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Stanford Social Innovation Review is providing a free webinar, courtesy of Living Cities, to discuss how new digital media is affecting the world we live in. Join leaders from the Twitter, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Living Cities to understand how these new digital media trends are changing notions of leadership and to learn how your organization can harness new technologies to accelerate innovation, adaptation, and impact.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012
11:00am-12:00pm PT, 2:00-3:00pm ET

Presented by:
Ben Hecht, President & CEO, Living Cities
Claire Diaz Ortiz, Head of Social Innovation, Twitter
Steve Downs, Chief Technology & Information Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

To find more information and to register, click HERE or go to www.ssireview.org/webinars.

BABIP (Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy) is hosting its 3rd annual Strengthening Our House: Capacity Building Seminar. They’ve developed an impressive lineup of speakers and invite you to share this information with others who may benefit from the knowledge of experts in the field. Attendees will receive tips to enhance organizational effectiveness, learn to use social media strategies, and explore ways to identify and secure funding from diverse sources.

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Concepts for Online Video Production

Presenter: Josh Pies

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 – 1pm EST / 10am PST

Duration – approximately 1 hour

Cost – $49.99

On August 10th and 11th, the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) will once again hold their fourth biennial Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference at the Oakland Marriot.

My own connection to GIFT spans years, dating back to my first grassroots fundraising training that I admittedly snuck into. Recently, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on the importance of GIFT in a newsletter to GIFT donors:

1. What was your first impression of GIFT, and why did you decide to become a donor?

At my first GIFT training, I was struck by how the focus was as much on the why as the how of fundraising. And, also, by the belief of the trainers that the participants, as organizers, already had many of the skills needed to be incredible fundraisers but perhaps not yet the confidence or understanding to meet that potential.

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Aspiration Tech, Community Technology Project, and Google are hosting a one-day training event for Bay Area nonprofits and social justice organizations at the Google offices in Mountain View, California!

This is a great opportunity to work with three different organizations offering support to empower you with tech skills so you can magnify your social justice passions and priorities.

During this 1-day event, nonprofit staff will have the opportunity to:

• better understand how to assess and engage their online audiences
• coordinate various online channels including web, email and social media
• work with volunteers from Google

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Originally developed by Kim Klein, one of the nation’s best known and loved fundraising trainers, Show Me the Money: Nonprofits Talking Taxes workshops are now being offered to nonprofits throughout the state through CompassPoint and the Building Movement Project , with generous support from several foundations. This collaboration is now bringing you two FREE opportunities to talk about the common good with internationally-known fundraising consultant Kim Klein! All are welcome, whether or not you have participated in Nonprofits Talking Taxes before.

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Here’s an interesting article sent by our friends at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (who just celebrated their 35th anniversary with a bouyant reception at the Kapor Center). In the NCRP’s latest quarterly journal, Jan Masaoka, a Bay Area doyenne of nonprofit organizational management, offers suggestions for addressing the foundation/nonprofit power differential head-on. Save the occasional snarky wise crack, this is a necessary critique of a troublesome dynamic that lingers in the nonprofit/philanthropic sector.

While we at the Kapor Foundation we do recognize that our relationships with nonprofit grantseekers is “driven by institutional interests and fundamentally about money,” we nevertheless do try to speak sincerely about partnerships – to the degree they’re possible given the presence of financial resources as a “spoiler” of sorts.

And contrary to Masaoka’s last bullet-pointed piece of advice to nonprofits, some of us hate fawning and can smell it coming. Really. Just say no.

Read on.

What Works! is the Mitchell Kapor Foundation’s annual convening that highlights successful approaches used by our grant partner organizations and provides a forum for practitioners to network and strategize.

This year’s convening focuses on the College Bound Brotherhood.  What Works! participants will learn from selected youth-serving practitioners and local educators about effective college-readiness strategies for young black men.  Presentations will be conducted by leaders from current College Bound Brotherhood grant recipients.

CONVENING OUTLINE
(a final agenda will be posted by October 10)

8:00am – Check-in & Continental Breakfast
9:00am – Opening Plenary, Welcome and Purpose, Introductions
9:30am – College Bound Brotherhood Overview
10:00am – Benefits of Corporate Sponsorship
11:00am – Recruiting and Retaining African American Males
12:00pm – Lunch (provided)
1:00pm – Parental Involvement
2:00pm – Striking a Balance between Academic Programs and Sports
3:00pm – Fundraising and Establishing a Network
4:00pm – Closing

There is a small registration fee of $20, paid online or at the door (cash only).

The David Brower Center is easily accessible from the Downtown Berkeley BART.  Parking is available at the Oxford Garage just below the David Brower Center. Enter on 2161 Kittredge St. between Shattuck and Oxford.

Click here to register!