Understand the key ingredients of engagement, and how it works. This high energy course will help you focus on deepening collaboration and connecting with the audience that your nonprofit is aligned with, and can best serve. Find out the connection between engagement and collaboration through a series of exercises designed to help you identify your organization’s assets and needs. Where are you now and where do you want to go?  This course is designed to help you build systems of support for the work that you do through authentic connection, relationship building, and community organizing. Want to widen your circle? This is the course for you!  This course is taught by Cortina Jenelle Caldwell.

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In order to be successful, nonprofit organizations require strong leadership from their Board of Directors. The Board’s responsibility is to set future direction and policy, ensure necessary resources, and provide oversight and accountability. Learn the key roles and responsibilities of the Board and the essential areas of Board oversight. Discuss strategies to increase Board members’ effectiveness and commitment to the mission of your organization. Discover how to improve governance culture and ways the Board can achieve their important duties in fulfilling ways.  This course is taught by Leslie Anderson and offered in partnership with Toe River Arts.

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Join us as we welcome Ericka Hines and Patti Digh for our annual 2019 Nonprofit Leadership Program – Real Talk: Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Across Your Organization!

Storytelling is a fundamental human experience that unites people and drives stronger, deeper connections. From a marketing perspective, storytelling enables your nonprofit to uncover the emotional engine that transforms current and potential customers into true believers, and will help you engage your audience and advance your mission. In this interactive course, you will learn how to communicate compelling stories about people your nonprofit is helping and build a toolbox of resources to promote your stories for maximum effect that will not only spearhead your fundraising and advocacy efforts, but also strengthen your organization’s culture and reinforce its values.  This class is taught by Marilyn Ball.

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This course provides an understanding of financial management for nonprofits and focuses on topics integral to nonprofit fiscal management. Learn finance terms as they relate to the effective operation of a nonprofit organization. Discuss how to track income and expenses to specific programs to fulfill expectations of funders, donors and the IRS. The role of the board, staff and committees are covered. Become familiar with the standards of excellence for nonprofit organizations and gain an understanding of financial statements, budgeting, and surviving an audit. Participants will gain an understanding of the broader financial realm of nonprofit organizations – where they work or volunteer.  This class is taught by Kathi Ballard

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As nonprofits work with multiple cultures within the US and throughout the world, understanding how to foster optimal interaction among staff and boards is critical to developing high-performing and high-functioning teams. In this class, you will explore why these concepts are important for nonprofit organizations, their teams, their boards, and themselves. We’ll explore the different ways in which Baby Boomers, Generation Xers and Millennials communicate. And we’ll begin developing action plans for use within your organizations to create high performing teams in a multi-cultural and multi-generational workplace.  This class is taught by Althea Gonzalez.

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Most funders today think of themselves as “investors” who want to get the most community impact “payoff” they can for the resources they have. In recent years, these resources have been more limited and more organizations are competing for less money. This course will help you understand the factors that underlie which projects and organizations get grant funding, and will teach you tools to plan and prepare winning foundation grant proposals and letters of intent/inquiry. We will explore the information that will be requested in grant applications and use actual funded proposals as examples.  This course is taught by Mark Goldstein and offered in partnership with Toe River Arts.

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Do you dread the financial responsibilities of nonprofit management?  Understanding the basic accounting rules and principles as well as how and what creates a financial transaction are often-neglected aspects of operating a successful nonprofit. This course will offer participants the level of accounting expertise appropriate for an executive director and other non-financial management personnel of a nonprofit organization. Walk away with an appreciation for the mechanics of accounting as well as tips and tools to better manage the financial processing of your agency.  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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