Classes and Certificates

Check back in August for our next year of classes!

Register for an Upcoming Class

The Power of Connection: Communication that Builds Trust, Alignment & Action

This class will expand your understanding of communication and help you put it into practice, whether you're engaging co-workers, donors, volunteers, board members, or supervisors/supervisees.

Fundamentals of Human Resources

This course provides a practical foundation in nonprofit HR essentials, with a focus on legal compliance and effective people management.

Discovering the Power of Program Evaluation

This class will cover the value of intentional program evaluation and methods for collecting, analyzing and using data and offer a step-by-step model for evaluation design.

Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising

This class covers the fundamentals that everyone involved with nonprofits should know in order to position an organization for fundraising success.

Joy of the Sector: A Welcome to the Essential Functions of Nonprofits

This course will focus on the core functions of mission-based organizations and their contribution to organizational health and sustainability.

Certificates in Nonprofit Management, Fundraising, and a Customized Build-Your-Own

Advance your skills and career through a non-degreed, in-depth learning experience in a specific skill set through a certificate with The Nonprofit Center. To earn a certificate, you will complete 10 4-hour courses in a recommended sequence to progressively build expertise. You can take up to three years to complete the certificate, making it a realistic goal for working professionals. In addition to this real world professional education, you can also earn respected Continuing Education Units, as well as CFREs for development professionals. A perfect match for today’s world and tomorrow’s changemakers, our certificates offer skills, competency, confidence, a distinction and credibility, without the expense and time commitment of a degree program.

Fundraising

Teaches the basic skills and methods of fundraising from grant writing to major gifts solicitation to proposal writing to corporate sponsorship.

Nonprofit Management

Focused on the entire nonprofit ecosystem, current nonprofit managers and directors, as well as those on the leadership track or new to the sector.

Build-Your-Own

Customized certificate, based on your needs and interests.

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