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Francisvale Home for Small Animals

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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 isn't just who we are, it's what we do. With more than 35 years of experience at the forefront in 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 the Role Nonprofits Play in our Community
We provide diverse, integrated services in education, consulting and leadership development, rooted in best practices in nonprofit management, governance and operation, while respecting and understanding the unique nonprofit culture.

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The Nonprofit Center Gives you the Tools

"From introductions to foundation representatives at a 'Meet the Funders' panel, to ways to amplify the message on our mission at a branding class, The Nonprofit Center opens the door to a range of resources. The professional development opportunities provide practical, timely, and, in some cases, eye-opening expert guidance on ways to deepen donor relationships. I always come away from the classes with a well-defined to-do list that refines our fundraising efforts. To state the obvious: we are in a highly competitive environment for dollars/donors. Essentially every nonprofit is in the business of improving the community; each using different means to achieve this same end. The Nonprofit Center hands us the tools to best leverage what is unique to our work." -Ellen Saint Clair, Director of Development, Children's Village

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Upcoming Courses

  • Keys to Successful Strategic Planning

    Every nonprofit needs a good strategic plan to serve as a roadmap for change. This class will teach you how to create a living, constituent-driven strategic plan that is a critical management tool for your board and executive leadership.

    Interim Executive Director Opportunity Exploration Session

    This session will enable you to decide if being a Nonprofit Center Interim Director is a potential career path for you.  The Nonprofit Center, which has operated a successful Interim Executive Director program since 2006, is currently recruiting potential candidates for whom this role would be a good fit.  A typical profile is a retiring executive director who wants to continue connecting with the nonprofit community.

  • Effective Nonprofit Governance:  How Boards Should Work

    This impactful board training is the first step in appreciating the objective and true roles and responsibilities that the job of board member requires. Attendees will come to comprehend the full responsibilities of board membership, in both the context of being part of a larger whole, as well as an individual. In addition, this course will show how to maximize the all important partnership of board and executive director.

    Interim Executive Director Opportunity Exploration Session

    This session will enable you to decide if being a Nonprofit Center Interim Director is a potential career path for you.  The Nonprofit Center, which has operated a successful Interim Executive Director program since 2006, is currently recruiting potential candidates for whom this role would be a good fit.  A typical profile is a retiring executive director who wants to continue connecting with the nonprofit community.

  • Blueprints for Communications Planning and Media Relations in a Digital World

    Learn how a you can develop an effective communication plan that helps you build relationships with key publics, including volunteers, donors, and the media, while reducing potential risks to your organization.

    Keys to Successful Strategic Planning

    Every nonprofit needs a good strategic plan to serve as a roadmap for change. This class will teach you how to create a living, constituent-driven strategic plan that is a critical management tool for your board and executive leadership.

  • Creating Successful Individual and Major Donor Campaigns

    Even when times are bad, individuals contribute more than 75% of the $295 billion given annually to nonprofits. No nonprofit can afford to miss the opportunities that individual giving offers and whether a major gift to your organization means $500 or $5,000, your individual giving program should have a unique strategy for major donors. This class will cover the various approaches to individual giving, from the annual appeal to a major donor personal solicitation. You will develop the tools and techniques that will help you create a comprehensive, coordinated fundraising program for individuals, including understanding the individual’s relationship to your organization, identifying strategies for each approach, how to be donor-focused while meeting your organization’s financial needs, and coordinating cultivation, solicitation and stewardship activities that lead to successful campaigns. Role play will solidify your confidence in being able to solicit donors as an essential part of your nonprofit professional development.   Please note this class has a snow date of 1/23/2019. If we have to cancel this class due to inclement weather it will be moved to this date but it will not necessarily be held at the same location.

    Nonprofit Management 101

    As an executive director (and often as a senior or mid-level manager), you will have to juggle various roles and responsibilities, always in the context of how the pieces must fit together with the organization-at-large. Performing well as a nonprofit manager in these circumstances requires both specific skills, as well as the ability to solve problems and generate ideas as you manage mission, people, programs and resources that you'll learn in this class.

  • Donor Retention Strategies: Keeping the Love

    This webinar will share practical tips on how you can positively impact donor retention, building a solid foundation for both ongoing financial support and a network of committed supporters.  

    Fundamentals of Human Resources

    This course provides an essential framework for understanding the major human resources responsibilities in nonprofits with concentration on workplace laws.

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FROM NONPROFIT UNIVERSITY BLOG

  • Doing more, For More, With Less

    December 14, by Laura Otten, Ph.D., Director

    While I cannot do anything about our country’s obsession with the belief that bigger is always better, I can take umbrage with folks who prefer the maxim “bigger is better” over that of “quali… Read more

  • I Give, Therefore I Am

    December 7, by Laura Otten, Ph.D., Director

    As nonprofits are pondering just how much money will come in over the remaining days of the calendar year, it seems fitting, in a sad, sadistic way, I suppose, to report on a study with the subtitle, … Read more

  • 3 Monkey Culture

    November 30, by Laura Otten, Ph.D., Director

    My holiday wish to all employees is that your leader(s) comes to understand the importance of culture.   Forget laws and regulations – they are the reactions to the failure of established, pro… Read more