You’re invited to attend a Sims & Steele presentation
See our schedule below and contact info@simsandsteele.com to reserve your space.

03/27 10:30am-12:00pm Tracy Kunkler Fundraising Strategies 2012 S.C. Obesity Prevention Summit
06/20 12:00pm-1:30pm Wilson Sims Trends in Annual Giving WNC AFP Luncheon

Build the skills of your organization 
Sims & Steele offers workshops on the following subjects, and we will tailor a curriculum to meet your needs. Contact info@simsandsteele.com to schedule your one hour, two hour, half day or full day workshop.

 

Fundraising

  • More than Numbers – Tracking Results to Make Your Case

    • Capital Campaigns

  • Making Your Case: How to Best Articulate the Central Vision of Your Organization and its Capital Fundraising Needs
  • The Added Value of Feasibility/Campaign Planning Studies
  • Campaign Preparedness: How to Plan a Successful Capital Campaign
  • 21 Steps from Strategic Planning through a Successful Campaign
  • Cultivating and Making the Major Gift Ask

    • Grantwriting

  • Getting Ready for Grant Writing
  • Writing Effective Foundation Grant Proposals
  • Grant Research: Finding and Cultivating Grant-Makers

    • Annual Funding

  • Annual Giving in a Challenging Economy
  • Essential Elements of a Successful Annual Campaign
  • Writing Your Development Plan
  • Effectively Using Fundraising Volunteers

Board Development

  • Best Practices for Governance
  • Recruiting the Board You Deserve
  • High Performing Boards
  • Dynamic Governance: Decentralized, Empowering, Resilient, Effective, Efficient, and
    Adaptive
  • Save Us From Inefficient Consensus Decision-Making! The New Paradigm of Consent

Organizational Development

  • Help, I’m a Non-Profit Executive!
  • Executive Leadership- Keys to Staying in Front of the Pack
  • Knowing Your Organization: Where Is It Now and Where Is It Headed?
  • Community Assessment: Tools to Stay Relevant
  • How Non-Profits Collaborate and Adapt in a Changing World
  • Organizational Sustainability
  • Defining and Tracking Meaningful Results

Strategic Planning

  • Strategic Planning
  • Strategic Positioning
  • Non-profit Start-ups: Doing it Right the First Time