Wednesday, May 7th, 1:00 - 2:30 EST.
Presented by Laura Quinn
Cost: $40
If you need a way to update your website, but you’re not sure where to start, this is the session for you. We’ll talk about what content management systems are, and look at various affordable options for updating your website text and images, including using What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get software like DreamWeaver and Contribute, website-in-a-box tools like Homesite, blog tools like WordPress, open source tools like Joomla and Drupal, and more.
If you’re storing data about your constituents in many different places, it’s costing you in time, lost revenue and decreased impact. Paul Hagen, who’s helped organizations such as Goodwill, VolunteerMatch and Jewish Teen Alliance develop their Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) strategy, will talk through the practical steps, processes, and software that can help you to get a better handle on managing and building your relationship with each constituent.
Wednesday, March 13th, 1:00 - 2:30 EST. Presented by Laura Quinn Cost: $40
If you need a way to update your website, but you’re not sure where to start, this is the session for you. We’ll talk about what content management systems are, and look at various affordable options for updating your website text and images, including using What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get software like DreamWeaver and Contribute, website-in-a-box tools like Homesite, blog tools like WordPress, open source tools like Joomla and Drupal, and more.
A Special Webinar Series for Nonprofit Startup Organizations
The fourth session in the series is “Effective Program Development for Startup Organizations,” presented by John F. O’Kane.
Effective Program Development for Startup Organizations
When: Friday, February 8, 2008, at 2:00 pm EST Presenter: John F. O’Kane, CFRE, Senior Vice President, Coxe Curry & Associates
Program description
Increasingly donors and funders want to know that a nonprofit organization has a sound plan to use its human, financial, and programmatic resources most effectively. A business plan is a thoughtful, systematic projection of the financial, marketing, personnel, and real costs and effort of a program that helps accomplish a nonprofit’s mission. In this session you will learn how to create a business plan and to structure a program plan to enhance your organization’s effectiveness.
John F. O’Kane
John F. O’Kane is senior vice president and campaign director at Coxe Curry & Associates. In over 35 years of work with the nonprofit sector, he has had experience with personnel management, organizational development, training, consulting, and fundraising. At Coxe Curry, Mr. O’Kane works with a variety of fundraising clients: churches, health and human service organizations, schools, and groups representing civic concerns. He is a frequent lecturer, trainer, consultant, and writer on topics related to nonprofit management and fundraising. Prior to joining Coxe Curry in 1988, Mr. O’Kane served as vice president of human resources with the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. He has served for 17 years as a part-time instructor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies with the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, where he is a distinguished professor of practice and a member of the Non Profit Program Advisory Committee. Mr. O’Kane has served as a volunteer on numerous boards of directors and advisory councils. He earned a master’s degree in social work from Washington University, and a BA from Marian College.
Project Management provides an organized framework for planning and implementing successful projects in organizations. While traditionally utilized for technology rollouts in the for profit community, nonprofits have been slower to adopt these tools. This class will review basic project management concepts and how they may be applied at nonprofit organizations. Some concepts to be discussed are:
Developing a project plan
Identifying stakeholders
Putting together an effective team
Risk management
Effective communications
Handling change requests
Using ‘agile’ strategies
Using the example of a project to migrate a new online fundraising application to, it will be shown how project management techniques can help to insure a successful implementation.
If you need a way to update your website, but you’re not sure where to start, this is the session for you. We’ll talk about what content management systems are, and look at various affordable options for updating your website text and images, including using What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get software like DreamWeaver and Contribute, website-in-a-box tools like Homesite, blog tools like WordPress, open source tools like Joomla and Drupal, and more.
If you’re storing data about your constituents in many different places, it’s costing you in time, lost revenue and decreased impact. Paul Hagen, who’s helped organizations such as Goodwill, VolunteerMatch and Jewish Teen Alliance develop their Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) strategy, will talk through the practical steps, processes, and software that can help you to get a better handle on managing and building your relationship with each constituent.
The fourth session in the series is “Effective Program Development for Startup Organizations,” presented by John F. O’Kane.