Every nonprofit organization exists for a core purpose: mission. The day-to-day programmatic activities of your organization make long-term change in communities and a difference for those you serve. Accelerate your impact with our training courses that help you manage your volunteers, design and implement effective programs, and evaluate your work.
Nonprofit leadership expert Jack Silverstein will help you navigate all the questions around your UVP. You will learn how to focus your resources and explain what makes your organization special to donors, employees, and volunteers.
What You'll Learn
How can you define your organization’s unique value proposition?
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?
Nonprofit leader and service delivery expert Erika R. Burnett will help you assess current policies and implement meaningful procedures. You will learn how to position your organization for higher staff retention, engagement rates, and efficient performance.
What You'll Learn
How will staff development increase organizational capacity and innovation?
How can you engage partner organizations and volunteers?
What are the best strategies to leverage the program management cycle?
Nonprofit program design and evaluation expert Trina Willard will explain why logic models, program evaluation, and outcomes have become critical to funding organizations and the public. You will learn how to identify and track the results that tell your nonprofit’s story.
What You'll Learn
Definition and purpose of program evaluation
Reasons evaluation is essential for nonprofit success
Roles of board, leadership, and staff in evaluation
Ways to build an evaluation culture
Difference between outputs and outcomes
Benefits of outcome measurement
Logic models used to provide an evaluation framework
Nonprofit lobbying expert Pat Libby will reveal her proven 10-step process for effective lobbying and share tips for testifying. You will learn how to garner legislative support.
What You'll Learn
How can you run an effective, inexpensive, and successful campaign?
What is involved in researching your issue?
How can you frame your issue effectively?
What strategies will enable you to identify and involve diverse stakeholders?
What are the best tactics for identifying legislator targets?
How does the legislative process work and how should you contact legislators?
Nonprofit lobbying expert Pat Libby will pull back the curtain during this webinar to demonstrate how lobbying can help your organization. You will learn the specific steps to take and how to get started.
What You'll Learn
What is lobbying?
Should your organization engage in lobbying?
What are the factors for successful nonprofit engagement?
What are the legal rules and restrictions for 501(c)(3) organizations?
Nonprofit engagement expert Karen Reid will reveal the secrets of recruiting, retention, and recognition during the COVID-19 pandemic. You will learn how to infuse new life in your organization’s volunteer program.
Sessions Included:
Rely On Recruitment To Find The Right Volunteers For The Right Roles
Maintaining A Vibrant Volunteer Culture Through Retention and Recognition
Nonprofit engagement expert Karen Reid will reveal the secrets of recruiting during the COVID-19 pandemic. You will learn how to infuse new life in your organization’s volunteer program.
What You'll Learn
How can you assess your volunteer program?
What are the components of the volunteer lifecycle?
How should you screen potential volunteers?
What are the best techniques to promote volunteer opportunities?
Nonprofit engagement expert Karen Reid will reveal the secrets of retention and recognition during the COVID-19 pandemic. You will learn how to infuse new life in your organization’s volunteer program.
What You'll Learn
Why is communication an essential component of volunteer engagement?
How can you cultivate a dynamic volunteer culture?
What additional opportunities can benefit your volunteers?
How can you take your volunteers to the next level?
What are the best strategies to maintain engagement during virtual meetings?
Nonprofit leadership expert Mary Gladstone-Highland will explain all the steps involved in creating a detailed operations report. You will learn how to use this document to guide your program.
What You'll Learn
What is the process for designing high-quality programs?
What is an operations report? How can it aid program design?
How can you collect data for an operations report?
What should you include in an operations report?
How will an operations report enable you to increase funding?
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?
