Instructor: Allan Pressel Course Description
Join us for an interactive demonstration of 20 quick and easy free and low-cost social media tools to increase online traffic and revenue for your agency. Getting a gift is much, oh so much more than simply asking for support. How much is enough? What are we asking for? Instructor Bio
Allan Pressel (
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, 310-793-9707) is founder and CEO of CharityFinders (www.CharityFinders.com), which helps nonprofits use the Internet to further their mission. CharityFinders' main product is NonprofitSite123 - technology that enables any nonprofit to build their own world-class website in just hours - at a low cost, with no training required. CharityFinders also offers Internet strategy consulting services and custom web development to nonprofits. Allan has been designated as one of the world's leading ePhilanthropy experts by the ePhilanthropy Foundation.
Previously, Allan was a co-founder of i-Cube, which had a highly successful IPO in June, 1998, and was later acquired by Razorfish. i-Cube was profitable every quarter for 7 years. i-Cube helped large corporations develop an IT/Internet strategy and implement it through software/web development and consulting services -- much like CharityFinders does for nonprofits.
Prior to founding i-Cube, Allan was a technology strategy consultant at Arthur Anderson and First Consulting Group. Allan holds a M.B.A from UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and a B.A. from Brandeis University, and attended the London School of Economics and London Business School.
Allan has conducted hundreds of public speaking engagements, including presentations on Internet and IT Strategy to thousands of Fortune 500 senior executives through seminars at Cambridge Executive Enterprises, Hewlett-Packard, and various industry conferences. Allan currently presents exclusively to nonprofit organizations and groups, most often on Internet Strategy for Nonprofits. This includes recent speaking engagements at the N-TEN (national e-philanthropy conference), Charity Channel (national conference), Association of Fundraising Professionals, Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, Head Start (national conference), Organization of Nonprofit Executives, American Marketing Association, Ronald McDonald House Conference, California Association of Nonprofits (annual conference), Dallas Center For Nonprofit Management (Ready, Tech, Go! seminar), National Association of Hospital Hospitality Houses (national conference), and many more. Allan has also done presentations for the management and boards of hundreds of individual nonprofits, with an emphasis on helping them utilize the Internet strategically to help further their missions.
Allan's volunteer work includes the following:
-Allan is a co-founder and board member of Brotherly Love For New Orleans, a charity providing relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
-Allan speaks all over the country as part of his personal mission to get nonprofits to use the Internet to further their mission, not just describe it.
-Allan has provided free e-philanthropy websites to a number of nonprofits. He has worked with most of these nonprofits to develop a comprehensive Internet strategy that will enable them to get the most benefit from their websites.
-Allan has been a volunteer for the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles for the past 20 years. As part of his duties, Allan hosts foreign dignitaries in his home when they visit the United States, exposing them to what life is like in our country.
-Allan helps coach a special needs AYSO soccer team.
Watch Allan's interview on CNN Headline News at www.CharityFinders.com. |
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