Archive for News & Events
What Boards Can Learn From the Hive – Free Governance Workshop May 8
Simple Wisdom to Help You Govern Naturally Thriving social sector organizations embrace and practice a few simple truths. Your organization is a social system, relying on the skills, abilities, and passion of every individual to work collaboratively to advance your mission, live your values, and realize your vision. The board of directors is one of the critical teams needed to advance. Often [...]
The Art of the Ask: Free Fundraising Workshop, November 14, 2012
Beg-a-thon? Arm-wrestling with donors? Or, can asking for money be a mutually enriching conversation? If you find these questions intriguing, then please join us for a free workshop on November 14, 2012. Whether your organization is big or small, at some point you will need to sit down with someone, somewhere, and ask them to [...]
Where’s Kimberley Speaking? Summer 2012
Please join Kimberley Sherwood at one of these exciting events during the summer of 2012: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Presenter: “Managing Up, Down, and Across” PBS National Annual Meeting Sheraton Hotel, Downtown Denver Denver, CO Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Presenter: “Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch” PBS National Annual Meeting Sheraton Hotel, Downtown Denver Denver, CO Wednesday, May [...]
Got Your Moneyball? – Free Fundraising Plan Workshop Apr. 18
Creating a Killer Fundraising Plan When it comes to creating a fundraising plan, analysis and confusion can stop us cold in our tracks. Often, the calendar of events becomes the de facto plan. The real power is not in the plan, but in the planning. Intrigued? Then please join us on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, [...]
12-Session Coaching Package Now Available!
We’re very excited to offer our brand new, 12-session Coaching Package for nonprofit boards and executives. These regularly scheduled 55-minute huddles are focused on meeting you where you are right now to help you address immediate challenges and recognize opportunities. You’ll be surprised with what you can achieve! Click here for complete info on our [...]
Deep Roots – Free Funding Workshop Feb. 23
Has your organization done its in-the-groundwork? If you find this question intriguing, then please join us on February 23, 2012, as we launch a year-long workshop series called, The Funding Building Blocks. Third Sector Group, Inc. is teaming up with the Pikes Peak Library District, The El Pomar Foundation, Brinah Vincent, CFRE, and RoMA Johnson, [...]
Honeybee Leadership – Governance Workshop Wednesday, Nov. 30
Simple Wisdom to Help You Govern Naturally Thriving social sector organizations embrace and practice a few simple truths. Your organization is a social system, relying on the skills, abilities, and passion of every individual to work collaboratively to advance your mission, live your values, and realize your vision. The board of directors is one of the critical teams needed to advance. Often [...]
Ping Pong, Anyone? – Strategy Workshop Tuesday, Sept. 13
How To Set Your Organization’s Direction…With Confidence When it comes to figuring out what’s next for your organization, do you feel like: you and your board or staff are playing a ping pong match of “you decide what we should do,” endlessly generating lots of “good ideas” and knocking them back and forth with no real [...]
Spring 2011 Board Retreat – Our Calendar is Full!
Our Spring Board Retreat Calendar is full; many thanks to all for your interest and enthusiasm! Spring is here, and so is the season for nonprofit board planning retreats. At Third Sector Group, we have spent the past decade working with organizations dedicated to being the best for the world, not just the best in [...]
New TSG Reading List
Check out the new Third Sector Group Reading List — click here. It’s an esoteric list of our personal favorites, the books we return to again and again, written by authors we consider our teachers. We’ll update the list as we run across books we think you’ll find valuable, so look here often.