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

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.
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.
Fundamentals of Finance
Learn how to read and interpret financial statements, separate financial duties and responsibilities and allocate expenses accurately.
Building a Successful Marketing Program
Understand the fundamental principles of marketing and its various components so that you can apply them to your nonprofit.
Executive Transitions: Planning to Secure Your Organization’s Future
Whether you are a board member or executive director, you need to take steps that will help ensure the resiliency of your organization in a leadership transition. You’ll learn concrete steps your organization can take to protect its vision before, during and after a leadership transition. It’s time to start the conversation and a webinar is a comfortable way to find out what you need to know about succession planning.
The Step-by-Step Guide for the Grantseeker
This step-by-step user-friendly guide will walk novice grant seekers through proposal planning, research tools, writing, submission process and the funder-grantee relationship.
What Makes a Superior Leader? Creating and Mastering a Successful Leadership Style
Explore the essence of nonprofit leadership while looking at the leadership styles of others and yourself, to understand the traits of successful leaders.
How to Find, Engage and Nurture Your Volunteers
This class will provide realistic volunteer management strategies that will help you operate an effective program that will provide the dedicated, volunteer people power you need to serve your mission. It will show you how to appeal to different generations and motivations, so that you’re tapping into a wide range of volunteer talent.
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
Learn to recognize your communication style and how you give and receive messages, as you focus on specific ways to improve your own communications skills.

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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

Effective Communications to Build Relationships, Engagement & Understanding

Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising

Fundamentals of Finance

Building a Successful Marketing Program

Executive Transitions: Planning to Secure Your Organization’s Future

The Step-by-Step Guide for the Grantseeker

What Makes a Superior Leader? Creating and Mastering a Successful Leadership Style

How to Find, Engage and Nurture Your Volunteers

Best Practices in Board Governance

Effective Communications to Build Relationships, Engagement & Understanding

FROM NONPROFIT UNIVERSITY BLOG

Knowing When To Say Good-bye

The Clairvoyant Executive Director

A Winning Year-End