D.S.T. = More STL Nonprofit Trainings

 With more daylight, you might find it  easier to attend some of these highly recommended St. Louis area March 2014 nonprofit training events.

• March 11, CSPRC Round-Table Lunch- Question experts on a variety of Community Service Public Relations topics, 11:30 - 1:15, $40 for nonmembers
• March 12, AFP St. Louis Webinar "Firing Lousy Board Members..." with Simone Joyaux will be available for 2 weeks, $20 for nonmembers, Note: Joyaux's books Strategic Fund Development and Keep Your Donors are available through the G&FC.
• March 13, "Rebound Neighborhoods: Mark Twain Neighborhood" breakfast discussion sponsored by the UMSL Community Partnership Program, 7:30 - 9am, at New Sunny Mount Missionary Baptist Church, Register by email or phone 314-516-6989.
• March 21, NPML class "Lead Positive" for volunteer managers, 9-1 at UMSL, $60 for non MVMA members.
• March 27, NPML class How to Develop an Effective Board for Your Nonprofit with John McClusky, Peter Ruger and Faith Sandler, UMSL, 1-5 pm, $50

Last Minute News: Senator to Host Free Grant Training Seminar at UMSL Monday

9 federal agencies with competitive grant funds will talk about how nonprofits, small businesses , local governments and chambers of commerce can best position themselves to win federal dollars at a special free Economic Development and Grant Training Workshop Mon. morning, Dec. 12. Dr. Nancy Kinney from NPML will give an overview of grantwriting. Contact Sen. Clair McCaskill's website or call her st. Louis office, 314 367-1364 to register because seating is limited. 

Background Reading -Tools for the New Year

• In October Angela Williams, from the national staff of Big Brothers Big Sisters, presented an excellent program here at Schlafly on Board Diversity in nonprofit organizations cosponsored by BoardLink Stl. She mentioned the usefulness of a community asset mapping process. One helpful guide to this process is UMSL's Community Partnership Project's "Community Tool Kit" available at www.umsl.edu/continuinged/cpp/toolkit/index.html.   Also relevant is the article " Leveraging the Transformative Potential of Diversity" by Patricia Bradshaw and Christopher Fredette in the Spring 2011 issue of The Nonprofit Quaraterly, available here in the G&FC or at http://www.npqmag.org/
• Collective Impact was the topic of another great program presented here by ARCHS leadership earlier this month and at the annual St. Louis Philanthropic Landscape presentation by the Rome Group last summer. Just a reminder: that we have a hard copy of the Stanford Social Innovation Review article on the topic here or you can find it at www.ssireview.org/site/printer/collective_impact/

PreWinter Events for St. Louis Nonprofits

• WEDS. NOV. 30  - YNPN's brown bag lunch series: Diversity in the Workplace, 11:30am -1pm, Webster University Old Post Office Campus, $5 for nonmembers. Go to the Young Nonprofit Professional's Network website, www.ynpnstl.org,  to find out more.
• SAT. DEC. 3 - NPML's Funding Your Neighborhood Project, 9am - 1pm, UMSL campus, $40. Go to ce.umsl.edu/npml to register. Offered in partnership with the Community Partnership Project's Neighborhood Leadership Academy.
• THURS. DEC. 15 - AFP St. Louis Speed Roundtable Program: choose 4 of 11 table topics, 4-6 pm, Wash U, $40 for non members. Go to afpstlouis.afpnet.org for specifics. 

St. Louis CBO's & Capacity Building Seminar Set for Oct. 21

John McClusky, director emeritus of UMSL's NPML, Sean Thomas, executive director of Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, and Erin Budde, head of community affairs for Wells Fargo Advisors, will discuss how Community Based Organizations (CBOs) embedded in urban neighborhoods can become successful agents of change on Oct. 21 at the J.C. Penney Conference Center, Rm. 126, on the UMSL campus from 3-4:30 pm. The free event is sponsored by UMSL's Community Partnership Project. For more information, visit http://umslce.org/index.php/seminar-series or call 314.516.6392.