Workshop: Grow Your Nonprofit Base

Salsa and Charity Dynamics invite you to a workshop to discover how to create a custom growth and engagement plan for your nonprofit. Come learn from our featured presenter Blake Groves of Charity Dynamics.

Join us for a working lunch session where we will discuss best practices to recruit and engage new supporters. The workshop will explore how to grow your email list, drive engagement and raise dollars. Each participant will create a custom list-growth plan for his or her organization.

You will learn:

• Top techniques for email acquisition
• Various roles social media can play
• Simple techniques for effective targeting and segmentation

Everyone will leave with actionable items that can make an immediate impact for your organization.

Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Time: 12:00 – 2:00 PM
Place: The Regus Group
445 Park Ave
Suite 10001 (10th Floor)
New York City, NY 10022

Event Speaker Bios:

Blake Groves
With more than twenty years of experience in technology solutions and consulting, Blake has focused the past eight years exclusively on how Internet technologies can help nonprofit organizations. Working first at Convio, and now at Charity Dynamics he has worked to create solutions for nonprofits to attract more constituents, raise funds, drive action, and build loyalty. Prior to joining Convio, Blake served in both consulting and product management roles at IBM's eBusiness Unit, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, and America Online. Before entering the technology sector, he was a partner in a full service advertising, marketing, and public relations firm.

He has a B.S. in Marketing from Texas A&M, and an M.B.A. from The American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird)

John Hlinko is the leader of Left Action, a network of over 1,000,000 progressive activists, built primarily through viral marketing.  He appears regularly on TV as a political pundit, including on CNN, Fox, and Current, and is also the author of the recently released book, Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Message Read and Spread, ranked by Amazon.com as the # 1 "hot new release" in both the "web marketing" and "retail" categories. 

Hlinko holds a BA from Wesleyan and an MA from Harvard, and lives in New York City with his wife and daughters.

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