Facilitation & Training.
 At Vision Driven Consulting (VDC), we value accessibility to resources and information, collaboration, networking, and supporting the connections between people and groups. We offer trainings and educational workshops, for artists, not-for-profit organizations, and community groups.

Workshops can be taught online or in person and are specifically tailored to your group. Some workshops may have more than one facilitator. All workshops are interactive and utilize multiple teaching methodologies, recognizing that there are many ways that individuals learn. 

Workshops
WHAT IS A NONPROFIT, ANYWAY?
  • Learn the primary structural and linguistic differences between not-for-profit organizations and for profit businesses
  • Dispel common myths about funding and pay scales
  • Envision your ideal board of directors
Resource Development/Fundraising Basic
  • ​Learn the language of fundraising for organizations and projects
  • Dig deeper into the most common types of fundraising
  • Brainstorm different tools and methods you can use to achieve your individual goals
GRANT WRITING – BEGINNER ​
  • Learn the language and process of grant writing
  • Identify tools you can use to discover funding opportunities
  • Read actual grant proposals to identify key proposal components
Grant writing - intermediate
  • Review aspects of a good grant proposal
  • Practice writing an actual grant
  • Receive extensive feedback on your completed proposal
ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING
  • Learn the value, process, and common mistakes involved in strategic planning
  • Receive, test, and share facilitation tools
  • Practice your new skills
CREATING A FINANCIAL STRATEGIC PLAN
  • Learn the value, process, and common mistakes involved in budgeting and financial planning
  • Interpret the stories that budgets tell and identify potential internal/external impacts
  • Receive, test, and share financial strategic planning tools
EFFECTIVE MEETING FACILITATION
  • Re-define the modern meeting by learning when and why it is important (or not!) to hold a meeting
  • Brainstorm ways to incorporate technology into meetings
  • Practice dealing with typical meeting challenges and barriers to success​
Crowdfunding Basics
  • Learn the lingo of crowdfunding
  • Discover the pros and cons of various crowdfunding platforms
  • Find out what you want to consider before, during, and after launching a crowdfunding campaign
​Volunteer Recruitment & Management
  • Learn the 6 Steps to Successful Volunteer Recruitment
  • Practice identifying target markets/intended audiences
  • Share and receive recruitment and management tools and experiences
​​​​fundraising beyond grants
  • Learn about six different categories of fundraising (including, but not primarily, grants)
  • Brainstorm more than a hundred methods for resourcing your work
  • Create a simple budget that will help guide your fundraising choices 
DEVELOPING CAMPUS/COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS
  • Identify examples of successful campus/community collaborations
  • Learn how to find a campus or community partner
  • Share common problems and potential solutions in building mutually beneficial partnerships
​GETTING PEOPLE TO SHOW UP
  • Learn new techniques for building an audience, recruiting volunteers, and bringing your ideal participant to the table
  • Troubleshoot issues that you may have had in the past
  • Identify tangible ways to keep people coming back in the future
TIME MANAGEMENT & PROFESSIONALISM
  • Learn about the benefits of time management and potential impacts on your work and health
  • Share and obtain tools for successful time management
  • Discuss varying notions of professionalism and what they look like in practice
PERSONAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: AVOIDING BURNOUT
  • Reflect on personal wellness
  • Identify barriers to wellness and symptoms of burnout
  • Brainstorm ways of overcoming barriers and developing new concepts of wellness​
SETTING AND MEASURING GOALS
  • Identify what you want to achieve in your projects
  • Incorporate critical feedback and self-reflection into your organization
  • ​Brainstorm and receive tools for measuring success​​
EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT BASICS
  • Learn the terms and purposes behind evaluation and assessment
  • Brainstorm tools that you have used or could use in the future
  • Practice identifying appropriate tools and S.M.A.R.T. goals for specific scenarios
POWER & PRIVILEGE IN SERVICE
  • Explore your personal history and perceptions of self/others
  • Discuss ways of acknowledging privileges/oppressions, identifying power structures at play in society and relationships
  • Define personalized action steps for moving forward in service
ANNUAL PROJECT PLANNING
  • - Identify your goals for the upcoming year and break them into achievable tasks
  • - Plot your tasks on a timeline or calendar for the upcoming year
  • - Create a plan to keep yourself accountable
​TOOLS FOR PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, ENHANCEMENT, & IMPLEMENTATION
  • Learn about the language, methods, and processes of program planning
  • Receive tangible tools to support your work
  • Practice using tools to enhance or develop your own program​
Contact VDC if you do not see a workshop listed in the catalog, but are interested in seeing it offered.

*If we can't help with a specific project or need, we can likely point you in the direction of a person or organization that has the capacity, experience, and knowledge to answer your questions.
​My training sessions with Brittany have given me the tools and the knowledge I need to effectively run my program and work with my community partners.

​-- Adam Gaubinger, Center for Family Services in Camden, New Jersey
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