real and sustainable dynamics that will help you and your organization to thrive.
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Growth Mindset for Organizational and Personal Success – April 12, 2023
Having the advantage of a growth mindset allows you and your organization to be more productive, effective, and ultimately achieve sustainable success. This interactive session provides proven strategies to help you and your teams significantly improve, and will directly impact the people you serve, every day.
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Fundraising 101 – April 7, 2023
For many nonprofit and for-profit organizations, fundraising can seem bewildering, scary, and something to avoid. Anyone can become a great fundraiser when provided with tips, guidance, and resources. Fundraising 101 will do exactly that, provide you with a basic overview of strategies that will help your organization self-sustain, build capacity, improve, and expand programs that help your community.
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Project Management & Effective Communication – April 6, 2023
This session provides an introduction to project management (PM) and how the PM process can be applied to the grant seeking and grant management process. It also explores how best practices, strategies, and effective communication will help you accomplish your organizational mission and ensure success.
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Shared Vision & Alignment – April 5, 2023
Each organization has a vision that leads them into the future to become self-sustaining, growing, and learning, but sometimes lacks resources to do that. This webinar will help in getting the participants to align their programs and goals with this shared vision and in providing services to Washington’s children and young people that increase access to quality and equity with summer and afterschool programs.
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Accessing Local and School District Funds – March 31, 2023
Local government and school district funding and partnership are challenging for programs – but it can be done! This session shares best practices in advocacy and partnerships to utilize local government (ex. cities and counties) and school districts’ funds and explores what funding options are or could be available.
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Navigating Grant Opportunities to Support Youth Programs – March 17, 2023
This workshop covers different strategies to identify potential grant opportunities and provides tips and resources to support planning for and writing grants. Some of the areas highlighted includes an overview of grants and types of funders, framing a needs statement, how to talk about your program goals, activities, and outcomes, building a budget, and setting yourself up for success with reporting.
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