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Francisvale Home for Small Animals

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The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

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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.

    Financial Forecasting: Informed By The Past; Built For The Future

    This class will explore the basic inputs required to develop and evaluate financial projections for your organization. Understanding how and when resources are available to your organization will not only enable you to guide policy and programmatic decisions, but also assist you in strategically planning your organization’s growth and sustainability.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 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.

    How to Launch a Planned Giving Program

    Does your organization have a planned giving program?  If not, you are potentially leaving a lot of money on the table.  This class will demystify the various planned giving techniques and vehicles, showing you how you can easily implement a planned giving program that will cost you very little overhead.

  • 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.

    Digging the Data: What Is the Story Behind the Numbers?

    This class will begin with a brief review of the three principal nonprofit financial reports, their parts, and how they are all related, remind you of some key definitions to shake off the dust, and then we'll share some in-depth analytical tools to help you make sense of the numbers. After this we’ll dig right in and look at actual financials from organizations focused on very different services to show how nonprofits can be compared and contrasted to build understanding, while highlighting common nonprofit challenges.  You’ll practice using what you've learned to make observations and form conclusions about the organizations' future, based on what the statements reveal.

  • 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.

    Own Your Impact: Measure what matters to create a more powerful case for support

    Own Your Impact by developing a powerful theory of change, developing clear impact goals, setting up easy-to-use creative measurement tools, and crafting vibrant sharable stories of impact.  This workshop, and 1 hour session of 1 on 1 consulting, will get you on track to be able to share powerful stories of impact and make a stronger case for support. You will leave with a clear impact measurement plan, creative measurement tools, a customized impact tracker, and a template for your next powerful impact report.

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