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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
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How to Secure Major Gifts from Individual Donors
This class will help you develop the tools and techniques needed to secure major gifts, including understanding the individual’s relationship to your organization and identifying strategies for each approach.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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Understanding and Growing Leadership Capacity
Leadership starts with the personal. Everyone loves to talk about their own or someone else’s “leadership style”, but the reality is if you have just one way to demonstrate leadership you will never be an effective leader. Effective leaders have a toolbox filled with styles and strategies for success. This class will take you through a series of reflective exercises to help you understand what leadership is—and what it is not—and where you see yourself as a leader—or not.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmOnline
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Understanding Finance for Nonprofits
Without understanding how nonprofit finance works, you cannot assess your business practices, evaluate your decisions, nor be informed by their results. This class will give you a broad understanding of business finance and equip you with simple, practical tools so you know where to look and can understand what the data is telling you about your organization.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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Values-based Fundraising in Today’s World
Today’s world is dynamic, unpredictable, and full of opportunity to shape a positive future. Meeting people where they are—being able to tell a compelling story about your cause in ways that resonate with them, their life, their values—is crucial. Through this class, you will identify ways to embrace the twin goals of raising funds and living out your organization’s core values. Fundraisers – both paid and volunteer – will build a personal action plan for building relationships and leveraging assets amid uncertainty.
Friday, January 9, 2026
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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The Power of Connection: Communication That Builds Trust, Alignment & Action
In this class, you’ll learn about different communication styles and how you can communicate and work more effectively with others, including those who have different approaches to communication, are from a different generation, or are resistant to change/new ideas. We’ll also provide a framework for how to engage in difficult conversations to address challenges and pursue opportunities to improve your outcomes.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
07:00 pm to 09:00 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.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
09:00 am to 04:00 pmRegional Foundation Center
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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.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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Successful Corporate Fundraising
This class will provide a broad overview of corporate philanthropy and fundraising 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.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
09:00 am to 03:30 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.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmOnline
