ASC Workshops & Training Opportunities
Scroll down for a complete listing of all ASC-sponsored workshops and training opportunities currently available for registration.
This year, ASC’s capacity-building/workshop offerings for organizations will focus on three major themes:
(R) Relationships
Deepening Connections with Audience, Donors & Volunteers
(G) Governance
Strengthening Board Effectiveness & Engagement
(L) Leadership
Building Personal & Professional Leadership Capacity
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Back by Popular Demand!
Crash Course in Google Analytics
Tuesday, February 26
8:30AM-11:00AM
ASC Board Room
Google Analytics is by far the most widely used website analytics software, and it’s free. Yet many nonprofit professionals have only a cursory understanding of the useful information that this service provides. In this session, we will explore the wide array of data provided by Google Analytics along with tips for how to both interpret and maximize this vital communications information.
As an added bonus, we will also discuss how to analyze your mobile website traffic and the growing importance of a mobile website. Lastly, we will discuss the Google Grant, the benefits and the application process.
Click here to register online. http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=nvxfvicab&oeidk=a07e6zekib6fa3633f6
Friday, March 8
Moving Beyond the Matrix:
A Strengths-based Approach to Board and Committee Engagement
Doug Bacon
8:30AM-11:00AM
ASC Board Room
An organization that is not using its board productively is missing out on opportunities. Why devote so much time an energy to bring smart, ambitious, well-connected, dedicated people together and then not tap into that potential? Effective boards build their ranks strategically and bring individuals on board who are committed to using critically needed skills to expand the reach of the organization. But it is a two-step process — finding the right people and then being prepared to use them. In this session we'll learn about:
• Nine steps to finding, recruiting and engaging nonprofit board and committee members
• Three traps of the board building matrix and how to avoid them
• Positioning individual board members in roles based on who they are at their best
• Creating action-oriented responsibilities for board and committees
Click here to register online. http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=nvxfvicab&oeidk=a07e6zekvyu82bb288a
Tuesday, March 12
Festivals 101 with City of Charlotte
12:00-1:30PM
ASC Board Room
Click here to register online.
CREATIVE CAPITAL
Funding Your Work
Sunday, March 16
Based on content from Creative Capital’s esteemed Core Weekend, this workshop combines nuts-and-bolts strategies with a broad-based empowering approach for integrating fundraising into your creative practice. Appropriate for artist’s of all disciplines, this workshop will help you evaluate a wide variety of fundraising opportunities and will teach how to tap these valuable resources. Topics include applying for grants and residencies; fundraising from individuals; working with a fiscal sponsor; forming an advisory board; preparing the right materials for the right donors; making the tools of organizational fundraising efforts work for individual artists; partnerships with venues, donors and funders; and determining and communicating the real cost of your work.
Participating artists will learn:
• How to prepare for, organize, and pursue different types of fundraising campaigns
• Strategies to form long-term donor relationships that support your artistic vision and direction
• How to maximize personal resources and networks to create fundraising opportunities
• Best practices and strategies for using new technologies to fundraise
• How to determine the real cost of your work
• Strategies for balancing time and money
• How to communicate with clarity and confidence, in writing and in person
Click here for tentative schedule.
Click here to register online. http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=nvxfvicab&oeidk=a07e6z70mbe4f1fe081
Real Community Engagement
Sunday, March 17
This workshop is designed for artists who work outside the traditional art community to create work that engages topics of social and political relevance. Designed for those who already have a community engaged practice or are planning for a project, this workshop will help artists clarify their objectives and gain the management skills they need to produce successful community engaged projects. Participants will get an in-depth look at the strategies and practices involved in making and supporting community-engaged art, including ways to engage a wide range of stakeholders in the process, production, funding and distribution of the work. Using case studies from a range of disciplines, participants will learn about grassroots fundraising, community partnerships, audience building and how to preserve the autonomy and integrity of one’s work. Artists leave the workshop with a handbook designed to help them outline clear project goals and establish a roadmap for building beneficial community relationships and support.
Participating artists will leave the workshop with:
• The Real Community Engagement Handbook, which includes tips on clarifying project goals and establishing a roadmap for community based work
• A cohort of peer artists in the community who can act as resources going forward
Target Audience: The workshop is for individual artists of all disciplines who have been practicing professionally for at least three years. The Real Community Engagement sessions are specifically designed for those who already have a community-engaged practice or are planning for a community-based project.
Click here for tentative schedule.
Click here to register online. http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=nvxfvicab&oeidk=a07e6zj9n5l833e78cf
Leader Development and Succession Planning for a Sustainable Future
harnessing the power of transitions for organizational transformation
Thursday, May 23
11:30AM – 1:00PM
The Big Chill (911 East Morehead Street, Suite 100)
Change – sometimes surprisingly fast change – remains the one constant we can count on. Despite this, many organizations fail to prepare for the most predictable change of all – the departure of their executive or other key leaders.
Success in leadership transitions is dependent upon readying the organization for change. One of the most critical areas of this work is with an organization’s greatest asset – its people. Putting in place sound leader development and talent management practices, even at the most fundamental level, is critical to ensuring organizational sustainability and preparing an organization to weather changes over time.
Beyond leadership, organizational readiness must also encompass examining and shoring up strategy and resources and understanding how all of this ultimately impacts an organization's culture.
While this may sound like a daunting task, there is good news: you can complete the basics – a leader development strategy, emergency backup plan, and board adopted succession policy – in just a few months. This session will provide participants with a blueprint to get started and give an overview of systems and strategy to create a more “leader-ful” culture in your organization.
Workshop facilitated by Jeanie Duncan, President of Raven Consulting Group and Lead Consultant for TransitionGuides.
This sessions is a must for Development Officers, Executive Directors, leadership teams and board.
ASC Special Pricing: $25 until Friday 5/17; $35 after Friday 5/17. Registration ends Monday, 5/20
For complete details and online registration: http://www.afpcharlotte.org/index.cfm/p/calendar/
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