We provide classes, workshops and training sessions along with opportunities to attend convenings, peer roundtables and other issues-driven events that help you learn, forge collaborations and gain insights that grow your skills and amplify your impact.
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People are at the heart of any organization. Thus, a manager’s leadership style and skills are integral to sustaining a well-functioning company. Good leaders understand that their job is to help their people succeed. FAU's Leadership Boot Camp: People Management program will provide you with the necessary performance management tools and resources to help ensure employee and organizational success.
At its foundation, performance management is built on solid communication, clear expectations, adaptive leadership, self-awareness and a culture of trust that enables the capacity to thrive. Leadership Boot Camp: People Management is a hands-on, real world dynamic program designed to equip you with these skills and insight.
This workshop is an overview of ethical and legal advocacy and lobbying for nonprofits, including why it's important, implications for your organization to consider, and how to do both effectively. The interactive training includes:
Who Should Attend the Series
This series is ideal for nonprofit leaders, both staff and Board, who want to kickstart their advocacy work. You can register for each of the workshops individually, but we recommend participating in all four. This will give you a clear starting point for planning your advocacy work and allow you to meet other nonprofit leaders who are doing the same – the cohort-like experience is an added bonus!
The quality of your communication directly affects your ability to authentically connect, influence, inspire and engage your co-workers, clients, and other stakeholders or relationships. How you communicate can make or break your career.
Yet so many of us are unaware of our style of communication. We make assumptions, react, interrupt, judge, and/or forget in the heat of a high-paced result-oriented workday, to be kind and empathetic. Our need to be right filters our conversation, bringing with it our biases and boundaries.
This webinar is a mind/body training which focuses on listening and responding to the three mini conversations that are present within each verbal transaction. In it you’ll learn:
· How to shift from your thinking mind into your mind/body so you can deeply listen.
· Move beyond assumptions and judgments by learning helpful questions that enhance understanding.
· Make requests
· The eight rules of feedback
· How to say set boundaries
· To see the seed of truth in another’s perspective so you can find a deep truth and understanding.
Nonprofits are prime targets for cyberattacks and attacks against nonprofits are on the rise—phishing scams, ransomware, and data breaches can drain resources, disrupt operations, and erode donor trust. But do you know what a cyber incident would actually cost your organization? Are you holding onto more data than necessary, increasing your risk?
In this fast-paced, interactive workshop, you’ll take part in a financial threat simulation to see firsthand how much a cyber incident could cost your nonprofit—from response and recovery expenses to reputational damage and lost funding. You’ll also gain practical tools to assess cyber risk, implement key protections, and understand how cyber insurance can help transfer risk. We’ll cover data retention and protection best practices to reduce unnecessary exposure and discuss how to communicate cyber risk to boards and funders to secure buy-in.
Walk away with actionable strategies to protect your nonprofit, minimize financial impact, and keep your mission moving forward.
One of the easiest and most successful ways to do advocacy work as a nonprofit organization is through coalitions. This workshop walks you through how to identify a coalition with goals similar to yours (or what to know to start your own!), what to expect when working with coalitions, and how to maximize your coalition success.
Who Should Attend the Series
This series is ideal for nonprofit leaders, both staff and Board, who want to kickstart their advocacy work. You can register for each of the workshops individually, but we recommend participating in all four. This will give you a clear starting point for planning your advocacy work and allow you to meet other nonprofit leaders who are doing the same – the cohort-like experience is an added bonus!
The How to Write a Donor Appeal workshop will teach participants how to write a clear and compelling one-to-two-page document that can be used to ask donors for their financial support.
Advocacy is key for nonprofits, but influencing policy requires strategic communication. This workshop will equip nonprofit leaders with the skills to engage elected officials effectively. Join us to learn best practices for crafting persuasive messages and building relationships. We’ll cover how to structure advocacy campaigns, leverage data to support your cause, and engage officials through meetings and public testimony. We’ll also explore digital tools and social media strategies to amplify your message.
Who Should Attend the Series
This series is ideal for nonprofit leaders, both staff and Board, who want to kickstart their advocacy work. You can register for each of the workshops individually, but we recommend participating in all four. This will give you a clear starting point for planning your advocacy work and allow you to meet other nonprofit leaders who are doing the same – the cohort-like experience is an added bonus!
This workshop teaches you how to develop a policy agenda that identifies the legislative and advocacy priorities for your organization, clarifies the actions you will (and won't!) take, and reassures decision-makers and stakeholders that your advocacy work will be legal, ethical, and effective.
Who Should Attend the Series
This series is ideal for nonprofit leaders, both staff and Board, who want to kickstart their advocacy work. You can register for each of the workshops individually, but we recommend participating in all four. This will give you a clear starting point for planning your advocacy work and allow you to meet other nonprofit leaders who are doing the same – the cohort-like experience is an added bonus!
Join national QuickBooks trainer Gregg Bossen, CPA, as he presents “QuickBooks Online for Nonprofits: The Essentials”, where he will cover the basics of setting up and entering the most common transactions nonprofits need to make.
The material will cover the basics of setting up and entering transactions specifically for Nonprofits and an overview of the software updates included in the QuickBooks® 2025 product.
The How to Make Leadership Work workshop will teach participants about how to internally align the Senior Leadership Team and Board of Directors to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.
Advocacy is vital to a successful nonprofit organization. It strengthens your mission work, your reputation, your name recognition, and your fundraising efforts! But many Board members are unsure of or uncomfortable with advocacy. Join Florida Nonprofit Alliance for this overview of how to build your Board’s capacity for legal and ethical advocacy that supports the mission of your organization.
Who Should Attend
This series is ideal for nonprofit leaders, both staff and Board, who want to kickstart their advocacy work. You can register for each of the workshops individually, but we recommend participating in all four. This will give you a clear starting point for planning your advocacy work and allow you to meet other nonprofit leaders who are doing the same – the cohort-like experience is an added bonus!
The Case for Support workshop will teach participants how to write a two-page Case for Support that is compelling and impactful to its readers.
The Earned Revenue Model workshop will teach participants about the several types of earned revenue streams that can be implemented at nonprofit organizations and which model might be right for your organization.
Attracting Followers – Social Media and Website Content Workshop will teach participants about who their followers are, how to attract them, and how to engage them through social media and website content.
The Continuous Improvement – Analytics workshop will teach participants how to develop well-defined and clear Key Performance Indicators to help the nonprofit organization accomplish its financial goals and objectives.
The Year-End Impact Report workshop will teach participants how to create an impact report to inform funders and stakeholders how the nonprofit organization’s mission is to have a meaningful impact.
Learning opportunities designed to develop skills, practices, and behaviors which best prepare people working in the social sector for success.
Fundraising
Organizational sustainability
Leadership and management
Equip your organization leaders and changemakers with the essential skills, knowledge, and resources needed to create a meaningful impact. Stay current with the latest best practices, trends, and emerging issues in the nonprofit sector.
The Nonprofit Academy provides a comprehensive array of topics essential for managing a nonprofit in today's landscape, including nonprofit management and leadership, fundraising, communication and marketing, nonprofit accounting, and more. The courses are interactive and engaging, fostering a supportive network where professionals can connect, collaborate, and learn from one another.
Join national experts for webinars on all aspects of grant management, research, reporting, budgeting, and more. This webinar library can be accessed at your convenience.
The Post-Award Grant Management Pathway will provide you with essential resources to guide your path with insightful webinars, personalized podcasts and blog posts, curated microlearning videos, and specialized strategy papers to lead you to a successful post-award grant experience. This Pathway is designed for all levels of grant professionals. Whether you were awarded a foundation, corporate or government grant, these resources will expand your knowledge of the grant management process. National GPA-approved trainers and grant experts have created practical educational sources within this pathway to answer your questions and steer you in the right direction to be grant compliant.
After you have watched all of the webinars and microlearning videos, listened to the Podcasts and read the Strategy Papers and blogposts listed in this Pathway at your own pace, you will have successfully completed the Grant Management Pathway and will receive a Certificate of Completion issued by GPA. The Post-Award Grant Management and Compliance Learning Pathway has been approved for 11 CEUs through CFRE and 10 CEUs through GPCI.
This series is open to members and nonmembers.
