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• Lunch & Learn: Returning to the Office

  • When
    18 Jun 2021
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us for a monthly "Lunch & Learn" on the third Friday of each month, from 12:00-1:00 Central!

  Grab your lunch and hop on Zoom to chat with colleagues and industry leaders. Each month, we'll pick a topic and bring in a speaker to share ideas and knowledge, and then we'll open the floor for questions and conversation.

  Our June topic is Returning to the Office. Instead of having a presenter this month, we're going to ask you all to hop on video and we'll open up the floor. We want to hear about your plans to return to the office. When are you going back? How frequently will you be at the office or at home? Is your schedule/office/dress code changing? What are you nervous about? Did you make the case to stay remote? How? Or have you been in the office this whole time? How has it been?

  Come ready with your stories, questions, or tips to share!

  The Zoom link will be sent in your registration confirmation email.

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• Apra Midwest Weekly Coffee Chat

  • When
    23 Jun 2021
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    8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (CDT)
  • Location
    Zoom (link will be in registration email)

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  Start your Wednesdays with Apra Midwest! Join colleagues from Apra-MN, Apra Great Plains and Apra MoKan for an informal weekly coffee chat on Zoom. The link will be included in the confirmation email when you register.

  

  If you're interested in hosting a coffee chat, reach out to Michelle Brownlee to coordinate!
  

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• 5 Senses for Success with Colleagues & Clients

  • When
    28 Jun 2021
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Zoom (link will be in confirmation email)

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  Two lucky registrants will win a copy of Juli's book! The Zoom link for this event will be sent in your registration confirmation email, and we'll follow up with book winners via email after the event.

  5 Senses for Success with Colleagues & Clients

  Juli Geske-Peer, author of the newly released book entitled 5 Senses for Success: Strategies to Thrive in Any Arena will share a few concepts from her book, focusing on how to build success in working with colleagues and clients. With a career that has included roles such as Researcher at Bentz Whaley Flessner, as well as Senior Director of Prospect Development at the University of Minnesota Foundation, among others, Juli can address the unique situations that apply within the Prospect Development arena.

  Learn how to build trust, become an influencer, and address difficult conversations (or even conflict) seamlessly. Understand how leadership skills can be utilized anywhere, whether or not one is in a formal leadership role. During the session, you will also have opportunity to break into small groups to discuss and plan concrete action steps you can employ immediately.

  Meet the Speaker:

  Juli Geske-Peer is the founder and president of Peer Performance Solutions, a company focused on enhancing individual and organizational performance. Her particular expertise is on facilitating exceptional leadership and relationship skills. With a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and over 20 years of successful consulting and management experience, Juli has worked with companies ranging from local nonprofits to multinational organizations.

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• Apra Midwest Weekly Coffee Chat

  • When
    30 Jun 2021
  •  
    8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (CDT)
  • Location
    Zoom (link will be in registration email)

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  Start your Wednesdays with Apra Midwest! Join colleagues from Apra-MN, Apra Great Plains and Apra MoKan for an informal weekly coffee chat on Zoom. The link will be included in the confirmation email when you register.

  

  If you're interested in hosting a coffee chat, reach out to Michelle Brownlee to coordinate!
  

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• Lunch & Learn: Cryptocurrency

  • When
    16 Jul 2021
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us for a monthly "Lunch & Learn" on the third Friday of each month, from 12:00-1:00 Central!

  Grab your lunch and hop on Zoom to chat with colleagues and industry leaders. Each month, we'll pick a topic and bring in a speaker to share ideas and knowledge, and then we'll open the floor for questions and conversation. The Zoom link will be sent in your registration email.

  Our July topic is Cryptocurrency! Every day, another cryptocurrency finds its way into the headlines, like Bitcoin and Elon Musk, and most recently Dogecoin. There are debates about the volatility, the security, and more. However, many nonprofits have decided to see cryptocurrencies as a new giving vehicle and are choosing to accept cryptocurrency donations. This discussion will explore what cryptocurrencies are and how they work as well as how they interact with the philanthropic sector. We'll talk about cryptocurrency donors, companies and exciting new hybrid giving vehicles. Come and talk to us about how your organization is thinking about cryptocurrencies or how you wish they were thinking about them!

  

  Our guest speaker will be Elisa Shoenberger. Elisa is a researcher consultant for Aspire Research Group. She has over eight years of experience in the fundraising sector working as a prospect researcher at Loyola University Chicago and benchmarking analyst at Grenzebach Glier and Associates. 

  Elisa earned her MBA in marketing and operations management from Loyola, a MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA in history from the University of Chicago. 

  She has written about philanthropy for Inside Philanthropy, Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Daily Dot, Brainfacts.org, and others. Through Aspire, she wrote In Good Company: A Guide to Corporate Fundraising. She has published with the WIRED Magazine, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and many others. She writes regularly for Book Riot and Loop News. She is also the co-editor of the Antelope: A Journal of Oral History and Mayhem.

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