Connecting Up in partnership with TechSoup Courses

To continue serving your community during the COVID-19 pandemic, you may find the need to quickly transition to remote work. To help you, TechSoup created a free track of courses to provide information and tools as you make this transition.

This track will help nonprofits lay the groundwork for successful remote office environments. You’ll learn how to:

• Identify necessary technology tools to get your remote office up and running in no time
• Boost collaboration
• Ensure information security



TechSoup Courses is an online learning resource of free and paid bite-sized training courses created just for nonprofits.

This track is normally $110, but we’ve made it FREE so anyone can access this information and rapidly response to the Coronavirus.

NOTE: All prices include GST

This on-demand technology planning track will help you get out of the technology doldrums so that you can assess your organisation’s technology infrastructure and address your current and future needs. At the end of the four-course learning track, you’ll have a fully realised tactical technology action plan to guide your organisation.

*All course fees are non-refundable.

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This on-demand learning track provides a foundation for understanding how to optimise your nonprofit's use of Microsoft Cloud solutions. This includes security standards and how to implement simple best practices to secure your data, optimising Outlook, Power BI basics, as well as tips to increase your nonprofit's productivity.

*All course fees are non-refundable.

NOTE: All prices include GST

Social media success can seem elusive to the small nonprofit. Without the money to hire an outside agency or even a full time person, how can you keep up with all of the changes? Can you really raise money using these platforms? The good news is that small but mighty organisations can use the power and potential of these platforms to raise funds, connect with supporters, and drive impact. In this four-course self-paced series, we’ll share tips and tricks for running effective social media fundraising campaigns that accomplish measurable results. Whether you’re a total newbie to the social media landscape or you’re a social media superstar, you’ll walk away with new ideas for ways to use these platforms to connect with donors and elevate your fundraising.

*All course fees are non-refundable.

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This four-course, on-demand Google Analytics learning track will give you a solid start with Google Analytics. You will learn what Google Analytics is, how it works, and how to use it to find out what people are doing on your website. You will also learn who those people are, and how can you use the information from Google Analytics to inform your digital marketing strategy and drive them toward action.

*All course fees are non-refundable.

NOTE: All prices include GST

After completing this on-demand track, you will understand understand the five steps to protect yourself and your ability to serve the people you serve. You will also learn practical approaches to make your organisation safer, and protect its ability to have social impact.

*All course fees are non-refundable.

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We want to help you spend $120,000 in Google’s advertising money this year. You can unlock this potential through the Google Ads Grant for Nonprofits, which will help you bring in traffic to your nonprofit’s website and amplify your digital impact. Our four-part seminar series will walk you through the grant application process and show you the special nuances of working within a grant account.

Recording of live events to provide program updates to Seminar 1 & 2!

*All course fees are non-refundable.

NOTE: All prices include GST

NOTE: All prices include GST

Sometimes you have to pay-to-play in order to get meaningful social media engagement. Digital ads are becoming the cheapest, most effective way to engage new or existing audiences on social media and other platforms. Currently, Facebook is the platform with the farthest reach and most sophisticated targeting. In this on-demand course track, we’ll share tips and tricks for running effective campaigns and getting the most out of your ad budget to drive impact for your organisation. Whether you’re a total newbie to Facebook ads or you’re an old pro, these on-demand courses will give you new ideas for ways to use Facebook to further your mission.

*All course fees are non-refundable.

NOTE: All prices include GST

This self-paced, five-course track will show you how to create and implement an effective email marketing strategy. We'll cover segmenting and customising your email marketing messages and content for better results, goal setting, benchmarking and analytics as well as discuss the best frequency for your email campaigns to optimise your response rates and budget. Whether you are a marketing maven or a newbie, you'll come away with a deep understanding of how to integrate email with online and offline marketing channels for a successfully integrated campaign.

*All course fees are non-refundable.

NOTE: All prices include GST

With a solid foundation, you can begin to implement good design practices and build brand guidelines for your organisation. After completing these on-demand courses, you will be able to evaluate branded visual content using design standards and apply best practices in developing a cohesive brand.

*All course fees are non-refundable.

NOTE: All prices include GST

Before you get on the freeway, you gotta build your confidence with the basics. Get up to speed on how to create and manipulate images and graphics, and understand design concepts. These on-demand courses will put you on the road to design success! Vroom!

*All course fees are non-refundable.

In this three part course track on PowerPoint, you will learn how to create powerful and compelling presentations so you can effectively share your impact stories.

This course track is currently free thanks to funding from Microsoft

In any well-functioning organization, data is constantly being created, analyzed, and shared to make the best decisions possible. However, data analysis is also a challenge. That's where Power BI comes into the picture! Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your organization.

In this track, you will learn how Power BI services and applications work together and explore how Power BI can make your organization more efficient.

NOTE: All prices include GST

In this four part track, you will learn how to use Word to create compelling documents that can best tell your organization’s story.

This course track is currently free thanks to funding from Microsoft