The Food Bank of Wyoming, the Wyoming Hunger Initiative, and the Cent$ible Nutrition Program are partnering to provide a webinar series to empower hunger relief organizations in funding their programs and organizations. This series is designed to help your organization think strategically about how to serve your communities, develop your brand and image, navigate funding opportunities, and write grants that sustain your organization into the future.
Wednesday, April 17th, 9 -11 am
Speaker: Jody Shields, Executive Director of the Wyoming Nonprofit Network & Katherine Ratigan, Communications and Program Manager of the Wyoming Nonprofit Network
WyoGives - an initiative of the Wyoming Nonprofit Network – is a powerful, statewide 24-hour online fundraising event that is designed to bring the state together as one community to raise money and awareness for Wyoming’s nonprofits. The 5th annual WyoGives is Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Join us for this webinar to learn more about WyoGives registration, campaign resources, and tips for success.
Wednesday April 24th, 9 – 11am
Speaker: Kali Shannon McCrackin Goodenough, Marketing Coordinator of the University of Wyoming Cent$ible Nutrition Program
This workshop-style session will cover the basics of branding and marketing, then introduce attendees to tools for developing marketing materials for fundraising.
Monday, May 1st, 12- 2 pm
Speaker: Becca Steinhoff, Executive Director of the Ellbogen Foundation
You do not have to be a great writer to write a grant grant. Use insights and guidance from this session to build a thoughtful approach to finding and writing grants. We will also consider the perspective of a grant reviewer to build a positive frame of reference for submitting great grants for consideration from funders.
Tuesday, May 7th, 12- 2 pm
Speaker: Rachael Svoboda, Wyoming Library to Business
Whether you are just starting a nonprofit or looking to enrich an existing one, your library has a wealth of information. Join us for an overview of library resources available in your community.
Need funding? Explore the Foundation Directory, the most comprehensive prospect research tool for fundraisers, with over 239,000+ grantmaker profiles.
How about inspiration? Explore books on nonprofit leadership through Candid's curated collection on Libby.
Time to (re)organize? Build your foundational documents, or manage and optimize your nonprofit's operations with Gale Business: Plan Builder.
Monday, May 20th, 12- 2pm
Speaker: Meg Van Baalen-Wood, ECTL Associate Director of Critical & Creative Thinking and Senior Lecturer in English
This highly-interactive session will focus on how to tell your program’s story to potential funders. Together, we’ll analyze some example grants to unveil what makes them they may be effective — or not. Then we’ll delve into strategies for presenting compelling, audience-focused arguments supported with meaningful data.
Prerecorded
Speakers
Shelley Swierkowski, Food Bank of Wyoming
Jessica Goven-Gladson, AARP
Noelle Kron, Serve Wyoming
Hop on this recorded session as we talk with 3 different professionals about how they and their organizations recruit or support volunteers in Wyoming.
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