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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

50 Asks in 50 Weeks: How to Jumpstart Your Development Shop in Any Economy

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VIRTUAL COURSES

Top 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Build Boards and Raise Money Using LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a treasure trove of connections for nonprofits. They can find board members with the passion their nonprofit wants and the skills it needs as well as increase visibility to potential supporters and donors. Join our top-notch instructors, Geri Stengel, President of Ventureneer; Marc W. Halpert, a Linkedin expert; and Maria Semple, principle of The Prospect Finder LLC to learn how your nonprofit can leverage this free tool.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2-3:30pm ET. Register here.
VENTURENEER FREE WEBINARS

Ventureneer webinar shows how to jumpstart the development shops of small nonprofits. AmyEisenstein, author of 50 Asks in 50 Weeks: A Guide to Better Fundraising for Your Small Development Shop, will present this FREE webinar on

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2-3pm ET. Register here.

Impact Investing: Challenges and Prospects

Investing for profit and for purpose can transform the world. Find out how in Ventureneer's webinar. Join instructors Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and Jed Emerson,executive vice-president for Strategic Development with ImpactAssets for this Free Webinar.

Monday, November 7, 2011 12n-1pm. ET. Register here.

10 Online Marketing/Email Trends Guaranteed to Increase Your Success

Is your email marketing all it can be? Ready for mobile, using video? Learn what you're missing. Reggie Brady, founder of Reggie Brady Marketing Solutions, will present this FREE webinar.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 12n-1pm ET. Register here.

Multi-Channel Fundraising: Strategies to Engage Donors Through Integrated Campaigns

Multi-channel strategies for fundraising get your message heard and your donors listening. Farra Trompeter, vice president of Big Duck, will present in this FREE webinar ways nonprofits can make their messages welcomed, heard, and acted upon.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 2-3 pm ET. Register here.

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PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS

Social Impact Exchange's 2012 Business Plan Competition

The Competition identifies social sector scaling initiatives with demonstrated impact and readiness to scale, and supports the winners with financial and consulting awards. U.S.-based nonprofit organizations with a focus in education, youth development, health, poverty alleviation and community economic development are eligible to enter. The Competition accepts applications from nonprofits that are scaling an organization, program, collaborative, policy initiative, media and advocacy campaign, social movement or marketplace solution. The Competition is sponsored by Growth Philanthropy Network, Duke University, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The deadline for entry is December 9, 2011. For more information or to apply,

http://www.socialimpactexchange.org/bpc_overview.cfm

3-session series on win-win Cause Marketing for businesses and nonprofits.

6 Figure Cause Marketing is specifically designed for small and medium-sized nonprofits that want to develop lucrative, win-win partnerships with businesses of all sizes ... and the businesses that want to work with them.

Joe Waters, author of Cause Marketing for Dummies and the Selfish Giving blog, will give you practical tips -- the kind you can actually use -- along with case studies that prove cause marketing works for both partners.

Learn how to identify potential business partners in your town and how to approach them as well as novel ideas for cause marketing. This isn't about marketing causes; it's about partnerships that are beneficial and lucrative to both the for-profit business and nonprofit.

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