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Monday, August 22, 2011

CHECK OUT VENTURENEER FREE WEBINARS FOR THE FALL:

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VIRTUAL COURSES

Nonprofit Leaders, Mine the Gold: Find Your Best Donor Prospects NOW!

Nonprofits can find higher-net-worth donors in their own databases and outside database using the techniques from Ventureneer's online seminar, taught by Maria Semple, The Prospect Finder LLC and a master of building donor relationships.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12n-1:30 pm ET Register here.

Multiple Businesses? Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for Them All

For those who wear many hats, setting up LinkedIn profiles for them all can be daunting. Ventureneer's online class will show you how to optimize LinkedIn for multiple businesses. Presented by Marc W. Halpert a multipreneur and LinkedIn expert.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2-3pm ET. Register here.

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How to Profit from Social Media?

Can small businesses really use social media to make money? Erik Deckers co-authored No Bullshit Social Media. He'll join Ventureneer to discuss profit-making ideas on this FREE webinar.

Tuesday, August 23 12pm - 1pm ET. Register here.

Optimize Your Profitability

You've got the information to improve the profitability of your small business. You just need to know how. Find out what profit you're leaving on the table and how to recapture it. David Rudofsky, president and founder of Rudofsky Associates, a consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses solve financial and strategic issues, will present this FREE webinar.

Tuesday, Sept. 13, from 2 to 3 pm ET. Register here.


How Small Businesses and Nonprofits Can Work Together for Mutual Benefit Using Tools

Technology can give cause marketing a powerful edge. Ventureneer webinar shows how nonprofits and their partners can ramp up their causes. Joe Waters, author of Selfishgiving, contributor to The Huffington Post and co-author of Cause Marketing for Dummies will present this free webinar on

Wednesday, September 21, 12n-1pm ET. Register here.

How to Leverage Offline Fundraising Using Online Media

Online media build the relationships that boost offline fundraising campaigns. Ventureneer's free webinar focuses on mixing the old and the new to reach new donors. Presented by Ventureneer's founder, Geri Stengel for this FREE webinar.

Wednesday, October 12, 12n-1pm ET. Register here.

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PARTNER EVENTS

Advancing the Practice of Innovative Capacity Building

Join your colleagues September 16-18 in Oakland, California when the 2011 Annual Conference of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management convenes around the theme Research to Practice: Advancing the Practice of Innovative Capacity Building. The unique format of this conference, co-sponsored by The Nonprofit Quarterly, invites you to participate in a "community of practice" with leading researchers, pracademics and capacity builders. Dig deep into one of five areas: leadership, governance, movement-building, nonprofit business models, or evaluation. Help set the future of capacity building in our sector.

SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES

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Check out Social Media for Values Driven Companies a one-stop, continually updated central resource about social media as they are used by nonprofits, which is sometimes different than the way for-profits use them.

Ramp up their social media effortsVentureneer's new, free ebook, Social Media for Your Nonprofit: Take Charge!.

Also don't forget to check out our survey report,Nonprofits and Social Media: It Ain't Optional.

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Geri Stengel