United Midcoast Charities

Learn With UMC: Gift Acceptance, Investment & Spending Policies
2019-02-07 09:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Allen Insurance & Financial, 34 Elm St, Camden, ME 04843
Throughout 2019, United Midcoast Charities will offer free educational opportunities on topics essential to nonprofit sustainability and impact. Our inaugural event will focus on policies that lay a strong foundation for financial stability. This series was developed in response to needs expressed by our 2018 grantees, and our goal is that attending nonprofits will emerge equipped to make a stronger impact than ever!

Gift Acceptance, Investment & Spending Policies
Thursday, Feb. 7, 9-10:30 a.m.
Allen Insurance and Financial, Elm St, Camden

At United Midcoast Charities, we hope that all local nonprofits will increase their financial sustainability over time. In the process, donors may offer non-cash and deferred gifts for the first time. This is exciting!
However, all gifts are not equal in their financial value to your organization, nor are they equal in value and impact from one nonprofit to the next. A gift acceptance policy that clearly sets forth your organizational position on non-cash and deferred gifts not only provides you with a roadmap to these choices, but also places the responsibility of decision-making squarely with the board of directors, where it belongs. Investment and spending policies define the stewardship of those gifts to support your mission and donor intent.
Please join us for a workshop on the hows and whys of developing your gift acceptance and investment policies with experienced gift planners Abe Dugal and Sarah Ruef-Lindquist. We are delighted to offer this opportunity to board members and executives who have a hand in developing organizational polices. Please use this link to register, or call UMC at 236-2299 with any further questions.

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Our Presenters

Sarah Ruef-Lindquist, JD, CTFA
Sarah believes sound, thoughtful planning is a gift we give ourselves, our families and our community.She is a lawyer and seasoned non-profit executive who has worked with dozens of organizations to build fiscal efficiency, planned giving programs and endowments. Sarah has also worked with individuals and families as a philanthropic advisor and senior trust officer. She holds the Certified Trust and Financial Advisor certification and FINRA Series 7 and 66 registrations through Commonwealth Financial Network.Sarah joined Allen Insurance and Financial in Camden in 2016 and focuses on endowment building through planned giving, wealth management and estate planning with special attention to women’s planning needs. Sarah serves on the board of Rockland Savings Bank, Unity College and the Maine Planned Giving Council. She and her husband live in Camden.

Abraham Dugal
A native of Lincolnvile, Abe is a graduate of Camden Hills Regional High School and Babson College in Wellesley, Mass, where he majored in business management with a concentration in finance.Abe worked in the financial services industry in the Boston area for almost 10 years before returning to Midcoast Maine. Prior to joining Allen Insurance and Financial, he worked for nearly seven years at Cambridge Associates (C|A), a global investment management firm holding positions focused in custom client portfolio analysis and operations and portfolio risk monitoring.Most recently, he was Director of U.S. Investment Operations for C|A overseeing a department of 45 staff in four offices for more than 300 foundation, endowment, pension and private wealth clients.
Outside of work, Abe enjoys all the Midcoast has to offer with his family, from the ocean and hiking to the museums and restaurants. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Penobscot Bay Chamber of Commerce and on the Finance Committee for Midcoast Habitat for Humanity. Abe, his wife Anna, and their young son live in Camden.

We are happy to offer this nonprofit learning event free of charge
thanks to the generosity of our donors and sponsors.

Learn With UMC: Marketing 101 &102
2019-03-08 09:00 - 10:30 | United Midcoast Charities Conference room, 87 Elm St, #208, Camden, ME, 04843, United States
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Please join the United Midcoast Charities’ Communication Committee for a series of two workshops designed to help your organization develop a marketing plan or enhance your marketing efforts. Whether organizations don’t know where to start, or have started and would like some guidance as they take next steps, this workshop series can help.
Attendance at both workshops is very strongly encouraged, as one leads into the other. Those who are unable to commit to attending both events should call the UMC office before registering. There is no cost to participate, but space is limited so registration is required. Sign up here or call UMC at 236-2299 for more information.
About the presenters:
UMC’s Communication Committee has a collective 190 years of experience in marketing, communications and branding. With expertise spanning sales, strategic planning, direct response marketing, journalism, copy editing, community public relations and media relations, advertising, design, print, web, and promotional products apparel, members have served organizations large and small.
The communications committee is chaired by Jill Lang, communication manager at Allen Insurance and Financial. Other committee members are Peter Palermo, Lori Alexander, Joan Phaup and John Viehman. The committee looks forward to helping local nonprofit leaders improve their marketing and communications.

Learn With UMC: Track Your Impact
2019-05-08 09:00 - 13:00 | United Farmers Market, 18 Spring St, Belfast, ME, 04915, United States
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Presenters from USM’s Data Innovation Project will offer a three-hour workshop, Track Your Impact, to help nonprofits use data to achieve their intended impact.
Funders of all kinds increasingly expect nonprofits to demonstrate their impact through program data. As nonprofits are expected to take on more work previously funded by the public sector and competition for charitable dollars increases, effective data can give crucial strength to a nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. Effective use of data can improve every aspect of nonprofit impact, from guiding strategic direction and program development to dramatically improving fundability.
Learn with UMC: Track Your Impact will guide participants from Knox and Waldo county nonprofit organizations through the purpose and processes of developing a performance measurement approach. Attendees will define what they want to measure, set priorities, craft quality measurement objectives, and learn how to foster a data-informed culture in their organizations. Attendees will leave with a firm foundation in how to build a performance measurement plan, a clear next step, and a workbook to support them going forward.
There is no cost to participate, but space is limited so registration is required. Please register here.
About the presenters:
The Data Innovation Project was founded with support from the Maine Economic Improvement Fund and is housed within the Cutler Institute for Health and Social Policy at the Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine. The Data Innovation Project improves Maine’s capacity for data-informed decision making by providing access to affordable information and instruction, skilled technical assistance, and open access to a growing body of resources.
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Learn With UMC: Benefits Options for Nonprofits
2019-06-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Camden Public Library Picker Room, 55 Main St, Camden, ME, 04843, United States
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The June offering in our free educational series, Learn with UMC: Benefits Options for Nonprofits, will be held at the Picker Room of the Camden Library at 3 p.m. on June 6. This two-hour workshop will discuss options for a variety of nonprofit employee benefits packages.
Nonprofit boards sometimes consider employee benefits an unnecessary expense and avoid including them in their budget. However, Maine Association of Nonprofit’s 2018 nonprofit compensation report indicates that Maine’s nonprofit wages are stagnant despite a cross-sector labor shortage. Nonprofit employees may be forced to look to other sectors to keep up with the rising cost of living. A strong benefits package can help recruit and retain the top-quality staff that nonprofits rely on to accomplish their mission.
Learn with UMC: Benefits Options for Nonprofits will offer the real-life experiences of a local nonprofit’s decision to offer employees benefits. Meg Rasmussen, executive director of Georges River Land Trust, will talk about how benefits have affected the trust’s impact as well as the bottom line. Sheila Lowe of Aflac Insurance and Sherree Craig and Abe Dugal of Allen Insurance & Financial will discuss flexible, affordable options often requested by nonprofits. Dr. Brian Pierce of Megunticook Family Mediine will discuss how the new model of Direct Primary Care can work for employers of various sizes. UMC staff will share research on which benefits are most desirable to employees. Attendees will learn how to improve their recruitment and retention efforts in a financially sustainable way and leave with the tools to get started.
This workshop is free of charge but pre-registration is required. Register here or call UMC at 236-2299 for more information.
This workshop is sponsored by Heal Accounting.
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