Time: 9:30am-4:00pm, 9:00am registration
Location: Viet-AID (42 Charles Street, Dorchester, MA 02122) MAP
Instructor: Suzanne Alden, MSA, CFRE, Grant Expectations

Registration Deadline: May 14, 2012

Learn the art of grantwriting to raise money for your cause! With increased competition for grant resources in a down economy, it is vital that grantwriters prepare proposals that are both polished and compelling. In this introduction to grant and report research and writing, those with little to no grantwriting experience will be taken through the proposal process from start to finish. Participants will learn the steps for researching government and private grant sources, connecting with potential grant funders, developing a “pitch” and message, writing about the project, gathering supplemental materials for grant applications, and developing a program budget. The day-long seminar will provide opportunities for hands-on practice with exercises in an interactive setting. This class will lay the foundation for successful grantwriting – and increased confidence – with a better understanding of the grant process.

Instructor Biography:
Suzanne Alden, MSA, CFRE, has over a decade of experience in fund development, grantwriting and research, and nonprofit organizational development. As a grantwriting consultant and former director of development for two Rhode Island-based nonprofit organizations, she has raised millions of dollars for a broad array of causes. Suzanne has led over 25 engaging seminars in fundraising and grantwriting for institutions of higher education and nonprofits throughout New England. As a consultant, Suzanne has provided affordable development planning, grantwriting, and training/coaching services for over 30 organizations since 2005. 

Registration Information: (price includes light breakfast, lunch, and program materials)
MACDC Members: $50.00
Non-MACDC Members: $100.00
Student/AmeriCorps/Intern: $25.00

Please contact Julie at juliet@macdc.org for more information.

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm
Location: Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, Great Room, 2nd Floor (10 Post Office Square, Boston, MA

Description:

Please join us in our public conversation about social media strategy for nonprofit organizations. Everyone talks these days about social media “return on investment” — but designing for your “return on engagement” is what really matters.

Facilitated by Debra Askanase, Digital Strategist, Principal, Community Organizer 2.0.

Attendance is free. RSVPs by May 14 are appreciated: Mark Dyer, mdyer@progressknowledge.com

Sponsored by: The Nonprofit Consultants Network,  an ever-expanding professional network of nonprofit consultants and capacity builders based in Massachusetts. We meet monthly for networking, sharing, and peer learning. Each year, we host a public meeting on a topic of interest to the nonprofit community. Through this event, we hope to stimulate conversations and build the foundation for future collaborations among colleagues and clients across the sector. Thank you for joining us!

YWCA Boston is offering a training session for individuals who are interested in becoming a part of our cadre of volunteer facilitators for our Community Dialogues on race and ethnicity.  To participate in the training, individuals must be willing to commit to co-facilitate a minimum of one five-session race dialogue series in a neighborhood of Boston (such as five consecutive Monday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in Dorchester).

The training will equip participants with skills and materials to become Community Dialogue facilitators. The Community Dialogue curriculum has been used successfully in hundreds of sessions throughout the city of Boston, including series with Boston City Council and at Boston Public Schools.  More details about the facilitators’ duties and desired qualifications are provided on the next page.

Registration is limited to individuals with group facilitation experience.  Applications will be reviewed, and those with the desired qualifications will be asked to attend one of two orientation meetings.  The meetings will be an opportunity to learn more about the Dialogues, and ensure that there is a good match between the applicants’ skills and interests and the needs of the program. Attendance at one of the two orientation meetings is required.

Orientation Meetings:      

• Wednesday, May 16, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM at YW Boston
•  Friday, May 18, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM at YW Boston

Following the orientation meetings, prospective facilitators will receive an invitation to attend the Facilitator Training.

Facilitator Training:

• Thursday, June 14, 2012, 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM (lunch provided)
• LOCATION: YW Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston
• Trainers: Becky Shuster, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Rosa Hunter, RLH Enterprises, Kathryn Henderson, YWCA Boston

To apply, please email the application form on page 3 to Kathryn Henderson, Community Outreach Coordinator, YWCA Boston, at khenderson@ywboston.org or fax it to Kathryn’s attention at (617) 585-5499.  If you have questions about the Dialogues or the training, please call Kathryn at (617) 585-5423.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, May 14, 2012.

Time: 9:30am-4:15pm (May 19th), 6:00pm-9:00pm (May 31st)
Location: Urban Edge, Board Room (1542 Columbus Ave, Suite 2, Roxbury, MA 02119) MAP

Registration Deadline: May 16, 2012

This two-session course will focus on how CDC Board members and other volunteers can and should engage in the real estate development work of their CDCs. It will provide tools for Board members to understand the CDC’s portfolio of completed developments and evaluate the organization’s planned development. The basics of  real estate development financing and budgets will be reviewed as well as the life-cycle of a real estate development from the initial selection of a project through planning and building the project to operating the development to serve the occupants and  further the CDC’s larger community development mission. Essential areas  for Board involvement, direction and decision-making will be reviewed as well as best practices to build a strong partnership between Board and CDC staff in pursuing a successful real estate development strategy.

Instructor Bio:
Mathew Thall is presently a housing and community development consultant. From 1991 to 2006  he served as  Senior Program Director, for the Greater Boston Program of the  Local Initiatives Support Corporation  (LISC). Previously he served for a decade as the Executive Director of the Fenway CDC in Boston.  Prior to that  he held planning, policy and research positions  with the Cambridge Housing Authority, the court-appointed master in the Perez vs. Boson Housing Authority case and the Laboratory for  Psychosocial Studies at Boston College.  He began his career in housing and community development as a Housing Management Specialist at the Newark Area Office of HUD.  Thall holds a Masters degree in City Planning from MIT and a B.A. from Columbia University.  He is currently a Board member of Citizens Housing and Planning Assoc. and the Fensgate Cooperative.  Past board memberships include AIDS Housing Corporation, Association for Resident Control of Housing, and the Peter Medoff Dudley Youth Scholarship Fund and Historic Boston Inc.

Registration is now closed.

Location: Doubletree Hotel Washington (1515 Rhode Island Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20005)

NACEDA 2012 Annual Summit: Achieving Our Goals in the Election Year and Beyond. Save the date!

info@naceda.org ~ 202-518-2661 ~ www.naceda.org

Time: 9:30-11:00am
Location: United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (51 Sleeper Street, Boston, MA 02210)

Registration Deadline: May 18, 2012

A panel discussion facilitated by the Catalyst Fund. Come learn about the real-world benefits and challenges of implementing collaborations and mergers from nonprofit leaders who have been there. This event will feature background information on the Catalyst Fund and the experiences of leaders who are forging new, mission-driven ways of doing business.

Panelists:

• Marissa Guananja, Director, CONNECT. CONNECT is a multi-partner joint venture to support family economic and financial resilience in Chelsea
• Jonathan Scott, President and CEO, Victory Programs. Victory Programs has formed alliances and mergers with six complimentary nonprofits in the past decade, most recently with the Boston Living Center
• Skip Stuck, CEO, Family Continuity. Family Continuity is part of the newly forming, multi-partner Commonwealth Alliance of Family and Children’s Agencies.

Time: 10:00am-3:00pm (Launch event 10:00am-12:00pm)
Location: 31 Liverpool Street, East Boston, MA 02128

“We are writing to invite immigrant organizers and leaders to participate in CSIO’s (English) Grassroots Leadership Institute, a series of 5 workshops designed to help participants with strategies and tactics to develop grassroots leadership in organizing and in organizations. We recently completed our pilot Institute in Spanish, in which 40+ Latino organizers and more advanced leaders participated. We are now offering it in English.

We invite you to attend an event on March 21 that will both celebrate the graduation of the Latino participants from the Spanish Institute and launch the upcoming English Institute. Participants from the Spanish Institute will talk about the impact of the Institute on their work and solidarity, and we will present information on the English Institute and register participants on-site.

Who Should Participate:

We are targeting the sessions to immigrant organizers who are trying to develop community leadership in their community/labor organizing work, and in their organizations. We are also inviting immigrants who are more advanced leaders in grassroots groups – experienced in community struggles, members of Boards of Directors, etc. who do the work of organizational planning, facilitation, campaign development, etc. and could benefit from the sessions. These sessions are NOT geared toward grassroots leaders who have not had experience working in the above topics – facilitating meetings, taking part in organizational and membership development processes, developing the framework of campaigns, etc.

Participants in the Spanish Institute of 2011-12 came from Centro Communitario de Trabajadores (New Bedford), Codman Square NDC, Alternatives for the Community and Environment (ACE), City Life/Vida Urbana, Neighbor to Neighbor Lyn, Worcester, Springfield and Boston, LatinoAmericanos Unidos en Somerville, Neighborhood United for a Better East Boston, Alcanzando Logros Para Hispanos Ahora (Agencia ALPHA), Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA), East Boston Ecumenical Community Council, United for a Fair Economy, Boston Tenant Coalition, Dominican Development Center, Community Training Assistance Center, Regional Environmental Council (Worcester), Metrowest Worker Center, and Allston-Brighton CDC.

Directions:

Via MBTA: Exit from Maverick Station (blue line) and turn onto Sumner Street. Walk four blocks on Sumner Street (passing Paris, Havre y London Streets) until you arrive at Liverpool Street. (If you hit Bremen or Orleans Street you’re going the wrong way!). Take a right onto Liverpool Street and 31 Liverpool Street is on the block past Maverick Street on the right.

By car from Boston (through the Callahan Tunnel/Route 1A north): Immediately after exiting the tunnel, take your first right onto Porter Street (it comes up fast, before the Airport exit). Go on Porter Street for 3 blocks and take a right onto Chelsea Street. Go 5 blocks on Chelsea Street and take a right onto Maverick Street. Go 4 blocks and take a right onto Liverpool Street. 31 Liverpool Street is on this block on the right.

Please contact You can call us at 617-742-5165 or CSIO@TSNE.ORG to RSVP for the Launch Event or to discuss the Institute in more detail.”

Time: Thursdays, 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Suffolk University

The Mission of the program is to instruct neighborhood community leaders and real estate practitioners on the basic fundamental principles of Real Estate Development and Public Policy. In particular, we will focus on the LINK between community economic development and urban markets.

Education

The substance of the program will be delivered in a 12 week Academic and Field Studies module that will be taught by a combination of real estate practitioners, community institutional leaders and college level instructors.

Classes will be devoted to teaching the basic concepts and key components of most real estate sectors including residential, retail, commercial, industrial, and hospitality properties.

What You Will Learn

Participants will understand the full range of professional players, community based stakeholders and what roles they play. We will examine the roles and relationships between brokers, contractors, developers, appraisers, lenders, lawyers, architects, abutters, historic commissions, advocacy groups, project review committees, etc. Most importantly, we will also examine the elements of the “Community Review Process.”

In addition, we will review the basic elements of the financial components of any potential projects including but not limited to Development Pro Forma, Operating Pro Forma, and Sources and Uses Statements.

Course Materials

The course Syllabus utilizes a textbook, case studies, selected web based data sources, and selected current readings. Most importantly, individual community and work experiences will be integral to the learning process. Much of the work will include group projects and working in “Development Teams.”

Application & Registration

Applications will be provided to each interested candidate to explain why this program is important to him/her from a personal, professional, community and academic perspective. Formal academic requirements are NOT a prerequisite for acceptance into the program.

Program Cost & Timeline

The program will cost $250.00 and will begin on May 10, 2012, and will be held every Thursday from 6pm – 8pm until June 28, 2012.

For a copy of the application, contact Richard Taylor at rltaylor@suffolk.edu or at 617-647-6089.

Date: Last Tuesday of each month, September-June (excluding December)
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: United South End Settlements Harriet Tubman House (566 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA)

Are you a financial manager who wears many hats and would like a group to network with and help keep you informed on current & upcoming issues in your field? Join now for $60 and attend our lectures, be included on our email forum, and network with your peers!

The Non Profit Financial Managers provides a forum to share ideas and information and to enhance the professional development of staff responsible for the financial operations of private, nonprofit organizations, often including human resource and technology functions.

Membership is open to individuals with responsibility for the financial or business operations of Boston-area nonprofits. The group focuses on issues faced by organizations with annual operating budgets of less than $15 million.

Lunch is provided. There is a $20 meeting fee for non-members.

One topic is presented and discussed at each meeting. Topics have included: • Staff compensation and benefits systems • Outcome measurement • Capital budgeting • Accounting policies and procedures • Cash management • Technology issues • Workplace privacy and other human resource issues

Membership Fees and Benefits:

• There is an annual fee of $100 for a September to June membership.
• Students are welcome to join at any time at a rate of $25.

In addition to attendance at monthly meetings, members are subscribed to and may participate in the Financial Managers’ email forum.

Please see our web site for additional information http://npfm.org

Time: 3:30-5:00pm (ET)

A Connecting Communities session focusing on smaller industrial cities. The Connecting Communities™ audioconference series is a Federal Reserve System initiative intended to provide a national audience with timely information on emerging and important community and economic development topics.

This session will highlight research conducted by the Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia Feds on older industrial cities, with a particular focus on smaller cities. The session will consider:

• What are the key elements or themes that explain why certain cities are doing better than others?
• What strategies have smaller industrial cities utilized to deal with the decline in manufacturing jobs, demographic changes and economic trends?
• What has been the role of various sectors (government, private and philanthropic)?
• How can best practices be transferred from one community to the other?

Presenters will share the findings from various research initiatives and engage the audience in thinking about how to build a network of practitioners and policymakers around smaller industrial cities.

• Jeremiah Boyle, Managing Director of Economic Development Community Development and Policy Studies – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 
• Yolanda Kodrzycki, Vice President and Director of New England Public Policy Center – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• Alan Mallach, Visiting Scholar – Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia  

Moderator: Prabal Chakrabarti – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Facilitator: Sol Carbonell – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Click here to RSVP.