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Rotary Charities Logic Model Training - Encore Session
Feasibility Studies: An Unnecessary Expense Designed to Make Consultants Rich, or an Important Part of Your Next Fundraising Campaign?
Planning a Board Retreat or Planning Session This Summer?
Ecommerce Customer Acquisition: Tips for Acquiring Subscribers Who Will Become Loyal Customers


Rotary Charities Logic Model Training - Encore Session

NMC logo Thursday, August 1, 2013

10 am to Noon

Northwestern Michigan College  

University Center, Room 207 

Instructor: Freya Bradford, NorthSky Senior Consultant

Fee: free, registration is required

 

Rotary Charities will offer an encore presentation of its NorthSky logic model training. All Rotary Charities' Program and Organizational Capacity Building grant applicants are required to submit a logic model as part of their application. This interactive work session will introduce the logic model and walk participants through the process of refining it. Any organization planning to apply for a Rotary program or capacity building grant should attend.

 

If you have already attended this training, you do not need to attend.

 

If you have any questions about the training, please contact Becky Ewing, Program Officer at 941-4010 or  bewing@rotarycharities.org  

 

To register or for more information. 

Feasibility Studies: An Unnecessary Expense Designed to Make Consultants Rich, or an Important Part of Your Next Fundraising Campaign?

Why in heaven's name would you hire strangers to talk to your most valuable donors and volunteers? How do you know that a third party will represent you and your organization the way you wish to be seen? Will your prospects, donors, and volunteers really confide in someone they don't know?

 

These are the questions that many organizations are asking as they ponder paying for a feasibility study at the beginning of their fundraising campaigns. After all, you know your donors, right? Can't you just do the study yourself-and aren't you just itching for a chance to talk to your donors for real, and not just as part of an invented cultivation visit?  

 

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Planning a Board Retreat or Planning Session This Summer?

Consider a NorthSky consultant to plan and facilitate your session. NorthSky has an expert team of highly vetted consultants from a wide range of backgrounds that can assist you with your project.  

 

Check out our team and learn more about our consulting services.

Ecommerce Customer Acquisition:
Tips for Acquiring Subscribers Who Will Become Loyal Customers

With 55% of marketing professionals agreeing that email marketing is the most effective marketing tactic ͥ, it's not surprising that it plays an integral role in successful eCommerce merchants' overall marketing strategies. The fact that it is widely known to return more than $40 per dollar spent makes its cost effectiveness undeniable. What is also undeniable is that any successful email marketing program begins with a sizable, healthy list of subscribers to reach out to with your marketing messages.  

 

Read more.

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NorthSky is a nonprofit program of Rotary Charities of Traverse City that assists northern Michigan nonprofit organizations strengthen their capabilities through capacity building and sustainability support. It provides a wide range of services and resources to help nonprofit organizations deliver programs effectively and efficiently. NorthSky also serves as a conduit for new resources securing state and national support and partnerships to bring technical and financial resources home to nonprofits and social enterprises in this region. As part of Rotary Charities' mission, NorthSky also serves in leadership roles, participating and facilitating regional initiatives.