Location: WFU campus, Reynolda Hall, Autumn Room. Parking is available on Davis Field. For directions to the Reynolda Hall and to Davis Field (see map)

Join us for the first class of our second year of Nonprofit Essentials! Our Board Governance class will provide a practical look at nonprofit governance, including organizational lifecycles and best practices. Topics include the role of the board, building an effective board, the relationship and roles of the board and staff, and how to monitor and evaluate the Executive Director. 

The class will be taught by Steve Virgil, Director of Wake Forest University's Institute for Public Engagement and our partner in the Nonprofit Essentials series. Steve is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the School of Law's Community Law and Business Clinic, where Wake Forest clinical students offer legal services to non-profit organizations and entrepreneurs who create new businesses in low-wealth areas in Forsyth County. For the past year, Steve has served on the Faculty Public Engagement Advisory Board and has become a familiar face in the local community. Before joining the faculty in 2008, Steve directed a similar law clinic at Creighton University School of Law; practiced law with the Urban Development Office of Cleveland Legal Aid in Ohio and the Kutak Rock law firm in Omaha; and clerked for the Honorable George W. White, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio. He is the founder and General Counsel of the Great Plains Environmental Law Center and a former National Association for Public Interest Law Equal Justice Fellow with the Nebraska Appleseed Center. 

Location: Senior Services (see map)

Board members play a critical role in the success of organizations. Strong, knowledgeable boards help organizations gain credibility, build financial resources by providing access to the community, and serve as advocates and ambassadors of the organization. 

To help nonprofits increase the effectiveness and leadership capacity of their boards, we created this workshop specifically geared for board members who are in leadership positions or who are moving towards leadership roles on nonprofit boards as officers or committee chairs. Topics include a review of board officer roles and responsibilities, committee chair accountabilities, attributes of effective board and committee leaders, a self-assessment leadership instrument, advanced Roberts Rules of Order training, planning processes and tools, leading and conducting effective meetings, group communications, appraising board and committee effectiveness, and other topics of interest as identified by workshop participants. 

The workshop will be led by Karl Yena. Karl retired from RJR Nabisco, Inc. as Director of Worldwide Organization Development & Training. He served over 20 years as a senior level manager providing consulting services to RJR corporate and operating company management of Del Monte, Nabisco, Sea Land Shipping , Kentucky Fried Chicken, etc. on a national and international basis. Karl has designed and facilitated over 100 distinct training programs and he continues to provide training and development to several Fortune 500 firms. An avid volunteer, Karl works annually with over 100 nonprofits in North Carolina and in the Eastern US. Over the past 30 years, he has served on over 200 non-profit Boards. 

Location: American Red Cross, 690 Coliseum Dr., Winston-Salem (get directions)

Join us for lunch and learn more about a career that can offer you success and satisfaction-Nonprofit Leadership and Management! Forsyth Tech is the only North Carolina community college to offer this Associate in Applied Science degree, which is designed to prepare individuals for a leadership or management role in the nonprofit sector. Course work includes an overview of nonprofit organizations (NPO), philanthropy, legal and ethical concerns, funding issues, and strategic planning. Additional coursework introduces grant writing, international non-governmental organizations (NGO), public relations and sustainable communities. Related skills are developed through the study of communications, computer applications, accounting, and other coursework appropriate to the nonprofit sector. Spring 2012 classes start January 9, 2012. HandsOn staff and numerous local partners will also be serving as guest presenters during classes.

Location: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, One West Fourth Street, Suite 1200, Winston-Salem (get directions)

As nonprofits continue to search for ways to raise money to support their causes, understanding the legal issues pertaining to fundraising is critical in order to avoid future problems. Join us for a practical discussion of the legal responsibilities of charitable organizations with active development programs. Topics include: 
·Gift acknowledgement and receipting
·Appropriately structuring raffles and auctions

·Membership benefits-what you can and cannot do
·Insubstantial benefits
·Importance of donor intent 

We'll also look at a couple of case studies to help work through and clarify some of these issues. This FREE seminar
is presented by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in partnership with The Winston-Salem Foundation an

d HandsOn NWNC. It is ideal for nonprofit management, staff and board members who are involved with fundraising at
any level. Space is limited, so register early!

The presenters for the seminar will be Ranlet "Ran" Bell, Esq. and Edward Griggs, Esq. from Womble Carlyle Sandridge &

Rice. 

If you have questions or need more information, and can't come to this information session, please contact  Renee Rogers, Program Coordinator at 336.734.7919. For more specifics about the curriculum, visit their website. To apply for classes, click here. 

Location: Wake Forest University, room TBA

We know that giving in this economy continues to remain flat at best, and at the same time there is a greater demand for services. We also know from experience that the most accurate predictors of charitable giving are such indexes as the stock market, the unemployment rate, and consumer confidence. If these are uncertain or declining, that will be reflected in charitable giving. And now we have a new factor: the sorry condition of state government budgets, which is putting enormous pressure on nonprofits that rely on fees for services. 

Join Bunkie Righter, Director of Business Development for GuideStar, as she talks about the "new normal" for the nonprofit sector--a period where the nonprofit sector will no longer experience the revenue growth (from foundations, individuals and government) we had become accustomed to over the last few decades. The "new normal" may not apply for certain subsectors of the nonprofit sector and for some regions of the country, but in general, the sector has a slow and painful recovery ahead. Bunkie will talk further about GuideStar's surveys and other national nonprofit trends, ultimately addressing why nonprofits must show their impact to achieve and sustain success. 

Bunkie will further drill down this topic in a break out session immediately following the breakfast as she walks through the five questions of Charting Impact -a standardized method for sharing concise information with key stakeholders and the public -with the goal of leaving this session with tangible evidence of how to show progress in today's uncertain climate.