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Joy of the Sector: A Welcome to the Essential Functions of Nonprofits
Welcome to the nonprofit sector! Our sector shapes the fabric of every community, transforms regions, and connects to global movements. This course will focus on the essential functions of mission-based organizations, including how a commitment to equity can strengthen organizational health and advance values-aligned outcomes. Participants – volunteers and paid professionals – will discover where their affinities might lie and where they could lend their talents to enrich organizations and communities.
Friday, September 26, 2025
09:00 am to 04:00 pmRegional Foundation Center
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A History and Introduction to Fundraising
This class will explore the history of philanthropy in the US, how it has developed up to the current day, current fundraising practices and trends in the philanthropic marketplace, and whether the practices of philanthropy and fundraising have evolved with society.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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Joy of the Sector: A Welcome to the Essential Functions of Nonprofits
Welcome to the nonprofit sector! Our sector shapes the fabric of every community, transforms regions, and connects to global movements. This course will focus on the essential functions of mission-based organizations, including how a commitment to equity can strengthen organizational health and advance values-aligned outcomes. Participants – volunteers and paid professionals – will discover where their affinities might lie and where they could lend their talents to enrich organizations and communities.
Friday, October 3, 2025
09:00 am to 04:00 pmBucks County Community College - Newtown Campus
275 Swamp Road, Newtown, PA 18940$185FeeSignup Today -
Fundamentals of Human Resources
This course provides a practical foundation in nonprofit HR essentials, with a focus on legal compliance and effective people management. You’ll explore the major workplace laws that shape the employment relationship, the value of sound policies and procedures, and core responsibilities like performance management, hiring, and compensation strategy, and gain tools to help your organization build inclusive and diverse teams, promote equity in decision-making, and create a culture where all employees can thrive.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmOnline
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Building the Board Your Organization Needs
This class aims to explore what your nonprofit board’s role must be, what your board’s goals could be, and what it means for board members to be effective, both collectively and individually. Whether you are a long-serving, aspiring, new, or simply curious board member, this course will give you a contextual view of nonprofit boards, governance, and a fresh look through an equity lens at the balance of power between boards, executive leadership, and the people and communities they impact.
Friday, October 17, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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The Step-by-Step Guide for the Grantseeker
Designed especially for those who are newer to grant funding, this class will explore the changing landscape of private foundations and corporations. We’ll walk through the progressive steps of the grant seeking process, from proposal planning and prospect research to grant writing and relationship building with funders. At each step, we’ll discuss how you can best position your nonprofit for success in securing grants that support the work and mission.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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Discovering the Power of Program Evaluation
Effectively evaluating organizational programming is critical to improve your work, deepen equity and share your impact. This class will cover the value of intentional program evaluation, methods for collecting, analyzing and using data, and offer a step-by-step model for evaluation design. At the end of this class, you will leave with tools, approaches, techniques and ideas that you and your team can implement to learn how effective your programs are and to share those results with clients, stakeholders, and donors.
Friday, October 31, 2025
09:00 am to 04:00 pmBallard Spahr, LLP
1735 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 -
Effective Strategic Planning for Today’s Nonprofits
This class will show you how to build a plan that will drive strategic thinking across your organization, helping your plan to stand up to unexpected changes both inside and outside your organization. We’ll explore techniques for assessing your environment, gaining clarity on changing community needs, and developing strategies that can be adapted to meet new opportunities or challenges over time.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmOnline
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Building the Right Development Strategy: Integrating Events
This class will help you think through your overall development strategy across various revenue streams, showing you how to develop a realistic budget and calculate cost projections, how to secure organizational buy-in, set expectations, and measure success. You will also learn how to integrate friend-raising and fundraising events as a component of your development strategy.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising
Regardless of your role, this class will help you to understand how to build a fundraising program that generates support for the mission while aligning with your organization’s values. Participants will learn about the giving trends that are influencing approaches to raising money, explore the varied motivations of today’s donors, and understand how to convey their organization’s impact in ways that inspire donors to give. This class covers the fundamentals that everyone involved with nonprofits should know in order to position an organization for fundraising success.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
