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The Fundraising School at Indiana University Returns to Traverse City
Financial Cautionary Tales: How to Prevent Common Financial Breakdowns
Break for Lunch: Have You Met Your Match? Working with a Consultant
What We Are Reading This Week: How Nonprofits can Extend Their Reach & Build Community


The Fundraising School at Indiana University Returns to Traverse City on September 9 and 10

Create a program that brings funds year after year...from knowing how to use volunteers most effectively for your special event to soliciting major gifts on a yearly basis, this course will help you build a solid annual campaign fund. Find out how you can create a broad, enduring base of supporters who will take your nonprofit to its annual funding goal. Designed for development officers, annual fund campaign staff, board members, volunteers, prospect researchers, program officers, department heads and financial officers.

Registration closes on September 2. Don't miss the opportunity to attend this premier fundraising school at a greatly discounted price. 
Financial Cautionary Tales: How to Prevent Common Financial Breakdowns

The sector is full of stories about how organizations got themselves in a world of financial hurt. Some of these situations are less than perfectly predictable, but some are foreseeable because they are so common.

Kate Barr, one of the most astute financial analysts in the sector joined Ruth McCambridge of Nonprofit Quarterly in an hour long discussion of familiar financial traps, and how best to immunize your organization against financial woes. Listen in to their insightful discussion that includes some excellent resources.
Break for Lunch: Have You Met Your Match? Working with a Consultant

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Noon to 1:30 pm
Northwestern Michigan College University Center Campus
Instructor: Leslie Starsoneck, NorthSky Consultant, Starsoneck Consulting
Fee: $15, feel free to bring a lunch

This interactive discussion is designed for organizations that are planning to work with consultants or have had hit or miss experiences in the past. Come prepared to share and to leave with a better understanding of how best to engage your next consultant.

Click here for more information or to register.
What We Are Reading This Week: How Nonprofits can Extend Their Reach & Build Community
Post by Teddy Hunt; Socialbrite Blog

Nonprofit organizations have to reach their audiences effectively in order to find supporters and donors for the cause at hand. Social media offers nonprofits the need to get their voices heard, but going the social media route doesn't guarantee success.

Here are a few pointers that'll help turn your nonprofit into a social media darling.
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Our mission is to build strong communities by helping nonprofit organizations achieve and sustain excellence.

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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.