WORKSHOP CALENDAR
July 8 (Wednesday) 12noon—1pm (via webinar)
Background Check Service
This webinar will give you complete information about NPCC’s newest member service: Volunteer and Employee Background Checks through mybackgroundcheck.com. Volunteer screening services includes a social security trace, U.S. criminal search, and national sex offender registry search. Standard employment screening includes all features of the volunteer screening plus previous employment verification and education verification. This system provides valuable risk management features at the local, regional, or national levels offered at a substantial discount. This service is made possible through NPCC’s membership in the National Council of Nonprofits. Webinar login and conference call instructions will be emailed to participants before the meeting date. Read more about MyBackground Check.com here.
July 9 (Thursday) 10am—12noon
Interpreting & Presenting Financial Statements: Introduction to Easy Office
In May, NPCC announced a new member service: outsourced bookkeeping with Easy Office. This workshop will explain Easy Office’s services and offer their help in one of the most important areas of management: understanding and presenting your financial statements. The meeting, led by Alison Warner and Amy Karson from Easy Office, will include a review of all key financial statements, including the statement of financial position, statement of activities, statement of functional expenses and statement of budget versus actuals. Read more about Easy Office here.
Thursday, July 23 9:30—11:30am
Recession-Proof Your Technology Plan
Everyone wants the same thing — to maintain or improve their current level of productivity while spending less money on IT. In this workshop, we will look at areas where nonprofits can improve their existing IT while spending less. Working together, we will look at every facet of your technology to find what benefits and trade-offs can be found in money-saving changes such as switching to a free webhost, trading your T1 connection for DSL or cable, or giving up print materials for digital. Without sugar-coating things too much, we want to emphasize that lean times can be an opportunity (not just a hardship) to improving all aspects of your technology. This workshop will be led by Jessica Peskay and Dawn Khan from Techs4Good. This meeting will be held at United Way of Long Island, 819 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, NY 11729.
July 29 (Wednesday) 9:30—11am
Social Media, Web 2.0 and Your Online Engagement Strategy
When it comes to Web 2.0 and social media, are you lost? This presentation is designed to give an overview of the Web 2.0 conversation and the six steps needed to join the new communications paradigm outlined in Fenton’s latest guide for nonprofits. The workshop will be led by Lisa Witter, COO at Fenton Communications.
August 12 (Wednesday) 9:30am—12noon
Business Plans: A Solution for Times of Crisis
A business plan is instrumental in successfully addressing the serious, short-term crises facing nonprofits and is also a key to an organization’s long term health and sustainability. This workshop will explain what a business plan is and how you can use it to solve current problems as well as future challenges. Led by Patricia Caesar, president of the Caesar Consulting Group, this interactive workshop will help participants learn the basics of business planning and strategies and tactics for putting a business plan to work for their organizations now.
Registration is Required: Click on a workshop title above, or go to www.nycharities.org/event/c_event.asp?CharityCode=1216.
Attendance is limited to one person per 501(c)(3) member organization.
By registering for a workshop you are making a firm commitment to attend. If you must cancel, please provide at least 48 hours notice so that someone else can take your place. Meetings begin and end on time so please plan your travel and schedules accordingly.
Unless noted otherwise, workshops are open only to NPCC's 501(c)(3) members and are held at NPCC's office at 1350 Broadway (35th Street) in suite 1801.
