Save the Date - September Nonprofit Learning Series

About the Nonprofit Learning Series
The Nonprofit Learning Series is a program of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation’s Nonprofit Impact Initiative, offered in partnership with University of Wisconsin–Green Bay’s Nonprofit Education & Development Network. This series offers free, in-depth virtual learning opportunities focused on practical tools and strategies to support nonprofit executive directors, staff, board members, and volunteers in their everyday work.

Who Can Participate? 
This virtual learning series is available and offered at no cost to nonprofits serving Brown, Kewaunee & Oconto Counties. Registration is limited to support meaningful engagement and discussion, with priority given to nonprofits that primarily serve these counties. 

September Learning Series

• Date & Time: September 11, 18, 25 (10 AM – 11 AM CT)
• Capacity Building Topic: Communications & Relationships
• Series: From Story to Support: Using Communications to Build Trust, Community & Resources 
• Description: Communications are more than a marketing tool—they are one of the most powerful ways organizations build trust, strengthen relationships, and inspire people to invest in their mission. This series explores how intentional storytelling and cohesive communications can transform the way nonprofits engage their communities and mobilize resources. Whether your organization has a dedicated communications team or relies on staff and volunteers wearing multiple hats, this series offers practical, accessible strategies that help organizations communicate with greater clarity, consistency, and impact.
• Participant Learning Outcomes 
  • A practical storytelling framework to communicate mission and impact through ethical storytelling that honors dignity & community voice.
  • Strategies for building a clear, authentic, and recognizable nonprofit brand.
  • Tools to strengthen websites, social media, newsletters, and other communications.
  • Templates and best practices for fundraising communications and donor engagement materials.
  • A communications planning framework that integrates storytelling, branding, and fundraising into one cohesive strategy.
• Presenter Bio: Daisee Francour has worked with various communities, sectors, and industries across the world, transforming their understanding of Indigenous rights, human rights, climate change, biocultural diversity, social justice and a just transition. She has nearly 15 years of experience working in a service role to support Indigenous and BIPOC communities locally and globally, in various roles including as a direct service provider, volunteer, advocate, facilitator, strategist, resource mobilizer, consultant, non-profit director and former grantmaker. Daisee is currently the Executive Director at Chinook Fund, a public foundation based in Denver, CO that seeds community-led, systemic change by mobilizing resources for and trusting in grassroots social justice organizations across Colorado. She formerly held senior level roles at various nonprofits including the Indigenous Environmental Network, Cultural Survival, Cultural Conservancy and served as an Adjunct Instructor at the College of Menominee Nation. As a natural storyteller, Daisee is passionate about using communications and media to build the consciousness, capacity, and sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples as they defend their lands, territories, knowledge systems, and futures. Daisee holds a MPPA from Adler University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Criminal Justice from University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

How to Register
To request a spot in this learning series, please complete the registration request form here: Registration Request Form.
 
Registration & Confirmation
This calendar event is a placeholder to help you reserve the series dates. Submitting a registration request does not guarantee participation. All applicants will receive an email confirming whether they have been selected to participate or placed on a waitlist. Confirmed participants will receive a separate calendar invite with the Microsoft Teams meeting link prior to the first session.