Upcoming CSPRC Events & Luncheons
February 14, 2012 Luncheon: Love Your Donor, Love Your Volunteer, Love Yourself
Join us for this Valentine’s Day love-fest to learn how to take the best care of your agency’s donors, volunteers and even yourself! Stewardship is essential to maintaining positive, lucrative, long-term supporters. Investing in your staff can ensure an engaged team devoted to your organization’s mission. Focusing attention on your own needs will further your fondness for what you’re working to achieve.
Our panel of two local nonprofit leaders will talk about their passion and present heartfelt ideas for sweetening key relationships. What better day to be inspired about sharing the love – and showing yourself some love, too.
Featuring:
Frank Finnegan, President and CEO of St. Louis Area Foodbank
Julie Reed, Chief Development Officer at Epworth Children & Family Services
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March 13 Lunch Program – “Tackling Tough Topics” with Michelle Bain, author/creator of Thumbs Up Johnnie
In today’s fast paced, over-stimulated world, children face many unique challenges. How do you teach them about health, nutrition, diseases and emotional issues while remaining in their developmental framework? Michelle Bain shares the strategies she’s created with nonprofits that reach kids on even the toughest topics. Thumbs Up Johnnie’s team has tackled issues for the March of Dimes, Siteman Cancer Center and Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. While some circumstances are never easy to talk about, Michelle will present some engaging tools that have worked wonders.
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April 10 Lunch Program – “Connecting with Corporate Volunteers” – joint session with Metropolitan Volunteer Management Association
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Tuesday, May 15 is Plugging In: SPECTRUM 2012
Save the date! Plan now to power up at CSPRC’s annual all-day conference designed especially to meet the needs of nonprofit organizations. You’ll enjoy electrifying insights from two keynote speakers and four sets of sessions for executive directors, board members, and marketing/communications and development staff.
New location! SPECTRUM 2012 is plugging in at the Sheraton Clayton Plaza, where we’ve been holding our monthly luncheons for the past several years. Located in the heart of downtown Clayton, the Sheraton offers convenient parking, spacious meeting areas, and easy access via I-64 and I-170.
ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Want one less item on your to-do list? Register now to save $15 off the regular registration fee by locking in your early-bird rate—just $90 for CSPRC members and $110 for non-members. For non-members, save even more by joining CSPRC and taking advantage of our rolling membership calendar—you’ll have a full year membership and the SPECTRUM member discount from the day you sign up!
Plugging In: SPECTRUM CONFERENCE 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel
7730 Bonhomme Ave., Clayton, MO 63105
Early-Bird Discount -- register today!
Registered by April 3, 2012
CSPRC Member - $90
Non-Member - $110
Full-time Student - $70
After April 3, 2012
CSPRC Member - $105
Non-Member - $125
Full-time Student - $75
Fees include all conference materials, breakfast and lunch.
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Previous Events
December 13, 2011: Big Giving From Small Business – Engaging Small Business CEOs
Panelists:
Cindy Brown, President, Shred-It
Teresa Katubig, President and CEO, Extra Help, Inc.
Jennah Purk, President and CEO, Purk & Associates, PC
We learned about the unique qualities of small businesses and how to engage their big hearts and philanthropic spirits. This accomplished and generous CEO panel discussed what non-profits can do to communicate with small to mid-sized businesses and how they can work together to create community-engaging programs.
November 8, 2011: Social Media: Not Another Thing to Do - But This Really IS Critical
Speaker: Dr. Porismita Borah, Maryville University
Dr. Borah's informative presentation covered best practices for several social media platforms, strategic scheduling and tools for simplifying and coordinating your online presence. Social media is a crucial tool for getting the word out about our agencies' missions, garnering volunteers and gaining financial support. Dr. Borah took us beyond the basics, examining tactics, process development and strategies to achieve maximum exposure for our organizations.
Congratulations to Pam Budke Bolton with Wildlife Rescue Center, the November winner of a free CSPRC luncheon!
October 11, 2011: Social Entrepreneurship 101
How can social entrepreneurship (or social enterprise) help your nonprofit's financial base? And how does such an endeavor fit into your communication strategy? Learn how social enterpreneurship works and hear from a local expert who started his own social enterprise.
Speaker: Chris Miller, The Mission Center L3C
Congrats to Antoinette Phillips, YWCA of Metro St. Louis, who won a FREE CSPRC luncheon in the monthly drawing!
September 13, 2011: Transforming Your Volunteers Into Ambassadors
We all know that volunteers play an important role in our agencies. Our panelists for the luncheon discussed how to take your volunteers' role to the next level outside the agency doors - whether as ambassadors, advocates, or social media "influencers." Panelists included:
-- Lisa Greening, Executive Director, Ready Readers
-- Harris Frank, Co-Founder, St. Louis Senior Olympics & U.S. National Senior Olympics
-- Seth Teel, Associate Director, Citizens for Modern Transit
Congrats to Dennis O’Brien, Director - NonProfit Advancement, who won a FREE CSPRC luncheon in the monthly drawing!
August 9, 2011: TV Media that Understand Nonprofit Issues
Each fall, CSPRC gathers a panel of St. Louis area media to discuss how to get the nonprofit story told. This year, the focus is on specialty television media. From the Higher Education Channel (HEC TV), Director Dennis Riggs and Marketing & Strategic Partnership Coordinator Joanna Heinrich will focus on "Impact", a locally produced monthly program that targets organizations and nonprofits having an impact on our community. From KETC TV (PBS), Vice President of Production Patrick Murphy will talk about their show "Living St. Louis."
Congrats to Jeanne Foster, nonprofit management consultant, who won a FREE CSPRC luncheon in the monthly drawing!
July 12, 2011: Roundtables
An annual CSPRC favorite – each table discussion is led by a facilitator and covers a specific non-profit public relations/development topic. Table topics & facilitators include the following:
-- Engaging with bloggers & other influencers, Brian Cross, Elasticity
-- Recruiting a pro bono PR firm, Beth Minnigerode, Standing Partnership
-- QR codes & smartphone apps, Kathleen Parvis, Midtown Printing
-- Making career transitions, Roni Chambers, GO! Network
-- Email marketing tips & best practices, Tom Ruwitch, MarketVolt
-- Engaging young professionals in your organization, David Gonzalez & Ellen Cooper, GenNext/United Way
-- Using & linking your social media efforts effectively, Cathleen Slone, InnovateU
-- Surrogate Events: More Dollars, Minimal Effort, Stephen Phelps, Doorways
June 14, 2011: Annual President's Luncheon & Awards
Nonprofit Missouri
Learn about Nonprofit Missouri, a newly formed statewide alliance of nonprofit organizations designed to provide resources to help build and sustain quality nonprofits in Missouri. Bring your executive director or Board chair to hear how nonprofits of all types and sizes can benefit from this organization. Presenter: Tom Etzkorn, inaugural board chair, Nonprofit Missouri. This luncheon also includes announcement of the PR Professional of the Year award and presentation of the new 2011-12 CSPRC board and officers.
May 10, 2011
Thanks to all who attended CSPRC's 2011 SPECTRUM Conference! We hope you gathered many "Bright Ideas" from the two keynote speakers and 16 breakout sessions for nonprofit professionals (see archive link below for more information about the May 10 event). Please support our sponsors below who made this daylong event possible. And visit the Spectrum page (link below) again in the future for details about our 2012 conference.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011: It's Not Easy Being "Green"
As we celebrate Earth Day in April, and a growing “green” movement across our nation, the focus is on how your organization and its staff and volunteers can become more green with minimal time/dollar investment. Discussion includes how being green can help better position your organization with donors, members and the public. Take away practical tips, discover the communications value of being green, fundraising/grants options to support green efforts, and learn some creative ways to make your events more sustainable. Panelists include the following: Jean Ponzi, green resources manager for Missouri Botanical Garden; Clarice Hutchens, owner of Replenishing the Earth; and Cassie Phillips, executive director of St. Louis Earth Day.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011: DART – A Collaborative Marketing Success
Learn more about DART, a new strategic marketing tool being used by several area cultural organizations to build donations and ticket sales, and reducing competition for dollars. The Regional Arts Commission used John Elliott, of Elliott Marketing Group, to design and implement DART – Database of the Arts. For some of the dozen cultural organizations involved, the database is showing a 430% ROI. Elliott shares how DART can help your nonprofit model a way to create productive partnerships and stretching marketing resources.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011: Cause Marketing & the Pepsi Refresh Project
How can “cause marketing” help your nonprofit? Unlike typical fundraising efforts, cause marketing is a collaboration between a for-profit business and a nonprofit, usually for a mutual benefit and always to raise awareness (and dollars) for a specific issue – and it’s growing in popularity. Local nonprofit Gateway Greening was recently a finalist in the Pepsi Refresh Project, a national cause marketing effort by the beverage giant. Representatives from Gateway Greening will share what they learned about their successful foray into cause marketing and give suggestions for how it can work for your nonprofit.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011: The New News Consumer & the Future of News: Trends for 2011 & Beyond
This is our annual joint meeting with the St. Louis Chapters of International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
With the hype surrounding social media, direct-to-consumer communication and user-generated content, what place does “news” hold in the minds of consumers? Does the news media still influence and impact people? How are consumers digesting news? Amy Mitchell, deputy director for the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and author of the Annual Report on the State of the News Media, will unpack these issues at Jan. 19 meeting of PRSA, IABC and CSPRC. Mitchell will delve into the changing face of journalism, how the industry is managing the transition and emerging players for 2011. Join us for an informative and provocative session that’s sure to get you thinking in the New Year!
About our speaker: Amy S. Mitchell is Deputy Director for the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. She is involved in all aspects of the PEJ, with a primary focus on designing and managing in-depth research reports including the Annual Report on the State of the News Media. She speaks regularly with outside groups on the changing face of journalism and consumer news habits. You can read more about Mitchell and her research at http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2010/
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