Planned Giving Training Available to Area Nonprofits

Youthbridge Community Foundation, in partnership with CSPRC, will offer a 90-minute orientation, 8:30 - 10 am July 15  for nonprofits interested in educating their donors about bequest giving.  Offered periodically, Will to Give encourages nonprofits to pair up with a professional wealth advisor for training and preparing a planned giving program for their organization. Cost is$25 for AFP, CSPRC or St.  Louis Planned Giving Council members, $30 for nonmembers.  Find out more and register here.

Fundraising: Leadership Version Update

Program Note: Our previously announced Basics for Nonprofit Leaders: Fundraising Concerns presenter Jacinta Witherspoon unavoidably had to cancel, so her AFP-St. Louis colleague, Linda B. Haley, CFRE, principal of Let's Build Hope LLC, has agreed to fill in on this important topic. Linda brings a wealth of experience to helping nonprofit board and staff leaders with fundraising. Come meet Linda here at Central Library Mon., June 23, at 4 pm in the 2nd fl. training room. 

NSC to Offer "Startng a 501(C)3"

Nonprofit Services Center will host a 4-hour workshop on the basic concepts for founding and growing a nonprofit Tuesday morning July 22 -- Starting a 501(C)3 Organization. Cost per participant: $60. Leader will be Rachel Jackson-Bramwell, founder of Project Compassion and president of Renata's Consulting. --  Get info and sign-up here.

Donor Panel @AFP June 26

June's AFPSTL lunch meeting at Norwood Hills Country Club will feature the following panel of philanthropists describing and answering questions about their preferences in the grant-making process:

• Ann Vazquez -- Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis
• Kevin Haar Jr -- Launch St. Louis
• Deborah Patterson -- Monsanto Fund
• Allie Chang Ray -- Deaconess Foundation
• Brian Leonard -- Ameren UE

 Andy Bundesen of the St. Louis Zoo will moderate. The Lunch meeting costs $45 for nonmembers. Sign up here.

Fundraising: Leadership Version

 Prepare your board members and staff leaders for the roles they can play in the fundraising success of your nonprofit by inviting them to attend our free Basics for Nonprofit Leaders: Fundraising Concerns workshop Monday, June 23 from 4-5:30 pm here at Central Library. Jacinta L. Witherspoon, Director of Resource Development for Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis, will lead the group. Some 20  have signed up so far, so contact me soon to save a place or to inquire about parking. Thanks to AFP-STLOUIS for cosponsoring this event.

+ If you're a person who likes do do some background reading, here are 4 choices that can be checked out from the G&FC collection [GRANTS 558.15224] through the  SLPL Catalog:

1. Prerequisites for Fundraising Success 18 Things Every Fundraising Professional, Board Member or Volunteer Needs to Know  by Melvin & Pearl Shaw
1. Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards by Jerold Panas
2. Transforming Ordinary People into Fundraising Superheroes!... even those who hate to ask by Carol Weisman
3. Fired-Up Fundraising Turn Board Passion into Action by Gail Perry
4. Boards That Love Fundraising, a how-to-guide for your board, by Robert M. Zimmerman.

From the Other Side of the Room* -- Interfaith Book Discussion 6-12-14

Some of you are involved professionally and/or personally in faith-based nonprofits, congregations or communities, so I want to let you know about the Interfaith Book Group's 2nd meeting here at Central Library this year.    Leslie Heberlie of www.interfaithstl.org  and Claire Droeste of www.dapstl.org will lead another discussion here on Thurs. June 12 of A Religion of One's Own by Thomas  Moore. We will meet in the 1^st floor Book club room (near the Locust St. entrance to the Library) from 4:30 – 6 pm. Please contact me if you have questions or want information about free parking.

 You do not have to have completed the book to contribute to the session.  As Leslie explains, “Thomas Moore’s books explore religion as more than a cultural force or a set of beliefs—instead he frames religion as a truly practiced lifestyle, devotion to which has changed his own life (and others’ lives). In his most recent book, A Religion of One’s Own, he departs from the bounds of established religions and develops a framework for practicing a religion that resonates for each individual’s purpose, meaning and inner life. We’ll explore the everyday experiences that he lays out as essential for an amplified spiritual life, as well as the implications for our existing faith traditions.”

 Hope to see you, as well as anyone you know who is interested in discussing interfaith understanding next Thursday.

* Where the non-G&FC designated subject information is located here in Central Library's Social Sciences room.