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Elevate Your Nonprofit’s Reputation & Community Impact Series

About This Event

Starting:

Tue, April 11, 2023
In-Person

This two-part series helps nonprofit staff and board leaders understand how to enhance their organization’s reputation and relevance in a time of unlimited data and popular charity watchdog groups. Following these sessions, you’ll understand how to think differently about reporting and more effectively tell your impact story.

This series is critical for anyone who speaks with current or potential funders or donors about your organization’s impact, especially executive leaders, board members, grant writers, communications/marketing, and development staff.

How to Understand & Improve Communication with Charity Watchdog Groups | April 11, 2023

Registration closes at 11:55 p.m. Eastern on April 9, 2023.

With unlimited data just a click away, Millennials and Gen Z want to know how nonprofits are using their funds, often looking to Charity Navigator rankings and GuideStar’s communications platform before making charitable gifts. What do these ratings really mean? What data is used to formulate them and how do they affect your nonprofit’s reputation? What should you be paying attention to (or not) when it comes to elevating your scores?

In this class, you will:

  • Understand what the GuideStar and Charity Navigator evaluation processes look like and what their results mean for your organization and our nonprofit sector
  • Learn the strengths and weaknesses of third-party evaluations
  • Be able to develop a strategy to use these evaluations for your nonprofit

How to Demonstrate Community Impact: Thinking Differently About Reporting | May 2, 2023

Registration closes at 11:55 p.m. Eastern on April 30, 2023.

Nonprofit communications platform GuideStar recommends that every nonprofit is responsible for communicating its impact. But how do you do that effectively beyond dollars raised and constituents served?

This class will help you think differently about reporting to showcase your supporters’ social return on investment and true mission impact.

Specifically, you will:

  • Review best practice case studies, including community impact reports from the Conn Memorial Foundation’s education initiatives
  • See a real-world example of a nonprofit that adopted GuideStar’s questions to communicate their community impact
  • Learn from a funder and collaborator perspective what partners are looking for to motivate continued or new support
  • Understand the necessary components to create a meaningful impact report for your organization
  • Receive a template/checklist for effectively articulating and presenting your organization’s community impact report

$259.00 Only $84 each (when logged in) thanks to the support of our funders.

OR $518.00 Only $159 (when logged in) for both sessions

This event is being held IN-PERSON at our training room in Tampa, FL.

Purchase Your Event Tickets

How to Demonstrate Your Community Impact Registration
$84.00
How to Demonstrate Your Community Impact Registration
$84.00
How to Understand and Improve Your Communication Registration
$84.00
How to Understand and Improve Your Communication Registration
$84.00
Both Sessions – Elevate Your Impact Series Registration
$159.00
Both Sessions – Elevate Your Impact Series Registration
$159.00

Sessions

How to Understand and Improve Your Communication with Charity Watchdog Groups
April 11, 2023
09:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
In-Person
1408 N. Westshore Blvd. Ste. 140 Tampa, FL 33607
How to Understand and Improve Your Communication with Charity Watchdog Groups
April 11, 2023
09:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
In-Person
1408 N. Westshore Blvd. Ste. 140 Tampa, FL 33607
How to Demonstrate Your Community Impact: Thinking Differently About Reporting
May 2, 2023
09:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
In-Person
1408 N. Westshore Blvd. Ste. 140 Tampa, FL 33607
How to Demonstrate Your Community Impact: Thinking Differently About Reporting
May 2, 2023
09:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
In-Person
1408 N. Westshore Blvd. Ste. 140 Tampa, FL 33607

Sheff Crowder has served as the CEO of the Conn Memorial Foundation since 1993. His foundation provides leadership and grants to organizations in Hillsborough County that support the educational achievement of children and youth in low-income neighborhoods and strengthen the capacity of leaders in preschools, schools and social service organizations.

Sheff was the founding chair of the Nonprofit Leadership Center and has been a long-time board member and trainer. He is also a regular guest lecturer at the University of Tampa for their Certificate in Nonprofit Management graduate program. He has worked with many nonprofits on capacity-building projects and has facilitated several collective impact initiatives in Tampa Bay. Sheff holds his bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College and a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary.