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SUMMARY:Being a strategic fundraiser (Part 2)
DESCRIPTION:Members – £295+VAT         Non-members – £395+VAT   (150 CPD points)\nInterested to find out how to turn your fundraising priority or project into a compelling\, fundable\, multi-year case? Want to learn how to translate strategic intent into practical skills that enable you to tell a story\, persuade funders and steward a successful donor relationship? This training is for you! \nFollowing on from Part 1 of our Strategic Fundraising training\, this session assumes a working level of fundraising experience – ideally you should be used to managing donor relationships and building cases for support. This session is about helping you hone those skills into a repeatable strategy that builds on individual projects instead of reacting to one-off bids and funding proposals. Our trainer for this session is Jo Redhead\, former Research Business Development Director at think tank RUSI and a person with a wealth of fundraising experience with some of the world’s most influential foundations. \nYou can attend Part 2 without having attended Part 1 but we do recommend completing Part 1 first\, if possible. This session builds directly on the priorities working document developed there. \nWhere Part 1 takes a step back to look at your organisation’s fundraising as a whole\, Part 2 brings the focus back down to the strategic priority you personally want to pursue and how to turn it into a compelling\, fundable\, multi-year case. It’s about translating strategic intent into practical skills: how you position what you’re asking for\, how you tell its story\, and how you judge which opportunities and relationships are actually worth your time. \nWe ask attendees to bring with them an idea for a project\, programme or funding priority to use as a basis for the session’s exercises\, making the training as practical as possible. We look at the project you have brought with you and build out: from a one-sentence positioning statement\, into an impact-led narrative\, into stronger donor relationships\, and finally a decision-making framework to help you negotiate what leads and proposals are actually worth your time. \nBy the end of Part 2 you will have:\n\nA one-sentence positioning statement for your funding priority\nAn impact-led narrative connecting your project’s outputs to real-world change\nA practical approach to stewarding existing donors and spotting relationship red flags\nA checklist for approaching new donors strategically\nA personal go/no-go decision tree for evaluating future funding opportunities\nA consolidated\, reusable fundraising strategy to take back to your organisation\n\nCourse outline:\nIntroduction \n\n Recap of Part 1\n\nFraming your project \n\nA live exercise building your one-sentence strategy\n\nConnecting projects to impact \n\nTranslating outputs into an impact-led narrative\nHow to improve your proposals with case studies\n\nStewardship & growing existing relationships \n\nMoving from transactional to growth/partnership-focused relationships\nSpotting relationship red flags and common roadblocks\n\nApproaching new donors strategically \n\nSetting up new relationships to be trust-based and impact-led from the start\n Crowdsourced checklist of what works\n\nGo/no-go framework \n\nBuilding a personal decision tree to decide which opportunities to pursue\nHow to be consistent as an organisation\n\nEvergreen fundraising strategy & wrap-up \n\nConsolidating your positioning\, impact narrative and decision tree into a reusable core strategy\n\nWrap-up \nTrainer:\nJo Redhead founded Big Picture Funding after three years as RUSI’s first Research Business Development Director\, where she built and led a high-performing centralised BD team through major shifts in the funding landscape. This followed five years at the Center for Global Development\, where Jo co-led a team across Washington D.C and London. Using a relationship-led approach to foundation fundraising\, they delivered an annual funding target of $25m+. Jo’s fundraising experience spans many of the world’s most influential foundations – including the Gates Foundation\, Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy)\, the European Climate Foundation\, Carnegie Corporation of New York\, and CIFF – as well as successful bids to the UK and US governments\, Global Affairs Canada\, Sida\, Norad\, and GIZ. She has also worked to secure places in major European Commission and UKRI research consortia. \nRegister for a place*\n\n*Your organisation will not be invoiced until your place is confirmed. The booking form asks you to stipulate whether you would like to register for Part 1 or both Part 1 and Part 2. If you are booking a space on both Part 1 and Part 2 there is a discounted total ticket price of £550+VAT. \nThis training session is worth 150 CPD points.
URL:https://stmembers.co.uk/event/being-a-strategic-fundraiser-part-2/
LOCATION:Millbank Tower\, 21-24 Millbank\, London\, SW1P 4QP
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SUMMARY:Think tanks and public affairs webinar
DESCRIPTION: \n\nHow can think tanks more effectively work with public affairs? What do they need and how can you help their clients? \nPublic affairs is a broad term\, but for those working in this space\, the main focus is on building a deep understanding of policy issues in the areas in which they work\, and engaging as many different people who are involved in the development of those policy areas as possible. With that in mind\, one of the most important audiences public affairs firms can work with are those in think tanks. \nJoin us as Ella Fallows\, co-founder of the Women in Public Affairs Network (WiPA)\, dives into the relationship between public affairs professionals and think tanks. We’ll look at: \n\nInsights on how public affairs professionals work with partners;\nHow we can help give you access to senior decision makers in organisations who are keen to work together;\nHow you can support us in helping organisations build a clear picture of their policy issues and how best to engage to influence them. \n\nIn public affairs\, the aim is to build as clear a picture as possible of what is happening in the spaces that impact their clients\, or their companies if working in-house; to be the go-to expert on those issues. Think tanks have the expertise\, insight and vision across many issues public affairs are interested in. Whilst their primary audience is usually politicians and officials\, think tanks are essential partners in helping them to understand different policy areas and engage on how best to change them. \nSpeaker bio\nElla is a tech policy and public affairs expert with nearly 20 years of experience advising clients across sectors on complex regulatory\, political and reputational challenges. She is Senior Director of Public Affairs at Hawthorn Advisors\, and has previously held roles including UK Head of Public Affairs at Weber Shandwick\, and Politics and Government Outreach Lead for Northern Europe at Meta. In 2012\, she co-founded the Women in Public Affairs Network\, an award-winning initiative that champions gender equality and supports career development across the industry. \n There will be plenty of opportunity to ask Ella questions during the webinar. \n\nThis webinar is worth 50 CPD points. \nRegister for your place
URL:https://stmembers.co.uk/event/public-affairs-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Writing for impact (part 1) training - mechanics\, style\, and data
DESCRIPTION:Members – £220+VAT         Non-members – £395+VAT   (150 CPD points)\nDo you want to make your writing more compelling? Are you interested in understanding  the fundamentals of good writing? Do you regularly work with data but want to practise and understand how to weave that into a narrative? This training session has all this and more.  \nIn this half-day session\, we will cover the basics of good writing focusing specifically on mechanics and style. We also look at how to incorporate data into your writing – an area particularly important for think tanks. This session offers a thorough grounding in what makes good writing and forms the building block our other writing training sessions are built on.  \nThe trainer will use a mix of exercises\, group activities and theory with a heavy focus on interactive learning. You will leave the training with a clear idea of ways to improve your writing that you can enact immediately. All attendees will be asked to submit an extract of their current work to form the basis of many of the exercises\, to make it as useful and relevant as possible. \n\nCourse outline\nUnderstanding what makes good writing \n• What is plain writing?• Writing for your audience \nThe mechanics of good writing \n• Writing concisely• Making your writing accessible• Moving from the passive to active• Sentences\, paragraphs and summarising \nStyling your writing \n• Making your writing readable• How to include background and quotes in your work• Using language effectively \nData \n• Common mistakes when writing about data• Finding the story in the data• The two-pronged approach• Making use of infographics \nYou will be working with your peers from other think tanks and attendees will be encouraged to share best practice\, build networks and learn from each other. \n\nRegister for your place*\n\n*Your organisation will not be invoiced until your place is confirmed. \nThis training session is worth 150 CPD points.
URL:https://stmembers.co.uk/event/writing-for-impact-part-1-training/
LOCATION:150 Buckingham Palace Road\, London\, SW1W 9TR
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SUMMARY:People management training
DESCRIPTION:Members – £295 + VAT         Non-members – £495 +VAT\nAre you new to management? Looking forward to the day when you become a manager? Or have you been a manager in a think tank for a while but never had the chance to develop your skills with formal training? Then this training is for you!\nOur all-day training session takes you through what makes a good manager\, including a look at the peculiarities of managing in a think tank\, through to how to transition to manager\, how to successfully delegate\, how to conduct performance reviews and give effective feedback and\, finally\, how to have those difficult conversations that crop up when managing people. \nThe day will be a mixture of exercises\, group activities and theory with a heavy focus on interactive learning. Attendees will leave the day with clear actions they can implement with their teams. The training also gives everyone the chance to practice in a safe environment some of the harder skills of management such as holding difficult conversations and giving feedback. You will be working with your peers from other think tanks and attendees will be encouraged to share best practice\, build networks and share their experiences as managers. \nWorkshop outline\nManagement fundamentals \n\nWhat is management?\nManaging in a think tank\n\nTransitioning to management \n\nPlanning your first 6 months\n\nDelegation \n\nWhy you should delegate\n6 steps of effective delegation\nSetting SMART objectives\n\nFeedback and performance management \n\nFundamentals of performance management\nHow to give effective feedback\nConducting performance reviews\n\nHaving difficult conversations \n\nThe three types of difficult conversation\nPreparing for a difficult conversation\nHolding your own in a difficult conversation\n\nLunch will be provided so you can continue the conversation throughout the day with your peers from different think tanks. \n\nRegister for your place*\n*Your organisation will not be invoiced until your place is confirmed.
URL:https://stmembers.co.uk/event/people-management-training/
LOCATION:57 Tufton Street\, London\, SW1P 3QL
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SUMMARY:Writing for impact training (Part 2) - marshalling your research and building a narrative
DESCRIPTION:Members – £220 + VAT         Non-members – £395 +VAT\nBeing an effective think tank writer is about being able to marshall large amounts of information and research into a compelling narrative that will persuade key audiences. Being able to do this successfully will make your reports and writings much more impactful\, however it is a skill that is often overlooked.  \nThis half-day training session is aimed exclusively at building and honing the skills of planning your writing and how you can effectively construct complicated narratives. The training will help you to produce clear\, efficient and persuasive policy reports and briefings. We will be taking attendees through how they can build that narrative thread and how to corral large amounts of research into a report that makes sense. \nWe will also be looking at the writing process and sharing practical tips and techniques for how to effectively plan\, draft and edit your work.   \nAttendees will have the opportunity to plan out their current work in the session to apply some of the techniques and suggestions discussed.  \nCourse outline\nMarshalling your research \n\nUnderstanding your research\nHow to collate your research into a cohesive order\n\nCreating a compelling narrative thread \n\nConstructing your argument \nEnsuring your argument flows logically\nSignposting and pathways for your reader\n\nPlanning a report \n\nMapping out your ideas and research\nSection building\nKey report sections\n\nMaking the writing process work for you  \n\nOutlining\nEditing your own and other’s work effectively\n\nYou will be in a group with a mixture of different think tanks so you can learn from your peers as well as the trainer. \n\nRegister for your place*\n*Your organisation will not be invoiced until your place is confirmed.
URL:https://stmembers.co.uk/event/writing-for-impact-part-2-training/
LOCATION:150 Buckingham Palace Road\, London\, SW1W 9TR
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