Lisa Hoffman, coach & consultant, shares her five tips for effective board development. Among her tips, Lisa emphasizes the need for ongoing recruitment, approaching accountability with grace, and developing a culture of appreciation between the board and staff. 

This workshop explores what it takes to expand and sustain a blend of support from individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies. 

Learn from two experts in the field about how to make a collaboration that works and succeeds.  

Discover how to research funding, decode application questions, and focus artistic career goals during the grant writing process.

Presenters discuss video production and social media video tips, choosing the right crowdfunding platform for the type of project, and lessons learned from previous local nonprofit crowdfunding campaigns.

Panelists discuss how to integrate business considerations into planning for mission strategy, resources, and performance. 

Have you found everything you can about your prospects from Google? Do you want to improve your organization’s funding research? Our expert teaches you how to use Securities and Exchange Commission filings to learn more information about potential prospects.

How do you join the 2013 Combined Federal Campaign? Should you apply to the local, state, or the national level? Mary Ann Sallas, the director of the NYC Campaign answers all of your questions about applying to the CFC.

Aaron Hurst, founder and president of Taproot Foundation, discusses highlights from Taproot’s new book, Powered by Pro Bono (Jossey-Bass, 2012). This new resource for the nonprofit community presents a step-by-step guide to enable nonprofits to plan for and turn on their pro bono potential.

Representatives from organizations that have successfully used crowdsourcing techniques share their stories and crowdfunding experts discuss what makes a campaign successful.

Persuading board members to take an active role in fundraising efforts can be a major goal for many nonprofits. 

How can nonprofits plan for revenue growth and diversification? Nancy Osgood answers quick questions on this topic.

How do you connect with a giving circle? What should you do to increase your nonprofit's likelihood of receiving their grants? Our panelists answer to all of these questions and more. 

How do you connect with a giving circle? What should you do to increase your nonprofit's likelihood of receiving their grants? Our panelists answer to all of these questions and more. 

This video highlights a workshop which covers financial management techniques to keep your programs and operations running smoothly. 

Tim Anglim, the Founder and President of YesCFO, talks about setting up a bookkeeping system with proper checks and balances, determining who will make the final decisions regarding expenditures, and making financial projections.

Take a brief tour of Philanthropy In/Sight, the Foundation Center’s data visualization platform for global philanthropy. 

In this excerpt, a panel of Bay Area corporate philanthropists discuss current philanthropic priorities, giving forecasts for 2013, and other corporate giving trends. 

A panel of Bay Area corporate philanthropists discuss current philanthropic priorities, giving forecasts for 2013, and other corporate giving trends. 

This program's panel includes nonprofit founders, who lived through the start-up process to tell us all about it, and an attorney, who covers legal and procedural requirements you need to consider.

This program's panel includes nonprofit founders, who lived through the start-up process to tell us all about it, and an attorney, who covers legal and procedural requirements you need to consider.

In this excerpt from a Meet the Grantmakers program in Los Angeles, a panel of arts funders give us their best advice for artists and arts organizations when it comes to writing the grant proposal. 

Learn about the trends that are driving and sustaining arts innovation from Bay-area funders.

4 Bay-area funders discuss how they support diversity in their respective organizations.

Two arts collaboratives discuss how they are making great things happen by working together and proving that partnerships can be successful with the right people and practices involved.