Educating Ourselves To Expand Opportunities
Optimists often argue that a recession might move many out of work, but that time can be used advantageously by investing in some education and training in new skills. Certainly the present economic environment offers (too) many the opportunity to get trained for new work or to expand networks within their chosen fields. So let’s get a head start on the recovery by looking at a couple of seminars and networking events that have come to our attention. If folks get involved in similar such events in their own localities, we might find that we have all given the economy a decent push to start the recovery we’re training for…
The Foundation Center
hosts a number of interesting seminars this month
The Foundation Center is sponsoring a number of upcoming seminars geared to help nonprofits expand opportunities in a shrinking economy. On March 24th in New York, the center is hosting a seminar on Proposal Writing from 9:am to 4:pm. The focus is on “every grantseeker who wants to learn how to write proposals geared to foundations, and for experienced grantseekers who are initiating a foundation fundraising campaign.” The $195 registration fee includes a free copy of The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, 5th Edition (a $39.95 value).
The same Foundation Center is also hosting a “Proposal Budgeting Workshop” in Boston the next day (also 9:am-4:pm). What says ‘springtime’ more than a New York/Boston doubleheader?! The mission statement for the workshop says it all: “A sound, well-organized budget can help convince prospective funders that your project is worthy of their financial investment. This course will teach you to build a budget, step by step, to provide a complete picture of your financial needs. Using real-world case studies, you will learn to think more strategically to strengthen your budget presentation.” Registration is again $195, but the Foundation Center sponsors numerous such events, and discounts can be had for signing up for a series of workshops and/or for signing up more than one person from an organization.
To return to the Baltimore home of MKCREATIVE Design, the B2B Group is hosting the Mid-Atlantic Green Business Forum on 26 March in Baltimore. Will Philips, manager at Under Armour of Maryland, is a guest speaker, as is Marty Metro, CEO of usedcardboardboxes.com. Their ‘in-the-trenches’ perspectives will help us put all our ideas from the two days in NY and Bean Town into productive practice. Do not let slip these great opportunities: the recession will end, and those who built on their resumes in the intrim will be the ones who move up first and farthest on the next business cycle.
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Written by: Christopher Gardner, PhD