It’s getting really tough to find affordable nonprofit conferences these days, which makes it even harder for young people or organizations with small budgets to gain entry to ongoing learning opportunities. Here are seven events that are happening throughout the rest of this year with great speakers and organizations involved. These are some of the best training and networking opportunities in the field that won’t entirely break the bank, especially if you can get your organization to foot all or part of the bill.
Note: For many of these conferences, you can attend the whole thing for under $500. For others, you’ll have to be a member, get a one-day pass or qualify for the student or group rate to attend under that price.
August 2011
- Insight Into the Latest, High Profile Viral Marketing Campaigns
- Harnessing Social Networks to Recruit Staff and Volunteers
- Resource Review of Low-Cost and Free Social Media Tools
- Monitoring and Optimizing the Impact of your Campaigns
- Social Email Campaigns: What Works and What Doesn’t
- Tweets that Travel: The Essential Skill of Viral Writing
- Using Social Media for Lobbying and Advocacy
- Identifying and Connecting with Influencers
- Maximizing your Facebook Presence
- Fundraising with Social Media
All sessions are designed to provide attendees with concrete insights and takeaways, showcasing best practices, pitfalls to avoid, and free, helpful resources for nonprofits and causes. Special discount for all the special rosettathurman.com readers: Get $20 off the Social Media for Nonprofits conferences using the “Rose” discount code in San Francisco (6/29), Washington, DC (7/14), New York City (8/4), Los Angeles (8/22), Seattle (10/14), Chicago & Atlanta. Keynotes by Beth Kanter, Guy Kawasaki, Idealist.org’s Ami Dar & Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian.
September 2011
BoardSource Leadership Forum: September 22-23, 2011, Atlanta
Nothing less than the future of your organization and your community are being shaped by the decisions you and your board make today. What must you anticipate and consider as you make these critical decisions? Exploring the answer to this question and more is the focus of the 2011 BoardSource Leadership Forum. The BoardSource Leadership Forum is the only national conference focused on the impact of nonprofit boards and the unique role they play in advancing the public good. Every year, approximately 800 nonprofit board members, chief executives, and senior staff from around the world gather with an impressive array of experts to discuss the newest thinking and practices in nonprofit governance.
Through plenary sessions, workshops, presentations, and networking opportunities, the participants learn how to build the effectiveness of their boards and achieve their organizations’ missions.
The Nonprofit Rockstar Leadership Intensive: September 30 – October 2, 2011, Washington, DC
Join Rosetta Thurman and Trista Harris, authors of the popular book, How to Become a Nonprofit Rockstar: 50 Ways to Accelerate Your Career for an exclusive retreat focused on YOU as a leader! This program will focus on helping you strengthen your leadership skills to be able to serve your organization and community in a bigger, more meaningful way. Participants will learn how to develop valuable expertise, build a strong network, establish a great personal brand, practice authentic leadership, plan for balance, and move up in their organizations. Best of all, each attendee will leave the program with an individualized, 30-Day Professional Development Plan for their next stage of professional growth. Learn more and register here.
October 2011
2011 Nonprofit Human Resources Conference: October 9-11, 2011, National Harbor, Washington DC
The Nonprofit Human Resources Conference is the nation’s only human resources conference dedicated exclusively to meeting the professional development needs of nonprofit human resources leaders. The conference provides participants nonprofit specific education and outstanding networking opportunities designed to help mission-driven organizations more effectively carry out their visions and goals.
This three-day event (October 9-11, 2011) brings together a diverse group of more than 350 nonprofit professionals from across the nation for educational sessions conducted by experts in the field of human resources. Attendees will include human resources directors, executive directors and other key decision makers in an unprecedented and critically important forum in the heart of the nation’s capital. Specifically designed to be timely and relevant, the 2011 conference provides attendees with more than thirty timely and relevant concurrent sessions covering a number of topics including:
- HR for Non-HR Professionals (HR101)
- Legal & Compliance Strategy
- HR Strategy/Workplace Culture
- Talent Management
- Total Rewards
- YOUR Professional Development
2011 Independent Sector NGen Preconference: October 29-30, 2011, Chicago
- Workshop sessions addressing topics important to emerging leaders
- Opportunities for rising young leaders to connect
- Networking with established leaders of all ages on issues central to the nonprofit community
Independent Sector Annual Conference: October 30-November 1, 2011, Chicago
The IS conference is where leaders go to build strong networks that help them achieve their mission. Join 1,000 of the brightest minds from nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs for high impact networking and programming that challenges you to think differently about the issues we face and how we move forward in these ouR-Evolutionary Times. Our sector and the communities we serve are changing rapidly through events and advances both small and large. The 2011 Independent Sector Annual Conference will challenge you to think differently about who we are, how we lead, and the serious steps needed to shape a new future for the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors in these r-evolutionary times.
What are some other national nonprofit conferences worth attending this year that have an under $500 price tag? And how can organizations continue to keep costs down for attendees to make it easier on our wallets?
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