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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and your support is crucial now more than ever. Every day 43 children are diagnosed with childhood cancer throughout the United States. Your donation of $43 to Mitchell Thorp Foundation (MTF) will support our important mission as we support families whose children are diagnosed with cancer. In return you will receive our MTF hat and gold ribbon.

Please join our “Go Gold” Campaign, which ensures that nothing will interrupt our work of paying families’ bills, keeping food on their tables, and a roof over their heads for families tackling childhood cancer. Purchase your “Go Gold” merchandise today and join our campaign. Help us shed a bright light for childhood cancer awareness. The GOLD BOWS & HATS that are purchased are a 100% tax deductible contribution to Mitchell Thorp Foundation.

Pick up merchandise on Tuesday, September 15th from 3 pm – 7 pm at Tin Leaf Restaurant at 6965 El Camino Real, Suite 108, Carlsbad, CA 92009. Tin Leaf will be offering special promotions.

If you can’t pick up, we can ship the hat to you with a shipping & handling fee

5k Paw Walk in the Garden

Until seven years ago there had NEVER been a dog allowed in the San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) in Encinitas. Then came the first-ever 5K Paw Walk in the Garden benefiting your Rancho Coastal Humane Society and SDBG. More than 350 people with dogs put their best paws forward to support these two landmark organizations. We hope you will join us for the 8th Annual on Saturday, February 15, 2020!

TEAM PRAVA January Contractor Beer Social Sponsored by Neal Electric

Join TEAM PRAVA as we head to Kensington THIS Thursday for our first Contractor Beer Social of 2020! We will be supporting Warrior Foundation: Freedom Station by collecting items from their Wish List. There will be several different industries attending this event, so there will be a little something for everyone. This is a casual event based on creating relationships with our peers. Guests are welcome!

Approaching Donors with a Digital Twist! Workshop by Sanford Institute of Philanthropy

Join Sanford Institute of Philanthropy at National University for our workshop and open house! Network with your peers,improve your digital fundraising skills, and learn more about Fundraising Academy Accelerate.

In today’s giving landscape, merely increasing your social media presence by no means guarantees increased giving.Learn tips to maximize the reach and effectiveness of LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to boost pre-approach efforts beyond your friends, networks, and followers.

YOU WILL LEARN:

* What Pre-Approach means and the best sources to find the information you need

* How to use social media platforms to reach like-minded prospects

* How to stay true to each platform’s mission statement – know what to post and where

Approaching Donors with a Digital Twist!

October 17, 2019

4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY TORREY PINES

11355 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037

WORKSHOP $25 HORS D’OEUVRES AND REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED.

FREE OPEN HOUSE

Learn more about Fundraising Academy Accelerate, our CFRE-certified fundraising certificate program. Meet instructors and past graduates and learn more about early-bird pricing.

THE NEXT COHORT BEGINS JANUARY 2020

The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit by Beth Kanter

Join this rare opportunity to meet Beth Kanter!

Nonprofit professionals work hard every day with limited resources which can result in burnout if they do not embrace self-care and the organization does not nurture a culture of well-being in the nonprofit workplace.

This session is about how and why it is important to treat self-care and well-being as an organizational strategy and cultural norm.

  • Understand the basics of burnout symptoms and self-care practices that many nonprofit professionals are embracing to ensure their resilience in the face of significant challenges
  • Get some practical tips for changing a toxic workplace culture into happy, healthy one and simple and low-cost ways to introduce well-being programs into your workplace
  • Learn about the big return on investment that happens when a nonprofit prioritizes well-being in the workplace so you can make the case at your nonprofit

Use code SIP10 for a discount! This code expires on Thursday, April 11.

Event Details:

Workshop: 1:00 – 5:00 pm

Reception and Book Signing: 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Pricing: $45 – $60 ($35-$50 with SIP10 Discount Code!)

When registering, attendees have the option to either pre-purchase the book at a significantly discounted rate or just attend the workshop. Books will also be available for sale at the event at retail price.

Ticket options available:

  • Workshop + Pre-order Book: $60 ($50 with discount code SIP10)
  • Workshop (no book pre-order): $45 ($35 with discount code SIP10)

Aperture Duo – Sonic Chapel Concert Series

Aperture Duo curates fearless programs that explore new sounds, voices, and techniques through the lens of violin and viola chamber music. Lauded for their “precision and interpretation” along with their “distinct sense of unity and independence” (icareifyoulisten.com), Los Angeles-based Aperture Duo was founded in 2015 by violinist Adrianne Pope and violist Linnea Powell. Equally at home performing old and new music, Aperture Duo actively commissions diverse new works to expand the violin and viola duo repertoire.

Program:

whisper / sing / speak

A theatrical chamber music concert featuring performance art, improvisation, and virtuosic playing while singing. The program includes four Aperture Duo commissions with two world premieres by emerging US and Mexican composers. Works by Alex Temple, Erin Rogers, Nicholas Deyoe, Noah Meites, Andrew Tholl, and George Aperghis.

Carlsbad Music Festival presents the Sonic Chapel concert series featuring Aperture Duo on March 8, 2019. Concerts take place in St. Michael’s intimate wooden chapel and tickets are $15, $25, and $35, depending on seating location.

Ashley Bathgate – Sonic Chapel Concert Series

American cellist Ashley Bathgate has been described as an “eloquent new music interpreter” (New York Times) and “a glorious cellist” (Washington Post) who combines “bittersweet lyricism along with ferocious chops” (New York Magazine). Her “impish ferocity,” “rich tone,” and “imaginative phrasing” (New York Times) have made her one of the most sought-after performers of her time. The desire to create a dynamic energy exchange with her audience and build upon the ensuing chemistry is a pillar of Bathgate’s philosophy as a performer.

Program:
Partita No. 1 “Songs and Poems” for solo cello (2007)…..Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Assemble…..Emily Cooley (b. 1990)
Why Women Weep: IT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO REJOIN THE OCEAN…..Pamela Madsen (b. 1952)
Augun…..Fjóla Evans (b. 1987)
Velvet…..Kate Moore (b. 1979)

Carlsbad Music Festival presents the Sonic Chapel concert series featuring Ashley Bathgate on February 15, 2019. Concerts take place in St. Michael’s intimate wooden chapel and tickets are $15, $25, and $35, depending on seating location.

Box office opens one hour prior to concert. Concessions and merchandise for sale before concert and during intermission. http://bit.ly/2RZBvH4http://www.carlsbadmusicfestival.org/sonic-chapel-2019/

[FREE WEBINAR] Why Do Donors Leave? (with Leichtag Foundation’s Sharyn Goodson & Jessica Kort)

Where does your organization focus most of its fundraising energy? Chances are, the answer is getting more donors. But what about keeping your current donors?

Research shows that nearly three out of every four new donors leave an organization and never come back.

This has led many to focus less on acquiring new supporters and more on nurturing the relationships that they already have.

Join us for this interactive webinar with Leichtag Foundation’s Vice President of Philanthropy Sharyn Goodson, and Senior Manager of Philanthropy & Communications Jessica Kort.

We will explore:

  • Why organizations lose donors and money
  • How keeping donors increases fundraising success
  • Opportunities to build donor relationships
  • Elements of a successful donor retention plan

[FREE WEBINAR] You and the Future of Doing Good (with Trista Harris)

Register today for the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy’s free webinar led by internationally recognized author and speaker: Trista Harris!

During this webinar you will:

  • Gain a glimpse of the future to understand what is coming next for philanthropy
  • Learn practical tips as a fundraiser to prepare yourself and your nonprofit for changing times.
  • Gain professional development strategies to get more satisfaction from your work.

About our presenter:
Trista Harris is a philanthropic futurist and nationally known as a passionate advocate for new leaders in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. Trista has been featured on CNN and her work has been covered by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the New York Times, Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal, Forbes, and numerous social sector blogs. She is an international speaker on using the tools of futurism to solve society’s biggest challenges.

In her professional life, Trista was most recently president of the Minnesota Council on Foundations (MCF), a vibrant community of grantmakers who award more than $1 billion annually.

“As the country moves towards a time of more uncertainty, keeping an eye towards the future allows us to
imagine beyond the confusion of today and instead build a new tomorrow.”

-Trista Harris: FutureGood

U.S. Census Bureau Workshop

The San Diego County Grant Professionals Association chapter presents a US Census Bureau workshop featuring:  Armando Mendoza, Data Dissemination Specialist Customer Liaison & Marketing Services Office/Data Dissemination Branch, U.S. Census Bureau.

In this workshop we will review/discuss:

  • The Importance of the Decennial Census.
  • The Other Nine Years.
  • The relationship between the Decennial Census and the American Community Survey.
  • Selected Socioeconomic, Demographics, and Housing statistics
  • Step-by-step mining for data using the latest census tools and apps to do a geographic analysis.

Mr. Mendoza has worked in a number of capacities for the Census Bureau over the past decade, including leadership roles on the 2010 Census and 2020 Census early preparations, management of data collection activities for the Census Bureau’s ongoing programs and education efforts to facilitate broad use of Census Bureau data products.

Prior of joining the Census Bureau, Armando served in a range of executive positions in the reprographics industry. He provided leadership in several firms in California, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, and Mexico.

He currently works for CLMSO providing training, workshops, presentations and Webinars to businesses, census partners, community and faith-based organizations on using data tools and apps to access census data from the Decennial Census, Economic Census, and the American Community Survey.

Mr. Mendoza holds an M.B.A. degree from The Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, and an executive certificate in global management from Thunderbird University.

Join us on October 10, 2018 from 12:00 Noon-1:30 pm at The San Diego Foundation-Escondido Office located at 900 Canterbury Place, Escondido CA 92025 on the 3rd Floor. Please RSVP to Valerie A. Nelson-White at Valerie@grantconsultingservices.com. There are limited seats available.