This session will ask participants to examine ways in which EDs can promote joy, rest, replenishment, and inspiration within their organizations as a sustained practice during and beyond these difficult times. Participants will both exchange lessons learned and be introduced to key effective practices. In this final session, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on the series as a whole and consider what next steps they would like to take as individuals and as a group.

Facilitators: Yoojin Lee, Daniel Lim

Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Executive Directors Learning Circle cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

At work, we often concentrate on external communications and forget the importance of communicating effectively with our colleagues. Effective communication is important to both personal and team success. Whether it’s negotiating with upper management, facilitating a team project or persuading a customer, the outcomes often rely on the ability to communicate well.

Communicating effectively as a team is also critical. Each interaction is an opportunity for building relationships. Getting your message across in a way that is clear and coherent is a critical skill in your professional and personal life.

Learn to be a better communicator by exploring the communication process and how different communication styles affect your personal style. By attending this workshop, you will learn:

• How to make every interaction into one that builds key relationships

• Essential tools to problem solve issues together

• How to manage conflict with others

• Nonverbal communication techniques involving presence, body language, and delivery

Instructor: Ivy Fairchild, Chief  Development Officer, Hispanic Federation

Registration Link: TBD

This session will introduce participants to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access as vital concepts in understanding, engaging, supporting, and caring for staff and community.

Participants will be presented with several tools to help them care for themselves and recognize and prevent burn-out, especially as they try to support and care for staff and community during this time.

Instructor: Community Resource Exchange

Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Leaders in Training cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

How can you harness the power of storytelling to grow your digital audience, to turn them into supporters, and even build your list of donors? In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn basic storytelling techniques and how to create strategic communications that can turn empathy into action to advance your mission using popular social media platforms. We will:

• Review basics of big three social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

• Review case studies that feature different types of digital stories

• Learn storytelling fundamentals like structure, conflict, and resolution

• How to use an event as a hook for telling stories

• Develop a story on-site about the workshop using one of the three social media platforms to present at end of the day

Instructor: David Castillo, Digital Director, Hispanic Federation

Registration Link: TBD

This session will create an opportunity for participants to

examine how anti-Black racism shows up in their organizations (at the personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels) and systems their organizations connect with. Participants will explore strategies for dismantling anti-Black racism and identify supports they will need.

Facilitators: Yoojin Lee, Daniel Lim

Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Executive Directors Learning Circle cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

This workshop is targeted to all levels of staff and is aimed at using practical tools for enhancing your personal emotional wellbeing and the overall wellbeing of the staff members during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. Participants will:

• Understand how the rising staff anxiety as a result of COVID-19 impacts emotional wellbeing

• Explore the impact of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma on emotional wellbeing

• Leave the webinar with concrete tools for enhancing self and staff emotional wellbeing during a crisis

• Complete self/collective (team) care plans to support emotional wellbeing

• Learn tips for creating a culture of care virtually and during the on-site re-opening phase.

Instructor: Rich Rivera, Renew & Redesign Consulting & Charlotte Gossett Navarro, Hispanic Federation

 Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tQp1iFLuQ0uJ8n52a3t6Ig

This session will focus on the role that participants have in building and supporting a team of staff. Participants will be introduced to the three dimensions of success – results, process, and relationships – and their importance in developing and managing a team. Participants will get an opportunity to explore how these concepts can apply to their teams through an interactive exercise. This session may also touch upon how to prevent – and intervene, as needed – common team dysfunctions.

Instructor: Community Resource Exchange

Virtual session on Zoom 

Requirement: Must be part of the Leaders in Training cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

This workshop will teach development strategies for nonprofit organizations with a small development office or no paid fundraising staff.

In this workshop, we will explore:

• How to develop an action plan;

• Techniques for asking for gifts in smarter, more efficient ways;

• Basics of event planning, personal solicitation, bulk mail, and grant writing; and

• How to identify new prospects for your organization.

Facilitator: TBD

Registration Link: TBD

This workshop will explore what it takes to expand and sustain a blend of support from individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Learn about the infrastructure they’ll need for success;

• Address a variety of fundraising techniques, including direct marketing, online fundraising, social media, and special events;

• Discuss your current development efforts with colleagues and fundraising experts;

• Discover strategies for expanding their development efforts in viable ways, with a list of resources for the future.

Facilitator: TBD

Registration Link: TBD

This workshop is focused on supporting organizations with limited administrative bandwidth seeking to manage the efficiency of their office while carrying out their mission during these difficult times. Participants will explore strategies that will help them plan and navigate the tough decisions that will need to be made in order to move forward.

This webinar will discuss:

• Employee safety considerations while transitioning back to the office

• Furloughs and layoffs

• Internal employee communications and best practices while working remotely

• Managing employee/employer expectations and staff workloads

• Hiring and virtual onboarding

Instructor: Aquila Leon-Soon, Chief Executive Officer at ATS+Partners

Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WIR_YsAxSkmcDM7_KMMk5g

Using a popular education approach, this session will allow participants to draw upon their experiences and wisdom to generate effective practices for collaboration across organizations. The group will consider the needs of communities of color during the current context and where collaboration across organizations may better meet those needs. The session will include peer consulting time and an opportunity for participants to schedule follow-up one-on-ones before the next session to explore partnerships.

Facilitators: Yoojin Lee, Daniel Lim

 Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Executive Directors Learning Circle cohort to participate

Contact:juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

This workshop is for anyone who needs to understand the language of accounting and have a basic ability to interpret financial information. You will be provided with an understanding of basic concepts and terminology used in financial statements, as well as commonly used tools for analyzing them.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Learn how to read nonprofit financial statements and understand financial terms;

• Learn how to meet financial commitments; and

• Learn about the “red flags” to watch out for on financial statements

Facilitator: TBD

Registration Link: TBD

This workshop will teach the best accounting, financial, and forecasting practices that will lay out a clear path so that you know exactly what is next, since the numbers do not lie.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Learn how to organize and manage financial documents throughout the year;

• Understand how to create and analyze meaningful financial reports, projections, and ratios that help you make sound decisions and predict the future; and

• Learn how to create sound budgets based on reasonable assumptions and in alignment with your business plans.

Facilitator: TBD

Registration Link: TBD

This session will provide participants with a simple framework for providing feedback to staff, especially in situations that might involve difficult discussions. Participants will also explore the role they have in working with their executive directors or supervisors. By the end of the session, participants will understand how to “manage up” and clarify what they need from their supervisors to be successful.

Instructor: Community Resource Exchange

Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Leaders in Training cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

During these times of uncertainty and turbulence, organizations, supervisors, and managers are seeking new ways to plan activities and lead employees through these difficult and uncertain times. In this workshop, supervisors, leaders, and managers at all levels will:

• Learn and practice and apply real-time strategies for leading in uncertain and complex times

• Participate in interactive exercises that lead to peer-to-peer collective wisdom

• Craft “first action steps” for addressing change, uncertainty, or crisis at work

Instructor: Rich Rivera, Renew & Redesign Consulting

Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TeS7yt12QPuecMMYa5LjLw

This session will focus on examining the unique characteristics, threats, opportunities, and effective practices for nonprofit fundraising in the current context. The session design will be highly interactive and provide an opportunity for participants to apply suggested practices to their organizational context, with a particular focus on collaborative fundraising and mutual aid as viable strategies not just during a pandemic but also in the long-term.

Facilitators: Yoojin Lee, Daniel Lim

Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Executive Directors Learning Circle cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

Session II will explore tools and monitoring methods that include:

• How to create a matrix map

• Dashboards

• When demands exceed cash available: triage!

• Working with your key partner: “The Board”

Instructor: Ben Rodriguez, Consultants Just for You 

Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jp06VcGRR-GayswInmSfGQ

This webinar will provide helpful information and resources on how to assess your organization’s finances and utilize tools to assist your organization’s leadership in difficult decisions.   

Session I will explore tools and monitoring methods that include:

• Key financial reports to use to assess your financial position

• Recasting budgets and cash flows

• Building cash during these times

• Actions to take as revenue and cash flows are under threat

Instructor: Ben Rodriguez, Consultants Just for You

Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jp06VcGRR-GayswInmSfGQ

This session will introduce participants to a supervision model that focuses on the three main roles that managers play: guiding, supporting, and advocating. Participants will explore each of these roles and the tools to help them embrace the different dimensions of being an effective manager.

Instructor: Community Resource Exchange

Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Leaders in Training cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

When we plan, most of us start by trying to explain the what and the how. Rarely do we start our thought process by asking ourselves WHY. As a leader, your personal WHY can help drive your organizational WHY. Having and being in touch with a personal mission makes it easier for us to make choices that will move us along our own desired path in life.

This workshop will help you:

• Define your WHY

• Develop your personal mission statement to help frame your direction for change

• Answer the questions, “Why should I do this? Where do I want to go? And who do I want to be when I get there?"

Instructor: Ivy Fairchild, Chief Financial Officer at Hispanic Federation

Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tc5w8zWbQja-ppI3qqF4lA

This workshop will review key strategies around recruitment and board member retention. It will deconstruct the process needed to build an effective leadership team that can work together to fulfill a collective set of responsibilities and help the nonprofit achieve its mission.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Discuss the strengths and deficits in its current board;

• Develop strategies to engage in a healthy dialogue about recruiting new members;

• Identify tactics for the recruitment process; and

• Discuss the steps required to quickly orient and engage new board members.

Facilitator: TBD

Registration Link: TBD

This session will focus on honing participants’ operational and emotional skills in leading their staff and community through a crisis period. The session will facilitate thinking about grief and healing as an important part of leadership. Facilitators will lead a process during which participants will have space to share about losses since the pandemic began and reflect on how their view of leadership has changed over this period and what type of leadership they are needing and valuing. Participants will engage in a peer consulting activity to workshop a challenge together.

Facilitators: Yoojin Lee, Daniel Lim

Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Executive Directors Learning Circle cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

Join us for an advocacy training that will help your team plan ahead and think through advocacy work to empower and advance your clients, members and community. During this interactive training, you will:

• Learn about power analysis and how it is used to identify key decision-makers who have power over specific issues;

• Map stakeholder relationships and identify possible channels of influence, as well as risks of conflict; and

• Build a shared understanding of how power works on specific advocacy issues.

Instructor: Jessica Orozco-Guttlein, Hispanic Federation

 Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GPYCPB9iRV6MM0sdRNvyIQ

This session will focus on understanding impactful leadership and the management skills necessary to be successful, including when to step in and when to step back. This session will also introduce the importance of self-care as part of being an impactful leader, especially during these stressful times.

Instructor: Community Resource Exchange

Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Leaders in Training cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

Join us for a morning session on grant writing. This workshop will cover the basic elements of a proposal, the do's and don'ts of writing and submitting, and following up on a successful or unsuccessful result. Let's take a close look at the craft of writing a proposal, how to tell your organization's story, and how to make your project come alive on the page. We will:

• Review traditional questions asked in proposals

• How to write a compelling statement of need

• Tools to help you facilitate writing

• Deadlines: friend or foe?

• Writer's Block? Never heard of it

Instructor: Juanita Lara

Webinar on Zoom

Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4yWS29DgSkujJbZpZcj_4A

This program is based on the principle that using new media tactics such as email, social media, and social action technology effectively is key to an organization’s success both on and offline. New Media Mentors’ “learning by doing” model ensures the adoption of new knowledge and skills. In this workshop, we will:

• Develop a strategy to ensure that your digital work is aligned with your organization’s goal.

• Be accountable to executives and tell the story of your work in a way that resonates with them

• Learn the structure of online fundraising campaigns

• Do a group activity evaluating fundraising emails

• Learn about online fundraising platforms

Instructor: Elana Levin, Program Director at New Media Mentors and Director of Trainings at Netroots Nation

Webinar on Zoom

Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HQWnfTo5SsauD6knD1J7gw

Establishing, evaluating and maintaining government contracts can be a challenge within the complex and comprehensive focus of a nonprofit’s mission, yet they are the lifeline of your organization and require your best.

For that reason, this contract management workshop is designed to blend current best practices with real-life perspectives that allow you to assess, manage, and solve complex challenges that may arise in all phasesof the contract life cycle for successful project outcomes.  

• Creating a culture of leadership throughout your department/organization

• Enhancing employee initiative/productivity via engagement strategies

• Leveraging the emotional intelligence of employees towards greater productivity

Instructor: Bernando Velez

Webinar on Zoom

 Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fzSKCjWfSPekZ_x6M3BP1Q

This kick-off session will focus on creating a space of trust and openness among participants and allowing them to co-create the group culture to optimize support and learning during and beyond the duration of the program. Participants will engage in relationship-building activities and be invited to share honestly about the current challenges of being in the ED role. In addition, they will consider and prioritize learning topics for subsequent sessions.

Facilitators: Yoojin Lee, Daniel Lim

 Virtual session on Zoom

Requirement: Must be part of the Executive Directors Learning Circle cohort to participate

Contact: juohsi.peng@aafederation.org

As part of our CCNSF Capacity Building workshop series, participants will learn the intricacies of applying for City discretionary funding within the context of the City funding complex.

Instructors: Vanessa Leung, Joyce Ma,  Lakshmi Sanmuganathan

Webinar on Zoom

Registration Link: https://bit.ly/DF22CACF