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Below is a sampling of training topics Stephanie has delivered to boards, fundraising professionals, and other nonprofit staff in a variety of settings.


Accounting & Budgeting

• Decoding the Numbers: Understanding Nonprofit Financial Statements
• Do-Able Internal Controls
• Financial Management
• Making Friends with Financial Statements: Accounting & Budgeting Concepts for Board Members
• Making Friends with Financial Statements: Accounting & Budgeting Concepts for Fundraisers
• Nonprofit Budgeting

• Planning for Success: Nonprofit Budgeting
• Taking the Fear out of Budgeting
• The Accountable Nonprofit: Essential Financial Management Tools
• Simplifying the Numbers: Accounting & Budgeting Concepts for Fundraisers
• Understanding Your Organization's Numbers So Funders Hear You

Boards

• Best Practices to Create Your Best Board
• Beyond Give, Get, or Get Off: Truly Engaging Your Board in Fundraising
• Boards 101
• Board of Directors: Fundraisers and Friendraisers
• Board Excellence in Fundraising
• Board Governance
• Board & Governance Issues: Helpful Tidbits from the Real World for the Real World
• Board v. Staff Leadership Roles
• The Board's Role in Fundraising
• The Board's Role in Fundraising During Uncertain Times
• The Board's Role in Fundraising and Friendraising
• The Board's Role in Fundraising and Governance
• Communicating Effectively with Board Members
• Conflicts of Interest: Preventing & Mitigating Issues for Your Nonprofit Board
• Do-Able Fundraising for Real-World Boards
  
• Effective Teams: How to Engage Board Members When You’re the Staff Member
  
• Ensuring Good Governance & Engaging Board Members Effectively
• Finances and Fundraising for Boards
• Financial Literacy for Board Members
• The Governing Board's Fiduciary Duties
• Skill Building for Board Membership
• Starting Off Right: Recruiting & Orienting New Board Members
• Strengthening the Board-Staff Partnership
• Taking the Fear out of Fundraising for Boards
• Understanding Your Role as a Board Member

Communication

• Advocating for Yourself
• Branding Yourself for Your Job Search and Beyond
• Communications for Fundraising and Awareness
• Developing a Compelling Elevator Speech
• How to Be a Great Presenter/Keynote
• How to Share Compelling Stories
• How to Talk to Anyone About Anything
• Networking: How to Build Your Brand
• Public Speaking Tips and Tricks
• Quick, Easy Ways to Improve Your Public Speaking
• Tips for Presenting Virtually
• Tips for Virtual Presentations

Ethics & Accountability

• The Accountable Nonprofit: Ethics and Regulations You Need to Know
• Ethical Fundraising Is Effective Fundraising
• Ethics, Accountability, and the Law
• Fundraising Ethics and Compliance: Critical Guidelines & Regulations
• How to Conduct Ethical Fundraising - Strategies and Tactics for Success
• Supporting Fundraising through Organizational Transparency

Resource Development

Annual Giving

• All About Annual Giving
• Annual Fund: Advanced Tactics
• Annual Giving: Simple Tactics to Boost Your Results
• Building an Annual Campaign
• Designing a Comprehensive Annual Appeal to Boost Returns
• Fundraising in Uncertain Times: Current Trends in Individual Giving
• Last-Minute Strategies to Maximize Your Year-End Campaign
• Phonathons Aren’t Dead
• Small Changes That Will Lead to Big Results in Your Individual Giving Program
• Steps To Your Best Year-End Campaign Yet

Grants

• Getting Started in Grant Writing: Identifying and Approaching Funders
• Grant Research
• Grant Seeking
• Grant Writing 101
• Grant Writing 101: Researching Funders and Writing Proposals to Fund Your Mission
• Grant Writing: From Funder Research to Final Reports
• Grant Writing from Soup to Nuts
• Grant Writing: Telling a Compelling Story
• Grant Writing Basics: How to Secure Institutional Funding for Your Nonprofit Organization
• Make Your Grant Applications Stand Out

Planned Giving

• Getting Your Board Engaged in Planned Giving: Simplifying the Complexities
• Planned Giving 101
• Planned Giving Basics
• Planned Giving: Build Readiness
• Planned Giving: Explore the Benefits
• Planned Giving: Launch Your Program

Stewardship

• The Current State of Donor Retention and What Fundraisers Can Do About It
• Putting Your Supporters First: Improving the Donor Experience
• Stewardship Tips for Better Donor Retention
• Strengthening Donor Stewardship Even in Times of Crisis

Major Gifts

• Developing a Major Gifts Program
• Getting Started in Major Gifts
• Major Gifts: Realistic Strategies for Getting Your Board to Ask (or at Least Help)

Additional Topics

• Are You Giving to Charity in the Smartest Ways: A Discussion of Charitable Giving Opportunities
• Creating Your Fundraising Program: Building Blocks for Grassroots Organizations
• Expand Your Fundraising Potential
• Fundraising Is Everybody's Business: Engaging All Staff
• Fundraising Is Everybody's Business: How to Engage All Board and Staff
• Fundraising 101: How to Ask Like a Pro
• Fundraising 101: Raising Money to Support Your Mission
• Get Ready to Leverage #GivingTuesday
• Grassroots Fundraising: Everyone Can Be a Fundraiser
• Making the Ask
• Making the Ask: Fundraising from the Business Community
• Nonprofit 101
• Small-Shop Fundraising: Maximizing Your Organization's Potential
• Translating Research into Fundraising Practice

Planning & Operations

• Balancing It All: Tools for Fundraising Success
• Building Your Development Plan
• Checking in with Your Development Plan
• Designing Effective Programs & Crafting Persuasive Proposals
• The Do-Able Development Plan: Realistic Fundraising for the Small Shop
• Examining Your Development Plan
• How to Build Your Development Plan
• Interdepartmental Collaboration for Successful Grant Seeking, Project Management, and Reporting
• Junk In, Junk Out: Maximizing Efficiencies within Your Donor Data Management
• Logic Models and Beyond: Determining and Measuring Your Program's Success
• Making Meetings Work: How to Convene Effective, Efficient Meetings
• Organizational Life Cycles
• Protect Your Organization & Streamline Your Work: Policies & Procedures to Support Fundraising
• Risk Management for Nonprofits
• Strategic Planning 101
• Strengthening Your Organization's Sustainability through Succession Planning
• Succession Planning: The Tools You Need to Ensure Your Organization's Sustainability
• Taking Your Fundraising from Good to Great: Measuring and Improving Performance

Talent Management

• Building Your Volunteer Management Infrastructure
• Consulting 101
• Creating Community Involvement Opportunities
• Employee Relations Basics: Recruitment, Retention, and Performance Improvement
• Getting Them, Then Keeping Them: Recruitment and Retention
• Growing Your Fundraising by Investing in Development Staff
• Managing and Engaging Volunteers
• Navigating Your Nonprofit's Challenges through Emotional Intelligence
• Preparing Your Organization for Working with Volunteers
• Recruiting and Orienting Volunteers
• Targeted Volunteer Recruitment
• Ten Easy Ways to Make Your Job Search More Successful
• Understanding Your Conflict Style
• Volunteer Management: Beyond Recruitment