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SUMMARY:Tales from My Leadership Jungle
DESCRIPTION:Build leadership skills with empathy\, culture\, and practical strategies to improve your team and navigate management.\n\n\nWhat You’ll Gain From Attending “Tales from My Leadership Jungle.” \n\nAn understanding of the term Workplace Intelligence vs Emotional Intelligence\nA usable definition of “leadership” and the leadership qualities of effective leaders and poor leaders\n\n \n\nWhy Empathy is critical and the difference between empathy and sympathy\nA better understanding of your own leadership examples\nWhat “culture” is and the culture I used to create multiple successes\nBegin the process of determining the culture you want to create or to work in\nExamples of effective leadership phrases effective leaders base their actions on\n\n \n\nThe keys to effective team meetings\nHow to better understand management’s agenda\nIdeas on how to hold management accountable\n\n \n\nHow to identify one problem that needs fixing on your current team\, with input offered by Doug\nSeveral interesting stories from the Leadership Jungle that will illustrate the points above and MORE\n\n \nAbout the Facilitator: \nDoug Russell has over 35 years of Technical\, Project Management and Leadership experience with major US. Corporations\, such as Intel and Motorola\, and has held major Project Leadership responsibilities with the United States Department of Defense\, as well as many consulting assignments with start-ups and smaller companies. He has led manufacturing\, engineering\, development\, defense\, and semiconductor teams. \nDoug holds an MBA from Duke University. He also holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from Clemson University\, is a member of the Electrical Engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu\, and an award winning creative writer in college. Doug is a 2012 graduate of ACC’s Nonprofit Certification Program. \n“Successfully Leading Project and Technical Teams: Workplace Intelligence For All Team Members” is Doug’s third book\, and documents through short vignettes a career where he never had a project fail to meet its organizational goals\, compared to the industry successful norm of 30-50%. All readers ‐‐young\, old\, Tech and Non‐Tech‐‐should find something interesting in this cleverly written and fun book. \nToday Doug is delighted to present a presentation titled “Tales from My Leadership Jungle.”
URL:https://nonprofitaustin.org/event/tales-from-my-leadership-jungle/
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SUMMARY:The Content Strategy Playbook
DESCRIPTION:A Practical Guide for Building\, Promoting\, and Scaling Content That Drives Business Growth\n\n\nThe Content Strategy Playbook: A Practical Guide for Building\, Promoting\, and Scaling Content That Drives Business Growth \n \nWritten by Shelley Seale of WordCraft Strategy as a step-by-step toolkit\, this guide walks you through everything you need to design and execute a content strategy that works — from foundations and frameworks to promotion\, measurement\, and scaling. \n \nContent is the engine of modern marketing — but without strategy\, it’s just noise. Too many companies rush into creating blogs\, social posts\, and videos without a clear plan\, leaving teams overwhelmed and results underwhelming. \n \nThe Content Strategy Playbook gives you a proven framework to fix that. \nInside\, you’ll learn how to: \n\nDefine a clear content strategy that aligns with business goals\nBuild a content creation framework that keeps teams consistent and productive\nAmplify content through SEO\, social\, email\, and repurposing\nTrack the metrics that matter and continuously improve your results\nScale content across teams and markets without losing quality or focus\nPacked with checklists\, templates\, and actionable insights\, this playbook is built for executives\, marketers\, and business leaders who want to stop guessing and start seeing measurable growth from their content.
URL:https://nonprofitaustin.org/event/the-content-strategy-playbook/
LOCATION:5930 Middle Fiskville Rd\, 5930 Middle Fiskville Road\, Austin\, TX\, 78752\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communication, Marketing and Public Relations,Future of the Nonprofit Sector
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SUMMARY:The Science of Teams
DESCRIPTION:Practical Tools for Building High-Performing Nonprofit Teams\n\n\nStrong teams drive results. This workshop distills decades of cognitive psychology and team science into practical lessons for nonprofit leaders. Participants will gain evidence-based strategies for how to form teams\, structure collaboration\, and sustain performance  with an emphasis on tools they can apply immediately. \n \nAudience: Nonprofit managers\, team leaders\, HR and program directors. \n \nLearning Takeaways: \n \n\nLearn the “Big Five” of teamwork: leadership\, monitoring\, adaptability\, backup behavior\, and orientation\nApply proven tools for communication\, trust\, and decision-making\nStructure team environments that improve performance and resilience\n\n \nLearn about our facilitator\, Jonathan Alba
URL:https://nonprofitaustin.org/event/the-science-of-teams/
LOCATION:5930 Middle Fiskville Rd\, 5930 Middle Fiskville Road\, Austin\, TX\, 78752\, United States
CATEGORIES:Volunteer and Human Resource Management
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SUMMARY:Fiduciary Excellence
DESCRIPTION:Financial decisions shape your mission\, team\, and future. This course builds the confidence nonprofit leaders need to lead with clarity.\n\n\nA 2-part series (March 24 & March 31 | 9:30am – 1:30pm CST): \nFew nonprofit leaders sign up to be financial experts—but financial decisions shape everything you care about: your mission impact\, your team’s sustainability\, and your organization’s future. This course gives you the financial confidence and clarity to lead boldly\, whether you’re an executive director navigating cash flow\, a board member fulfilling fiduciary duties\, or a staff leader championing program priorities. \nMove beyond confusion and compliance to true financial leadership. You’ll learn to read the story behind the numbers\, build trust between board and staff\, prevent the pitfalls that derail good organizations\, and lead budgeting as a mission-driven tool—not a dreaded chore. Walk away with practical strategies you can implement immediately to strengthen decision-making\, prevent fraud\, and unite your team around a shared financial vision. \n \nWhat You’ll Master: \n\nCore Financial Roles & Responsibilities – Clarify who does what (executive director\, finance staff\, and board) to eliminate confusion and gaps\nBuilding Healthy Financial Relationships – Foster productive board-staff collaboration\, engage your finance committee effectively\, and develop a sustainable relationship with time and money\nMaking Sense of Financial Reports – Decode balance sheets\, profit and loss statements\, and dashboards so you can speak up with confidence\nProtecting Your Organization – Understand audits\, implement fraud prevention strategies\, and establish separation of duties that actually work\nBudget Leadership That Unites – Lead budgeting processes that bring your team together and drive mission results\n\n \nWhat You’ll Gain: \nBy the end of this course\, you’ll be able to: \n\nClearly define financial roles and hold yourself and others accountable without overstepping\nFoster collaboration where board and staff work as partners\, not adversaries\, around money decisions\nParticipate confidently in financial discussions and ask the right questions at the right time\nImplement safeguards that genuinely protect your organization from financial risk and fraud\nLead budgeting as a strategic\, unifying process that reflects your values and priorities\nTranslate financial information so everyone on your team—regardless of background—can engage meaningfully\nLead with financial clarity. Strengthen your impact. This is financial leadership for mission-driven leaders.\n\n \nMeet the Facilitator: \nSean Hale has served a variety of nonprofits since 1999. During his 20 years as a nonprofit finance leader\, he made improvements that reduced waste\, generated new revenue\, boosted staff productivity and morale\, grew financial transparency\, and shrank risk. \nIn 2020\, he founded Nonprofit CFOs: now a 12-person team that helps small and medium-sized nonprofits ensure they have strong\, effective financial management. Services include interim staffing\, fractional CFO\, bookkeeping\, and indirect cost rate calculations. \nSean holds a Master’s degree\, Certificate in Nonprofit Management\, and a Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship.
URL:https://nonprofitaustin.org/event/fiduciary-excellence/
LOCATION:5930 Middle Fiskville Rd\, 5930 Middle Fiskville Road\, Austin\, TX\, 78752\, United States
CATEGORIES:Financial Resource Development and Management
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Band-aid: Building HR Infrastructure Without Big Budgets
DESCRIPTION:What Human Resources is\, why it is misunderstood\, and how to build it intentionally with an organization’s constraints in mind.\n\n\nEven in the age of AI and automation\, people remain the most critical decision-makers in organizations. Nonprofits are real businesses – often complex\, fast-growing\, and high-impact – and they require real strategies to support the people who power their missions. Without intentional HR infrastructure\, even the most purpose-driven organizations experience burnout\, turnover\, legal risk\, and stalled growth. \n \nIn this interactive and practical session\, Candyce Hunt helps nonprofit leaders understand what HR infrastructure actually is\, why it is often misunderstood\, and how to build it intentionally within real budget and capacity constraints. Participants will identify common HR and leadership gaps that emerge as organizations grow\, examine the real costs of relying on short-term fixes\, and explore how unclear roles and reactive practices quietly undermine performance and retention. This session emphasizes clarity over perfection\, equipping leaders to prioritize people systems that align mission\, resources\, and community impact – starting from where they are today. \n \nLearning Objectives: \n\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to:\nIdentify common HR and leadership gaps that emerge when organizations grow without intentional people systems.\nUnderstand HR infrastructure as a business necessity\, not an administrative function\, in mission-driven organizations.\nRecognize the risks and real costs of relying on short-term fixes\, including burnout\, disengagement\, preventable turnover\, legal exposure\, and loss of institutional knowledge.\nDistinguish between must-have\, nice-to-have\, and non-essential HR systems based on organizational size\, growth stage\, and risk.\nApply a practical prioritization approach to align people systems with mission\, budget realities\, and community impact.\nLeave with concrete\, executable actions that create meaningful movement in onboarding\, role clarity\, accountability\, or decision-making – starting from where they are today.\nWhat Participants Can Expect\nA highly interactive session that blends data\, real-world insight\, and guided application. Participants will engage in live exercises and leave with practical tools\, language\, and next steps they can immediately apply to strengthen people systems and leadership clarity within their organizations.\n\n \nAbout the Facilitator: \nCandyce Hunt is a TEDx speaker\, leadership strategist\, and organizational effectiveness consultant with nearly 20 years of experience developing leaders\, strengthening talent systems\, and driving results inside complex\, high-performance environments. A former multi-unit operations leader\, Candyce has led teams across multi-billion-dollar organizations and understands firsthand how leadership breakdowns impact performance\, retention\, and culture. \nShe is the Co-Founder of the 5 Minute Career Hack Podcast and the creator of the Get Off the Clearance Rack framework\, which helps leaders and organizations address undervaluation\, prevent burnout\, and improve how leadership value is communicated and developed. Known for her relatable storytelling and practical frameworks\, Candyce translates real workplace challenges into clear\, actionable leadership strategies. \nHer work focuses on self-leadership\, talent leadership\, and culture leadership – equipping leaders to communicate with clarity\, lead with confidence\, and build sustainable performance cultures that last.
URL:https://nonprofitaustin.org/event/beyond-the-band-aid-building-hr-infrastructure-without-big-budgets/
LOCATION:5930 Middle Fiskville Rd\, 5930 Middle Fiskville Road\, Austin\, TX\, 78752\, United States
CATEGORIES:Governance, Leadership and Advocacy,Volunteer and Human Resource Management
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SUMMARY:Back to Basics: How to Create a New Nonprofit
DESCRIPTION:For International NGO Day\, we’re hosting a session on starting a nonprofit and guiding leaders to build strong\, effective organizations.\n\n\nAs we celebrate international NGO\, we are offering a session on creating your nonprofit. While some feel there are already too many nonprofits in Central Texas\, we believe that anyone wishing to create a nonprofit should be able to do so. We see our responsibility as guiding them to create effective organizations. That process starts by asking the right questions\, putting in place the right policies and procedures\, and understanding and operating within legal and regulatory requirements.
URL:https://nonprofitaustin.org/event/back-to-basics-how-to-create-a-new-nonprofit/
LOCATION:5930 Middle Fiskville Rd\, 5930 Middle Fiskville Road\, Austin\, TX\, 78752\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foundations and Management of the Nonprofit Sector
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SUMMARY:Grants in a Day: From Prospecting to Proposal
DESCRIPTION:Join our experts for a hands-on\, one-day workshop covering the full grant cycle — from finding funders to writing winning proposals.\n\n\nTaught by seasoned grant professionals Stacy Ehrlich\, CFRE and Amy Nunn with Seeds for Change Consulting\, Grants in a Day is a fast-paced\, practical workshop designed for nonprofit staff\, board members\, and aspiring grant writers.  \nIn just one day\, you’ll explore the full grant lifecycle—from identifying funders and crafting compelling proposals to understanding reporting requirements and building a sustainable grants pipeline.  \nWith real-life examples\, hands-on guidance\, and time for discussion\, this session will leave you with tools\, templates\, and confidence to move your grant strategy forward.
URL:https://nonprofitaustin.org/event/grants-in-a-day-from-prospecting-to-proposal/
LOCATION:5930 Middle Fiskville Rd\, 5930 Middle Fiskville Road\, Austin\, TX\, 78752\, United States
CATEGORIES:Financial Resource Development and Management
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