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"Webinars" available on organization-building topics

Kintera provides pre-recorded live webinars available for FREE download to watch at your own convenience. Simply click on the topic you want to learn more about and complete the brief registration form.

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Prospect Screening: Tools for Major Gift Campaigns - 12/14/06

* This is a pdf presentation available for download *

Presented by Carol Belair (over 10 years of experience in prospect screening and was VP of business advancement for Marts & Lundy

Have you ever wondered who is hiding in your database with the wealth to give more? Discover tools that can help you easily find, profile, monitor and rank the weatlh in your database by criteria deemed most important to you. Learn the necessary steps to acquire and leverage powerful data for maximum fundraising success.

New and Proven Capacity Measurements - 9/27/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by: Carol Belair brings over 10 years of experience in electronic screening. She served as VP of business advancement at Kamtech/Marts & Lundy ES Solutions and is currently a senior analyst for Kintera P!N. Elissa Fink is executive vice president of IXI Corp and has over 20 years experience helping companies improve their customer acquisition and retention marketing.

Most fundraisers recognize that a person's income, tangible assets, and lifestyle preferences are unreliable indicators. What really matters most is the possession of liquid financial assets to fund a significant contribution. Despite this obvious fact, traditional wealth screening services continue to focus on estimates of lifestyle, income, home value, and depreciating assets like cars. This webinar explores brand new techniques for uncovering prospects that have true capacity to give &endash; those with disposable assets necessary to support large contributions.

Prospect Screening: Tools for Major Gift Campaigns - 7/25/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Carol Belair (over 10 years of experience in prospect screening and was VP of business advancement for Marts & Lundy).

Have you ever wondered who is hiding in your database with the wealth to give more? Discover tools that can help you easily find, profile, monitor and rank the weatlh in your database by criteria deemed most important to you. Learn the necessary steps to acquire and leverage powerful data for maximum fundraising success.

Maximize Your Planned Giving Program - 3/21/06

Length: Approximately 20 Minutes

Presented by Emmie Ledsinger, Senior P!N Account Executive for Kintera & Program Director for APRA Florida

Have you ever wondered who is hiding in your database with the wealth to give more? Discover tools that can help you easily find, profile, monitor and rank the wealth in your database by criteria deemed most important to you. Learn the necessary steps to acquire and leverage powerful data for maximum fundraising success.

Jumpstart Your Annual Giving Campaign - 9/13/06

Length: Approximately 15 Minutes

Presented by Emmie Ledsinger, Product Specialist for Kintera & Program Director for APRA Florida

Screening is often viewed as only addressing an organization's Major Gift Fundraising needs. Learn the latest strategies to help you jumpstart your Annual Giving Campaign, and improve your Annual Giving Program. Discover tools that can help you easily find, profile, monitor and rank the wealth in your database by criteria deemed most important to you. Find out the necessary steps to acquire and leverage powerful data for maximum fundraising success.

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Advocacy

Fundraising Alchemy: Turning Activists Into Donors (and Vice Versa) - 5/25/06

Length: Approximately 45 Minutes

Presented by TJ Griffin, Advocacy Product Manager and Strategist, Kintera Inc

Discover how the connection between online activism and fundraising can apply to your organization. In addition, learn how your organization can effectively measure, plan and implement an integrated advocacy/fundraising strategy with techniques on how to maximize those results.

Effective Online Advocacy Strategies and Campaigns- 4/19/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by TJ Griffin, Advocacy Product Manager and Strategist, Kintera Inc.

At this session TJ will present case studies and advanced techniques to mobilize grassroots efforts using a variety of Sphere tools.

Engage Your Grassroots Network - 1/17/06

Length: Approximately 45 Minutes

Presented by TJ Griffin, Kintera Account Executive

Learn how to utilize Internet technology and traditional advocacy strategies to effectively expand your base and amplify your advocacy efforts from advocacy expert TJ Griffin. Register to learn how to mobilize activists with information that matters to them, expand your influence and boost your impact, and cultivate supporters, activists, and volunteers.

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Kintera CRM

The Social CRM Roadshow - Now Available in an Online Webinar - 10/24/06

Length: Approximately 35 Minutes

Presented by: Dennis Chyba, Vice President of Solutions, Kintera Inc.

Discover how social constituent relationship management (CRM) on a software as a service platform can deepen your relationships with constituents and maximize fundraising results. Learn ways an organization can optimize its total relationship with donors and supporters. Understand how knowledge of donors can provide your organization with the data needed for meaningful, personal communications.

Tools for Campaign Management - 6/8/06

Length: Approximately 25 Minutes

Presented by Juliana Lawson, Sr. Product Manager, Fundraising , Kintera Inc.

Come learn how Kintera Sphere can help your organization create, manage and analyze successful fundraising campaigns. In addition, learn how to coordinate all of your fundraising activities in support of individual campaigns.

Direct Mail Practices Using Kintera Sphere - 5/3/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Juliana Lawson, Sr. Product Manager, Fundraising , Kintera Inc.

Learn how to align your email and direct mail communications using Kintera SphereTM. Juliana will discuss how to implement a successful annual campaign, as well as strategies to organize all your fundraising activities under one campaign.

Keeping Your Database Healthy and Clean - 4/7/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Ed MacBean, Director of Product Management, Kintera Inc

Discover the latest strategies and tools that will help you maintain quality data in a web-connected database.

Enrich Your Marketing With Segmentation- 1/25/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Aaron Pratt, Kintera Senior Enterprise Trainer

Take the first steps in learning about the benefits in using the power of database segmentation in Sphere to increase your effectiveness in email campaigns, fundraising appeals, website personalization and relevancy, donor management, and more.

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Kintera Email

Emails: Why They're More Important Than You Think - 10/19/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by: Peter Oh, Technical Account Manager, Kintera Inc.

For many nonprofits, emails take a backseat to websites or are ignored altogether, a mindset that can seriously limit fundraising and their ability to bond with constituents.

Secret: Emails can play as big a role as websites when soliciting gifts, communicating information or staying connected with constituents. This thirty minute webinar, complete with specific tips as well as real Kintera client email success stories will cover the best practices of acquiring, creating and sending emails. Learn the secrets to creating emails that people will actually enjoy opening and reading.

Online Marketing Tactics to Grow Your Email List - 3/9/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Keira Costic, Kintera Senior Consultant

Develop an online marketing strategy to increase your email list using tactics such as co-registration, keyword ads, banner ads, and much more. Register today to learn the latest techniques to help you grow your organization's email list.

Deliver Targeted Email Communications - 12/6/05

Length: Approximately 45 Minutes

Presented by Elwood Spencer, Kintera Product Specialist

Learn how Kintera Email will help you to manage sophisticated and targeted email campaigns with supreme efficiency and control. Includes the following: simplyfing email creation, how to achieve higher delivery rates, using targeting and personalization for better results, and tips for advanced reporting.

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Fund Accounting

Streamline Reporting Between Development and the Business Office - 3/14/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Chris Brewer, Regional Manager, Kintera Inc.

Kintera FundWare provides intelligent accounting for nonprofits, with the essential tools you'll need to increase and support accountability within your organization. Combining Kintera FundWare with Kintera Sphere's fundraising tools enables you to streamline communications and reporting between Development and the Business Office.

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Kintera Events

Practice Makes Perfect I: How to Grow and Improve Your Online Event Fundraising Efforts - 2/28/07

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Jessica Olson, Delivery Manager, Kintera Inc

While the previous webinars in our online events fundraising series have focused on event season preparation, it's now time to turn our focus to how you can further grow and improve your online fundraising efforts. Join Kintera and resident expert Jessica Olson for a live webinar that will further dissect best practices for improving upon your current online event fundraising practices.

Dressed for Success: How to Best Prepare for a Successful Online Event Fundraising Season - 2/14/07

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Kim Arcio and Kristin Buttress, Kintera Inc.

Now that you've learned the advantages of moving your fundraising efforts from offline to online, it's time to take a more in-depth look at what you can do today to start preparing for the busy season ahead. Join Kintera for Part II of the seven part series on online events fundraising to learn tips, tricks and best practices that will help set the ground work for a successful event fundraising season.

Kick Off Your Events Season Right: Laying the Foundation for Success - 2/1/2007

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Jessica Olson, Delivery Manager, Kintera Inc

With events fundraising season close at hand, there is no better time than the present to prepare! Join Kintera to learn the advantages of moving your fundraising efforts from offline to online. See examples of past events, and learn the techniques and best practices that made them successful.

Invite, Involve & Inform: Increase Your Fundraising & Volunteer Success - 10/12/06

Length: Approximately 25 Minutes

Presented by: WTI Systems, Ltd (Kintera Partner)

Are you suffering from: unreliable data, being asked to do more with less, flat or declining donations, trouble connecting with volunteers, a lack of IT staff? If so, please join us and discover how to turn these challenges into successes using Kintera Sphere online fundraising, e-communications and Friends Asking Friends® Kintera Thon tools.

Improve Your Online Fundraising and Event Management Potential - 10/10/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Emmie Ledgsinger, Product Specialist, Kintera Inc.

Discover how Kintera Thon is the ideal application to support your organization's fundraising and event management goals. Kintera Thon will help you create event specific Websites and personalized fundraising pages, easily track progress and provide thorough event reviews, expand viral marketing capabilities, and increase repeat participation by simplifying next year's registration process.

Strategies for Maximizing Online Participants - 5/16/06

Length: Approximately 20 Minutes

Presented by Kristin Buttress, Events Specialist, Kintera, Inc.

This session will reveal award winning strategies for maximizing online participants. Learn how to successfully recruit, retain and cultivate successful online fundraisers that come back year after year. Learn what works and what doesn't.

Grow Your Fundraising Efforts - 2/16/06

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Maria Ekedal, Director of Event Services & Kristen Buttress, Event Specialist

Learn about the latest strategies for converting offline participants into online fundraisers, and discover how Kinterathon is the best solution for managing your online and offline participants.

The Road to Revenue: Make the Most of Your Event- 11/30/05

Length: Approximately 30 Minutes

Presented by Maria Ekedal, Director of Event Services, Kintera, Inc.

Take advantage of Kintera's expertise and learn how to implement these best practices to ensure your marketing efforts achieve maximum results.

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