Do you dread the financial responsibilities of nonprofit management? Understanding transactions, financial reports, and statements are essential, often-neglected aspects of operating a successful nonprofit. This course will offer participants the level of accounting expertise appropriate for an executive director of a nonprofit organization. Develop skills in recording transactions, preparing reports, and analyzing financial statements. You may be surprised at how much fun accounting can be!  This course is taught by Michelle Tracz.

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Public policy advocacy is a powerful tool to help nonprofits fully realize their missions. Every day nonprofits and their clients, volunteers, and communities interact with and are shaped by public policy. Leveraging influence on these decisions can realize changes and benefits that reach beyond the scope of direct services. In this course, we will explore a values-based advocacy model; understand advocacy tools; learn the basics of advocacy campaign planning and messaging; and develop an initial plan for creating or strengthening your organization’s infrastructure and decision-making to effectively engage in public policy advocacy. This course is taught by Greg Borom.

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How do you measure your nonprofit’s success? This course is designed to help you understand the ways in which you can measure the success of your organization relative to your mission and vision. You will leave this class with an idea of the metrics you can use to measure organizational impact, as well as a clear understanding of metric development and measurement, and an action plan to take back to your organization. This course is taught by Catherine Brown.

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