Development Dialogues

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. Register Development DialoguesThursdays 9-10:30 am: October 1, 2026, ......More

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. Register Development DialoguesThursdays 9-10:30 am: October 1, 2026, October 15, 2026, November 5, 20262354 Garden Road, MontereyIf you’d like to attend all three sessions, register at a discounted rate ($60), or sign up for individual dates ($25) Whether 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. October 1, 2026 – Money Mindset and what’s holding you back? We’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. Session 2: Confident Major Gift Conversations We’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. Session 3: Meet Your Inner Saboteurs Insights from Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine. Why we get in our own way, and how to shift to our Sage.

Community Foundation for Monterey County (Monterey Office), 2354 Garden Road, Monterey, CA, 93940

CNE Office Hours

CNE Office Hours provide an easy way for Monterey County nonprofits to engage with CNE staff for guidance, problem solving, resources and referrals. Do you have a leadership question, challenge, or opportunity on your mind?Use this link to book the time that is most con......More

CNE Office Hours provide an easy way for Monterey County nonprofits to engage with CNE staff for guidance, problem solving, resources and referrals. Do you have a leadership question, challenge, or opportunity on your mind?Use this link to book the time that is most convenient for you to meet for up to one hour with CNE staff, either virtually or in the Monterey Office.

Nonprofit Lunch and Learn

Nonprofit Lunch and Learn: Digital Media Best Practices for Effective EngagementWednesday, November 18, 202612 – 1:30 p.m.2354 Garden Road, MontereyFree. Bring a brown bag lunch.Presented pro bono by Roshi Pejhan of Kollaborativ Consulting. RSVP Is your nonprofit organi......More

Nonprofit Lunch and Learn: Digital Media Best Practices for Effective EngagementWednesday, November 18, 202612 – 1:30 p.m.2354 Garden Road, MontereyFree. Bring a brown bag lunch.Presented pro bono by Roshi Pejhan of Kollaborativ Consulting. RSVP Is your nonprofit organization making the most of all the digital communication tools at your disposal? Communicating effectively is central to the success of nonprofits and advocacy organizations. Keeping the public engaged with buy-in for your organization’s mission is more difficult than ever. Cutting through the noise can often be as simple as maximizing the Best Practices that capture the “low hanging fruit” of audience engagement. This lunchtime workshop session will review: digital communications best practices and systems-building that bring your organization both short-term returns and long-term sustained growthhow to utilize digital tools and practiceshow to build communication flows that maintain audience attention beyond a simple social post or email.Without necessarily spending more money, or that much more time, you can maximize the free tools that already exist and leverage workflows for stronger public engagementAbout the presenter:With over 20 years of Marketing & Communications expertise, and 15+ years of digital media marketing specialization, Roshi Pejhan has worked with brands and companies across a variety of industries, including Tech, Retail & Ecommerce, Wellness, Hospitality, Media, Publishing, Education. A graduate of the Monterey Institute, Roshi is passionate about supporting social impact brands, organizations, and projects, and has both Communications and leadership experience in Nonprofits & Advocacy, Working to empower leaders and teams with marketing best practices, Roshi believes in “people power” driven by effective communication.Find Roshi on Linkedin at https://linkedin.com/in/rpejhan

Community Foundation for Monterey County (Monterey Office), 2354 Garden Road, Monterey, CA, 93940

CFMC Offices Closed for Thanksgiving Day 2026

The CFMC Monterey and Salinas offices will be closed in observance of Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 26, 2026.

CFMC Offices Closed for Post-Thanksgiving 2026

The CFMC Monterey and Salinas offices will be closed in observance of Post-Thanksgiving on Friday, November 27, 2026.

AI Essentials Workshop

December 4, 20269:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.Community Foundation for Monterey County Monterey Office – 2354 Garden Rd, Monterey$50 per person, includes lunchRegister Schedule:9-9:30 am Arrive (with laptop and power cord) and set up9:30-11:30 Modules 1& 211:30-1 Lunch with time f......More

December 4, 20269:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.Community Foundation for Monterey County Monterey Office – 2354 Garden Rd, Monterey$50 per person, includes lunchRegister Schedule:9-9:30 am Arrive (with laptop and power cord) and set up9:30-11:30 Modules 1& 211:30-1 Lunch with time for networking with fellow nonprofits1-3 pm Modules 3 & 4 This 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. Audience: 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 Outline: Intro: What AI Actually Is (and Isn’t) An accurate mental model of AI, without the jargon. Why it’s more like a conversation than a command. Prompting: How to Have a Productive Conversation A practical prompting framework: role, task, constraints. How to iterate when the first response misses. Analysis: Getting AI to Work on Your Actual Data Feed AI your real materials – grant apps, surveys, meeting transcripts – and get structured output back. Issues: The Things That Can Go Wrong Hallucination, sycophancy, bias, privacy, cognitive decline. Covered practically, not glossed over. About the Presenter:Ken 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. This training is offered by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) of the Community Foundation for Monterey County.

Community Foundation for Monterey County (Monterey Office), 2354 Garden Road, Monterey, CA, 93940

CFMC Offices Closed for Christmas Eve 2026

The CFMC Monterey and Salinas offices will be closed in observance of Christmas Eve on Thursday, December 24, 2026.

CFMC Offices Closed for Christmas Day 2026

The CFMC Monterey and Salinas offices will be closed in observance of Christmas Day on Friday, December 25, 2026.