Events

When:  December 1 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM

What:   Strategic Planning in Uncertain Times: Planning for tomorrow, while increasing responsiveness and relevance for today.

With uncertainty of COVID and other external factors, we may be tempted to throw our strategic plans out the window. How are organizations planning with so much up in the air? Nonprofit Consultant Sandhya Tillotson presents a participatory training to explore how to move past paralyzing inaction or suddenly outdated strategies, and to pivot quickly, while remaining true to our missions and core values as organizations. DOOR PRIZE: Two participants will win a free one-hour consultation with Sandhya.

Register in advance here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdeGoqDstE9aF8BllQuM3wA-U2j_Yn4kd

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When:  December 15 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM

What:   Nonprofit Board Development

Colorado Nonprofit Association’s Amber Coté presents a robust discussion of the roles and responsibilities of nonprofit boards. Examine the statewide nonprofit climate; legal & fiduciary responsibilities; critical roles and functions of the board; and have some fun in the midst of these unusual times. DOOR PRIZE: One participating organization will win a free, three-hour board training with Amber for your ED and Board Chair. Could also be included as part of an upcoming Board retreat.

Register in advance here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsc-Gpqj4pHd04pJfJWF4VFyamL4ct_zVz

Watch previously recorded webinars here:

September 8: Cash Flow Projections

Cash is your most important response and recovery tool. Join us for this Nonprofit Finance Fund webinar to teach you how to forecast the timing of cash in and cash out of your organization. Walk through a demonstration of the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s cash projecting tool. Includes a Q&A session with local financial experts and Community Foundation finance committee members. 

September 22: Budgets & Scenario Plans

Deep dive into day-to-day management (budgets) and strategic decision making (scenario plans), with special considerations for COVID-19 impacts. Walk through a demonstration of the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s scenario planning tool. Includes a Q&A session with local financial experts and Community Foundation finance committee members.

October 6: Reinventing Fundraising During COVID-19

Nonprofit consultant Denise Clark shares online fundraising strategies to replace in-person asks and events. Learn how to enhance your individual donor program and deepen relationships with donors. Discuss how to balance drastic measures with frugality and reserves.

October 20: Managing People in Pajamas

Nonprofit Consultant Denise Clark shares how to successfully build a remote workplace culture, including a look into best practices when layoffs and furloughs become necessary.

November 3: Southwest Colorado Gives and Your Year-End Ask

Staff from the Community First Foundation will join us to discuss details for this year’s Gives Day, December 8. Novice and veteran Gives Day organizations will have something to learn! Discuss innovative, new video storytelling options, as well as marketing nuts and bolts of the campaign.

November 17:  Don’t be a Zoom Zombie

Learn bells and whistles to host engaging and interactive virtual meetings and retreats, presented by nonprofit consultant Sandhya Tillotson.

Please view our e-magazine outlining specific needs from local nonprofits trying to recover from the impacts of the pandemic.

Be a hero and GIVE WHERE YOU LIVE!

Send us your flyers, and we will post opportunities for holiday giving!

To protect the health and safety of our community, the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College has suspended all public performances until at least February.

Our Making a Difference Speaker Series presentation of David Brooks is postponed until 2021. Brooks is a New York Times columnist, political analyst, and commentator on PBS NewsHour and NPR’s All Things Considered.

If you have already purchased tickets, the Concert Hall will issue a refund to all ticket holders.

We will announce plans for our David Brooks| Making a Difference event when more information is available.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training

Building Justice From Within: The Anti-oppressive Organization

Facilitator: Regan Byrd | Two-part training | $135 | Virtual Check In: December 9, 2020 

The Southwest Rural Philanthropy Days Regional Leadership Committee (SW RLC) is hosting Regan Byrd Consulting for a two-day training to discuss typically difficult topics through the lens of anti-oppression theory and practice. This training is only open to nonprofit and community based organizations in Southwest Colorado as the session will be specifically tailored to address local regional topics.

Part 1: The first training of this two- part series will ground attendees in anti-oppression theory and its application to the history of the United States. Attendees will learn about classism, racism, and sexism as core oppressive systems that have shaped the United States and how political, economic, and social resources have been denied or amplified based on identity within the U.S. Attendees will also learn about Colorado specific history, especially regarding Native American, Black, Latinx, and rural populations. Finally, attendees will learn about an anti-oppression theory, the 4 I’s of oppression, and how to examine the U.S., Colorado, and the non-profit industrial complex through this lens. 

Virtual Check In: The virtual check in series will be used to debrief anti-oppression theoretical concepts, and also coach attendees on developing and articulating personal and organizational values around anti-oppression, harm reduction, and DEI. 

Part 2: The second training (April 2021) will give attendees tools and methods to begin applying anti-oppression theory to organizational practices. Attendees will be trained on implicit/unconscious bias, non-violent communication, organizational systems change and suggested tools for transformation, and crafting organizational anti-oppressive guiding principles. Attendees will also have opportunities to work through scenarios and case studies developed by the trainer to map out organizational barriers to anti-oppression and potential solutions. Finally, attendees will be given opportunities to envision a future free from oppression, and what role their organization will serve in building that future. 

This event has a capacity of 50 people, with no more than 2 people from each organization. Cost is $135.

• • Please reach out to Ermina at [email protected] with any questions.

Our popular summer concert series is now in its sixth year, and we are going virtual!

Our Community Concerts in the Secret Garden is designed to benefit the nonprofit community and promote Durango’s talented music scene by featuring a different nonprofit and music talent on Wednesday evenings in the Rochester’s Secret Garden throughout the summer. We will miss those festive gatherings this year!

Since we didn’t want this great grant opportunity to be diminished during the current restrictions of our public health crisis, we are taking the concerts to the airwaves, broadcasting on the radio, featuring local bands and nonprofit highlights.  

The 10 selected nonprofits invited to benefit this year represent an array of La Plata County’s amazing arts and culture organizations. We hope to raise $50,000 in support of these organizations through our online fundraiser, so that the arts can help us heal.

The March 31 and April 29 events are canceled.

The Community Foundation is offering a new resource to local nonprofit leaders (staff and board members) on the last Tuesday of each month, March – October. Join us for Something to Chew On, a monthly brown bag power lunch.

12 – 1 p.m. at TBK Bank’s Community Room in Durango (259 W. 9th Street). Bring a brown bag lunch and plan to dive into a compelling, relevant topic each month.

Erik Weihenmayer | January 24 | FLC Community Concert Hall | 7 PM

Click here for tickets.

 

ColoradoGives is a year-round online giving platform that makes it easy for donors to search for nonprofits and donate online.  Hosted by the Community First Foundation in Arvada, CO,  Colorado Gives features more than 2,500 Colorado nonprofit profiles.

Colorado Gives Day, scheduled for December 10, 2019, is an annual giving initiative that celebrates philanthropy statewide and inspires donors to “give where they live” through online donations. In 2018 $35.1 million was donated statewide in just one day, making Colorado Gives Day the state’s largest one-day giving event.

As a Regional Champion, the Community Foundation leads the local effort to strengthen online giving in Southwest Colorado. The Community Foundation spearheaded a regional online platform (swcogives.org) specifically for Southwest Colorado, making it easier for donors to find nonprofits in our region and give locally.

Additionally, the Community Foundation coordinates marketing efforts to promote ColoradoGives and Colorado Gives Day, as well as provides support and professional development as local nonprofits build and plan their campaigns.

 

 

In our 20th year as a Community Foundation, we are celebrating our 10th anniversary Community Taste, set for September 18, 2019 at the Ridgewood Event Center at Blue Lake Ranch.

Chefs from across Durango prepare favorite dishes to create a memorable evening with dinner, drinks and dancing, all in support of the great work of the Community Foundation. We can’t thank our guests enough for supporting the Foundation throughout the years. Don’t miss out this year — tickets are on sale now, Click here!