August 2019

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Date: August 27, 2019
Topic: How Nonprofits Can Connect With Schools
Description: Vitalyst Health Foundation and School Connect partnered to hold this TAP Talk.
There are many organizations who serve schools in many ways, yet knowing how best to engage with schools and districts can be difficult. School Connect, an organization that helps build partnerships by engaging communities and collaborating with community partners to support local schools, hosted this talk.  In this fun and inspiring TAP Talk, attendees learned School Connect’s model of networking, training, and coaching community partners to build strong, sustainable relationships. A topic covered based on feedback directly from Vitalyst partners, attendees learned best practices as community partners to strategize a collaborative plan with school principals and staff for schools’ successes.

Materials:

• Click here to access a download link to the PowerPoint presentation used during the Talk.
• If you would like your organization to be listed on the School Connect Partner Map, please fill out your contact/org info through this form.
• If you’d like to participate in Love Our Schools Day events (these are happening every Sat in different district between Sept. 28-Oct. 26)
• The Project Site can be accessed here (The projects for this year’s LOSD are not listed yet, but this is where they will be listed).
• The 2019 Schedule will continue to be updated and is listed here.
• School Connect also mentioned district events & CAFEs… these are happening all the time, some of the upcoming events we know about are:
  • September 10th Peoria Interfaith Meeting
  • September 12th Cave Creek Café
  • September 19th Queen Creek Café
  • September 19th Deer Valley Business & Community Partner Meeting
  • September 26th Littleton Café
  • October 17th Humboldt Café
  • November 21st Deer Valley Café
  • February 27th Deer Valley Business & Community Partner Meeting

(School Connect recommends calling the District Office to find out how to RSVP to the above listed events.)

 

Date: August 21-22, 2019
Topic: 2019 Annual Nonprofit Conference-ENGAGE

Conference  Materials:   

Link Resource Guide Day 1

Link Resource Guide Day 2

July 2019

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Topic: Using Excel for Nonprofit Grants Budgeting
Description: Join our own Roy Pringle, Chief Operating Officer at Vitalyst, as he walks through how to plan a nonprofit budget with Excel. During this interactive workshop, attendees were able to learn: 

• How to create a cash flow statement
• Build a budget for grants
• Turn a budget narrative into an Excel budget

Materials: Sample Grants Budget Example & Sample Grants Budget Template

For additional materials, please contact David Martinez III.

March 2019

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Topic: Collaborating for Impact: How Coalitions Can Drive Transformational Change
Description: You work every day on some of the most daunting challenges your communities face. At the same time, you may question whether today’s strategies can create lasting, significant change. Why do some social change efforts achieve transformational results, truly improving population-level outcomes and changing systems, while others only make incremental progress? During this forum, attendees were able to:

• Build deeper understanding about how coalitions can make transformational change and inspire leaders to take action.
• Hear about local experiences of transformational results that demonstrated this type of change.
• Apply the concepts learned during the forum to their own current coalition work.

Materials:

• Click here for the Prezi used during this forum.
• Information on the Social Transformation Lifecycle can be found here.
• The planning worksheets used during the forum can be found here.
• Coalition panel participant information can be found here.