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MVNC Workshops and Events

MVNC workshops provide Island nonprofit staff and board members with the essential tools, skills and resources they need to keep their organizations running. Since 2020, MVNC has hosted over 65 online webinars or in-person workshops. 

MVNC also hosts regular gatherings and events that provide nonprofit staff and board members with the opportunity to socialize, connect, skill share, and network. Past MVNC events have led to multi-organization partnerships like the formation of ArtsMV and Healthy Aging MV that continue to tackle systemic Island issues today.

Yearly Programming: 

Each year we host over 20 webinars, networking events, information sessions and convenings for our nonprofit community. Many topics depend on the yearly feedback of our nonprofit community. However, there are several events and topics we re-visit each year as part of our core programming. 

1-2 hour webinars on the following topics:

  • Nonprofit compliance
  • Human resources 101
  • Employment law
  • Fundraising Series (2-3 independent topics)
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  • 3-4 additional topics depending on nonprofit feedback

convenings:

  • Executive Director Cocktails (Sep/Oct)
  • Island Nonprofit Collaboration Speed Dating (Feb)
  • Fundraising networking and roundtables (3x year)


Scroll down to view and register for our upcoming events! 

Looking for a Leadership Intensive?

Our multi-session workshops like strategic planning or board leader training are listed on the Leadership Intensive page of our website.  

View leadership intensives here

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Upcoming Events

    • 29 Apr 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Zoom
    Register

    5 Strategies for Disrupting Your Unconscious Bias

    with Linda Jenkins of Jenkins Consulting Group

    Tuesday, April 29, 10am-12pm on Zoom

    Many leaders are striving to create dynamic inclusive organizations that maximize innovation, creativity, productivity, engagement, and relationships to effectively serve  their constituents. These leaders create and adapt systems that promote fairness and  equitable treatment, and foster environments where diverse perspectives are heard, recognized, and acted upon. They are using unconscious bias training to help their  employees and volunteers become fully engaged in supporting and sustaining their  efforts. This workshop will introduce participants to unconscious bias and its impact on  decision-making in the workplace; tools to identify their individual unconscious biases; and five strategies they can use to disrupt their unconscious biases. This session should  particularly benefit leaders working to create organizations that maximize innovation, creativity, productivity, engagement, and relationships.

    By participating in Five (5) Strategies for Disrupting Your Unconscious Biases, participants  will: 

    1. Learn the definition of and characteristics of unconscious bias 
    2. Explore tools to identify their individual unconscious biases 
    3. Learn five (5) strategies they can use to disrupt their unconscious biases 
      1. Realize and accept we all have unconscious biases
      2. Build awareness of your unconscious biases 
      3. Practice Individuation vs. categorization 
      4. Practice perspective taking 
      5. Practice counter-stereotyping
    *Please note - we will not be recording this presentation*

      About the Speaker

      Linda Jenkins provides organization leaders with practical strategic approaches to achieving their missions. Her services enhance their abilities to govern and manage ethically, effectively, and inclusively. Customized services include board assessment and development, strategic planning, and inclusive workplace training. Linda is passionate about creating inclusive workplaces where everyone:

      1. Feels their dimensions of diversity are valued.
      2. Has all their talents tapped in service to their organization’s goals.
      3. Feels a sense of belonging.

      Linda has owned her own company,  Jenkins Consulting Group (JCG), for seventeen years. She provides her services virtually and in-person. Through JCG, Linda has completed 90 projects for 68 organizations.


      • 13 May 2025
      • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Zoom
      Register

      Meeting Culture Matters: Strengthen Your Workplace Relationships with Inclusive Meetings

      with Linda Jenkins
      of Jenkins Consulting Group

      Tuesday, May 13, 10am-12pm on Zoom

      • Do you want to attend meetings that maximize innovation, creativity, productivity, engagement, and  relationships?  
      • Do you want to attend meetings where the leader mediates and facilitates the discussion to ensure no  participant dominates or derails the discussion or interrupts other participants? 
      • Do you want to attend meetings where all participants understand how and when they can engage with  each other?  
      • Do you want to attend meetings that promote fairness and equitable treatment? 
      • Do you want to lead meetings that foster environments where diverse perspectives are heard,  recognized, and acted upon?  

      If you answered yes to any of these questions, join Linda Jenkins for Meeting Culture Matters: Strengthen Your Workplace Relationships with Inclusive Meetings. During Linda’s workshop, participants will learn: 

      1. The definition of inclusive meetings. 
      2. How inclusive meetings strengthen workplace relationships by reducing bias and increasing  psychological safety. 
      3. The attributes of inclusive meetings. 
      4. Guidance on facilitating inclusive meetings to strengthen their workplace relationships. 

      Participants will receive the 11-page Leading Inclusive Meetings handout to help them facilitate and lead  inclusive meetings in their workplace. 

      *Please note - we will not be recording this presentation*

      About the Speaker

      Linda Jenkins provides organization leaders with practical strategic approaches to achieving their missions. Her services enhance their abilities to govern and manage ethically, effectively, and inclusively. Customized services include board assessment and development, strategic planning, and inclusive workplace training. Linda is passionate about creating inclusive workplaces where everyone:

      1. Feels their dimensions of diversity are valued.
      2. Has all their talents tapped in service to their organization’s goals.
      3. Feels a sense of belonging.

      Linda has owned her own company,  Jenkins Consulting Group (JCG), for seventeen years. She provides her services virtually and in-person. Through JCG, Linda has completed 90 projects for 68 organizations.

    Past workshops & events

    17 Apr 2025 Understanding & Leveraging Generational Diversity in the Workplace
    15 Apr 2025 Development Brown Bag: Planned Giving
    10 Apr 2025 Martha's Vineyard Career, Volunteer, and Networking Night!
    25 Mar 2025 Demystifying AI for Grant Writing
    22 Mar 2025 MVY RADIO's Night Out for Nonprofits!
    10 Mar 2025 Beyond the Rainbow: LGTBQIA+ Inclusion in Practice
    4 Mar 2025 PLAN Webinar: Create an Annual Fund Development Plan
    13 Feb 2025 Revenue Modeling Strategies for Sustainable Growth and Resilience
    11 Feb 2025 Nonprofit Collaboration Speed Dating
    3 Feb 2025 February Brown Bag: Practice Your Ask
    14 Jan 2025 Nonprofit Tax and Legal Issues
    18 Dec 2024 HR 101
    8 Nov 2024 Marketing and Creating your Nonprofit's Brand
    16 Oct 2024 Employment Law: What all Nonprofits Need to Know
    9 Oct 2024 Implementing a Gift Planning Program with Lisa Chmiola
    2 Oct 2024 Executive Director Networking Event
    18 Sep 2024 WAYS TO ROCK YOUR YEAR-END FUNDRAISING
    18 Jun 2024 Board Leader Training Information Session
    12 Jun 2024 LISC Meet and Greet: an AmeriCorps Host Information Session
    23 May 2024 AmeriCorps Host Partner Info Session - for Island EDs
    29 Apr 2024 Writing a Simple, Effective Appeal with Reknowned Author Tom Ahern
    25 Apr 2024 From Financial Freakout to Prosperous Nonprofit
    2 Apr 2024 Unlocking the Mystery of Donor Retention
    28 Mar 2024 Rethinking Retention: Building Great Volunteer Relationships
    16 Mar 2024 MVYRadio's Night Out for Nonprofits at the PA Club!
    13 Mar 2024 Building a Strong Financial Foundation for Growth and Impact
    22 Feb 2024 Development Brown Bag - Meet the Funders
    20 Feb 2024 Nonprofit (totally professional) Collaboration Speed Dating
    7 Feb 2024 Create Your 2024 Fundraising Plan with Windmill Hill Consulting
    30 Jan 2024 Creating a Successful Capital Campaign
    6 Dec 2023 HR 101 with Tanya Dutra
    28 Nov 2023 How to Fearlessly Ask for Almost Anything
    16 Nov 2023 Prevent and Respond to Nonprofit Tax and Legal Issues
    23 Oct 2023 Fall Fundraising Brown Bag
    27 Sep 2023 Executive Director Cocktail Party
    22 Sep 2023 THE FIVE KEY EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE SKILLS FOR LEADERSHIP
    9 Jul 2023 MVNC Presents: Uncharitable. Special film screening and conversation with author and nonprofit leader Dan Pallotta
    16 Jun 2023 Marketing and Creating Your Nonprofit's Brand with Grounded World
    11 May 2023 Samantha Halem -Employment Law and What Nonprofits Need to Know
    27 Apr 2023 HOW TO FEARLESSLY ASK FOR ALMOST ANYTHING with Barbara Bellissimo
    4 Apr 2023 Purpose Driven Leadership in the Board Room
    30 Mar 2023 2023 Board Leader Training Information Session
    25 Mar 2023 MVYRADIO'S - NIGHT OUT FOR NONPROFITS AT THE PA CLUB
    21 Mar 2023 Panel Discussion: Nonprofits as Landlords
    15 Mar 2023 3 Ways to Empower Your Board to Fundraise
    30 Jan 2023 HR 101 with Optimize HR
    17 Jan 2023 MVNC Shared Services (MVSSO) 2023 Information Session
    9 Jan 2023 January Brown Bag: Development Directors' 2022 Review
    13 Dec 2022 Peer to Peer Sharing
    10 Nov 2022 Prevent and Respond to Nonprofit Tax and Legal Issues
    26 Oct 2022 Island Nonprofit Executive Directors Cocktail Party
    25 Oct 2022 Nonprofit Technology Planning and How to Budget Smartly for IT
    24 Oct 2022 Taking Action
    20 Sep 2022 Reimagining and Deepening Impact
    28 Jul 2022 MVNC Shared Services (MVSSO) Summer Information Session
    21 Jul 2022 Nonprofit Technology Planning and How to Budget Smartly for IT
    13 Jun 2022 Manifesting Equity Mindset Based on Critical Thinking and Decision Making
    9 Jun 2022 June 9th 12pm INP Information Session - Learn more about Nonprofit Leadership Opportunity and ask your questions
    6 Jun 2022 MVNC to Host a Repeat Presentation of a New Nonprofit Healthcare Option
    24 May 2022 MVNC Shared Services (MVSSO) May Information Session
    24 May 2022 Evaluate your Program with Meaningful Data
    17 May 2022 Creating an Impactful Data Strategy
    16 May 2022 The Art of the Ask
    10 May 2022 MVNC Shared Services (MVSSO) May Information Session
    9 May 2022 Are Big Foot and Individual Major Gifts Mere Legends? Three Truths About Building Donor Relationships and Making the Ask
    7 May 2022 SAT MAY 7th - THE 2nd ANNUAL MVYRADIO NIGHT OUT FOR NONPROFITS
    3 May 2022 INP Information Session - Learn more about Nonprofit Leadership Opportunity and ask your questions
    29 Apr 2022 DONT MISS ROBIN STACIA - and Creating an Equity Mindset and Responding to Resistance
    26 Apr 2022 3 Ways To Empower Your Board to Fundraise
    26 Apr 2022 MVNC Shared Services (MVSSO) Information Session
    22 Apr 2022 MVNC to Again Host a New Nonprofit Healthcare (2nd Session)
    12 Apr 2022 Fundraising MV: Spring 2022 Virtual Brown Bag Lunch
    18 Mar 2022 Attorney Samantha Halem: What Every Nonprofit Employer Needs To Know!
    10 Mar 2022 MVNC Review of an Option to Group Purchase Healthcare
    7 Dec 2021 Avoid Fraud, Reduce Risk and Ensure Financial Protection for Nonprofits
    10 Nov 2021 Purpose-Driven Leadership with Jim Taylor - Authorized Voice & Power
    3 Nov 2021 MVNC Hosts "Socially Responsible Investing for Nonprofits* Doing Well and Doing Good"
    28 Sep 2021 Purpose Driven Board Leadership with Andy Davis & Jim Taylor from Board Source
    17 Sep 2021 MOVED TO FRI 9/17 "Brand Marketing" - Understand your Organization's BPP (Belief, Purpose, and Pursuits) w/ NYC Agency Grounded World
    18 Aug 2021 Nonprofit Leadership Chat - Monthly series - presesnted by SCORE Cape Cod & the Islands
    5 Aug 2021 Ransomware and Keeping Your IT System Safe - PART 2
    1 Jul 2021 IT Security - Steps ALL Nonprofits Need to Take NOW with Dan Keleher
    8 Jun 2021 What Every Nonprofit Employer Needs To Know Today with Attorney Samantha Halem
    29 Apr 2021 Fundraising MV: Spring 2021
    27 Apr 2021 Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business School Leader and Author- Innovator in Change Theory
    9 Apr 2021 MVNC Welcomes Grounded World and How to Accelerate Donations and Scale Impact Through E-commerce and Technology
    2 Apr 2021 Special Program! How to Get People to Change their Behavior and Donate More at the Moments that Matter with Grounded World
    26 Mar 2021 How to define your Purpose and bring it to Life through Storytelling with Grounded World
    22 Mar 2021 Conversation with Island Board Chairs & Board Leadership
    18 Mar 2021 INP Information Session: learn about the award-winning Leadership Program for Island Nonprofits
    25 Feb 2021 The Nonprofit Marketing Summit (Virtual Event)
    17 Feb 2021 Tech Trends for Nonprofits in 2021 - Free Zoom webinar
    10 Feb 2021 Debby Irving Returns with "Leveling the Playing Field, Interrupting the Patters of Privilege & Power"
    19 Jan 2021 PPP & CARES ACT - Here's What's New with Shaun Smith
    7 Jan 2021 Vineyard Reads: Racial Justice, Book three: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Author Isabel Wilkerson
    3 Dec 2020 Vineyard Reads: Racial Justice, Book two: Faith & Boundaries, with Author David Silverman
    1 Dec 2020 Fundraising MV: Fall 2020
    5 Nov 2020 Vineyard Reads: Racial Justice, Book one: Waking Up White, Author Debby Irving
    28 Oct 2020 "I'm a Good Person, Isn't That Enough?” A presentation with racial justice educator and author Debby Irving
    21 Oct 2020 REPEAT PRESENTATION 'Diversification & Strategic Board Building with Robin Stacia
    15 Oct 2020 Shared Services: Feasibility Study on Collaborative Solutions for Island Nonprofits
    5 Oct 2020 INP Welcome Event, Monday, October 5th 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    23 Sep 2020 FUNDRAISING IS SELLING - HOW TO CRAFT YOUR STORY & ASK FOR MONEY
    17 Sep 2020 NANETTE FRIDMAN - THE COLLABORATION CONTINUUM
    9 Sep 2020 ROBIN STACIA -DIVERSIFICATION & STRATEGIC BOARD BUILDING
    5 Aug 2020 ROBIN STACIA *DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION *INTENTIONAL LEADERSHIP
    16 Jul 2020 Respond, Recover, Renew : How to Assess the Impact from COVID-19 and Plan for What's Ahead
    24 Jun 2020 Beyond the Mission: How Can Nonprofits Join the Movement?
    21 May 2020 Social Media Basics - Develop & Update Your Social Media Presence
    8 May 2020 Next Steps - How to Successfully Manage Your PPP Funding
    21 Apr 2020 MV Nonprofits- Board Chair & Executive Leadership During COVID-19
    16 Apr 2020 Fundraising MV: COVID-19 - Changes to Fundraising, Event Planning and Donor Engagement w/special guests
    9 Apr 2020 Seminar on Grant Writing, CARES Act Funds and other Non-Profit Financial Assistance
    7 Apr 2020 Today! Financial Planning for PPP of the CARES ACT
    2 Apr 2020 What Every Nonprofit Employer Needs To Know Today - including impact of COVID-19
    30 Mar 2020 Fundraising MV: COVID-19 how it is, and will change the way you fundraise
    13 Mar 2020 POSTPONED! MVYRADIO NIGHT OUT FOR NONPROFITS
    9 Mar 2020 Information session for Local Leadership Program for Island Nonprofits
    12 Feb 2020 Fundraising MV: Winter Meeting
    11 Dec 2019 Applications for Institute for Nonprofit Practice are now Open for class of 2021 - learn more!
    5 Dec 2019 Board Chairs and Executive Directors Meeting
    29 Oct 2019 Getting Your Board Engaged
    25 Oct 2019 Fundraising MV: Fall Meeting
    13 Jun 2019 Board Chair Meeting: Taking Action on Critical Issues
    7 May 2019 Getting Going With Planned Giving
    26 Apr 2019 Fundraising MV: Strategies for Meeting Summer Challenges
    3 Apr 2019 Nonprofit Leadership Development Program Year 2: Information Session
    20 Feb 2019 HR Services for Island Nonprofts - Info Session
    11 Feb 2019 BECOME A GRANTS WIZARD
    1 Feb 2019 Fundraising MV - Winter Meeting
    11 Jan 2019 WHAT, HOW, WHY. A talk with experts on the Island Tax Assessors tax-exempt denial and nonprofit compliance issues.
    6 Nov 2018 The Vineyard Nonprofit's Wish List
    26 Oct 2018 Fundraising MV



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