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EVENTS & REGISTRATION
Register online by selecting from the events listed below. If you'd prefer to pay by check or would rather mail in or fax your registration form, you'll find a printer-friendly form here. You are not considered enrolled until we have received payment. You are still responsible for payment to the LBNP unless you cancel your registration at least two working days before the event. (See Cancellation Policy on our Terms & Conditions page).
9 am to 12 noon
Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership
3635 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90807
(562) 290-0018 (562) 2390-8018 Fax
May 15
Non-violent Communication: Effectively Confronting Conflict
PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
This interactive workshop will introduce you to a number of tools that you can use to understand conflict, your own relationship to conflict and ways to resolve conflict more effectively. Specifically, you will:
Dr. Susan Rice D.S.W., Professor Emeritus, CSULB
June 3
Maximizing Auction Results – From Friend Raising to Fund Raising
FUND DEVELOPMENT
Looking for ways to increase revenues at your next benefit auction? Join auction experts as they share practical and proven approaches that have yielded tremendous success. You’ll get lots of ideas plus actual tools and strategies to immediately apply to your next event. You will learn how to:
Jeff Tannenbaum, CAI, Founder & Auctioneer, Rock the Gavel; Karla Ford, Area Marketing Manager, Auctionpay
July 10
Telling Your Story
MARKETING/PUBLIC RELATIONS
Nonprofit leaders are always looking for ways to “get the word out” about what they do, yet many times overlook the most effective method for demonstrating how they improve lives: a good story. Join veteran radio reporter, host and editor Debra Baer for a workshop on how to develop your organization’s stories. You’ll learn:
Trainer/Presenter: Debra Baer, Editor/Reporter, National Public Radio member station KPCC.
July 17 (10 am to 1 pm)
Powerful PowerPoint®
NONPROFIT ADMINISTRATION
Want to jazz up your presentations? Geared to beginner/intermediate, this is a hands-on workshop in our computer lab in which you’ll learn techniques for making your PowerPoint® presentations more effective. Bring a topic or presentation you’d like to work on during class. Specifically, you’ll learn to:
Chris Hickey, President & CEO, Instructional Technology Systems Consultancy
July 29 (10 am to 1 pm)
Intermediate Word®
NONPROFIT ADMINISTRATION
Expand your knowledge of Microsoft WordR and learn how to take your skills to the next level. This hands-on workshop will help you:
Chris Hickey, President & CEO, Instructional Technology Systems Consultancy
July 31
Behavioral Interviewing – More Than a Gut Feeling
NONPROFIT ADMINISTRATION
This workshop is focused on specific and in-depth skills development in establishing a system of behavioral interviewing as the most effective and successful approach to employee candidate selection through the interview process. It has been reported that behavioral interviewing is 55% predictive of future on the job behavior while traditional interviewing is only 10% predictive. Specifically, you will learn:
Presenter: Anne Laguzza, M.A., The Works Consulting
August 12
Developing a Program Budget
NONPROFIT ADMINISTRATION
Are you a finance manager, development officer or program staff person who supports the grantwriting process? This workshop will help you understand how to create winning program budgets for grant and contract proposals. Have you wondered how to match the ‘scope of work’ and ‘cost per unit of service’ or how to create a budget justification which inspires confidence? This workshop will address:
Presenter: Judy Spiegel, Consulting for a Change
8 am to 9:30 am – LBNP Offices
One free breakfast per paid membership;
$10 per not-yet member
May 20 - Breakfast With a Geek
Do you have all the information you need to make informed decisions about the appropriate technology for your organization? Is your data secure and backed up routinely? Are your current technology solutions holding you back or propelling you into the future? These are just some of the questions that will be addressed at this breakfast.
Presenter: Mark Perez, Co-founder, TechMD – “Computer Care for Nonprofits”
June 24 – “Are you in Compliance with New IRS Regulations?”
Join us to review changes in the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) and learn how they will impact 403(b) plans with the issuance of the final regulations. These regulations have imposed tighter governance of 403(b) retirement plans and created more responsibility for the plan sponsor. We’ll also discuss changes in the IRS 990 filing requirements. You need to have this information!
Presenters: Brian Severin, Mutual of America, Katherine Gluck, CPA, LBNP Affiliate Consultant
July 22 – Meet the Grantmaker
This is your opportunity to meet with local grantmaker representatives. Learn about each organization’s current funding guidelines, program areas and funding perspectives.
Presenters:
Andy Perez, Union Pacific Railroad
Claire Peeps, Durfee Foundation
Anotonio Manning, Washington Mutual
Mike Murray, Verizon Foundation
August – no meeting
8 am to 9:30 am – LBNP Offices
(Executive Directors only)
May 30
June 27
July 25
August — no meeting
8 am to 9:30 am – LBNP Offices
May 8
June 19
July 10
August — no meeting
12 noon to 1:30 pm – locations as noted
Bring Brown Bag Lunch
May 20 – American Red Cross, Long Beach Chapter, 3150 E. 29th Street, Long Beach
June 24 – CSULB Center for Community Engagement, Academic Services/Library East
Room 147, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach
July 22 – Disabled Resources Center, 2750 E. Spring St., Ste 100, Long Beach
August – no meeting
4 pm to 6 pm - facilitated by Susan Scribner
May 20
July 15
Cancellation Policy
Once registered, you must notify LBNP at least two (2) full working days prior to the workshop or breakfast to effectively cancel your registration. We ask your cooperation with this policy due to the need to strictly monitor the number of participants planning to attend each of our programs. If you effectively cancel (at least two (2) full working days prior to the program), you will receive a voucher, which may be applied to future workshops. Vouchers are valid for six (6) months from the date they are issued. Late-cancellations and no-shows will be charged the full amount of the program and no voucher will be issued. LBNP reserves the right to cancel any program. Should LBNP cancel a program, registered participants will receive a full refund. We reserve the right to substitute program presenters as necessary.
Accommodations
The LBNP serves the entire community and welcomes people with disabilities. Our facilities are accessible and within easy reach of public transportation.
