Free Webinar 12/19: Grantseeking Basics

The Foundation Center offers crackerjack free online webinars.

This one is an introduction to Grantseeking Basics and is scheduled for Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:00PM - 4:00PM.

It is free. 

Learn to find funders for your nonprofit with the Foundation Center's comprehensive funding research tool.
This session provides an introduction to the Foundation Center's comprehensive online database, Foundation Directory Online Professional. Learn how to create customized searches to develop targeted lists of foundations that will match your nonprofit organization's funding needs. We will spend time exploring Power Search, which allows you to search across nine Foundation Center databases – grantmakers, grants, companies, 990s, news, jobs, RFPs, nonprofit literature, and PubHub reports.

Note: The webinar assumes no previous experience with Foundation Directory Online Professional.

If you've never taken a Foundation Center webinar before, here is a page on how they work.

Free webinar: 10/18: "Driving Advocacy with Data"

Learn how to navigate the 2012 Public Library Funding &Technology Access Study (PLFTAS) for impactful advocacy at the local level during the free webinar “Driving Advocacy with Data” from 3PM - 4PM EST on Thursday, Oct. 18.

Free with registration; visit the Adobe Connect event page to sign up. 

Attendees will learn how to interpret the latest data and emerging trends; access new advocacy and marketing tools, including state profiles, issue briefs and PR templates; and use the data to make the case for your library with elected officials and community stakeholders.

The combination of national and state statistics, your library’s statistics and real-life examples provide the basis for truly powerful stories. Local and state libraries across the nation have utilized national and state data from the PLFTAS to help craft effective advocacy and marketing messages. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and ALA, the study is the largest and longest running of Internet connectivity in U.S. public libraries. Results and resources are available at www.ala.org/plinternetfunding.

Presenters include: John Carlo Bertot, Ph.D., professor and co-director of the Information Policy & Access Center in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland and the architect of the PLFTAS survey, design, methodology and analysis; Judy Hoffman, project manager for PLFTAS at ALA’s Office for Research and Statistics; and Charlie Parker, executive director of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium.  

 
“Driving Advocacy with Data” is sponsored by the ALA Committee on Library Advocacy and the Office for Research and Statistics.

Free webinar 8/23: Telling the Library Story

Telling the Library Story

August 23, 2012

As a blogger and chair of the committee that created The Big Hairy Audacious Goal advocacy project, Jamie LaRue (director, Douglas County Libraries, CO) knows how to tell a succinct, powerful story about the value of libraries. Based on OCLC’s “From Awareness to Funding” and on the latest findings of brain research, this session focuses on turning the evidence of our daily patron encounters into short, compelling, and memorable messages that build support.

More information and registration »

http://wc4.net/t?ctl=42D4EA8:140D55B171C3FBF720DDF63EEB9DCA2E73B57ADCC42EF300&

Save This Date: Thursday, August 25, 2011

This sounds like fun.

The Mental Health Association of Connecticut (MHAC) will host its first ever Membership Day to make friends, raise awareness, and increase membership.

A full day of fun at Lake Compounce Amusement Park is $10.00 to MHAC members and membership is FREE, so you can't go wrong!

More information as it comes, or contact Maryann Steele a call at 800-529-1970, extension 16 and/or msteele@mhact.org.

Webinar: Get Your Geek On: Improve Local Funding through Advocacy

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Eastern from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern Time.

Geek the Library is a public awareness campaign that is used as a platform for educating the public about the library's important local role and the critical funding issues that libraries are facing today. Campaign materials include advertising, collateral, a Web site, social media and other online tools. After a successful pilot program in 2009 involving nearly 100 libraries, Geek the Library can now be implemented by any public library in the US. In this webinar, Jennifer Pearson, Advocacy Programs Senior Manager at OCLC, will discuss the campaign and how your library can participate. With Jennifer will be Heidi Gustad and Liz Kudwa of the Capitol Area Library District of Lansing, MI, who will share with you why they implemented the campaign, how they are applying it locally, and its impact on their community.

*This event is free, you just need to register. When you do that, you will be sent additional information -- including the link to join.