Nonprofit professionals will find our training courses address the unique character of HR in the social sector, focusing on HR compliance and the practice of managing sustainable nonprofit organizations. Be a change-maker. Enhance your career and the performance of your team through expert-led professional development.
Federal grant financial expert Rex Porter will provide Federal Single Audit insights and guidance found few other places. You will learn the audit key issues and related best practices.
What You'll Learn
Where can you find the key Single Audit requirements in the Federal Uniform Guidance – 2 CFR 200?
Which audit requirements affect your nonprofit?
When is a Federal Single Audit required?
How should you plan and prepare for the audit?
Will changes be necessary to your nonprofit’s policies and practices?
What is an audit finding and how is it documented?
What are the best practices for responding to a Single-Audit finding?
What is are the cost and impact of an audit questioned?
5 Sessions scheduled for 60 minutes including question and answer period.Monday, April 17 - Friday, April 21, 2023; 3:00 PM Eastern
Nonprofit leadership expert Mary Gladstone-Highland will share comprehensive guidance and proven sector-specific resources. You will be empowered and enabled to take your organization and your career to new heights.
Human resources expert Teri Morning will reveal how you must revise policies and procedures to incorporate the latest laws and evolving regulations. You will learn how to treat nonprofit employees fairly.
Topics Covered:
What are the leave requirements for nonprofits?
When is COVID-19 a reason for taking FMLA leave?
How should you administer intermittent leave?
What must you provide for emergency sick leave?
When are you required to engage in the ADA interactive process?
How or should you make requests for employee medical information?
The Grant Doctor, Dr. Beverly Browning (Dr. Bev), will help you to determine if your organization is grant-ready and conduct a go/no-go assessment. You will learn how to select lucrative opportunities and increase your chances of winning a federal grant award.
What You'll Learn
How can you assess your organization’s grant readiness?
Where can you find federal grant funding opportunities?
What are your chances of winning a federal grant award?
How can you create advocates in DC?
How should you communicate with federal program officers?
What content will make your grant application a winner?
Leadership expert Wendy Sellers will give you the tools you need to become a human-centered manager. You will learn how to apply these techniques to the day-to-day interactions in your workplace.
Benefits of Certification
Ethical, social, economic, and institutional perspectives of Human-Centered Management
Rethinking management as leadership utilizing vital foundational skills
A focus on integrity
Four elements of trust: compassion, consistency, competency, and communication
Legal expert Dr. Jim Castagnera will explain what political activities nonprofits may undertake. You will learn how to protect your organization’s status despite stakeholders’ enthusiasm for political activism.
What You'll Learn
What is the Johnson Amendment? How does it affect your organization?
Where does the IRS stand on this issue in the Biden administration?
Which nonprofits are covered and which are not?
Which activities are considered improperly intervening in a political campaign?
Which political activities are nonpartisan and therefore legal?
What campaign activities may your employees and volunteers engage in?
Nonprofit leadership guru Mazarine Treyz will show you exactly how to build trust, retain staff, and make your fundraising office even more effective. You will benefit from scripts and tools that you can easily apply to your organization.
What You'll Learn
What is the cost of not building trust in your organization?
How can you build credibility—even with yourself?
What are ten ways to build trust at work?
What are the three key elements of trust?
What seven phrases will help you set expectations?
Scheduled for 75 minutes including question and answer period.
Nonprofit leadership expert Mary Gladstone-Highland will show you how to communicate your organization’s vision. You will learn best practices and action items to increase the support for your nonprofit.
What You'll Learn
Why is vision important?
What stories should you tell?
How can you tell stories to elicit excitement?
Whom should you tell?
What are the essential elements of a communication plan?
Employment law expert Dr. Jim Castagnera will provide you with a solid foundation in the current labor and employment laws. You will learn the aspects of the employment process and the employer-employee relationship that pertain uniquely to the nonprofit world.
Can’t attend the live webinars? Use the self-paced certification option. You can watch the on-demand recordings and get expert answers to your questions after the sessions.
Benefits of Certification
Adhere to government requirements without fines and penalties
Nonprofit leadership expert Jack Silverstein will help you have difficult performance review conversations. You will learn how to help your employees grow and gain skills that will help you during difficult discussions with your manager.
What You'll Learn
How can you conduct a review without using money as a metric?
What is the purpose of the performance review?
Why should performance reviews not be stressful?
How can you use performance appraisals as a two-way opportunity?
How can you make the conversations meaningful and productive?
What is the S.T.A.T.E. method? How can it help?
What should you do after the difficult conversation?
Nationally recognized nonprofit leadership and planning expert Bill Hoffman will share specific strategies to create goals aligned with your plan up and down the organization. You will learn the best practices for measuring, monitoring, and adjusting your goals.
What You'll Learn:
Who are the critical stakeholders for creating goals?
What format will give your goals rich meaning?
How can you use metrics to track accomplishments?
Why do you need to differentiate outputs from outcomes?
What mutually supportive accountability systems will assist in goal completion?
How should you structure professional development goals?
Scheduled for 60 minutes including question and answer period.
Nationally recognized nonprofit impact expert Derik Timmerman will share the practical, step-by-step tips that nonprofit professionals have used to turn their organizations into sector leaders in diversity and inclusion.
What You'll Learn
What are nonprofits doing in DEIB in 2022?
Will it be difficult to make your organization more diverse and inclusive?
What key strategies do most nonprofits overlook?
What does belonging mean in real, day-to-day terms?
How can you enhance belonging with among all your stakeholders?