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Monday, October 10, 2011

How to Grow Your Business with Email Marketing:VENTURENEER FREE WEBINARS

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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 2-3:30pm ET. Register here.

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

Email is the ideal complementary tool to social media. With it, you can grow your message virally! It's a great way to reach customers and donors and interest them in what you have to offer. David Fischer, founder of Solutions for Growth, will share best practices for effective email marketing at this FREE webinar.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12n-1pm ET. Register here.

Speaking to Influence Others

Whether you're speaking to one person or to one thousand, your unique voice has a sweet spot. When you tap into it, people will listen to you and want to help your cause. Your passion will become their passion. Pamela Ziemann, author of Giving Voice to Your Cause, will present this FREE webinar.

Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 2-3pm 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, 2011 12n-1pm ET. Register here.

How to Use LinkedIn to Recruit Staff for Your Nonprofit

Recruit the right staff for your nonprofit with tips from Ventureneer's webinar. LinkedIn's Bryan Breckenridge teaches about the tools LinkedIn has to ease the way for nonprofits searching for new staff and how LinkedIn's Nonprofit Solutions can make your staff search easier in this interactive FREE webinar.

Thursday, October 13, 2011 2-3pm ET. Register here.

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

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.

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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

Nonprofits   Social Media

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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