Annual Meeting and Breakfast

Note: Annual Meeting open to current Women's Alliance members only

Finding the Treasure:  Fundraising Beyond the Foundation Model

Presenter:  Laura Otten, Director, The Nonprofit Center at LaSalle University

As your organization grows, so does “funder fatigue” and foundations continue to see decreasing resources to fund more nonprofit organizations.  What does an organization do?  We will set the stage for how your organization can think strategically about fundraising from partnership with individuals and corporations to raising the profile of your mission through profit-driven events.

Building Talent:  Build on Strengths Personally and When Engaging Volunteers

Presenter:  Lynda-Ross Vega, Partner, Vega Behavioral Consulting

Learn practical ways to capitalize on your natural strength when matching volunteers to tasks or helping someone apply to work. 3 tips that take awareness and no money!

Corporate Sponsorship Keynote Luncheon:  Beyond Gold, Silver & Bronze: The Treasures of More Powerful Corporate Sponsorships

Presenter:  Gail Bower, Bower & Co., Marketing & Sponsorship Specialist

Corporate sponsorship is a marketing vehicle that fosters a face-to-face experience between a business and the audiences drawn together by a cause, passion, or purpose. It’s a connection and exchange of value that also yields significant business results for you and your partner.

Don’t miss this luncheon presentation with marketing and corporate sponsorship specialist Gail Bower to learn the secrets to making your sponsorship program a constantly renewable resource for your organization. Gail will show you how to expand beyond the generic gold, silver, bronze packages and re-imagine more powerful partnerships.

You’ll learn:

• What today’s economic climate means for sponsorship.
• The impact for your organization.
• What best practice marketing-driven corporate sponsorship looks like.
• Why sponsorship is an excellent strategy in our media-saturated marketplace.
• 3 ways to improve your partnerships immediately.

Individual Fundraising Panel

Presenter(s):  Renata Singer, Fitted for Work (Australia)

Molly McAndrew, Career Wardrobe (PA

Individuals give personally or are responsible for the decision making that drives nearly 100% of the philanthropic dollars given away each year.  How does your organization determine how to best approach and ask individuals to support your cause?  Hear from member organizations who have had success in this arena.

High Impact, Low Cost:  Marketing through Social Media

Presenter:  Paige Wolf, Paige Wolf Media and PR (Career Wardrobe)

Traditional promotion and marketing is quickly becoming a thing of the past.  In this session, learn how to adapt to use social media to control your promotion and message.  Also learn how to pitch to this new generation of media – bloggers and online journalists working in a world of instant accessibility and gratification.

Shopping and Dinner Reception @ The Wardrobe Boutique

Breakfast Keynote:  What’s Next for Your Program?

Presenter:  Ana Lisa Yoder, The Philadelphia Foundation

In the midst of a struggling economy and dwindling resources for programs that provide safety net services, building strong systems within your organization is more important than ever.  Nonprofits with strong leadership, management, operational, and adaptive systems are more likely to thrive and be able to deliver effectively on their missions.  Strength in each of those areas will vary depending on the size and developmental stage of your organization.  From both a funder and a provider perspective, the speaker will share stories about how organizations have developed and enhanced their ability to deliver on their mission. 

Program Outcomes:  Small Investment for Big Returns!

Presenters:  Sheri Cole (Career Wardrobe)

You might have the best program in your city, state or country but without the numbers to show the outcomes of your work, you will have difficulty attracting supporters and making the case for continued growth.  See how Career Wardrobe is using outcomes measures to make the case for increased funding and have saved their program from funding cuts – without adding a lot of time or money to their budget!

Program Support:  Why Stop at “Just Clothes”?

Presenters:  Caitlin Day – Career Wardrobe (Philadelphia, PA)

Patrycja Warda, & Kendall Farrell – Bottomless Closet (NYC)

Sharon Flynn – Suited for Change (Washington DC)

Trina Fleming - WHW/M2W (Santa Ana, CA)

Learn from member agencies who have expanded their programs beyond providing professional clothing for women, while staying true to their mission and providing complimentary services. 

• Career Wardrobe:  Style Me Hired Makeover Show for 100 women in a day
• Bottomless Closet:  Discussing the development and growth of their Program Curriculum
• Suited for Change:  Pathways to Employment soft skills workshop series
• Women Helping Women:  Project Interview, a contest that takes a job search training program into a real world setting.

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