Communicating your organization’s value-add clearly and compellingly is critical for nonprofits, whether targeting users, donors, prospects, influencers or board members. This workshop offers basic tools and hands-on practice on “must-have” audiences, unique selling propositions, messages that resonate, and effective messaging channels and tactics. During this class, you will begin to develop a strategic communications plan that can help you communicate to the right people the right way, with the right message, at the right time – all in service of advancing your nonprofit’s strategic goals. This course is appropriate for any nonprofit leader, staffer or volunteer who wants to help build issue awareness, organizational visibility, and donor base support.  This course will be taught by Rachel Perry.

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Participants will examine the parts of a strategic plan including the vision and mission statement, values and goals that will guide the organization into the future. Students will also learn important tools to analyze their respective nonprofit organizations to help them make decisions for setting a course for the organization’s future. Analysis tools include the SWOT Analysis, BCG Matrix, the Sustainability Matrix and the Strategy Canvas.  There will be an opportunity for students to apply the tools through group work to evaluate an organization and understand the process of constructing a Sustainable Strategic Plan.  This course will be taught by Melissa LeRoy.  This class is offered in partnership with the Toe River Arts Council.

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Engagement, Sustainability, Cultivation, Virtual, High Potential

What do these words have in common?  They speak to a vibrant volunteer culture; do they describe your organization?  Discover how building a culture of volunteer engagement for your nonprofit increases organizational capacity.  Learn best practices of skill-based volunteering and other trends.  What could you do if you had all the resources your nonprofit needed? This class is designed to actively engage and involve the participants as learners and as contributors.  This course is taught by Tracy Davids.

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Coaching is central to performance management and typically is used to help an employee improve his/her performance. Coaching can help managers develop the climate, environment, and process that empowers individuals and teams to create desired results. After participating in this workshop, you will be able to identify the benefits of coaching, assess why some managers avoid coaching, recognize the characteristics of effective coaches, analyze what is influencing unsatisfactory performance and how to document the problem area, prepare for and conduct a coaching session, and avoid common coaching pitfalls  This course is taught by Althea Gonzalez.

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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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Understanding the value of Human capital is a necessary leadership tools in today’s workplace. This course helps nonprofit leaders to explore key components of acquisition and retention of the workforce needed to provide organizational stability. Learn how to better manage basic day-to-day HR operations and lead strategic HR initiatives. Examine the process of giving feedback to employees, and prepare for and conduct a coaching session to accelerate performance. Explore practical solutions to common HR challenges such as creating an inclusive and equitable environment, build skills related to talent acquisition, performance management, and establishing and managing foundational HR policies for your organization.  This course is taught by Lakesha McDay.

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Are you befuddled by financial reports? This course explores financial statements and other reports for nonprofit organizations. Develop skills in preparing reports that tell users what really matters as well as important ratios for monitoring the organization’s financial health and fiscal stability. Reporting requirements of the IRS (Form 990) will also be discussed.  This course is taught by Wade Rogers.

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This innovative course allows you to discover and use your natural strengths while engaging one person, a mid-sized audience or a large group.   Especially designed for those working with non-profit organizations, this course will also cover the unique challenges and opportunities you face to get your messages heard.  You’ll get techniques for learning about audiences in advance in order to tailor a speech; learn how to develop customized openings and closings for different presentations; create and use audiovisuals in a successful way; reduce preparation time; plus create effective presentations using a proven outline format.  This course is taught by Neela Munoz.

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Begin at the beginning and learn the basics of project and program evaluation in a safe, fun environment. This workshop combines teaching with small group discussion to provide a “nuts and bolts” introduction to practical methods for conducting evaluation. During this interactive session, you will learn the “what, why, when, and how” of evaluation including key stakeholders’ roles in evaluation, the utility of theories of change, how to design an evaluation plan, and basics of data collection. By the end of the day, you’ll have created a brief action plan for addressing evaluation in your organization for the future.  This course is taught by Jill Fromewick and Emily Kujawa.

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Fundraising is about more than money; it is about relationship-building and strategizing. This course addresses the most effective and successful methods of raising money. Discover ideas and activities to help you strengthen your fundraising program. Learn current trends and best practices in annual giving, retaining and upgrading current donors, prospecting new donors, engaging volunteers, and managing the fundraising process. You will be guided from “the ask” to “the acknowledgement” and will gain specific ideas to enhance your fundraising results.  This course is taught by Angela Kemper.

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Nonprofit Boards of Directors are often viewed as a necessary evil when in fact the opposite is true — they are a “necessary good.” Learn how to create an active, engaged board that is both accountable and involved.  This course is taught by Allison Jordan.

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