Social Innovation Conversations

Nonprofit Boot Camp is Craigslist Foundation's flagship educational program. The conference educates and empowers the next generation of nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs, connecting them with valuable industry resources, peers and potential supporters.

Boot Camp is planned, produced and promoted as a collaborative effort, with dozens of partners that provide support to nonprofits. Boot Camp is the largest nonprofit gathering of the year in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2006, the conference expanded to New York City, and it will expand to other cities over time.

The podcast sessions of Nonprofit Boot Camp bring you recordings of keynote speeches and workshops from the conference's nine educational tracks. To hear about our latest programs and events, sign up for the Craigslist Foundation newsletter.

The programs will be published over the next few weeks and will appear in the list below. The best way to learn about new releases is to subscribe to one of the RSS feeds below, or to one of the site-wide feeds.

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Joe Kroll - The ABCs of Tax-Exempt Status

A 501(c)3 tax exempt organization is one which can accept tax deductible contributions. This makes it the most popular form of tax-exempt status. Joe Kroll of the Internal Revenue Service discusses the benefits and responsibilities of this status. He covers actions that could jeopardize organizations, along with common examples and exceptions. He also talks about employment issues, including filing requirements for employees and independent contractors, and forms.

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68 minutes, 31.2mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

John Kenyon - Nonprofit Technology Essentials

Managing technology is no longer optional, it is a critical piece of any nonprofit's business plan. In this talk, information technology consultant John Kenyon gives invaluable guidance on the planning needed for small and medium sized organizations to get the most out of their tech investment. Using a work systems framework, Kenyon explores the choices needed to minimize risks and strike the right balance between people, data and technology.

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59 minutes, 27.1mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

Panel Discussion - Internet Marketing Strategies

The internet has become an indispensable part of nonprofit life. Harnessing the web and email for outreach and fundraising takes agility and experience. Different objectives call for different styles, and your online and off-line efforts need to be coordinated for maximum impact. In this panel of experts, Brent Blackaby, Jeff Patrick, and Favianna Rodriguez use case studies to share their technological and marketing know-how to help you plan effective web and communications strategies for your organization.

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62 minutes, 28.7mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

Gerald Richards - Diversity in Fundraising

Shifting demographics among donors, fundraisers, and the communities they serve, calls on nonprofit organizations to think about diversity on many levels. How can you connect with donors who are different than you? How does inclusiveness strengthen your organization as a whole? Gerald Richards and Dee Dee Nguyen explore these questions in this interactive exchange of ideas on how to reach across the divides of ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, and other differences in order to strengthen bonds and create new opportunities.

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54 minutes, 24.9mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

Sojeila Maria Silva - Financial Management 101

The most useful financial statements are those that clearly convey information to their stakeholders in the simplest format possible. In this presentation, Sojeila Maria Silva of the Northern California Community Loan Fund, shares her wisdom from 18 years of management experience. She covers the different approaches to financial management, what financial management and budgeting consist of in real terms, and how to analyze the main financial statements that are helpful in managing an organization.

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60 minutes, 27.7mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

Heather Carpenter - Improve Your Nonprofit Operations

If you're fairly new to running a nonprofit, getting a grip on basic operational procedures can seem like an overwhelming task. Luckily, Heather Carpenter and Jennifier Chien offer a wealth of useful advice and concrete steps to help you establish basic organizational procedures and best practices. By mapping out the tasks in key areas such as insurance, human resources, finances, fundraising, and board relations, a series of small steps can help you strengthen and simplify your operations, freeing up valuable time to focus on the programs you care about.

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54 minutes, 24.8mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

Panel Discussion - Fostering Nonprofit-Corporate Relationships

Nonprofits and corporations can achieve their goals by working together. In a panel discussion, Susan Rae Ross (SRR International), Jim Pitofsky (Hands On Bay Area), and Randy Chun (Wells Fargo) describe the various forms of partnership between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, their benefits, and their pitfalls. Learn how to start and develop these partnerships from the real-world experiences of experts who've sat on both sides of the table.

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72 minutes, 33.3mb, recorded 2006-01-01 details...

Kevin Danaher - Get Out of Your Silos

To be effective, nonprofits can no longer work alone in their silos. Today, serving your community means being part of a broader movement by engaging with other nonprofit sectors, corporations, and government agencies. In this talk, Dr. Kevin Danaher delivers an energizing call for the next generation of leaders to embark on a spiritual quest, which will overturn the obsolete values of money and violence. In their place, we must build a big tent full of diverse perspectives, which can return human potential to a natural balance.

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63 minutes, 29mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

Jan Masaoka - Your Career Path to Nonprofit Leadership

Nonprofit Executive of the Year Jan Masaoka shares practical advice on how to start and develop a career in the nonprofit sector. In an extensive Q&A, she answers questions on which degrees to pursue, how to write your resume, and how to prepare for the interview. She also addresses how to make your own job description, why volunteering matters, what compensation to expect, which fields are getting the funds, whether to start your own organization, and how to grow into leadership roles.

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50 minutes, 23mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

Pamela Hawley - Social Entrepreneurship Landscape

When approaching funders and volunteers, Pamela Hawley says that you must "come from a space of opportunity and not from a space of need. You are giving that [person] an opportunity to give to you and to create a partnership." Drawing from her experience with UniversalGiving and VolunteerMatch, Hawley describes what it takes to create a successful social entrepreneurship organization.

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53 minutes, 24.3mb, recorded 2006-08-19 details...

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