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Understanding and Navigating Change
It’s been said that humans don’t resist change – they just resist changes they don’t choose. The world today is changing fast, and our organizations are working overtime to adjust and adapt. This makes skills at understanding and navigating change in our organizations more important than ever. Join us to learn:
Psychological processes of change – understanding and choosing strategies for your team
Leadership in change – how to create buy-in and defuse resistance
Negotiating what you can’t control, and determining what you can
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
10:00 am to 12:00 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.
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
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Mission Critical Marketing
This class will help you understand the necessary elements of building a mission critical marketing program, prioritize and attract the right audiences, and develop results-oriented objectives so that you can focus on delivering on your mission.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
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.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
09:00 am to 03:30 pmOnline
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From Cultivation to Stewardship: The Journey to Donor Retention
This class will walk you through the mindset of a relational fundraising process, including procedures for accepting, acknowledging and stewarding donors, from the first donation through to mature donor relationships. It will help you master the different requirements and expectations of various gift vehicles, show you how to budget the costs involved and manage the expenses, reinforce the importance of recognition and accountability, and teach you how to trouble-shoot potential problems.
Wednesday, March 4, 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.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
10:00 am to 02:30 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, March 10, 2026
09:00 am to 04:00 pmBallard Spahr, LLP
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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.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmOnline
