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

  • Best Practices in Board Governance

    This class will take a holistic look at the role and responsibilities of nonprofit board members, identifying not only the individual but also the collective role that boards have with nonprofits. Participants will learn key elements/responsibilities of the board such as their role in culture development, defining governance, board/executive director/staff balance of power and collaborations, modern and reasonable expectations/obligations, and connecting with community centered work.

    Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising

    Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising offers learners an engaging look at fundraising in today’s changing landscape. The course explores the key building blocks of a fundraising program, such as trends in philanthropy, donor motivations, your organization’s position in the fundraising marketplace, the role of the board, and developing fundraising plans. Participants will learn how to position their organizations for success with both individual donors and institutional funders like private foundations and corporations. By the end of the class, participants will understand how to manage and/or support their organization’s fundraising success.

  • Successful Corporate Fundraising

    This class will provide a broad overview of corporate philanthropy and fund-raising to help you expand or diversify your organization’s funding base. It will explore the traditional avenues of support through corporate foundations, matching gift programs, and corporate contributions budgets and will take an in-depth look at corporate sponsorship and cause-related marketing. The course will introduce real examples highlighting preferred approaches and what businesses want to receive for their philanthropic efforts.

    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.

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

    This class is for current and future leaders who aspire to be the leader their organization deserves:  one who motivates, inspires, earns trust, and gets results. It will take you through a series of reflective exercises to help you understand yourself as a leader.  It will provide a tour of different approaches to leadership to help you identify the tools you need in your successful leader’s toolbox.  Most of all, it will force you to think about what leadership means for you and your organization.

    Executive Transitions: Planning to Secure Your Organization’s Future

    Is your organization prepared for leadership changes?   In this class, attendees will learn the concrete steps for creating a succession plan, including actions that can happen years in advance that will help protect the organization before, during and after a leadership transition.  

  • 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.

  • Effective Gift Stewardship + Donor Management = Successful Fundraising

    This class will walk you through the procedures for accepting, acknowledging and stewarding gifts, from the first donation through to the end of the relationship.   It will help you master the different requirements and expectations of various gift vehicles, show you how to budget the costs involved and manage the expenses, reinforce the importance of recognition and accountability, and how to trouble-shoot potential problems.

    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.

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