MNA - $175 MNA Members; $300 Non-members. Five Wednesdays in February and March. Email campaigns are a fundraising tool within the reach of even the smallest organizations. An effective way to communicate with donors and raise money without much expense, they’re an opportunity to provide reasons and reminders for constituents to give. Campaigns are affordable, and not particularly complicated, but a number of guidelines and best practices can help ensure successful delivery and donor engagement. This five-week series of classes will walk nonprofits through the soup-to-nuts process of creating such campaigns, just in time for year-end appeals. Based on Idealware’s technology expertise; offered through a partnership between Idealware and the Montana Nonprofit Association. Presented by experts, this series demystifies each step involved—from strategy to success. Participants will complete worksheets for review by peers and experts, will have access to Idealware staff experts during weekly open office hours sessions, and can expect to spend about two hours each week on coursework outside of the sessions. Over five weeks, they’ll develop and take away a finished and polished email fundraising strategy and the first email in their next email fundraising campaign. Takeaways: Participants will learn: To create overall campaign plans that consider both audience and message. To compose emails that capture and engage the people they want to reach. How to identify which email and online donation tools are the best fit for their organization. How to use email and donation tools to draft, deliver and track their messages. How to define and measure success. And how to adapt their techniques and practices to improve results.

From NTEN. $35 NTEN Members; $70 Non-members. (NTEN provides free introductory NTEN membership to all MNA members and 10% discount to all renewing members). Video is everywhere. Collectively, we upload 48 hours of video to YouTube every minute. Nonprofits upload hours of video to their websites, Twitter and Facebook. It seems like every nonprofit in the world is either using video-- or panicking that they don’t know how. But just putting a video up doesn’t mean anyone will watch it. We’re exposed to so much video today that viewers no longer have the time or patience for the bad stuff. If you’re video’s not good, it’s gone-- and so is all the time and money you spent shooting and promoting it. This webinar is about re-thinking your approach to video—how to think about your audience, and how you can produce video that doesn’t suck. To get you there, we'll discuss 10 critical elements of effective video including how and why audiences watch video—and why they don’t. How to do video that entertains AND affects your audience’s behavior, why story is the key to video success, and how to know—really know—if your video is any good. In this webinar, participants will learn Ten elements of effective video How to make an engaging and effective video Why story is the key to video success

MNA - $175 MNA Members; $300 Non-members. Five Wednesdays in February and March. Email campaigns are a fundraising tool within the reach of even the smallest organizations. An effective way to communicate with donors and raise money without much expense, they’re an opportunity to provide reasons and reminders for constituents to give. Campaigns are affordable, and not particularly complicated, but a number of guidelines and best practices can help ensure successful delivery and donor engagement. This five-week series of classes will walk nonprofits through the soup-to-nuts process of creating such campaigns, just in time for year-end appeals. Based on Idealware’s technology expertise; offered through a partnership between Idealware and the Montana Nonprofit Association. Presented by experts, this series demystifies each step involved—from strategy to success. Participants will complete worksheets for review by peers and experts, will have access to Idealware staff experts during weekly open office hours sessions, and can expect to spend about two hours each week on coursework outside of the sessions. Over five weeks, they’ll develop and take away a finished and polished email fundraising strategy and the first email in their next email fundraising campaign. Takeaways: Participants will learn: To create overall campaign plans that consider both audience and message. To compose emails that capture and engage the people they want to reach. How to identify which email and online donation tools are the best fit for their organization. How to use email and donation tools to draft, deliver and track their messages. How to define and measure success. And how to adapt their techniques and practices to improve results.

$95.00 To register email Jasyn at jasynh@ctibrc.org, or call 406.443.0800. For many users, performing common, day-to-day transactions in QuickBooks poses few challenges. The Intermediate class is designed for people who want to learn how to use some of the more advanced features available in QuickBooks. This class covers in-depth information on using accounts receivable and accounts payable along with other functions available in QuickBooks. We’ll cover: • Accounts Receivable processes - invoicing, applying payments, preparing customer statements and generating meaningful AR reports • Accounts Payable processes – entering bills, printing checks, applying credits, and generating meaningful AP reports • Recording trades between vendors and customers • Tips and tricks when memorizing reports • Using the Loan Manager function • Creating and using budget • The basics of modifying templates

From NTEN. $35 NTEN Members; $70 Non-members. (NTEN provides free introductory NTEN membership to all MNA members and 10% discount to all renewing members). Social media has yet to become widely accepted by nonprofit leaders as a medium equal to or greater than traditional mail or email to engage, solicit or secure donors. This webinar will reframe social media as the driving vehicle behind online fundraising in the short-term, and, more importantly, as the future of nonprofit fundraising. We will discuss up-to-date data on social media users by demographic characteristics, such as gender, age, ethnic group, social economic status, education level, and region. Then we’ll compare these data to current demographic profiles on nonprofit donors, and use it to forecast social media fundraising trends based on statistical analysis and anecdotal evidence from leaders in the donation processing industry. In the second part of this webinar, we’ll dive into an overview of social media tools for nonprofit fundraising (e.g. Facebook Causes, ect.). Finally, we’ll take a look at live examples of how to use Facebook Ads, Google AdWords courtesy of Google Grants, and other emerging technologies that will help produce an evidence-based profile on prospective donors and how to find them in social media. Webinar participants will come away with an understanding of how to develop a compelling social media strategy that is built on fundraising and based on your existing donor database. In this webinar, participants will learn Social media by the numbers: Who uses social media and how does it related to them Examples of nonprofits which successfully fundraised through social media How to develop a fundraising strategy that fully leverages the power of social media

MNA - $175 MNA Members; $300 Non-members. Five Wednesdays in February and March. Email campaigns are a fundraising tool within the reach of even the smallest organizations. An effective way to communicate with donors and raise money without much expense, they’re an opportunity to provide reasons and reminders for constituents to give. Campaigns are affordable, and not particularly complicated, but a number of guidelines and best practices can help ensure successful delivery and donor engagement. This five-week series of classes will walk nonprofits through the soup-to-nuts process of creating such campaigns, just in time for year-end appeals. Based on Idealware’s technology expertise; offered through a partnership between Idealware and the Montana Nonprofit Association. Presented by experts, this series demystifies each step involved—from strategy to success. Participants will complete worksheets for review by peers and experts, will have access to Idealware staff experts during weekly open office hours sessions, and can expect to spend about two hours each week on coursework outside of the sessions. Over five weeks, they’ll develop and take away a finished and polished email fundraising strategy and the first email in their next email fundraising campaign. Takeaways: Participants will learn: To create overall campaign plans that consider both audience and message. To compose emails that capture and engage the people they want to reach. How to identify which email and online donation tools are the best fit for their organization. How to use email and donation tools to draft, deliver and track their messages. How to define and measure success. And how to adapt their techniques and practices to improve results.

MNA - $175 MNA Members; $300 Non-members. Five Wednesdays in February and March. Email campaigns are a fundraising tool within the reach of even the smallest organizations. An effective way to communicate with donors and raise money without much expense, they’re an opportunity to provide reasons and reminders for constituents to give. Campaigns are affordable, and not particularly complicated, but a number of guidelines and best practices can help ensure successful delivery and donor engagement. This five-week series of classes will walk nonprofits through the soup-to-nuts process of creating such campaigns, just in time for year-end appeals. Based on Idealware’s technology expertise; offered through a partnership between Idealware and the Montana Nonprofit Association. Presented by experts, this series demystifies each step involved—from strategy to success. Participants will complete worksheets for review by peers and experts, will have access to Idealware staff experts during weekly open office hours sessions, and can expect to spend about two hours each week on coursework outside of the sessions. Over five weeks, they’ll develop and take away a finished and polished email fundraising strategy and the first email in their next email fundraising campaign. Takeaways: Participants will learn: To create overall campaign plans that consider both audience and message. To compose emails that capture and engage the people they want to reach. How to identify which email and online donation tools are the best fit for their organization. How to use email and donation tools to draft, deliver and track their messages. How to define and measure success. And how to adapt their techniques and practices to improve results.