This month’s round-up of free nonprofit webinars could very well be
our most interesting yet, with a wide variety of topics and some
high-profile speakers who’ll have lots of value to share.
Space is limited for a number of these webinars, but many will make
recordings and/or slide presentations available after the event either
to registered participants or to the public. Check the details on the
host websites to see if there’s a way you can benefit from these
learning opportunities, even if you aren’t able to attend the live web
seminars in real time.
And, as always, it’s likely that more free webinars will come to
light as the month progresses, so do keep checking back in the comments
section below for additions and updates to this list.
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
3:00 pm (Eastern)
High net worth donors — who are they? Which giving vehicles do they
use? What factors affect their giving? Find out what surveys reveal
about this important demographic in a free webinar from the DonorEdge
Learning Community and GuideStar, presented by Melissa S. Brown,
Associate Director of Research at The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana
University.
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
11:30 pm (Pacific)
This free webinar from Common Knowledge will highlight leading
institutions who are leveraging social networking for events,
fundraising, volunteering, student recruiting, and alumni development,
using real-world case studies we’ll analyze successful programs and
highlight strategies and best practices for LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
and online communities on the institution’s own website.
Thursday, 4 March 2010
3:00 pm (Eastern)
Looking for help in your church sports ministry? Church Sports
Outreach offers a free webinar for sports ministry leaders at local
networks to talk about the CSO Network.
Friday, 5 March 2010
12:00 pm (Central)
Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) presents
Michael McCurry and a select panel of industry experts sharing details
of the planning and execution of EventCamp, the first-ever conference
dedicated solely to events and social media. Get a behind-the-scenes
look at how to plan and execute a hybrid meeting, an event blending
live and virtual components, and leave this session with takeaways you
can immediately implement for your next meeting.
Carrie Roberts, CFRE, founder and CEO of Roberts and Associates
offers a series of free webinars through March and on into the
spring/summer, most with a special guest speaker on board, to tackle a
variety of topics of interest to nonprofits.
Friday, 5 March 2010
10:00 am (Pacific)
Have questions
about working with Foundations? Kris Putnam talks about collaborations
between foundations and nonprofit organizations.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
10:00 am (Pacific)
Carrie Roberts
shares tips for writing winning grant proposals for corporate and
foundation funders.
Friday, 19 March 2010
10:00 am (Pacific)
Learn how to
effectively measure the success of your program with guest speaker
Kristin Cici.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
10:00 am (Pacific)
Concerned
about marketing for your nonprofit organization? Join this conversation
with Ann Beurskins on effective marketing.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
10:00 am (Pacific)
Find out the
latest from Executive Directors and CEOs of public/nonprofit
organizations across the United States.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
1:00 pm (Eastern)
In this Hubspot webinar you’ll learn how to make the best use of your
organization’s time on social media: How to listen and discover
real-time, relevant social media conversations through Twitter, Facebook
or Google Alerts; how to engage in active dialogue by tracking comments
or answering questions on LinkedIn or other answer services; and how to
measure the effectiveness of your daily social media interactions.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
1:00 pm (Central)
This webinar will identify best practices for creating accessible and
optimized digital documents and web content for maximized usability,
functionality and cost-savings. “Section 508 guru” Neal Albritton,
Chief Executive Officer of ADCS-LLC, will specifically address issues
and remedies pertaining to Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft
Office Word and PowerPoint, and public websites.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
2:00 pm (Eastern)
CanadaHelps and Eric Rardin, Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2
Inc, offer an informative free webinar on how to grow your email list.
This webinar will explore sources and strategies for recruiting new
email subscribers, and discuss methods for converting these new
subscribers, or donor leads, into donors.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
10:00 am (Pacific)
TechSoup’s Kami Griffiths will interview social media consultant
John Haydon, who will walk through the essential steps to establishing
and managing a successful Facebook presence for a nonprofit or library;
and Gabe O’Neill, of Kids Are Heroes, will share lessons learned from
developing their own Facebook page. Get practical how-to information,
learn best practices, ask questions, and leave with action items that
will help you create an engaging Facebook presence for your
organization.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
11:00 am (Pacific)
Too often engaging volunteers falls to the volunteer program manager:
How do you make volunteer engagement everyone’s job? In this free
VolunteerMatch webinar, learn how to create a step-by-step
communication plan to reinforce the importance of volunteer engagement
to important stakeholders within your organization.
Blackbaud is offering a free web seminar series to help nonprofits
build strategies for mobilizing, soliciting, and stewarding supporters
during and after times of disaster. The first two webinars in the
“Lessons Learned from Haiti” series will take place in March,
continuing in April and May.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
2:00 pm (Eastern)
Presented by Steve MacLaughlin, Director of Internet Solutions,
Blackbaud, Inc. This session will explore how online fundraising, email
communication, and social media played an important role in nonprofit
relief efforts for the Haiti earthquake. Participants will learn how to
develop a rapid response plan, be prepared online for emergencies, and
implement best practices from across the nonprofit sector.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
2:00 pm (Eastern)
Presented by C.B. Barthlow, Director of Marketing and Client
Services, mGive, moderated by Steve MacLaughlin, Director of Internet
Solutions, Blackbaud, Inc. During this session, the presenters will
explain mobile advocacy trends and examine the unprecedented response to
mobile donation appeals after the Haiti earthquake. Participants will
learn how to acquire, retain, and cultivate mobile donors.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
1:00 pm (Eastern)
Health care organizations are accustomed to providing interpreting
services for spoken language encounters between patients and providers,
but they often wrestle with ensuring that written documents are
translated with the necessary levels of quality. In this free webinar,
followed by a Q&A session, industry experts will share best
practices for working with health care providers to produce multilingual
materials that accurately convey the information in the source
document.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
1:00 pm (Eastern)
Getting started with any new piece of your fundraising and marketing
mix causes some growing pains, and maybe even some frustration.
CharityHowTo presents Katya Andresen, Chief Operating Officer of Network
for Good, in a free webinar that will provide an overview of the three
common ailments that befall new online fundraisers, 10 tips for
marketing your nonprofit organization online, and a Q&A session to
get your questions answered.
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
10:00 am (Pacific)
Markus Weickenmeier and Mary-Pat Beattie of Microsoft highlight free
online tools from Microsoft to help nonprofits communicate and
collaborate with ease. Tools explored include: SkyDrive, Office Live
Workspace, Moviemaker and more. Open to nonprofit staff/volunteers. It
is NOT technical in nature and there are no pre-requisites to attend.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
2:00 pm (Eastern)
A video is meaningless if it doesn’t help you meet your
organizational goals — build awareness, reach new supporters, raise
money. In this free webinar, See3 will demonstrate examples and best
practices in video fundraising: You’ll walk away understanding how video
fits into your overall fundraising program and how nonprofits have
successfully leveraged video to fundraise for their cause.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
2:00 pm (Eastern)
Cause marketing helps non profits raise money and increase their
visibility; corporations improve their reputations and increase profits;
and consumers feel like they’re making a difference. This free webinar,
led by Geri Stengel, President of Ventureneer, will help you decide if
cause marketing is right for your organization.
Thursday, 18 March 2010
2:00 pm (Eastern)
In this stimulating session from from Mission Research, veteran
fundraising copywriter Mal Warwick will guide you through his “Eight
Steps to Successful Fundraising Appeals” and “The Cardinal Rules of
Fundraising Letters,” with helpful tips for both novice and pro
fundraisers. You’ll receive invaluable handouts that will help you with
the copywriting process for years to come.
Monday, 22 March 2010
1:00 pm (Eastern)
Join ed-tech thought leaders Alan November and Steven Halper to
learn how to use Web 2.0 technology to enhance teaching and learning
environments and to create more motivating experiences for students.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
11:00 am (Pacific)
What do you need to know about social media as a volunteer program
manager? How can you use sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to
promote your volunteer opportunities and recruit volunteers? This
webinar will offer an introduction to social media and the social media
tools offered by VolunteerMatch to help you promote your volunteer
opportunity on social networking sites.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
1:00 pm (Eastern)
This free webinar from Ventureneer takes a tactical approach to
building strong cause marketing partnerships from the initial approach
through campaign execution and stewardship. The best practices of cause
marketing will be clearly explained by instructor Brittany Hill,
Managing Director of the business development agency Blueye Project.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
1:00 pm (Eastern)
In this free webinar from CharityHowTo, the Director of Nonprofit
Relations at GuideStar, Karen Rayzor, will provide an overview of the
GuideStar Exchange and help nonprofits unfamiliar with the service to
understand how it can help to generate exposure for your nonprofit,
increase the likelihood of receiving funds and recruiting volunteers,
and more.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
2:00 pm (Eastern)
Join this free webinar from CanadaHelps to discover some of the
recent stats on donor behaviour — stuff that can help you make informed
decisions about your online strategy — and gain speaking points to help
you convince senior staff and Boards about the value to your nonprofit
of being online.
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
2:00 pm (Eastern)
In this web seminar, nonprofit professionals can learn how to
successfully integrate social media into event fundraising. Donna
Wilkins, president of Charity Dynamics, and Mark Davis, technical
solutions director at Blackbaud, will explore smart strategies for
using social media in fundraising events, while Elizabeth Marceau of
the American Heart Association will provide real-world examples of
social media in action.
Is a great free webinar for nonprofits missing from the March 2010 webinars list?
If so, please leave a link in the comments and let us all know about it!
Something for next month's free webinars list?
Drop me a line with the details: rebecca @ wildapricot.com) or @rjleaman on Twitter.