Plan your way to success! APRA’s soon-to-announced, year-round education program will be your tool to tailor the APRA education you know and trust to meet your training needs.
Year-round education will soon include: instant on-demand access to recorded Webcasts, no more education expiration dates, easy-to-find learning based on topic area, and trends and technology information every practitioner needs to know.
Highlights of the education and training that will soon be available 24/7 include:
- Ready to Launch: A Strategic Planning Approach to Campaigns
- Managing Prospect Pipelines and Forecasting Fundraising Returns
- In and Out of Campaigns, Thinking about Data Modeling? Five Key Questions to Consider Before Starting
- and many more!
In addition, APRA will be launching a series of new programs throughout the year! Plan for these programs coming this Spring!
Finding the Time and the People: How to Include Proactive Research in Your Workload
Track: Prospect Identification
Presentation Level: Intermediate
There is great value in proactive research; actually executing proactive research can be a challenge. The speaker will discuss how to implement and build a comprehensive proactive research program. You’ll also learn various methods for identifying prospects to research, including techniques that can be used by organizations with or without an alumni base. We will also discuss ways to make time for proactive research.
Presented by: Sarah Cadbury, Director of Prospect Research, LaSalle University
Available Now! Please note this event is not yet available on-demand. Please allow 1 – 2 business days for access.
How Get Work Done With Limited Resources by Optimizing Your Vendor Relationships
Track: Management and Professional Development
Presentation Level: All
Getting work done on a budgetary shoestring has always been a challenge but with the recent economic strains those shoestrings have turned into small pieces of string tied around our fingers reminding us of better times. The opportunities presented to us in this environment require that we maintain levels of work and continue to excel. There are many ways in which that can occur, this presentation will focus on how you can maintain and excel through optimizing your vendor relationships. Topics to be covered include understanding and asking key questions, providing key information to the vendor, the art of negotiating, how to eliminate assumptions and therefore surprises, best ways to tap into and utilize peer information to improve your vendor relationship and finally how to maintain good relationships with vendors.
Presented by: Karen Greene, Vice President of Operations and Services, Arizona State University
Available March 2010
Right-Minded Reporting: Make It Meaningful Using Data Visualization
Track: Data Analytics
Presentation Level: Intermediate
Do your colleagues’ eyes glaze over when you present them with data? Your spreadsheet is impeccable, rich with information showing the highlights (and lowlights) of your fundraising efforts. But your right-brained colleagues can’t seem to put the picture together. These creative and holistic thinkers need more than columns of numbers to meaningfully interpret the data.
Engage both halves of your audience’s brains through data visualization. In this presentation, you will learn creative methods and tools for presenting data so that it is easy to understand, including charts, cross-tabs, sparklines, and geographic and relationship mapping. We’ll look at examples of excellent data visualization, as well as pitfalls to avoid.
Presented by: Amanda Jarman, Development Research & Prospect Manager, Portland State University
Available April 2010
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