TDC’s upcoming workshops:

• Tuesday, February 28       Keep Your Donors: Building profitable relationships that last  (Worcester)
• Thursday, March 1            Asking for Money in Person
• Wednesday, March 7        Personal Visit Fundraising
• Thursday, March 15          Love Thy Reader:  The donor communications self-audit
• Wednesday, March 21      Your Development Plan:  Get organized, get going (Worcester)
• Thursday, March 22          Major Gifts Fundraising:  Focus your board
• Wednesday, March 28      Jumpstart Your Fundraising: Auditing your development efforts 
• Wednesday, April 4          Raising Funds in New Terrain
• Wednesday, April 11        Lack of Funds is NOT Your Primary Challenge

Get all the details and register on line at www.tdcorp.org/training.

Be one of the many workshop participants who have already taken advantage of the 20% discount available to organizations that belong to the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network:

http://www.massnonprofitnet.org/benefits-join/savings/training-workshops/

Training Schedule

The Midwest Academy has 10 great trainings scheduled throughout 2012! Whether you are new to organizing or a seasoned veteran, we have a training that will get you to the next level:

Organizing for Social Change: Learn how to build power, recruit and develop leaders, think strategically, win issue campaigns and develop strong organizations:

• March 26 – 30, 2012: Chicago, IL
• May 7 – 11: Sierra Madre, CA
• August 13 – 17: Chicago, IL
• September 10 – 14: Metairie, LA
• November 12 – 16: Baltimore, MD

Advanced Organizing for Social Change: Spend three days with the Academy’s most experienced trainers applying the Midwest Academy strategy chart to your organization’s campaign. You’ll leave with a plan that’s targeted, strategic, and effective:

• March 21 – 23: Washington, DC
• June 11 – 13: New York, NY

Supervising Organizers Workshop: Step back from meetings on the run, in order to evaluate yourself as a supervisor, explore new skills, and develop a plan to boost the skills and effectiveness of your entire team:

• April 18 – 20: New York, NY
• July 11 – 13: Berkeley, CA
• November 28 – 30, Chicago, IL

Click here for more information about each of our training sessions. Register today or let us know if you have any questions at training@midwestacademy.com.

Photo Contest

If these trainings look great and you’re wondering how to send staff members, enter our Photo Contest! It’s quick and easy. Just send us a great picture of an action that your organization coordinated in the last year and you’ll be entered to win a scholarship for the training sessions of your choice. Photos will be judged by a panel of progressive leaders.

• 1st place: Three $500 scholarships
• 2nd place: Two $500 scholarships
• 3rd place: One $500 scholarship

Scholarships will be awarded to representatives from your organization to attend the trainings of your choice!

To submit your entry, send your picture, with a caption of at least 100 words, to contest@midwestacademy.com by February 29, 2012.

Upcoming TAP Management Trainings provided by MassHousing:

Animals: Pets, Service Animals, and Companion Animals: Level 2

1/26/12, 8:45 – 1:00, Worcester

Aging in Place: Meeting the Needs of Elders in Housing

2/3/12, 8:45 – 1:00, Worcester

Strategies for Dealing with Cognitive Impairments

2/7/12, 8:45 – 1:00, Taunton

Overview of Adolescence: Understanding Risk & Opportunity Through a Developmental Perspective

2/15/12, 8:45 – 1:00, Hyde Park

Advanced Managing Conflict on Site: Taking Your Skills to the Next Level: Level 2

2/17/12, 8:45 – 4:00, Newton

Effective Communication with a Person Who Hoards: Level 2

2/28/12, 8:45 – 1:00, Natick

Alcohol and Drugs Level 2 – Practicing Substance Abuse Interventions and Lease Enforcement

3/7/12, 8:45 – 1:00, Hyde Park

ADA Issues in Everyday Housing Management

3/15/12, 8:45 – 1:00, Lowell

Hoarding Basics – What You Need to Know about Hoarding: Level 1

3/19/12, 8:45 – 4:00, Lynn

Screening, Tenant Selection and Reasonable Accommodation: Level 2

3/29/12, 8:45 – 3:00, Holyoke

Please click here for more details.

• Governance and Planning
• Human Resources
• Resource Development
• Financial Management
• Marketing & Communications

February 2012

• Feb. 1 – Fundraising Events that Raise Funds: What you need to do to structure a successful event
• Feb. 2 – Supervision Basics for Everyone
• Feb. 29 – Making Sense of Financial Statements: What non-accountants need to know

March 2012

• Mar. 22 – Major Gifts Fundraising: Focus your board
• Mar. 29 – Nonprofit Leadership: Increase your effectiveness

April 2012

• Apr. 4 – Raising Funds in New Terrain
• Apr. 4 – The Chair-CEO Relationship: Setting Expectations, Getting Results (Worcester)
• Apr. 12 – Facilitation Skills for Every Situation
• Apr. 26 – Supervision Basics for Everyone

May 2012

• May 2 - Budgeting for Nonprofits

Please visit our website to see the latest offerings, to learn about special 20% discounts on workshops for members of the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, and other special discounts.”

At the beginning of this intensive program, you will select a specific and significant challenge facing your organization — a challenge whose solutions can dramatically change not only how your organization operates, but also provide the impetus for change in the overall field of community development.

Applications for the sixth class of the NeighborWorks Achieving Excellence in Community Development program will be accepted beginning in fall/winter 2011 and applicants will be notified of acceptance in May 2012.  The program will then start in September/October 2012.

Achieving Excellence Application Schedule:

March 15, 2012 – Applications due to Neighborworks
March 15, 2012 – Candidates notified of decision
September/October 2012 – First academic session begins at Harvard
February/March 2014 – Commencement at a Neighborworks Training Institute

Complete Schedule of Session Dates

Application

Program Brochure

Supplemental Application Downloads:

• Board Chair Nomination Form (for applicants who are Executive Directors of their organizations)
• CEO/President/ED Nomination Form (for applicants who are senior managers in their organizations
• Partner Reference Form

For additional information about Achieving Excellence, contact Christina Deady, Director, at (202) 220-2432 or email cdeady@nw.org.

NeighborWorks Achieving Excellence is made possible by the generous support of the following sponsors:

“Engage. Reflect. Change. Renew. Connect. Learn. Explore. Loeb Fellows use words like these to describe their unique experience at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In the middle of promising careers shaping the built and natural environment, these accomplished practitioners step away from their hectic professional lives. For one academic year, they are free to take classes at the GSD and throughout Harvard’s vast network of professional and academic schools. They read, write, talk with professors, mentor students and expand their horizons in other ways they see fit. Their goals? To become better at their craft, to step up to leadership roles, and to change the world with their unique perspectives.

The Loeb Fellowship was founded in 1970 with a gift from John L. Loeb, Harvard Class of 1924 and his wife, Frances Lehman Loeb.  Mr. Loeb was distressed with the turmoil exploding in US cities at the time. He thought a year to pause, study, and reflect at a great University would enable those who designed and built our cities to return with renewed insight and energy. He would be pleased with the results of his and his wife’s generosity.

The Loeb offers multiple benefits, including a stipend and a residence in Cambridge at either Doebele House (for Fellows who come alone) or Strobel House (for Fellows whose partners or families join them).  Weekly dinners with guests invited by the Fellows continue to provide a rich experience each year.  Public seminars and participation in a studio course provide engagement with the pedagogical environment at the GSD. Perhaps the greatest benefit is the interaction with Loeb classmates. Each class of ten Fellows includes a diverse mix of professional interests, geographic locations, career trajectories and practitioner skills. Intentional and serendipitous encounters provide opportunity for the unhurried, thoughtful conversations that often bring the greatest learning and are so rare in normal professional life. Many classmates become lifelong friends.

The Loeb alumni/ae network now extends to over 400 active, engaged, thoughtful professionals spread throughout the world.  Several events each year keep this network alive and connected.  Fellows often seek each other out for good counsel or even professional work together.”

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: loeb_fellowship@gsd.harvard.edu
Telephone: 617-495-9345
Fax: 617-384-9529

Mailing Address:
Loeb Fellowship
Room 305
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

For more information, please visit the Loeb Fellowship website.

The program offers a five-course Professional Certificate and/or a concentration in the Bachelor of General Studies in Community Development. The program is offered through the School of Continuing Studies.

Registration: Contact Pam Downey, pdowney@rwu.edu Director of Advisement and Student Services to register – she is the advisor for every student participating in the program.

Scholarship: Scholarships may be available to Housing Network members and staff in related organizations, as well as to Municipal and State of Rhode Island staff.

Please contact Elizabeth Debs edebs@housingnetworkri.org or 401-521-1461 x 38.

This workshop enabled participants to become aware of and familiarize themselves with critical elements to become effective community educators: fostering open dialogues with and among participants, promoting critical thinking and creativity, and developing an environment of safety and freedom. Participants had the opportunity to discuss and understand the social role of education and its importance to promoting social change.

The workshop provided an overview of how adults learn by practicing all phases of the learning cycle (definition, validation, assimilation, integration, and transition), applying 12 important pinciples for effective learning, and sharing personal experiences.

Course Objectives:

• Participants will understand the fundamentals of popular education: the learning cycle, principles of effective learning, ideas-feelings-actions;
• learn, review and practice principles for effective learning; and  
• understand the importance of following the seven steps of lesson planning

Participant Quotes:

• “I enjoyed the range, resources, and positive attitude!”
• “I learned lots of new activities I will use with my youth. It was wonderful to learn about community organizing and popular education.”
• “I will now be a more effective teacher.”

Course Materials:

• Agenda
• Suggested Reading
• The Twelve Principles of Adult Learning
• The Land of Chips Interactive
• How Much We Have in Common Interactive

        

“State falls short on affordable housing” – The Boston Globe

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