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ShareNews from Around the Sector: October 2009TSNE is pleased to announce upcoming activities and events from across the nonprofit sector, as well as new resources available for nonprofit professionals. Send your sectorwide announcements to info@tsne.org, subject line “News Submission.” News from Around the Sector is sent each month to subscribers to the TSNe-Bulletin. If you would like to be added to the subscription list, visit our sign-up page.
Conferences, Trainings, WorkshopsLead Conversations That Can Change the World In your work to educate the public, advocate for change, and communicate through the media, you deal with the progressive and conservative values and worldviews that are polarizing the American landscape. Challenge yourself to explore those mindsets of people with very different ideas about the world. Learn how to turn experiences that usually leave you frustrated and stumped into opportunities to bridge the divide and become a more effective and influential communicator. Introduction to Website Analytics Talk through the tools and strategies you can use to understand how people are using your site. Through demos of AWStats and Google Analytics, see what these tools can tell you about your site, and what the statistics mean. Moving Beyond Icebreakers 101 Interactive methods are usually ignored or marginalized as "ice breakers" to be used only in the first few moments of a community meeting, or first few hours or days of a group's experience. This workshop demonstrates the depth and richness of several interactive exercises and how to use them to engage the hearts, minds and energies of diverse groups of people. Whether you work with teens or adults, you will leave this workshop with specific tools you can use in the next meeting you facilitate. Building for Sustainable Communities: Nonprofit Facilities & Shared Workspace As the real estate market continues to change and stimulus funds become available, nonprofit organizations are finding new opportunities to create quality workspace and facilities for themselves and the communities they serve. Join us for a hands-on training seminar to help your agency successfully create and operate a mission-enhancing, financially sustainable facility. Human Resources 101 for Non-HR Professionals Members of the Enterprise Bank Human Resources team will facilitiate a training session on the following topics: hiring, onboarding (new employee orientation and on-the-job training) and performance management. To register or for more information, email Andrew Duncan at andrew.duncan@ebtc.com. Writing to Engage Your Community This webinar covers the steps for creating a writing strategy for your organization. Building An Effective Email List Successful online fundraising, actions and outreach all start with a solid and substantial list of email addresses. But how do you build your list with the addresses of constituents truly interested in your cause? Discuss a wide variety of tools and techniques to gather solid email addresses, from direct mail and list appending techniques, to online registration methods, to PR and marketing tactics, to social media and viral marketing list building efforts – and how all of those things fit together. Effective Supervision Effective supervision contributes directly to organizational mission effectiveness. It is critical to maintaining a productive staff in the face of shifting and competing priorities. Strong supervision creates a culture of mutual respect in which employees and supervisors communicate regularly and clearly about job-related expectations, tasks and overall performance. Photos That Generate Awareness This webinar explains how a smart photo strategy helps you strengthen your brand, engage your community and impact specific marketing goals. This webinar also presents best practices for taking and distributing digital photos. Effective Supervision Effective supervision contributes directly to organizational mission effectiveness. It is critical to maintaining a productive staff in the face of shifting and competing priorities. Strong supervision creates a culture of mutual respect in which employees and supervisors communicate regularly and clearly about job-related expectations, tasks and overall performance. Best Practices for Free and Paid Online Promotion This webinar provides best practices for the most common online promotional opportunities. Building Better Boards Come to learn and share experiences of steps and actions to re-awaken your board, who to recruit, who to thank for their service and how to balance it all in today’s world. EventsLocal, Sustainable, Delicious: A Seasonal Celebration! Join us as we celebrate the work of growers and chefs on the 2009 New England Grow-Out, a project led by Chefs Collaborative that promotes farm to chef relationships while celebrating biodiversity and the agricultural history of New England. The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center's Champions for Change Gala & Auction The evening will feature fine food and drink and silent and live auctions to support BARCC’s free services. We will also present the annual awards to our Champions for Change and our extraordinary volunteers. Movie Screening: Including Samuel New Hampshire photojournalist Dan Habib rarely thought about inclusion before he had his son Samuel eight years ago. Now he thinks about inclusion every day. Habib’s film, Including Samuel, examines the social and educational inclusion of youth with disabilities. Please join NonProfit Center neighbor VSA arts for a screening of Including Samuel to be followed by discussion of the film. Employment OpportunitiesTSNE is pleased to share these job opportunities on behalf of other organizations in the nonprofit sector. Breakthrough Cambridge is hiring an executive director. Capital Link, with offices in Boston, is looking for a marketing and communications manager. Boston Pride Committee is seeking a deputy director. Boston Public Health Commission is hiring a public health advocate. The Zen Peacemakers is searching for a resource development director. Community Legal Services & Counseling Center, in Cambridge, Mass., is hiring a bilingual office manager. Peace Games is seeking a grants manager. Corporate Accountability International is hiring a financial manager. hopeFound is seeking a housing support counselor. Please check here for current employment opportunities with TSNE’s Fiscal Sponsorship and Executive Transition Program clients. Full-time and part-time positions have been added. |
