San Luis Valley Rural Philanthropy Days
Event Agenda
Wednesday, September 14th
| 3:30 to 5:00 pm |
Registration (Saguache Community
Building, 525 7th Street) |
| 3:30 to 5:00 pm |
Pre-event training make-up session
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| 4:00 to 5:00 pm |
Historic Walking or Museum Tours |
| 5:00 to 6:00 pm |
Open House – Hauck/Pedersen Fine Art
(4th Street) |
| 6:00 to 8:00 pm |
Reception & Entertainment (4th Street
& Ute Theatre) |
Thursday, September 15
| 7:30 to 8:00 am |
Take a Brisk Walk with Liza – Leave
from Ute Theatre |
| 8:30 to 10:00 am |
Breakfast Rounds
(Click here for more
details) |
| 9:45 to 5:00 pm |
Youth Track (Mountain Valley School
Gymnasium) |
| 10:15 to 11:55 am |
Workshop Session 1 (Mountain Valley
School) |
| 11:55 am to 12:30 pm |
Lunch (4th Street) |
| 12:45 to 1:45 pm |
Keynote by Andy Goodman: Storytelling
as Best Practice (Ute Theater) |
| 2:00 to 3:45 pm |
Workshop Session 2 (Mountain Valley
School) |
| 4:00 to 5:00 pm |
The Wisdom of Youth: Youth Talk
(Mountain Valley School Gymnasium) |
| 4:00 to 5:00 pm |
Historic Walking or Museum Tours |
| 5:30 pm |
Buses depart from Mountain Valley
School for Old Cow Town |
| 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm |
Western-themed Dinner & Entertainment
(Old Cow Town) |
Friday, September 16
| 7:00 to 7:30 am |
Take a Hill Climb Walk with Liza –
Leave from Ute Theatre |
| 8:00 to 8:45 am |
Breakfast (Mountain Valley School
Lobby) |
| 9:00 am to 12:00 pm |
Funder Round Tables (Mountain Valley
School Gymnasium) |
| 12:15 pm |
Closing Comments (Mountain Valley
School Gymnasium) |
Workshop Details
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Workshop Session 1: 10:15pm
- 11:55pm
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Meager Harvest? -- Fundraising
in Challenging Times
Speakers: Lance Cheslock & Charlotte Gillespie
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Are you working twice as hard to maintain the same bottom line? This
workshop will provide strategic pointers to enhance the diversity of
your fundraising efforts and give you the edge needed to be
successful in these changing times. Come and learn from both the
foundation and nonprofit perspective the proven methods of securing
grants, as well as exploring a wide range of other "fundraising"
concepts.
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How to Make Stone Soup: Thoughts on Rural Collaboration in
an Age of Fewer Resources, Higher Workloads, and Piecemeal Funding
Speakers: Bill Gurule, Maria Fabula, Maria Garcia,
Kari Harp &
Clarissa Woodworth
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In today's economic climate, collaboration among service providers
isn't just an ideal, it's a necessity. The Joint Interagency Group
from the San Luis Valley reflects on their journey of collaboration.
They will share their efforts in coming together to work smarter and
more efficiently to produce better outcomes for youth, their
families, and the community at large.
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Corralling &
Herding High Impact Volunteers
Speakers: Clayton Moore |
Do you have a
strategic project that is sitting on the shelf because your agency
doesn’t have the skills in-house, or the staff capacity to move it
forward? Spend some time with experts from Metro Volunteers to learn
ways to expand your ability to deliver programs or services by
successfully engaging Boomers, skilled volunteers, job seekers and
other volunteers.
The session will discuss ways to help agencies develop
capacity-expanding volunteer projects that save money and ease the
burden on staff. Learn about Boomers, younger volunteers, and
skilled volunteers and how best to engage each of these assets in
your mission-oriented work. You’ll review trends and demographics,
distinguish volunteer engagement from volunteer management, and
learn key techniques to cultivate and mobilize volunteers as a vital
resource in your organization.
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Bumper Crop? How to Measure Your Results
Speaker: Greg Kimbrough |
This session will discuss various ways to measure programs to better
present outcomes to current and potential funding sources. Today's
funders are savvy and desire to see their dollars at work. A great
story opens the door, but real outcomes close the deal.
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Where
Are Your Beans? Reviewing Financial Statements: Level 1
Speaker: Julie Lerudis |
Are you a bit confused when you look at your nonprofit's financials?
Would you like to have a better understanding of the financial
reports discussed during your board meetings? This is a session for
anyone who is not sure of, or wants a refresher on how to interpret
basic nonprofit financial statements.
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Marketing & Branding on a Shoestring
Speakers:
Mark Schoenecker & Hew Hallock |
How community organizations connect with like minds - volunteers,
clients, supporters - and present themselves to the public is key
their success. In this session, learn how to use social media (Facebook,
Twitter, the Web) to grow your reach and message in the community,
and learn how to work with local media outlets like newspaper and
radio.
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Life Between the San Juans and the Sangres: Focus on the
Region (Funders Session)
Speakers:
Michael Wisdom, Reginaldo ("Reg") G. Garcia,
Ph.D & Mark Swart |
The region is often characterized as the poorest and most
underserved in the state. This session for funders will provide an
overview of what the six-county San Luis Valley looks like - who
lives here, where they work, what services they rely on, results of
a 2010 adult health survey, and what community based efforts are
working to improve the lives of residents of the Valley.
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Building Community Together: Local Government - Nonprofit
Relationships
Speakers:
Roni Wisdom & Darius Allen |
The relationships between local nonprofit organizations and local
governments has grown in past decades into one of shared
responsibilities and funding, creating a greater need for
cooperation and collaboration. Learn how this close relationship can
be better understood and enhanced, and about funding for nonprofit
organizations that provide services to low-income populations
through the San Luis Valley's Community Services Block Grant
program.
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Workshop Session 2 2:00pm-3:45pm
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The Final Frontier in Fundraising: Irrevocable Planned Gifts
Speaker:
Jim Gumpert
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Explore the world of charitable trusts and find out how they work, the tax-wise benefits to the donor, and how they might fit into your situation. Real life examples will be provided and how they benefitted the donor.
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Unidentified Future Objectives: Mission Driven Strategic Planning
Speaker: Carol Nickell & Roni Wisdom |
Sustainable growth of an organization is a result of strategic planning that includes stakeholders and key personnel. Effective planning requires a strategic process that examines critical issues from core values of the organization to implementation and evaluation of the plan. Roni Wisdom and Carol Nickell have extensive program design and implementation experience and will provide you with an overview of the core components of developing a mission-driven plan. This will be a hands on interactive session; be ready to have some fun.
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Alligators & Tilapia: Defining Roles & Responsibilities of Board Members
Speakers: Cindy Willard &
Julie Mordecai |
Having an effective board takes finding and matching board member skills with the skills your organization needs. Come discuss the roles and responsibilities of board members, the overall nominating process and how to engage new members. We’ll share tips for great meetings and helping you create the board that can achieve more.
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Tools to Hit the Mother Lode: The Colorado Common Grant Application & Finding Funding on the Web
Speakers: Erin Binford & Latia Shaw |
This presentation focuses on key areas of the Colorado Common Grant Application and provides best practices and key recommendations that grant makers are seeking in successful proposals. You will also have the opportunity to explore Colorado's premier prospect research tool, the online Colorado Grants Guide, to quickly identify foundations and corporations that fund in your program areas.
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Barn-Raising: Talk to the Capital Campaign Experts
Speakers: Lisa Flores & Julie Lerudis |
Representatives from the Gates Family Foundation and the Boettcher Foundation will be available to answer questions to help guide you as you work your way through the capital campaign process, to help you understand best practices, and to share information about successful campaigns.
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Story Telling as Best Practice: Workshop with Andy Goodman |
Ever since we began talking to each other, telling stories has been
the most powerful way to capture attention, engage an audience, and
motivate them to act. Steadily advancing technology keeps handing us
shiny new tools to communicate faster and farther – think iPhones
and Twitter to name just two – but in our fervor to remain current
(and appear professional) we often ignore our natural inclination to
tell a good story. In “Storytelling as Best Practice,” Andy Goodman
will explain why he believes storytelling remains the single most
powerful communication tool you possess, and he will offer specific
ways your organization can use stories to advance your mission.
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A Road Map to Bring Resources to Your Community: Strategic Partnerships Between Local Government and Nonprofits
Speaker: Mike Roque & Teri Erickson
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Panel discussion with Mike Roque who helped develop the Department of Strategic Partnerships in Denver and a native of the San Luis Valley. Mike will facilitate a panel of individuals who have had huge successes by working strategically through community partnerships between government, nonprofits, and for profit entities to make the community not only function better, but flourish in some of the hardest financial times in history.
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