Whether you are a cause marketing beginner or veteran, work for a business or a nonprofit, these pre- and post-conference workshops will allow you to gain insights that will help you advance in 2019 and beyond. Separate fees apply for each of these high-touch, small group sessions.
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Pre-Conference Workshops (Wednesday, May 29, 2019)
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Business Leader Summit
Wednesday, May 29th – 8:00am-11:00am
(Open only to full-time corporate professionals)
This closed-door, business-only session provides you with a unique opportunity to bond with peers and pick up success strategies for blending purpose and profit.
In this highly interactive session, you’ll participate in helpful group discussions and collective problem solving. The first hour and a half will be lead by Khalil Smith, The NeuroLeadership Institute’s Diversity & Inclusion Practice Lead who will lead an interactive session with activities revolving around sharing the collective best practices in the room, facilitating insights, and making real-time updates to your diversity and inclusion strategy. This time together will focus on how you can create real behavior change to mitigate bias, optimize inclusion, and build diverse teams, all by relying on an approach grounded in neuroscience.
In the next segment, Caesar’s Entertainment’s Gwen Migita will lead a solutions-focused discussion about measurement and social impact ROI, sharing her own lessons learned and leveraging the wisdom of the group to brainstorm the best solutions for your measurement challenges.
If you work for a company active in the social impact space, you’ll find ‘your people’ in this small-group setting. Count on leaving this session with valuable new professional contacts and probably a few new, lasting friendships!
Price: $445 by March 16, $495 after (EFG Members enjoy a $50 discount)
Nonprofit Leadership Summit
Wednesday, May 29th – 8:00am – 11:00am
(Open only to full-time, senior nonprofit executives)
Experience this popular, closed-door gathering exclusively for senior nonprofit executives interested in frank, private discussions of common challenges, and new ideas from industry leaders. Led by For Momentum Founder and President, Mollye Rhea, this workshop takes a deep dive into the most relevant and topical issues facing senior nonprofit executives.
- A first-look at For Momentum’s 2019 Social Impact Partnership Sales Cycle survey
- Insights and data to help you optimize Account Management Departmental Structure, Staffing and Salaries
- An open conversation about your current challenges and collective brainstorming time to offer you tangible solutions
- Last, but really most, enjoy the opportunity to network with your peers and hear their perspectives on all these topics and more.
This valuable opportunity to bond with and learn from your colleagues at other organizations only comes once a year. Don’t miss it!
Price: $445 by March 16, $495 after (EFG Members enjoy a $50 discount)
Corporate Alliances 101 for Nonprofits
Wednesday, May 29th – 8:00am – 11:00am
Want to “get in the game” and start actively engaging in corporate partnerships or increase your success at building more substantial partnerships with corporations?
This introductory, four-hour class taught by Catalist’s Maureen Carlson and Brittany Hill provides the solid foundation you need when you’re just starting out in corporate partnership development.
This highly interactive, small-class setting will ensure you get your most pressing questions answered. Rich with case studies, this powerful program covers critical issues including:
- Setting goals and expectations
- Achieving organizational buy-in
- Prospecting and getting meetings
- Creating winning proposals and closing deals
A perennial favorite, this workshop has provided hundreds of nonprofit professionals with valuable tools for launching and improving their corporate programs.
Price: $445 by March 16, $495 after (EFG Members enjoy a $50 discount)
Post-Conference Workshops (Friday, May 31, 2019)
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Nonprofit Graduate (303) Course
Friday, May 31st – 8:00am-11:30am
If your organization has a good solid baseline of corporate partners but you need to take them to the next level by maximizing more opportunity and securing more fundraising, this four-hour intensive class is for you.
This Graduate Course, taught by Catalist’s Maureen Carlson and Brittany Hill, will help you build on your foundational success to strategically ignite your current partners and to secure robust, valuable new partners.
What to expect:
- Get insights from more than 150 corporate CSR executives about what they look for in successful cause partnerships so you can adjust your strategies
- Learn key formulas, tactics and insights around positioning, selling and reporting value that are proven to increase fundraising by 35%
- Master the formulas for pitching new and existing partners
- Hear from cause and corporate guest speakers
- Hear the lasts trends in CSR, POS fundraising, retail evolution, and more.
Join us to take your partnerships from undergrad to graduate level engagement and watch your partnerships and sponsorships soar!
Price: $445 by March 16, $495 after (EFG Members enjoy a $50 discount)
LEGO® Serious Play®: Leveraging Fun To Create Real Solutions To Your Nonprofit’s Biggest Challenges
Friday, May 31st – 8:00am-11:30am
What is the biggest challenge keeping you from increased success? Perhaps you’re worried about a long-time partner who seems disengaged, can’t get your employee engagement efforts off the ground or feel other departments are barriers to your success. No matter your challenge, this workshop will help you unlock solutions through the process of LEGO® Serious Play®. Taught by leading industry experts with nearly 50 years of combined CSR, cause marketing, and social good experience, Clark Sweat and Wally Edwards, will help you step outside your comfort zone to find unexpected solutions.
Price: $445 by March 16, $495 after (EFG Members enjoy a $50 discount)