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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, April 11, 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, April 23, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmN/A - Online
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Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising
Regardless of your role, this class will help you to understand how to build a fundraising program that generates support for the mission while aligning with your organization’s values. Participants will learn about the giving trends that are influencing approaches to raising money, explore the varied motivations of today’s donors, and understand how to convey their organization’s impact in ways that inspire donors to give. This class covers the fundamentals that everyone involved with nonprofits should know in order to position an organization for fundraising success.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmN/A - Online
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How to Launch a Planned Giving Program
Planned giving is often the area of fundraising last (or never) implemented because of the lack of knowledge among staff and volunteers. This class will provide a solid foundation in the key tools you will use and prepare you to present them to donors.
Thursday, May 1, 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, May 8, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmN/A - Online
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Basic Budgeting and Beyond
Budgeting is a complex, dynamic process that takes a team to effectively prepare, present and perform to. In this class you will learn the seven things you should do to create an annual budget and how to successfully fulfill its promise. From planning a process to presenting your budget, you’ll have it covered.
Friday, May 9, 2025
09:00 am to 12:00 pmN/A - Online
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Activate & Elevate Your Fundraising Strategy
Use your knowledge of the fundamental elements of raising funds to apply to an effective fundraising framework and strategy.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
09:00 am to 03:30 pmN/A - Online
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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.
Friday, May 16, 2025
09:00 am to 04:00 pmBucks County Community College - Newtown Campus
275 Swamp Road, Newtown, PA 18940$185FeeSignup Today -
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.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
09:00 am to 04:00 pmTBD (In-person)
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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.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
07:00 pm to 09:00 pmN/A - Online
