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Nonprofit Speed Networking: Bringing the
Arts & Charities Together
Worry-free speed networking pairs everyone up with questions to guide
your brief conversation. This might be the 2 minutes that changes your
life forever. Hors d' oeuvres and beverages will be served. Sponsored
by United Arts of Central Florida, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, YNPN,
and the Philanthropy Center in hope of forming more partnerships and opportunities
between the arts community and social services nonprofits.
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Leaders Series Breakfast: Time-saving Tips
for Busy Professionals EVENT FULL
Do you feel like a juggler trying to keep all the balls in the
air, with someone standing nearby ready to toss you another one? This
presentation will make you a better juggler with many valuable time-saving
and streamlining tips. These top tips are the result of hundreds of time
and priority management sessions conducted with busy professionals and
executives. We’ll cover desk management, email, phone calls, and
much more.
You will learn:
- Time-saving and organizing tips
- How prioritizing can preserve your sanity
- Your big drawer is your friend
- A new habit to propel you to greater success
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Friday, May 9, 2008
EVENT FULL
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8:30 AM to 10:00 AM |
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$15 Members, $25 Non-members |
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Mary T. Scott, President
Positive Outcomes, Inc.
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Mary Scott works with busy executives
and professionals who want to become more successful. She helps
them focus on what they know in their hearts will catapult their
career in the direction they want to go. Mary also specializes in
time-saving tips in Microsoft Outlook email.
Her background includes six years as a training consultant for
Priority Management, a worldwide organization that provides tools,
techniques and training solutions to enhance productivity, and
18 years in Human Resources management at Orlando Sentinel Communications.
She chairs the Network of the Top 50 Companies for Working Families,
which she created in 1997.
Mary has a master's degree in Corporate Communication & Technology
and Bachelors in Organizational Communication from Rollins College.
Learn more about Mary on her Web site:
www.executivecoach-outlook.com.
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Leaders Series: The Foundation Center
- How to Find Funders FREE
EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Find out how the Foundation Center's resources at Rollins canhelp your
nonprofit organization. This session provides an introduction to the Foundation
Center's comprehensive Web database, Foundation Directory Online Professional,
available at no charge at the Rollins College Philanthropy & Nonprofit
Leadership Center. Find out how to create customized searches to develop
targeted lists of foundations that support programs and projects like
your organization's. You can also search grants made by top funders; view
corporate funder profiles; and keyword-search the full text of grantmaker
tax returns. The database also provides information on trustees, officers,
and donor names; charts on grant distributions; and Foundation news, publications,
and RFPs.
You will learn:
- How to find funders using the Foundation Directory Online
database of over 92,000 grantmakers and grants
- How to get the most out of the resources on the comprehensive Foundation
Center Web site
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
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9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
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This event is free, however pre-registration
is required to attend |
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Joanne Kepics
Joanne is the Regional Training Coordinator at the Foundation Center's
Atlanta office. As regional training coordinator, she is responsible
for designing and managing training programs for the southeast region
through the Foundation Center - Atlanta. She joined the Center in
2000 and prior to joining the Center, Joanne worked for sixteen
years in a variety of positions with SOLINET, the Southeastern Library
Network, in Atlanta, GA. Joanne has a master's degree in Management
from St. Mary's College and an undergraduate degree in Education
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to view or download the flyer for this event.
Leaders Series Lunch: Media Training,
You're in the Public Eye
You are in a room with white, hot lights, the camera is poised to capture
your every nervous gesture and you're sure the microphone can pick up
your shallow breathing. Oh, the reporter is staring at you armed with
questions.
You will learn:
- to take control with the media.
- how to speak in "sound bytes."
- how to use your body language.
- techniques to keep the interview going where you want it to go.
- learn some of the tricks reporters use to catch you off guard.
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Wednesday, July 23,
2008 |
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11:30 AM to 1:00 PM |
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$20 Members, $30 Non-members |
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Annetta Wilson, President
Your
Coach for Success, Inc. |
 Annetta
Wilson is a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and
president of Annetta Wilson Media Training & Success Coaching.
She is a business strategist specializing in media training, presentation,
and communication skills coaching. Ms. Wilson is a talent coach
for on-air journalists at CNN, and is a coach for Walt Disney World's
Ambassador Program. An award-winning journalist, she has worked
in the broadccast industry for three decades as a news anchor, reporter,
producer, talk show host, and writer. Ms. Wilson has held management
positions as a community affairs director and marketing director.
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Dialogue with the Donors
Attended by nonprofit and foundation professionals, individual donors,
corporate giving program staff, board members and volunteers, the highly
popular Dialogue with the Donors luncheons introduce new ideas
and potential new funding sources to the Central Florida community. The
Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center invites representatives
from the nation’s largest foundations to speak on their foundation’s
focus and take questions from the audience. Dialogue with the Donors
is held twice each year.
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ynpn (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network)
A group of young nonprofit professionals is organizing a local chapter
of this national networking organization with the assistance of the Philanthropy
Center. If you are a young professional, are new to the sector or are
thinking about a job in the sector and would like to learn more about
your career opportunities and to meet nonprofit professionals, please
contact the Philanthropy Center's ynpn liaison,
Brian Henties, bhenties@rollins.edu
or 407-975-6414 or
For more information or to join our mailing list please email: orlando_chapter@ynpn.org.
Next event...
Happy Hour Social Event
- Meet new nonprofit people
- Exchange ideas
- Develop relationships that could lead to collaborative work projects,
friendships, new jobs, and more
- Brush up on your networking skills and perfecting your "elevator
speech" in a comfortable and fun atmosphere
Who Should Attend:
Nonprofit professionals, volunteers, and board members looking to network,
build partnerships, and collaborate on projects. Also, those who just
want to brush up on their networking skills.
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