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Professional Development

Your Community Foundation is pleased to offer professional development opportunities for local nonprofit staff and board members. Through these offerings, we seek to enhance the skills necessary for a strong nonprofit sector.

This workshop is being sponsored by LD&B Insurance Services

In partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, the Community Foundation is continuing its Nonprofit Workshop Series with “Communications and Marketing in Support of Fundraising Efforts.”

Please plan to join us on Thursday, October 10th, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m., in the Virginia Room at DuPont Community Credit Union Headquarters, 1154 Shenandoah Village Drive, Waynesboro. 

The program will be presented by CNE Trainer and Content Marketing Expert, Rachael Kesler Palm who will share how to create a compelling strategic communications plan to support your fundraising efforts.

Rachael will help you get organized as you think through and plan your fundraising communications to maximize support and efficiency. She will discuss best practices in fundraising communications and how to create a strategic marketing plan that works for your organization.  

The fee for attending the workshop is $45.  It can be paid online by credit card at the time of registration, or it can be paid by check.

Checks should be made payable to the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge and can be mailed in advance of the event to: Lora Hamp, Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, P.O. Box 815, Staunton, VA 24402. Please write “registration fee for Communications & Marketing workshop” on the memo line of the check.

Payments by check may also be made at the door on the day of the event; however, please note that we will NOT be able to accept credit card payments at the event.

If you have any questions, please contact Lora Hamp at lhamp@cfcbr.

Are you a Nonprofit Executive Director looking to engage with your peers for personal and professional development? Join our Executive Directors’ Discussion Group (EDDG), which will address topics of interest to your organization and provide a confidential setting in which you and your peers can discuss and solve real-time problems with real-world experience.

Focused topics for each meeting are provided, but broader conversations will be welcomed as well during each meeting of the EDDG. While these discussion groups are not led by content experts, they are facilitated by Brian Ullman, Senior Manager of Learning and Impact at the Center for Nonprofit Excellence.

The next EDDG meeting will be virtual and is scheduled for August 21, 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM. 

Registration is free and open to Nonprofit Executive Directors of organizations serving residents of Staunton, Waynesboro, and the counties of Augusta, Highland, and Nelson (or if your organization does not have an Executive Director, your Board Chair is invited to participate).

If you have any questions, please contact Lora Hamp at lhamp@cfcbr.org.