Take your nonprofit’s marketing to the next level with a year-long multimedia campaign designed to amplify your mission, bring visibility to your cause, and build community support. We’ve partnered with local news outlets Suffolk News-Herald, The Tidewater News, The Smithfield Times, and Windsor Weekly to provide this opportunity, which offers $6,600 of advertising per nonprofit to include full-color ads across traditional print media and digital platforms, ensuring maximum visibility throughout Western Tidewater and surrounding areas. View the full range of advertising opportunities that will be available to you.

Much more than just an advertising opportunity, this program provides hands-on guidance, customized support, and training opportunities from a dedicated marketing consultant who will help you tell your story, craft compelling ads, and navigate both traditional and digital marketing strategies. Participants will gain insight into targeted digital marketing tools that connect your message with the right audience at the right time, and will take from the program a marketing schedule, branding guide, website review, and targeted email report. Don’t miss this chance to expand your reach and elevate your impact!

Eligibility Requirements:

•  Capacity to engage in this year-long program with a time commitment of 5 hours per month from June 2025 to May 2026
• Authority to approve your nonprofit’s ads
• An annual operating budget under $1M
• No existing contractual relationship with a marketing or communications consultant
• Working within the Foundation’s service area

Training schedule

• June 2^nd from 10-11 a.m. – Marketing & Branding
• June 11^th at 2-3 p.m. – Targeted Digital
• June 18^th at 10-11 a.m. – Targeted Email

Apply here by Monday, May 12th and contact Lindsay Richardson with the Suffolk News Herald with questions about the program.

Are you looking for a financially sustainable strategy and supporting systems to help your organization thrive?

Do you want to engage your team more deeply in the budgeting process and financial decision making?

Would your partners benefit from clearly presented financial data? If so, then build your financial leadership with FLIP.

Join CNE, in partnership with the Obici Healthcare Foundation and David Deaton of MindSalt, for this innovative and interactive program that brings leadership teams together to learn and develop strategies that strengthen the link between the financial process and community impact. Over the course of a two-day workshop and two individual organizational coaching sessions, participants will:

• Learn to link the financial, programmatic, operational, and leadership efforts of your organization together to develop a richer understanding of your organization’s impact to strengthen how financial information is used to support mission-focused decision-making.
• Gain a better understanding of efforts that organizational leaders account for and allocate resources toward effectively fulfilling the mission today while also reinforcing sustainability moving forward.
• Work with your leadership team and other peers to develop insights for implementing change and strengthening the financial systems, processes, and communications that support organizational success.
• Develop insights, action items, and next steps for your organization.

WORKSHOP

This two-day workshop covers the core elements of financial leadership as it pertains to strategy and programming, including both theoretical and practical elements. Workshops will be held in person in the Suffolk area (location TBD).

• Monday, June 17th from 9am–4pm
• Tuesday, June 18th from 9am–4pm

ORGANIZATIONAL COACHING

Coaching allows your organization to dig into its most pressing financial issues. FLIP participants can invite other staff or board members to participate. The coach will meet with the organization for two virtual one-hour individualized consulting sessions. Dates and times to be arranged with the coach. This in-depth program is for leadership teams comprised of at least two individuals (e.g. board members, executive directors, senior finance, and program leadership).

Thanks to the generous support of the Obici Healthcare Foundation, program fees are subsidized and it is free to participate.

Knowing that many small to medium-sized nonprofits have limited access to grant writing support and work on finding grants and writing proposals in-house, taking time away from executing programs, CNE, in partnership with Obici Healthcare Foundation, is pleased to offer grant writing support and connect you with a grant writing consultant who will: 

• Meet with you (on your own time and schedule) to learn more about your organization, funding needs, and timing 
• Review and provide feedback on one grant proposal to help strengthen your proposals to other funders 
• Research and send three targeted grant opportunities once a quarter for one year 

Thanks to the generous support of the Obici Healthcare Foundation, fees are subsidized, and participation is free. 

Submit the information below to get started. 

Register by Thursday, February 27th.

The annual fund serves to establish a base of individual donors that can involve, inform, and create connections with others to your organization. It secures a steady flow of income for programs and services, and provides a launching point for further fundraising efforts beyond this baseline. And research shows that those organizations with strong annual fund plans are more likely to reach their fundraising goals than those without. But what contributes to a successful annual fund strategy?

Join Laurie Jarrett Rogers, in partnership with CNE and the Obici Healthcare Foundation, to learn how to create and implement a strong plan, specific to the needs of your organization.

Participants must attend all five sessions below. Assigned homework will include writing inside and outside of sessions, with the opportunity to receive two hours of individualized coaching and feedback from the trainer.

SCHEDULE :

the following Thursdays from 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.

• Session 1, 3/6/25: The Annual Fund as a Building Block – in person in Suffolk
• Session 2, 3/13/25: Analyzing Last Year’s Efforts – in person in Suffolk
• Session 3, 3/20/25: Planning for Next Year – virtual
• Session 4, 3/27/25: Designing Your Stewardship Plan- Thanking Your Donors – in person in Suffolk
• Session 5, 4/10/25: Presenting Your Plan – in person in Suffolk

Participants will walk away with a solidified plan to implement back at their organizations, which is based off of an analysis of previous years’ efforts and that incorporates future efforts that will lead to even greater success.

The per person fee for the program is $300, but thanks to the generous support of the Obici Healthcare Foundation, program fees are subsidized and there is no cost to participate.

Research has shown that some of the best relevant and practical help for leaders comes from peers who are in similar positions contending with the same issues. These groups provide leaders with the ability to solve real-time problems with real-world experience.

Executive Circles…

• Are small, 6-8 member groups to engage and support nonprofit leaders.
• Meet once a month, for two-hour sessions.
• Provide networking with and support from peers.
• Bring together nonprofit leaders with real world experience to deal with real world problems.

Apply by February 21st