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Friday, October 21, 2011

Branding, Design, & Communication 10/25 at General Assembly

This is gonna be awesome.  Shana Dressler of Social Innovators Collective (see @sic_org) is putting this together and she's super cool (not to mention the speaker, of course).
Happy learning,
Katharine
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OCTOBER 25th at General Assembly - Engage Your Audience: Branding, Design, and Communication

The 2nd session of the 5 part workshops series, Building High Impact Organizations: Creating Financial Sustainability for Social Enterprises and Nonprofits, will focus on branding and communications. In order to raise money, sell products, breed activists, and launch movements, both social enterprises and nonprofits need a strong message, good design, and effective communication.

Deroy Peraza will be our guest presenter. He is a founding partner and creative director at Hyperakt, an award winning design studio located in Brooklyn. Clients include Unicef, Ford Foundation, Google, Adobe, GOOD, the New York Times and many more. For an example of Hyperakt's work please visit Acumen Fund's recent 10th anniversary website - www.acumen.org - which Hyperakt designed and built. 

Discount codes:
20% off any class: PARTNER
Remaining 4 sessions for $100: LUCKYYOU

Class Format:

Each class will have a 45-60 minute presentation which will be followed by a short break, an interactive exercise and finally Q&A. Networking from 9-10pm will follow.

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The next class is on November 1st – Pitch Your Idea: Persuasive Communication taught by Alastair Ong, Co-Founder and COO of GreenSoul Shoes.

For more information please visit http://bit.ly/q2yxSp.

For the full schedule please visit: http://financialsustainability.eventbrite.com/

Special thanks to our outreach partners:

Catchafire, A Better World By Design, Ashoka, BBMG, CauseVox, DigitalFlash NYC, Echoing Green, Hub NYC, Idealist, Just Means, New York Women Social Entrepreneurs, NTEN, PUREPROJECT, Shareable, Social Media For Nonprofits, StartingBloc and Yoxi

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