Learn Excel to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Results. Unleash Your Data and Save Time. Nonprofit organizations use Excel to track volunteers, merge donor information from multiple online sources, and create budgets. By learning this powerful application, you can improve your organization’s...

Does Your Organization Have a Governance Committee? Change Your Approach to Create an Engaged Board. Nonprofits often have nominations committees responsible for putting forward nominees for board membership and officer positions. After the rush to find and enlist suitable candidates,...

Build a Stronger Partnership With Your Board: Gain More Respect and Productivity Board members should be part of your organizational family instead of just once-a-month visitors. As an executive director, you need to treat board management as both a science...

How Effective Is Your Board? Learn How to Assess and Improve Board Performance A strong, vibrant board of directors is a clear indicator of a healthy organization. Yet even the best organizations need ongoing attention and check-ups to ensure that...

Use Coaching to Drive Performance. Get Better Results From Your Team. Transitioning from old-fashioned management to modern coaching is essential in an environment of rapid change.  Effective coaching methods can make an enormous difference in team productivity and organizational capacity....

Donations Are Hiding in Your CRM. Unlock the Data to Improve Fundraising Results Your CRM: Keeps all the information about your funders in a central place Identifies untapped opportunities Provides insights into fundraising successes you can emulate You need to...

What Are the 3 Es of Board Development? Build Performance Through Education, Evaluation, and Exit To truly succeed, a nonprofit needs a passionate board of directors. Board performance is a critical ingredient in an organization’s ability to achieve impact. It...

See How Easily You Can Get Donors’ Attention. Discover 10 Quick and Easy Ways to Attract Donors and Funds The number of nonprofits in the U.S. is increasing every year, now topping 1.5 million. When you’re a nonprofit leader, the...

Do Your Programs Fill Real Needs? Learn How to Measure Program Need. Effective program design and execution starts with verifying the need. Needs assessments are essential tools that aid organizations in ensuring the services they offer are necessary, welcome, and...

Do the Board Members and Staff at Your Organization Work Well Together? Learn How to Define Who Does What In the most effective nonprofits, the board and the staff complement and support each other. They apply different perspectives and actions...

No, Thanks. Learn When It is Necessary to Decline Gifts. There are circumstances under which your organization should decline a gift from a donor. Effective gift acceptance policies provide necessary guardrails for nonprofit boards and staff members. You need to...

Does Your Workforce Embrace and Benefit from Racial Equity? Infuse Inclusion Throughout Your Team. For a nonprofit to truly embody racial equity, every member of your workforce needs to understand and embrace inclusion. They must not only denounce systemic racism...

Are You an Imposter? Build New Confidence to Feel Comfortable as a Leader. Does a closed session put you into a panic because you convince yourself you are being fired instead of getting a raise? Do you ever worry that...

How Is Cash Flow at Your Organization? Learn How to Calculate the Current Situation and Future Projections. Cash flow is essential for every nonprofit. While it is obvious that you need more funds coming in than going out, calculating this...

Does Your Board Champion Racial Equity? Learn How to Implement Inclusive Practices and Pursue Equity. Your nonprofit’s board sets the tone for racial equity. To ensure your entire organization embodies this essential goal, the leadership of directors is vital for...

Find and Empower Volunteers to Drive Revenue: Learn How to Build an Effective Peer Fundraising Program Peer-to-peer fundraising has become increasingly popular among sophisticated nonprofits. Organizations implement programs to recruit and empower passionate volunteers to drive revenue. You can take...

Design Thoughtful Programs and Earn Your Program Design Certification: Do More to Fulfill Your Mission As your organization prepares for a post-pandemic resurgence, now is the time to plan new programs and improve existing offerings. Efficiency is crucial to respond...

New Programs at Your Organization. Discover Unsurpassed Implementation Strategies. New programs require thoughtful implementation to be successful. Throughout program design, you need to consider the specific steps. To improve outcomes, you can use effective strategies, such as a soft launch...

Strategy is Vital for Your Organization. Learn How to Make Yours Transformational. Strategic practices allow organizations to increase their capacities and achieve more. You need to step away from putting out daily fires to plan and prepare for the future....

How Could New Laws Help Your Organization? Discover How to Achieve Success With Lobbying Only 3% of all charities actively lobby for their organizations and the causes they hold dear. You can make life better for the people and communities...

Is Your Team Successful? Discover How to Increase Productivity and Decrease Turnover. Organizations are made up of teams of people. Understanding team dynamics and employee motivation can enable you to set up your teams for success. Effective teams lead to...

Do You Know How to Make Change at Your Organization? Build Capacity From the Inside Out Your team members possess a distinct combination of talents, skills, and personality traits that allow them to contribute to productivity and drive innovation. It...

It’s Okay If You Don’t Know All the Answers: Learn How to Be an Authentic Executive Director Executive directors hate to say “I don’t know,” because they feel they are expected to have all the answers. They occasionally feel they...

Respond to Conflict at Your Organization Effectively. Learn How to Resolve Disputes and Increase Collaboration. Conflicts are costly and lead to decreased social impact when not appropriately addressed. You need to respond and relate to conflict within your organization effectively...