ISU Extension & Outreach has partnered with United Ways of Story and Marshall County to present a Nonprofit Management Workshop Series to enhance your nonprofit knowledge and skills. We invite nonprofit managers, employees, volunteers and board members to attend.
‘The Dating Game: Fundamentals of Grant Development’ will be held Thursday, June 18 at the Fisher Community Center, 709 South Center Street, Marshalltown.
No, Chuck Woolery won’t be hosting this session but many of his techniques in matchmaking could be useful in your search for the perfect match for funding. Do you currently want to write a grant or have you written one that was not funded? Knowing the systematic steps to formulating a grant application and how to build appropriate relationships with your potential funders is essential! Join our presenter, Sue McEntee as she outlines the seven most important strategies for writing and submitting proposals, introduces you to a resource that can make your search for funders exciting and less stressful and helps you better understand the “courtship” of potential funders.
Sue McEntee, BA, MPA has over 30 years of management and fundraising experience. Sue has worked in various capacities including Director of Food and Nutrition, Administrator for the Human Gene Therapy Institute and Director of Development in health care. Beyond that she has served as Director of Development for a church and school and as Assistant to the President at a major University. She has successfully conducted donor development plans, served as construction manager, assisted with board recruitment and retention, strategic annual fundraising programs, written and received grants and assisted in the start-up of volunteer organizations. She serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Charitable Giving Resource Center. Sue has experience in securing major gifts, annual giving, grant research and writing, managing donor prospect pools and overseeing donor recognition activities. She has applied her extensive skills in a variety of venues including Iowa Health System, Sacred Heart Parish, Drake University and dozens of nonprofits as a consultant. Sue’s affiliations have included AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals); MIPGC (Mid Iowa Planned Giving Council); CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education); as well as serving as a board member to membership and philanthropic non-profit organizations.
The remaining two sessions of the Nonprofit Management Workshop Series will be ‘Four Steps to Program Impact’ on August 27 and ‘The Eight Essential Functions of the Board of Directors’ on October 22.
Sessions will open with registration at 8:30 a.m., sessions start at 9 a.m. and run until noon. The August and October sessions will be held at the Marshall County Extension office, 2608 South 2nd Street, Marshalltown. All sessions are $25 and include refreshments. Registration must be received no less than one week prior to class. Payments may be mailed to: Marshall County Extension, 2608 South 2nd Street, Marshalltown, IA 50158.
For questions regarding the Nonprofit Management Workshop Series, call Amy Pieper, 641-752-1551 or email at apieper@iastate.edu.