Montgomery Co. Assn. for the Blind

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Enhancing leadership through the Nonprofit Center

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Francisvale Home for Small Animals

A continuum of services from The Nonprofit Center

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Francisvale Home for Small Animals

Camphill Soltane

Nonprofit Center Member creating a community for young adults with developmental disabilities

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The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

A major force in choral music gets results from The Nonprofit Center

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Welcome to The Nonprofit Center

The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University is in the business of nonprofits. Our name is our mission; it's what we do. With nearly 40 years of experience at the forefront of helping organizations in the Greater Philadelphia region and beyond to strengthen themselves, their boards and their staffs, we recognize that all nonprofits must be able to implement and maintain strong and ethical business practices in order to thrive in today's competitive and complex world. We work in partnership with:
  • Nonprofit Executive Directors, Staff and Volunteers
  • Nonprofit Boards of Directors
  • Businesses that Value CSR and the Role Nonprofits Play in our Community
Our diverse, integrated services in nonprofit education, consulting and leadership development, are rooted in best practices and immersed in the unique nonprofit culture.

Special Announcements

Resources to help stimulate your conversations about racial equity

The Nonprofit Center has compiled a collection of resources designed to help stimulate your conversations about racial equity. While this information is a start, it by no means is a quick answer or meant to simplify the entire breadth of the movement to increase equity. This is meant to raise awareness and begin the process toward deciding what next steps we can all take.

These resources are online here>>

Upcoming Courses

  • Fundamentals of Human Resources

    This class covers the major workplace laws and the legal principles that govern the employment relationship. It will explore the importance of good policies and procedures in creating an effective working environment and provide an introduction to some of the most common and challenging HR responsibilities: the performance management cycle; development and management of compensation strategies; and effective guidelines for hiring the right people.

    Creating Successful Individual and Major Donor Campaigns

    Over 70% of charitable giving comes from individuals.  Whether you are launching an individual campaign or strengthening your current approach, this class will teach you the tools you need to create a comprehensive, coordinated individual fundraising program.

  • Building a Successful Marketing Program

    This class will enable participants to understand the fundamental principles of marketing and its various components, and how to apply them.  It will help you to be proficient in auditing current communication efforts, develop a marketing plan and put principles that best meet the needs of your organization into practice.

    Keys to Successful Strategic Planning

    This class provides a comprehensive overview of strategic planning techniques, focusing on how to adapt “traditional” strategic planning for today’s uncertain environment using tools like adaptive planning, scenario planning, and strategic frameworks. You will learn how to bring strategic thinking to your organization every day, not just when you’re “strategic planning,” helping your plan to stand up to unexpected changes both inside and outside your organization.

  • Effective Communications to Build Relationships, Engagement & Understanding

    In this class, you’ll learn about different communication styles and how you can deliver messages to communicate and work more effectively with others, including those who have a different style, are from a different generation, or have been resistant to change/new ideas. We’ll also provide a framework for how to engage in difficult conversations to address challenges and pursue opportunities to improve our outcomes.

    Successful Fundraising in a Diverse World Starts With You

    While we all bring historic and systemic biases to what we do and how we do it, fundraisers cannot afford to have those biases seep into their work. You will examine and challenge traditional habits of the nonprofit sector, and then explore how fostering your cultural humility can have a positive impact on your performance as a fundraiser in our multicultural world.  

  • Fundamentals of Finance

    This class is designed to help you acquire the skills that will enable you to understand and interpret your financial story for both internal and external audiences.   You will leave this class with a deeper understanding of financial reports, the role they play and the stories they tell.  You will understand how to read and interpret financial statements to inform strategic decision-making, appropriately separate financial duties and responsibilities to protect against fraud and misuse, and allocate expenses more accurately in order to truly reflect your programmatic needs and narrative.

    Learn to Love Program Evaluation

    “Is your program meeting its promised impact?”  “Is it working better for some subset(s) of clients over others?”  “How might you tweak the program to have even more impact?”   This class will provide simple tools for collecting, analyzing, and using information, including a step-by-step model for an evaluation design to answer these questions and more.  You will leave with proven tools, approaches, techniques, and ideas that are customizable to a wide range of programs and to your organization’s and staff’s capacity, and give you the data you need for sound decision making and sharing with donors, clients, staff, and others.

  • Nonprofit Management 101

    This class begins with a focus on mission and core values, the very heart of a nonprofit; it then walks you through each part of the organism, such as income generation, human resources, finance, marketing, programming, and more - explaining each’s role and function and how it impacts others.  As you learn about the different parts, you will be given opportunities for self-reflection that will allow you to identify those pieces of the whole where you feel skilled and comfortable and those where you need to strengthen your understanding and skills.

    Effective Communications to Build Relationships, Engagement & Understanding

    In this class, you’ll learn about different communication styles and how you can deliver messages to communicate and work more effectively with others, including those who have a different style, are from a different generation, or have been resistant to change/new ideas. We’ll also provide a framework for how to engage in difficult conversations to address challenges and pursue opportunities to improve our outcomes.

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