1) The document discusses funding challenges for social organizations, including time lags in public funding, varied support from corporations and trusts, and the increasing importance of earned income, pro bono support, and partnerships.
2) It emphasizes the importance of an organization's mission in guiding decisions and attracting funding, exploring ways to measure social impact. Organizations are advised to remain adaptable.
3) Partnerships are discussed as a key strategy for accessing funding and mitigating risk. A continuum of partnership types is presented, from simple cooperation to fully integrated mergers. Questions to consider with partnerships include goals, appropriate structure, and partner roles.
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars
Martin Leifeld will focus upon a philosophy and twelve foundational principles upon which fundraising activities should occur.
introduction to the basics of Fundraising
What are the types of funds? What are the sources of fund? Who needs fund?
How to write a proposal?
And everything you need to know about funds & fundraising.
MPWS Building a Culture of Philanthropy Training for FundraisersMatthew Wasserman
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When development operations are out of sync with the rest of the organization, fundraising can be even more challenging. However, when members of your organization understand and embrace your development work, you can better engage more donors and your whole organization benefits.
This training focuses on bringing your colleagues from other departments into fundraising and creating collaboration in your efforts by breaking down silos and building bridges for your colleagues to cross into the realm of philanthropy.
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars
Martin Leifeld will focus upon a philosophy and twelve foundational principles upon which fundraising activities should occur.
introduction to the basics of Fundraising
What are the types of funds? What are the sources of fund? Who needs fund?
How to write a proposal?
And everything you need to know about funds & fundraising.
MPWS Building a Culture of Philanthropy Training for FundraisersMatthew Wasserman
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When development operations are out of sync with the rest of the organization, fundraising can be even more challenging. However, when members of your organization understand and embrace your development work, you can better engage more donors and your whole organization benefits.
This training focuses on bringing your colleagues from other departments into fundraising and creating collaboration in your efforts by breaking down silos and building bridges for your colleagues to cross into the realm of philanthropy.
What rewards and pledges should I choose for my crowdfunding supporters?Anthony de Souza
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This presentation is part of a series that answers the most frequently asked questions about crowdfunding. This one looks at the different types of rewards you should look at when putting a crowdfunding campaign together.
How to Plan Your Fundraising When Your Nonprofit is New and the World is in C...Bloomerang
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Sandy Rees will show you how to plan a year’s worth of diverse funding streams to support your growing nonprofit.
COVID-19 Funding Strategies: Tapping Foundation SupportBloomerang
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https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Margy-Ruth and Perry Davis will help you understand how to tap into the world of foundations during this crucial time.
CEOs and boards of non-profit organisations can add great value to the fundraising process but many are unsure what their role is and how to get started.
These slides which follow show some of the messages we use in our seminars with CEOs and Boards.
Sponsorships Made Simple: Secrets to Improving Your Fundraising SuccessKate Alvarado
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Sponsorships Made Simple: Secrets to Improving Your Fundraising Success
Creating Meaningful Relationships to Create More Mission
PRSA Presentation: May 23, 2012
HCF Training - Building Sustainability Workshop covers:
Why do we need to plan?
• Fundraising methods
• Understanding the funder
• How HCF Training and Development can help you
Volunteer fundraising – how you can get involved. Sara Wilcox, Volunteer Fundraising Manager, and Anna Roberts,
Volunteer Fundraising Manager, talk about fundraising at the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign National Conference 2011.
A presentation series answering the most frequently asked questions about crowdfunding. This one covers the four main types of crowdfunding you need to cnsider.
Presentation used in November 2015 about Foundation Grants in conjunction with Washington Women's Foundation and United Way. View more at http://www.seattlefoundation.org
What rewards and pledges should I choose for my crowdfunding supporters?Anthony de Souza
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This presentation is part of a series that answers the most frequently asked questions about crowdfunding. This one looks at the different types of rewards you should look at when putting a crowdfunding campaign together.
How to Plan Your Fundraising When Your Nonprofit is New and the World is in C...Bloomerang
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https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Sandy Rees will show you how to plan a year’s worth of diverse funding streams to support your growing nonprofit.
COVID-19 Funding Strategies: Tapping Foundation SupportBloomerang
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https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Margy-Ruth and Perry Davis will help you understand how to tap into the world of foundations during this crucial time.
CEOs and boards of non-profit organisations can add great value to the fundraising process but many are unsure what their role is and how to get started.
These slides which follow show some of the messages we use in our seminars with CEOs and Boards.
Sponsorships Made Simple: Secrets to Improving Your Fundraising SuccessKate Alvarado
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Sponsorships Made Simple: Secrets to Improving Your Fundraising Success
Creating Meaningful Relationships to Create More Mission
PRSA Presentation: May 23, 2012
HCF Training - Building Sustainability Workshop covers:
Why do we need to plan?
• Fundraising methods
• Understanding the funder
• How HCF Training and Development can help you
Volunteer fundraising – how you can get involved. Sara Wilcox, Volunteer Fundraising Manager, and Anna Roberts,
Volunteer Fundraising Manager, talk about fundraising at the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign National Conference 2011.
A presentation series answering the most frequently asked questions about crowdfunding. This one covers the four main types of crowdfunding you need to cnsider.
Presentation used in November 2015 about Foundation Grants in conjunction with Washington Women's Foundation and United Way. View more at http://www.seattlefoundation.org
The Way to Futuristic, Restorative, Net Positive BusinessSustainable Brands
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These slides were presented at the Sustainable Brands London 2013 Conference, to view the associated video or listen to the audio of the presentation please visit www.sustainablebrands.com/digital_learning/behavior_change/way-futuristic-restorative-net-positive-business
This short module looks at the pricing model that allows customers to choose the price. It talks briefly about the advantages and disadvantages and lists some examples.
Reclaiming the Future: Lessons from Cuba and the 11th International Permacult...Adam Brock
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Adam Brock attended the 11th International Permaculture Convergence in Cuba from November 23rd to December 3rd, 2013. This slideshow contains highlights from his experience, interwoven with thoughts on how to apply lessons learned in Cuba to our own communities.
This lecture describes some of the theory associated with competition in platform businesses and then looks at several examples of competition involving free products.
Mark Shepard's presentation on Restoration Agriculture 101. For more information about restoration agriculture, broad acre permaculture, and keyline design, visit http://www.forestag.com/.
Permaculture Propaganda: A Crash Course in Marketing, Brand Development, Prod...DiegoFooter
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Want to make a living at permaculture?
We’ll teach you everything you need to know about the black art of marketing.
You’ll learn strategies, tactics, deep insights into consumer psychology, design deconstruction techniques, secrets, lies, and ways to manipulate the right people in the right ways. Marketing isn’t (necessarily) evil, and it’s not what you think it is.
In this 3-hour workshop that will definitely not put you to sleep, we’ll teach you how to use propaganda for good.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com.
A presentation on starting up and/or running your business in the lean times. Tips on personal branding, education, modeling, marketing and technology tools to help you stay under budget.
Fundraising Crash Course by Jeanne Minnicks surveys the strategies, goals, and relationships necessary for a successful development department.
For a Follow Up Whitepaper, Visit:
http://go.donorpro.com/5-modern-fundraising-strategies-nuture-prospects
An introduction to the acquisition and management of public funding. If you are a non-profit organization or a business and want to be successful with the acquisition of public funding, this is for you. If you have acquired public funding and want to manage it more effectively, this is a good starting point. If you have tried unsuccessfully to acquire public funding, this will ensure your success.
Chapter 14 of Permaculture, A Designer's Manual often gets short shrift or lost among all the focus on the technical perfecting of permaculture. At the We Are All Farmers Permaculture Institute we take the call to action for creating nodes of permanence and working to foster community very seriously. In short, though deep technical knowledge is necessary for permaculture technical practice, culture is not culture without people. The hard work of creating regenerative community is essential to providing a foundation for carrying permaculture practice forward. Moreover, how can people afford to continue permaculture practice? What level of responsibility do you have in your community? This presentation outlines lessons learned in the context of the American non-profit community and examines business models, structures, marketing, etc. essential for a non-profit, if non-profit supported permaculture is a model you wish to pursue.
For our NGOs and International Organizations to not only survive but thrive, we need to change the way we are funded and improve the way we work. We need to manage our organizations better, be more agile, and need to diversify funding to make them more robust.
In this webinar, we reflect on 10 years of transforming non-profits into agile and better-funded changemakers. We identify five essential attributes that have made some MzN partners successful and thrive through times of crisis. We look ahead to see what leaders can do now to create organizations that deliver profound impact and advance in a disrupted world.
Strategic Alliances for Non-Profits outlines key success factors when proposing a joint relationship with a Donor-Sponsor-Corporate Social Responsibility Partner. It identifies both the work it takes from the Outbound and Inbound side.
Thank you Geraldine Gatehouse for working with me on this great presentation
Today, your donors live in a world of personalized experiences. These daily experiences span fashion, fitness, entertainment, and shopping to news, travel, finance, and business. et, most nonprofits are still using fundraising tools and tactics that blast impersonal, mass messaging to 95% of donors and reserve personalized engagement for top givers. Why?
Here's what you’ll learn:
* How donor preferences are shifting and what this means for your nonprofit.
* How to identify key opportunities to tap into personalization in your donors’ journey.
* Four insight-driven engagement strategies you can use immediately to build more personalized relationships with your donors.
The Long Tail of Social Entrepreneurship aims to view the social entrepreneurship world through the lens of the long tail to provoke debate about how we might best scale up social impact, and in what way.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
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In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
5. 1) Time lag: takes time to filter through to frontline
2) Public sector: 20% cuts across the board?
3) Trusts & foundations: mixed messages
4) Corporates: varied picture
5) Earned income: ever more valuable
6) Pro-bono + in-kind: in plentiful supply
Fundraising: recession
6. 1. research: criteria, the grants / investments previously
given, the size of organisations they were given to
2. relationships: get time with individuals at a funding
organisation; seek ways in; never submit a blind
application without talking to someone
3. realism: about what you will get; about what you can
deliver (the old "underpromise, overdeliver" rule);
4. transparency: be honest and open in your dealings with
people; about promises; and about success (or lack of);
5. don't take it personally: not always about your bid
6. be "always on”: and don't put it all on one person
Fundraising: do the same
7. 1. value: communicating the added value / measuring your
social impact becomes more + more important; what will
make you stand out / make you credible?
2. flexible + adaptable: sustainability may depend on ability
to adapt: be open + creative in your thinking
3. partner: to access funding you couldn’t alone; to mitigate
the risk; to build working relationships
4. get stuff for free / cheaper: negotiate current deals;
utilise unused spaces; use pro-bono support etc etc.
Fundraising: do more
9. • Distinguishes social entrepreneurs in absence
of purely financial motive
• Crucial first step for planning / evaluating
• Communication to people (internal / external)
• Aid decision-making / avoid drift
Why does mission matter?
10. • Distinguishes social entrepreneurs in absence
of purely financial motive
• Crucial first step for planning / evaluating
• Communication to people (internal / external)
• Aid decision-making / avoid drift
Why does mission matter?
14. Partnership: key questions
• What is the purpose?
• What form should it take?
• Are the shared aims realistic?
• Who should be involved?
• How formal should it be?
• (Consortia? Sub-contracts?)
15. Partnership continuum
cooperation coordination mergercollaboration
Typesofactivity
moreless
complexity and intensity
Sharing info
for mutual
benefit
Referrals
Informal
support
Separate
goals,
resources,
structures
16. Partnership continuum
cooperation coordination mergercollaboration
Typesofactivity
moreless
complexity and intensity
Sharing info
for mutual
benefit
Referrals
Informal
support
Separate
goals,
resources,
structures
Event / short-
term project
Some
planning/
division of
roles
Some shared
resources,
risks & reward
Individual
identities
maintained
17. Partnership continuum
cooperation coordination mergercollaboration
Typesofactivity
moreless
complexity and intensity
Sharing info
for mutual
benefit
Referrals
Informal
support
Separate
goals,
resources,
structures
Event / short-
term project
Some
planning/
division of
roles
Some shared
resources,
risks & reward
Individual
identities
maintained
New structure
with common
goals
All partners
contribute
resources +
gain rewards
Longer
commitment +
durable
partnerships
18. Partnership continuum
cooperation coordination mergercollaboration
Typesofactivity
moreless
complexity and intensity
Sharing info
for mutual
benefit
Referrals
Informal
support
Separate
goals,
resources,
structures
Event / short-
term project
Some
planning/
division of
roles
Some shared
resources,
risks & reward
Individual
identities
maintained
New structure
with common
goals
All partners
contribute
resources +
gain rewards
Longer
commitment +
durable
partnerships
Most complex
Complete
integration
Most difficult
to achieve
Least
common
Multiple
variables
- research: the criteria, the grants / investments previously given, the size of organisations they were given to (to help gauge what you should go for)
- relationships: use the "could you spare me 15 minutes of your time?" rule to get time with individuals at a funding organisation: the higher-up the better, but all staff can give you a feel for the culture / approach; nurture the relationships, and keep them up-to-date with progress; seek ways in; never submit a blind application without talking to someone
- realism: about what you will get; about what you can deliver (the old "underpromise, overdeliver" rule); about the challenges you face; about the mission-money decisions (particularly in current climate)
- transparency: (if only it began with 'R') be honest and open in your dealings with people; about your promises; and about the success (or lack of) of your projects; transparent reporting and accountability builds trust, and trust builds credibility...and credibility leads to more funding...
I'd add a couple of things to that (Tokunbo had more as well): one is don't take it personally, or think it's (necessarily) about the quality of the funding bid / project. It can be about the level of competition, very subjective trustee opinions or bad timing as much as about what you have written / your idea. The other thing is to be "always on" and don't silo fundraising into one person: everyone in the organisation can spot opportunities, build relationships and develop networks.
- research: the criteria, the grants / investments previously given, the size of organisations they were given to (to help gauge what you should go for)
- relationships: use the "could you spare me 15 minutes of your time?" rule to get time with individuals at a funding organisation: the higher-up the better, but all staff can give you a feel for the culture / approach; nurture the relationships, and keep them up-to-date with progress; seek ways in; never submit a blind application without talking to someone
- realism: about what you will get; about what you can deliver (the old "underpromise, overdeliver" rule); about the challenges you face; about the mission-money decisions (particularly in current climate)
- transparency: (if only it began with 'R') be honest and open in your dealings with people; about your promises; and about the success (or lack of) of your projects; transparent reporting and accountability builds trust, and trust builds credibility...and credibility leads to more funding...
I'd add a couple of things to that (Tokunbo had more as well): one is don't take it personally, or think it's (necessarily) about the quality of the funding bid / project. It can be about the level of competition, very subjective trustee opinions or bad timing as much as about what you have written / your idea. The other thing is to be "always on" and don't silo fundraising into one person: everyone in the organisation can spot opportunities, build relationships and develop networks.
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PURPOSE
what are you hoping to achieve?
who proposed the idea? (vested interest)
does it fit with mission, vision, values, strategy etc?
will it add value / bring benefits?
FORM FOLLOW FUNCTION
Driven by what you’re trying to do / activity (see next slide)
Who to lead?
REALISTIC?
Often partnerships are too ambitious / too much of a rush to deliver
Are verbal commitments above and beyond what is possible?
INVOLVE RIGHT PEOPLE
Right skills / qualities
Trust / relationships
Similar culture / size / experience? (culture clash is most common barrier)
WRITING
Particularly re. Roles, responsibilities, reporting, conflict resolution etc
And money! How formal (letter, MOU, SLA etc…)
The spirit of partnership is not a substitute for accountability
Don’t overcomplicate