Teaching Emerging Leaders to Speak with Confidence

By Beth Cougler Blom

Recently, Volunteer Victoria’s Emerging Leaders Network offered a five-week public speaking course to a small group of individuals made up of mostly ELN members.  It was taught by Ginger Brunner of Dynamic HR Solutions Inc. and received rave reviews from all participants.  In this blog post, guest blogger Yasmin Rampuri (ELN member and on staff at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria) shares her experience as a participant in this important skill-building course.

Along with 11 other brave souls, I’ve just completed a five-week “Speaking with Confidence” course which was …

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April 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Emerging Leaders Network, Workshops | Leave a comment

Our Training Initiatives

By Beth Cougler Blom

Each year Volunteer Victoria works with a wide variety of trainers to deliver workshops for our community participants.  As the Manager of Training and Outreach for Volunteer Victoria, I’m pleased that we are able to offer a good cross-section of learning opportunities for our member agencies and others in our community who need to develop knowledge and skills in nonprofit management.

Just since September last year our staff or contracted facilitators have taught workshops in: fund development, media relations, social media, volunteer management, networking skills, succession planning, communication skills, story-telling, …

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March 30th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Workshops | 2 comments

Bootcamp for Fund Developers – Or, how I learned to stop learning and get on the court.

By Lori Elder

The following is a guest blog post by Shannon Whissell, Manager, Communication & Fund Development at The Cridge Centre for the Family. Shannon kindly offered to share her learnings from our recent Planning for Fundraising Success workshop with Kari Frazer. Thank you Shannon! We welcome feedback from other participants who attended on the day as well! NOTE: Non-profit members who are new to fund development are invited to attend our no cost Q&A sessions. To find out more, contact Beth Cougler Blom …

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March 7th, 2011 | Category: Featured Members, Latest News, Workshops | Leave a comment

Your Case for Support – a critical first step

By Beth Cougler Blom

The following is a guest blog post written by Kari Frazer, facilitator of our recent “Planning for Fundraising Success” workshop.  Kari holds the international Certified Fund Raising Executive designation and has been practicing fundraising, marketing and media relations for 24 years.

In my recent Planning for Fundraising Success workshop for Volunteer Victoria I think the pivotal subject was creating the The Case for Support. Many of the 30 people in the room had an ‘aha’ moment when we went to some of their websites and looked …

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February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Workshops | 2 comments

Succession Planning – Is Your Organization Ready for the Future?

By Beth Cougler Blom


Today we’re pleased to feature a guest blog post by certified HR professional Ginger Brunner. Ginger is principal of Dynamic HR Solutions Inc and will be facilitating our upcoming “Succession Planning” workshop on February 17, 2011.

If the employees who currently hold key or critical positions within your organization were to leave tomorrow, would there be any qualified and/or experienced employees prepared to assume their role?

Many organizations are struggling to answer this question as the demographics of the workplace continue to shift. Succession planning is the process of identifying and developing internal employees with the potential to fill key or critical organizational positions. …

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February 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Latest News, Workshops | 2 comments
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