UPCOMING EVENTS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

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As you can see from this site, I love to connect with nonprofit and fundraising colleagues! 

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Contact me to discuss speaking to your group, conference, or event: tanja@synergiesinphilanthropy.com

PAST EVENTS | TRAININGS (Sample)

Mid-Atlantic Facilitators  Network And Liberating Structures Global Network​

April and May 2021

Road Testing The Butter Meeting And Workshop Platform
 

Two experimental learning sessions cohosted with Laura Holbrook. Butter is one of the new "kids" on the virtual space block. It's an all-in-one tool for workshops, trainings, team, or client meetings. Collaborative Features to check out include: 
🧈 Google Drive and #miro integration
🧈 Polling with quiz and voting options
🧈 Timer in the main room
🧈 Question and commenting features
🧈 Great chat features
🧈 Queuing breakout rooms, polls, youtube videos
🧈 Reactions with sounds (we had great fun with it)

Technology Of Participation (ToP) Annual Conference

March 2021

An Intro To Spatial Audio Gathering Sites To Boost Facilitating & Gathering Online

I was privileged to lead a deep and fun dive into two spatial audio sites, Wonder and Spatial.chat, for ToP Network members. Spatial audio sites are the newest members on the online "meeting block" putting participants into the driver seat by giving them the ability to move around and speak with other guests. 

AFP NEW JERSEY ​

January 2021

Connecting With Your Donors In Light Of Covid-19

In this virtual session, I tapped with 35+ fundraising colleagues into the potential of connecting and engaging with donors online during a global pandemic. Special thanks to the Association of Fundraising Professionals in New Jersey for inviting me to facilitate this interactive training session. 

European Fundraising Association - Annual Skillshare

November 27

Donor Engagement During Covid-19​

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I was honored to co-present with Tomasz Kierul on Virtual Donor Engagement in Time of Covid-19 at "Skillshare"- the European Fundraising Association's Virtual European Fundraising Tour. This morning, fundraisers participated in a quickfire round-up of fifteen mini-presentations featuring fundraising trends and insights across Europe and beyond. Learnings from European colleagues from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia:

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• Giving in Europe has been on a rise.

• Transnational Giving has become easier and more convenient thanks to Transnational Giving Europe who helps donors give across borders.

• Digital opportunities and the use of technology have been increasing - And this trend comes with a lot of possibilities for imagining new ways of connecting with individual donors online.

Polish Fundraising Association - 12th International Conference

November 20, 2020

2.0 Online Experiences For Your Donors

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I was invited to present at the 12th International Fundraising Conference
- 12. Międzynarodowa Konferencja Fundraising. In the center was the big question: how do we engage donors online? How can we create transformational experiences?

AFP SOUTH CAROLINA LOWCOUNTRY 

November 11, 2020

Virtual Donor Engagement 2.0.
 

I was invited to "visit" Charleston SC to have "Virtual Coffee" with colleagues at the Association of Fundraising Professionals. We tested ideas on how to create playful and meaningful moments for donors online.

TEAM RESILIENCE STRATEGIES

Training for Team Leaders and Managers

October 2020

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13 Team Leaders from Berlin, Botswana, Israel, U.S.A., and Canada made the stretch and tested Team Leader Resilience. David Prior, PCC, BCC, and I provided them A-I-R - a new innovative model for team leader resilience (Aligned Commitment, Innovative Agility, Relational Team)

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What your colleagues across industries experienced in the session:

“So many good ideas about exercises to take back to our team”

“Fast and furious session - thank you”

“Like the tools!”

THE VIRTUAL CONVERSATION

A PROJECT BY 70 FACES MEDIA/THE JEWISH WEEK ​

July and October 2020, April and July 2021

Facilitating meaningful evenings for 70+ participants on "Racial Justice and the Jewish Community" and "Imaging a Jewish Community post-Covid-19" was a rewarding experience. Special thanks to Gary Rosenblatt and the Conversation team for embracing the virtual space and inviting me to design the programs. It was great to see everyone conversing and connecting online. 

DISTRIBUTION OF TEAMS IN THE ERA OF COVID ​

An interactive and imaginatively virtual session for team leaders 

July 2020

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Team leaders across industries were invited to an interactive and imaginatively virtual session to respond to the new remote work environment. Team leaders connected with peers and sourced collective strategies. The leaders left with greater resourcefulness and increased confidence to innovate in the ever-expanding and contracting ‘normal’. I was thankful to develop this session with a distinguished coaching colleague, David Matthew Prior, 

CENTER FOR NONPROFITS NJ - ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Liberating Structures Workshop

December 2019

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Impressions from facilitating a Liberating Structures Workshop with Julia (Julie) Erickson, MBA at the NJ Nonprofit Council conference. Collaborations made fun and easy - the key to success in philanthropy and fundraising. 

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DEUTSCHER FUNDRAISING KONGRESS
Prospect Research - Making Friends in the U.S.
May 2019

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It was a privilege to speak at the National German Fundraising Conference (Deutscher Fundraising Kongress) about how to identify donors and funders in the U.S.