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Communication to Build Relationships, Engagement & Understanding
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.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmN/A - Online
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Successful Corporate Fundraising
This class will provide a broad overview of corporate philanthropy and fund-raising 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.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmN/A - Online
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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.
Friday, February 14, 2025
09:00 am to 04:00 pmBucks County Community College - Newtown Campus
275 Swamp Road, Newtown, PA 18940$185FeeSignup Today -
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.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmN/A - Online
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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.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmN/A - Online
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Fundamentals of Human Resources
This class covers the major workplace laws and the legal principles that govern the employment relationship. It will explore the importance of good policies and procedures in creating an effective working environment and provide an introduction to some of the most common and challenging HR responsibilities: the performance management cycle; development and management of compensation strategies; and effective guidelines for hiring the right people.
Friday, March 7, 2025
09:00 am to 04:00 pmWSFS
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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.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmN/A - Online
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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, March 26, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmN/A - online
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Effective Strategic Planning for Today’s Nonprofits
This class will show you how to build a plan that will drive strategic thinking across your organization, helping your plan to stand up to unexpected changes both inside and outside your organization. We’ll explore techniques for assessing your environment, gaining clarity on changing community needs, and developing strategies that can be adapted to meet new opportunities or challenges over time.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmN/A - Online
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Be Where Your Donors Are: Crafting Integrated Fundraising Campaigns
Learn how to integrate fundraising across different channels such as direct mail, email, digital, social media, web, and telephone. This class will show you how to build effective messages and deliver integrated fundraising campaigns that are memorable, cost-effective, and worthy of attracting new donors and retaining existing supporters.
Friday, April 4, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmN/A - Online
