STLCF Hosts Free Give STL Day Trainings for Nonprofits
The St. Louis Community Foundation is excited to provide a series of FREE Give STL Day trainings, sponsored by Archford Capital Strategies. These trainings are being offered as professional development for nonprofits who are looking to develop an online giving strategy that is applicable to Give STL Day, as well as for other fundraising initiatives.
The following training schedule will be offered in 2019:
Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 1:00 – 3:00 PM – Register Here
Location: St. Louis Area Food Bank Hunger Engagement Center, 70 Corporate Woods Dr., Bridgeton, MO 63044
What is Give STL Day & How to Make the Most of Give STL Day for your Nonprofit
Give STL Day is a 24-hour, online day-of-giving event, designed to ignite the spirit of giving across the region and support causes in the St. Louis area where we live, work and play. Since inception in 2014, Give STL Day has raised over $10 million for regional nonprofits in St. Louis and surrounding areas.
Is this your first time participating in Give STL Day? Do you need a refresher? Join the St. Louis Community Foundation to learn more about Give STL Day, how to develop a strategy, and how this day of online giving can:
- Earn your organization exposure in the St. Louis community
- Raise general operating dollars or program support for your nonprofit
- Engage and energize your donors, staff, and board of directors around your mission
- Connect with other nonprofits in the St. Louis metropolitan and surrounding areas
Host: St. Louis Community Foundation
Audience:
- NEW!! Give STL Day Participants or those needing a refresher course of how the day works
- Nonprofits with new development staff or volunteers who will manage Give STL Day
Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 10:00 AM – Register Here
Location: Webinar
Brands of Attraction: How to Find and Keep the Donors You Love
It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. Who are the donors you love? The ones you can’t wait to talk to. The ones who see your organization, and you, for your highest and best. The ones that when you work with them, the ideas and energy flow easily. Wouldn’t you want more of them? How do you find more donors like these? How can you take care current donors while attracting new ones? Where can you find the time, energy or budget to do that? You create a Brand of Attraction.
Learn the seven secrets to creating a brand of attraction that has donors coming to YOU. We will unlock new techniques that you can implement immediately to start communicating with ease, joy and abundance. You will be able to create stronger relationships with existing supporters and attract new ones.
About the Presenter
Communication expert Maryanne Dersch is on a mission to revolutionize the nonprofit world. As founder Courageous Communication LLC, Dersch uses her 30+ years industry experience to show Human Investment Companies (what she calls nonprofits, to emphasize the power they have in the world) to shine and attract long-term, loyal donors. Her book, Courageous Communication: How Codependence Is Making Your Nonprofit Brand Boring and What To Do About It is now available on Amazon.
Check out more about Maryanne and her expertise here.
Thursday, February 21, 2019: 9:00 AM – 11:00 – Register Here
Location: St. Louis Area Food Bank Hunger Engagement Center | 70 Corporate Woods Dr. | Bridgeton 63044
Peer-to-Peer Give STL Day Conversations: Learn Best Practices & Strategies from Give STL Day Veterans Give STL Day is a 24-hour, online day-of-giving event, designed to ignite the spirit of giving across the region and support causes in the St. Louis area where we live, work and play. Since inception in 2014, Give STL Day has raised over $10 million for regional nonprofits in St. Louis and surrounding areas.
To help your nonprofit succeed on Give STL Day 2018, this peer-to-peer training will give you an opportunity to hear from other nonprofit organizations as they share their strategies, success stories and outline their plans for the big day. This training will be facilitated as “speed dating” in which you will be able to rotate around the room to hear from various organizations that have had success in past years.
The following organizations will be represented:
- Mission: St. Louis – Mandy Purcell, Sr. Communications Manager – $17,018.47 Raised
- Missouri Botanical Garden – Kristine Gruver, Donor Communications Manager – $6,212.70 Raised
- Deaf Inc. – James Shearburn, Director of Development – $14,627.95 Raised
- Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition – Kyle Williams, Director of Development – $41,920.41 Raised
- Starkloff Disability Institute – Meg Geiger, Development Associate – $12,438.75 Raised
Audience:
- Give STL Day Participants
- Nonprofits with new development staff or volunteers who will manage Give STL Day
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 – 2:00 – 3:00 PM (CST): Register Here
Location: Webinar
Scheduled donations, Campaigns, & Matching Donations:
Give STL Day is Wednesday, May 1, 2019! Join us February 26 for a webinar hosted by Civicore, Give STL Day Technology Provider. This webinar will go over details regarding scheduled donations, campaigns, and matching dollar functionality as well as an open Q&A.
Scheduled Donations: When do they start? How do donors schedule a donation? When will my scheduled donation be processed? How to view scheduled donations prior to Give STL Day
Campaigns: What are campaigns? How should a donor or volunteer set up a campaign? How do they relate to my organization’s profile and donation totals?
Matching Dollars: How do matching dollars work in the system? If I have matching dollars, what should I expect to see on my profile and on leaderboards and prize listings?
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 10:00 AM: Register Here
Location: Webinar
How to Use Web & Email Communications to Inspire Giving on Give STL Day 2019
Your nonprofit’s website and email list are the tools most likely to inspire giving on Give STL Day. To ensure fundraising success, this webinar will share design and call-to-action best practices for using web and email communications for storytelling and fundraising. In addition to providing a 4-week timeline for launching your online Give STL Day campaign, this webinar will highlight:
- The importance of creating a Give STL Day online hub on your nonprofit’s website.
- How to launch a Give STL Day email marketing campaign that inspires donors to give and fundraise on behalf of your organization.
- How to incorporate social media into your website and email strategy.
About the Presenter
Heather Mansfield is the founder of Nonprofit Tech for Good and author of the best-selling books Social Media for Social Good and Mobile for Good. Over the last 13 years, Heather has grown a following for @nonprofitorgs on social networks to more than one million and presented 100+ social media and online fundraising trainings and 500+ webinars thus training more than 250,000 nonprofit professionals worldwide.
Nonprofit Tech for Good nptechforgood.com l twitter.com/nonprofitorgs l facebook.com/nonprofitorgs
Download the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report! givingreport.ngo
Give STL Day 2 Part Training Series Featuring Archford Capital Strategies
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 – 8:00 – 11:30 AM – Register Here
Location: St. Louis Area Food Bank Hunger Engagement Center | 70 Corporate Woods Dr. | Bridgeton 63044
Session 1: A Giving Movement Your Organization Needs!
Presenter: Jim Maher, Archford Capital Strategies
Did you know charitable donations are anticipated to take a hit in 2019? Due to the new tax code, it is estimated that 90%* of people will now use the standard deduction when filing their 2018 tax return, which eliminates the tax benefit of charitable donations.
Jim Maher will teach you how to help your donors better support your organization through his vision of a Giving Movement that will start in the St. Louis area. This Giving Movement will restore the tax deduction for charitable donations, while helping your organization build planned giving patterns with donors. Your donors will be thanking you for helping them give smarter through this Giving Movement we are calling the Legacy IRA™.
About the Presenter:
Jim Maher, the CEO and Founder of Archford Capital Strategies, set out to create a work environment that allows him to combine his two passions: entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Archford’s focus is Taking Care of FamiliesTM, and in doing so, Jim utilizes his business successes to give back to community organizations. Guided by his mission to serve as an advocate for nonprofit organizations, Jim uses his 30+ years of expertise to help create solutions for this community. His dream is to create an everlasting Giving Movement.
Session 2: Marketing Espionage: How to spy on your organization, your audiences and anyone else to leverage your online presence
Presenter: Maryanne Dersch
Does your organization have a website no one visits, social media posts no one sees or blogs no one reads? Do you have marketing that makes your executive director happy yet doesn’t connect with audiences? Do you have a board that wants you to make them “thought leaders” and you have no idea how to do that?
Accept this Internet Marketing Mission and Learn How to:
- Learn the tools of the online professionals that gets results no matter the budget
- Apply a holistic approach with SEO, blogging and social media to dominate page one of search results
- Find and use the right keywords for your ideal audiences
- Integrate videos, images and social media to boost your rankings
- Build a new website or fix your current site to get found online and dominate your market
This on-the-ground workshop will be hands on, so bring your laptops and power cords. We will be learning and implementing as we go so you leave using new tools and a new approach.
About the Presenter
Communication expert Maryanne Dersch is on a mission to revolutionize the nonprofit world. As founder Courageous Communication LLC, Dersch uses her 30+ years industry experience to show Human Investment Companies (what she calls nonprofits, to emphasize the power they have in the world) to shine and attract long-term, loyal donors. Her book, Courageous Communication: How Codependence Is Making Your Nonprofit Brand Boring and What To Do About It is now available on Amazon.
Check out more about Maryanne here.
Give STL Day 2 Part Training Series Featuring Archford Capital Strategies
Wednesday, March 13, 2019: 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Register Here
Location: St. Louis Area Food Bank Hunger Engagement Center | 70 Corporate Woods Dr. |, Bridgeton 63044
Thursday, March 14, 2019: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Register Here
Location: SIUE East St. Louis Higher Education Campus, Greater East St. Louis Community Fund
601 James R. Thompson Blvd. Building “D”, Multipurpose Room on the 1st floor | East St. Louis, Illinois 62201
Session 1: A Giving Movement Your Organization Needs!
Presenter: Jim Maher, Archford Capital Strategies
Did you know charitable donations are anticipated to take a hit in 2019? Due to the new tax code, it is estimated that 90%* of people will now use the standard deduction when filing their 2018 tax return, which eliminates the tax benefit of charitable donations.
Jim Maher will teach you how to help your donors better support your organization through his vision of a Giving Movement that will start in the St. Louis area. This Giving Movement will restore the tax deduction for charitable donations, while helping your organization build planned giving patterns with donors. Your donors will be thanking you for helping them give smarter through this Giving Movement we are calling the Legacy IRA™.
Session 2: Confidence, Content and Capacity: Helping Nonprofits Embrace their Stories
Chris Strub has worked with over 100 nonprofits in all 50 U.S. states, helping organizations nationwide feel comfortable using social media to share their stories. Join Chris for a 2.5-hour workshop designed address nonprofits’ three primary pain points with social video: confidence, content concepts, and creation capacity.
In this highly interactive session, Chris will inspire you to embrace your organization’s stories; identify threads to establish a consistent, engaging content strategy; and discuss how to execute an effective storytelling strategy with extremely limited resources.
To learn more about Chris Strub, visit TeamStrub.com or send him a Tweet: @ChrisStrub.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 10:00 AM – Register Here
Location: Webinar
How to Use Social Media to Inspire Giving on Give STL Day 2019
Give STL Day is a day of giving fueled by the power of social media. The urgency of a fundraising campaign occurring within a 24-period inspires individuals to donate, but only if your nonprofit prepares in advance and creates an online fundraising campaign that understands what motivates giving day donors to give and share your campaign on social media. Topics discussed in this webinar include:
- Top three best practices for using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram in the days leading up to Give STL – as well as the day of Give STL Day.
- The importance of creating social media graphics for your campaign.
- How to build a team of ambassadors to help promote your campaign.
About the Presenter
Heather Mansfield is the founder of Nonprofit Tech for Good and author of the best-selling books Social Media for Social Good and Mobile for Good. Over the last 13 years, Heather has grown a following for @nonprofitorgs on social networks to more than one million and presented 100+ social media and online fundraising trainings and 500+ webinars thus training more than 250,000 nonprofit professionals worldwide.
Nonprofit Tech for Good nptechforgood.com l twitter.com/nonprofitorgs l facebook.com/nonprofitorgs
Download the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report! givingreport.ngo
Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (CST) – Register here
Location: Webinar
What to Expect on Give STL Day (and after)
Give STL Day is Wednesday, May 1, 2019! Join us April 4th for a webinar hosted by Civicore, Give STL Day Technology Provider. This webinar covers what to expect on Give STL Day (May 1) as a nonprofit administrator, as well as post-event processes and functionality.
This webinar will cover:
- How to pull donor data/donation reports
- Changes to the administrative portal during the event
- When scheduled donations will show up in your donation history
- What to expect after the day including reconciliation and fund disbursal times
All Give STL Day 2019 Trainings are sponsored by Archford Capital Strategies, LLC, a private Registered Investment Advisory firm providing individual wealth management, retirement services and business consulting to over 500 families. Founded by James D. Maher, Archford is a team of skilled advisors with more than 35 highly regarded credentials and designations who are passionate about Taking Care of Families. A sponsor of Give STL Day since its beginning, Jim has been honored as the top donor advisor for the Metropolitan area by Leave a Legacy, Planned Giving Counsel and the St. Louis Community Foundation. Jim is a passionate philanthropic advocate and advisor.
