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SUMMARY:Development Dialogues
DESCRIPTION:The Community Foundation for Monterey County’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) invites you to invest in building capacity\, resilience and connection for your great fund development team members. \nRegister \nDevelopment Dialogues\nThursdays 9-10:30 am: October 1\, 2026\, October 15\, 2026\, November 5\, 2026\n2354 Garden Road\, Monterey\nIf you’d like to attend all three sessions\, register at a discounted rate ($60)\, or sign up for individual dates ($25) \nWhether you’re looking ahead to a new budget year\, re-strategizing your development plan or gearing up for end-of-year giving\, it’s always important to make sure your staff is resourced and recharged. Facilitated by Kate Mitchell Mehle\, CFRE\, Thrive & Shine Collective. \nOctober 1\, 2026 – Money Mindset and what’s holding you back? \nWe’ll talk about how our personal relationship with money shows up in the work and explore what might be our saboteurs. When we understand our feelings about wealth it can shift our mindset and how we show up in this work. \nSession 2: Confident Major Gift Conversations \nWe’ll talk about the importance of board members’ support in building relationships and ways to engage them in the work. Let’s talk about how you can ask for what you want and not just what you need. \nSession 3: Meet Your Inner Saboteurs \nInsights from Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine. Why we get in our own way\, and how to shift to our Sage.
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LOCATION:Community Foundation for Monterey County (Monterey Office)\, 2354 Garden Road\, Monterey\, CA\, 93940
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SUMMARY:CNE Lunch and Learn
DESCRIPTION:Details to be announced. All are welcome. \nCNE Lunch and Learn\nWednesday\, November 18\, 2026\n12 – 1:30 p.m.\n2354 Garden Road\, Monterey\nFree. Bring a brown bag lunch.
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SUMMARY:AI Essentials Workshop
DESCRIPTION:December 4\, 2026\n9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.\nCommunity Foundation for Monterey County Monterey Office – 2354 Garden Rd\, Monterey\n$50 per person\, includes lunch\nRegister \nSchedule:\n9-9:30 am Arrive (with laptop and power cord) and set up\n9:30-11:30 Modules 1& 2\n11:30-1 Lunch with time for networking with fellow nonprofits\n1-3 pm Modules 3 & 4 \nThis workshop is designed specifically for nonprofits\, so you and your team can learn to use Artificial Intelligence efficiently and also responsibly. It pairs instructor-led content (Ken Krugler of AI for Community) with hands-on lab exercises covering ChatGPT\, Claude and Gemini. Participants will also receive a post-training digital resource packet\, including prompt templates and reference materials. \nAudience: This hands-on workshop is for beginners. For instance\, rate your AI experience on a scale of 1 to 5\, with 1 being the least experienced and 5 the highest. This AI Essentials workshop is for the 1s and 2s\, and sometimes a 3. An In Depth workshop will be offered in 2027 for others with more experience \nOutline: \nIntro: What AI Actually Is (and Isn’t) \nAn accurate mental model of AI\, without the jargon. Why it’s more like a conversation than a command. \nPrompting: How to Have a Productive Conversation \nA practical prompting framework: role\, task\, constraints. How to iterate when the first response misses. \nAnalysis: Getting AI to Work on Your Actual Data \nFeed AI your real materials – grant apps\, surveys\, meeting transcripts – and get structured output back. \nIssues: The Things That Can Go Wrong \nHallucination\, sycophancy\, bias\, privacy\, cognitive decline. Covered practically\, not glossed over. \nAbout the Presenter:\nKen Krugler heads AI for Community as Director/President and lead instructor. Ken is a professional software developer\, startup founder\, open source enthusiast\, and a software trainer with over 15 years of experience teaching technical classes. He has a Bachelor of Science in EECS from MIT\, and previously worked at Apple on the original Macintosh\, started TransPac Software/Scale Unlimited\, founded a VC-backed code search startup\, and was on the board of the Bear Yuba Land Trust. \nThis training is offered by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) of the Community Foundation for Monterey County.
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