The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University

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

Creating Successful Individual and Major Donor Campaigns
Individual and major donor campaigns are the cornerstone of fundraising, never falling below 70% of all philanthropy.
Activating Your Leadership to Disrupt the Status Quo (Abolition, Reform, Expansion – Session 2)
This session will identify ways that you can be a change agent within your nonprofit (with your colleagues as well as with your Board) by helping to build a mindset and culture that achieves the twin goals of resource development and equitable practices.
Learn to Love Program Evaluation
Learn proven tools, approaches, techniques, and ideas that are customizable to the evaluation of a wide range of programs within your organization.
Building a Successful Marketing Program
Understand the fundamental principles of marketing and its various components so that you can apply them to your nonprofit.
Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising
This class introduces the fundamental fundraising concepts, providing a snapshot of tools available to you and what it takes to implement them.
Philanthropy As Political Activism: De-Centering the Donor, Re-Centering the Community (Abolition, Reform, Expansion – Session 3)
In this session, we will explore tactics associated with donor centric fundraising models and the ways in which we might challenge these practices in favor of models for fundraising that center communities and right size donor engagement.
Best Practices in Board Governance
This impactful board training is the first step in appreciating the objective and true roles and responsibilities that the job of board member requires.
Effective Communications to Build Relationships, Engagement & Understanding
Recognize your communication style and how you give and receive messages, as you focus on specific ways to improve your own communications skills.
Effective Gift Stewardship + Donor Management = Successful Fundraising
Learn Procedures for accepting, acknowledging and stewarding gifts, to improve donor cultivation, including legal and ethical compliance.
Building a Successful Marketing Program
Understand the fundamental principles of marketing and its various components so that you can apply them to your nonprofit.

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FROM NONPROFIT UNIVERSITY BLOG

Knowing When To Say Good-bye
December 13, by Laura Otten, Ph.D., Director
Once the pandemic ends, we should not automatically return to the old ways, such as face-to-face over virtual.…
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The Clairvoyant Executive Director
December 7, by Laura Otten, Ph.D., Director
Boards are expecting executive directors to be able to predict the future, when that is an unreasonable expectation even in non-COVID volatile times. …
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A Winning Year-End
November 30, by Laura Otten, Ph.D., Director
Research consistently shows that giving to nonprofits makes people feel good and therefore encourages giving. Make this year-end successful by bringing in donations that help donors feel better throug…
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Welcome to The Nonprofit Center

Special Announcements

Resources to help stimulate your conversations about racial equity

Upcoming Courses

Creating Successful Individual and Major Donor Campaigns

Activating Your Leadership to Disrupt the Status Quo (Abolition, Reform, Expansion – Session 2)

Learn to Love Program Evaluation

Building a Successful Marketing Program

Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising

Philanthropy As Political Activism: De-Centering the Donor, Re-Centering the Community (Abolition, Reform, Expansion – Session 3)

Best Practices in Board Governance

Effective Communications to Build Relationships, Engagement & Understanding

Effective Gift Stewardship + Donor Management = Successful Fundraising

Building a Successful Marketing Program

FROM NONPROFIT UNIVERSITY BLOG

Knowing When To Say Good-bye

The Clairvoyant Executive Director

A Winning Year-End