Nonprofit Management and Leadership - The Nonprofit Center at LaSalle 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

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.
We Want You Back – How to Win Back Lapsed Donors
There are specific strategies you can utilize to reignite interest and win back donors at all levels. This webinar will give you ideas and recommendations, based on successful experiences, for all types of organizations. It will also help you identify possible weaknesses in your overall handling of donors that has contributed to the loss of them. Thus, not only will this webinar help you with lapsed donors, but it can help strengthen your overall fundraising program.
Beyond the Fundamentals of Financial Management: What the Numbers Are Really Saying
Take a deeper dive toward understanding your organization's financials and your ability to interpret and communication the information they contain.
Keys to Successful Strategic Planning
Learn 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
Individual and major donor campaigns are the cornerstone of fundraising, never falling below 70% of all philanthropy.
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.
Creating a Comprehensive and Strategic Approach to Digital Media
Learn to understand how to develop an integrated strategy across all your social medi, master market research and analytics to measure engagement and demographics, understanding metrics, tracking, analysis and goal-setting and adapt best practices in social media.
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.
Donor Retention Strategies: Keeping the Love
Learn practical tips on how you can positively impact your donor retention, building a solid foundation for both ongoing financial support and a network of committed supporters.
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.

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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

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

We Want You Back – How to Win Back Lapsed Donors

Beyond the Fundamentals of Financial Management: What the Numbers Are Really Saying

Keys to Successful Strategic Planning

Creating Successful Individual and Major Donor Campaigns

Effective Communications to Build Relationships, Engagement & Understanding

Creating a Comprehensive and Strategic Approach to Digital Media

Learn to Love Program Evaluation

Donor Retention Strategies: Keeping the Love

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