Upcoming Training Events
February Events
Funder Connection Series: CHFA (Register Now)
Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 10:30am – 12:00pm | Virtual session on Zoom
Course Objective: Community Resource Center Funder Connections are an opportunity for peer-learning and networking for those who work and volunteer in the nonprofit community.
Participants will gain insight and information on the following:
- The organization’s history in Colorado.
- Innovative funding solutions.
- Community Partnerships, sponsorships, loan programs and other ways to engage with CHFA.
- Ways to implement affordable housing and economic development solutions in your community.
- Opportunity for open dialogue and questions with the guest speaker
If you are a Colorado Grants Guide subscriber or member of the GrantCorp, please contact Marcy Mitchell at email hidden; JavaScript is required for your discount code.
CHFA strengthens Colorado by investing in affordable housing and community development. They offer financial resources to strengthen homeownership, affordable rental housing, and businesses. Their Community Partnership’s program, including Direct Effect Awards, supports nonprofits and community led initiatives that advance housing stability and economic prosperity in Colorado through sponsorships, donations, and volunteerism.
To learn more about Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, please click here.
Facilitator: Marcy Mitchell, Colorado Grants Guide Manager, Community Resource Center
Guest: Kristen Soroko, Event and Public Relations Coordinator, Colorado Housing and Finance Authority
March Events
Nonprofit Lunch and Learn: Mancos Public Library (Register Now)
Thursday, March 6, 2025 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm
In-person | Mancos Public Library | 211 W. 1st Street, Mancos, CO 81328
Bring your lunch and join CRC for an in-person educational presentation of the Colorado Grants Guide® to discover how to navigate the world of grant funding.
Presenter: Marcy Mitchell, Colorado Grants Guide® manager at Community Resource Center.
GrantCorps Get Grants 2-Part Series (Register Now)
2-Part Training Series
Part 1 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Part 2 | Thursday, March 13th, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Virtual Sessions via Zoom
Training description: Get Grants will provide nonprofits with best practices in grant writing and tips for success. Organizations will understand the essential elements included in a grant proposal and how to craft a compelling case for support through interactive exercises. A review of grant terminology, sources of grant funding and research tools, including the Colorado Grants Guide®, will be discussed. This training will cover topics including grant funding context in fundraising plan, research and grants management, review the key elements of winning grant proposals, dive deep into developing goals, objectives and activities, and will include a general overview of attachments.
This training will cover topics including:
- Grant funding context in the fundraising plan
- Research and grants management
- Review the key elements of winning grant proposals
- Deep dive into goals, objectives, and activities
- Tools and resources to apply to your work
Trainer: Katy Pepinsky, Program Director – Grant Services, Community Resource Center
Funder Connection Series: Next50 (Register Now)
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 10:30am – 12:00pm | Virtual session on Zoom
Course Objective: Community Resource Center Funder Connections are an opportunity for peer-learning and networking for those who work and volunteer in the nonprofit community.
Participants will gain insight and information on the following:
- The organization’s history in Colorado.
- Innovative funding solutions.
- Community Partnerships and other ways to engage with Next50.
- Their 3 priority areas of economic opportunity: Ending ageism, advancing digital equity, and supporting aging in place.
- Opportunity for open dialogue and questions with the guest speaker.
If you are a Colorado Grants Guide subscriber or member of the GrantCorp, please contact Marcy Mitchell at email hidden; JavaScript is required for your discount code.
Next50 is a private, national foundation based in Denver, Colorado. Since 2016, Next50 has been working toward creating a world that values aging.
To learn more about Next50, please click here.
Facilitator: Marcy Mitchell, Colorado Grants Guide Manager, Community Resource Center
Guest: TBA
April Events
Introduction to Accessible Communications (Register Now)
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Virtual session on Zoom
The training will include:
- Basic legal requirements under the American with Disabilities Act and the Colorado Anti Discrimination Act, including an overview of newly enacted state and federal rules governing digital accessibility
- Overview of accessible communications principles
- Best practices for making communications accessible
- Plain language overview and best practices
- Technical tips, checklists and questions for communications platforms
- Technical tips, checklists and questions for documents
- Technical tips, checklists and questions for images and videos
- Best practices for website accessibility
- Tips
- Resources for checking web accessibility
- Additional resources to continue learning
- Q+A
Facilitators:
Julie Reiskin, LCSW, Co Executive Director of Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition.
Andrew Montoya, Esq, Legal Director of Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition.
Hillary Jorgensen, JD, Co Executive Director of Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition.
Program Planning & Evaluation (Register now)
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm | Virtual session on Zoom
Course Objective: Build your organizational capacity to assess your organization’s impact by gaining tools for strategic program planning and evaluation.
Program planning and program evaluation are critical to sustainable nonprofits and has implications around board engagement, grant writing, staff retention, and overall mission impact. Participants will understand the essential elements of effective program planning strategies and program evaluation methods that can be created and implemented by your board and staff.
This training will cover topics including:
- Review of program planning and tools like logic models to position yourself for future success
- Deep dive into program goals, objectives and activities
- Review of program evaluation methods including; design, data collection, and data analysis and interpretation
- Overview of how evaluation results can be used for marketing and fundraising
Facilitator: Katy Pepinsky, Director of Grant Services at Community Resource Center.
May Events
Nonprofit Financial Leadership (Register Now)
Thursday, May 8, 2025 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm | Virtual session on Zoom
Course Objective: Build your organizational capacity around nonprofit accounting practices, financial oversight, and internal controls.
Join us for an overview of the critical components of financial management for nonprofit organizations. This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of basic financial management terminology, policies and best practices for success. Topics include understanding a nonprofit board of director’s financial oversight responsibilities, best practices around internal controls, year-end reporting requirements, an overview of financial statements including cash flow, and statement of activities.
Trainer: Katy Pepinsky, Director of Grant Services at Community Resource Center.
Finding Funding on the Web (Register Now)
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | 9:00am – 10:30am | Virtual session on Zoom
Training description: Research is the first step for success in grant-writing. This training will highlight the steps necessary to develop an organized, focused approach to grant research and how to optimize grant search efforts, using the Colorado Grants Guide®. Developed by the Community Resource Center, the Colorado Grants Guide® is Colorado’s leading tool for grant funding research. This comprehensive, online database profiles over 1,100 local foundations and trusts, corporations, national funders, government agencies and religious organizations that support Colorado nonprofit organizations.
Trainer: Marcy Mitchell, Colorado Grants Guide Manager, Community Resource Center
June Events
Grantwriting 201 (Register Now)
Thursday, June 5, 2025 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm | Virtual session on Zoom
Training description: Build your capacity to write competitive grants by gaining a deeper understanding of all that goes into a successful application – beyond just answering the questions. In this interactive session you will learn and discuss how to structure a grant narrative for maximum effectiveness, build data systems for impactful grant reporting, strengthen funder relationships and cultivate donors, create sustainable grant management tools, and build a culture of philanthropy across your organization.
In this training, you will learn how to:
- Structure a grant narrative for maximum effectiveness.
- Build data systems for impactful grant reporting.
- How to build next level funder relationships and cultivate donors.
- Create sustainable grant management tools.
- Build a culture of philanthropy across your organization.
Trainer: Katy Pepinsky, Program Director – Grant Services, Community Resource Center.