Live Sessions

What You'll Learn

• How can you use language with an equity awareness?
• What approaches can you take for ordering data purposefully?
• How should you handle missing data inclusively?
• What colors and icons show sensitivity and inclusiveness?
• How can you embrace context and complexity in your visuals?
• What techniques demonstrate empathy in data-driven communications?

What You'll Learn

• What cost allocation and indirect cost rate requirements affect your nonprofit?
• How should you use the de minimis (10%) rate?
• When should you apply other potential indirect cost rates?
• What options does your organization have to allocate costs?
• What changes to policies and procedures must you make under 2 CFR 200?
• How must you adapt operational systems to the latest standards?
• Why would you want to decline indirect cost reimbursements?

What You'll Learn:

• Are you ready for a capital campaign?
• How can you engage donors in the planning process?
• How will your capital campaign affect other fundraising initiatives?
• How should you recognize opportunities?
• What are the best practices for planning and implementation?
• What resources can you provide to staff?
• Who should participate in your team?
• How can you tactically sustain your effort and measure results?

What's Included:

• Understand the history of Lean Six Sigma
• Grow your emotional intelligence and have a heart that is team-oriented
• Learn a radically new way to understand and execute successful projects
• Improve your human capital and pursue excellence for your organization
• Understand the basic Disruptive Lean Six Sigma concepts and graphical tools
• Learn where and how you can use DLSS in your organization
• Estimate the cost of not changing, the amount of change necessary, the cost of changing, and the potential return on investment from changing
• Discover why and when radical improvements must be directed at technology breakthroughs, business model disruptions, or a cultural movement
• Develop the ability to participate on any team engaged in a DLSS project
• Document the intellectual capital gained from any DLSS project
• Participate in class group exercises and discussions

What You'll Learn

• What common budget management mistakes should you correct?
• What strategies can you use to develop department and program budgets?
• How can you use a zero-based budgeting approach year-to-year?
• What techniques can you use to track spending?
• How should you adjust budgets to changing needs and priorities?
• What practical steps can you take to justify budget requests?

Five Sessions Include:

• Creating Workbooks
• Basic Formulas and Functions
• Formatting
• Tables and Charts
• Date and Text Functions

What You'll Learn:

• Five ways to create an Excel workbook in less time
• How to navigate the workbook
• The quickest way to select data
• Entering text and numbers
• Copying, cutting, pasting, and moving data
• Saving workbooks to multiple formats

What You'll Learn

• How has grant funding grown? What does this growth mean for your nonprofit?
• What mistakes do most nonprofit leaders make when seeking grants?
• Where can you find easy grant applications that most nonprofits are overlooking?
• What are the best strategies for researching, drafting, and sending applications?
• What should you include and exclude include?
• How should you personalize the applications for grant decision-makers?
• How can you transform facts and figures into a message straight to the heart?
• Where can you find local, low-competition grants in your area?

What You'll Learn:

• Creating basic formulas
• Creating basic functions
• AutoSUM, COUNT, AVERAGE, etc.
• Absolute vs. relative references

What You'll Learn:

• Formatting worksheets
• Easy ways to copy formats
• Using styles
• Conditional formatting

Topics covered

• What should your nonprofit business plan include?
• How can you recruit helpful board members?
• How can you fund your nonprofit startup?
• What are the filing requirements to obtain 501c3 status?
• What policies are necessary for your first year of operations?
• What common mistakes should you avoid?