This training covers how corporate grant makers are different from traditional foundations including a basic overview of the different types of corporate giving including what motivates corporations to give and how to find potential corporate partners.

Are you constantly pursuing grant opportunities but not seeing results? Set your organization up for lasting success with a smart, funder-focused grants approach. This workshop welcomes government agencies and nonprofits who are new or looking to sharpen their grant skills.

Are you ready to strengthen your board’s leadership and governance impact? As part of the Nonprofit Impact Series, this Focus Session is designed to equip nonprofit leaders with practical tools, clear governance frameworks, and strategic insight to better advance your mission. Ideal for nonprofit board members and chief executives committed to strengthening governance and organizational leadership

A Practical Guide for Building, Promoting, and Scaling Content That Drives Business Growth
The Content Strategy Playbook: A Practical Guide for Building, Promoting, and Scaling Content That Drives Business Growth

Written by Shelley Seale of WordCraft Strategy as a step-by-step toolkit, this guide walks you through everything you need to design and execute a content strategy that works — from foundations and frameworks to promotion, measurement, and scaling.

Content is the engine of modern marketing — but without strategy, it’s just noise. Too many companies rush into creating blogs, social posts, and videos without a clear plan, leaving teams overwhelmed and results underwhelming.

The Content Strategy Playbook gives you a proven framework to fix that.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
Define a clear content strategy that aligns with business goals
Build a content creation framework that keeps teams consistent and productive
Amplify content through SEO, social, email, and repurposing
Track the metrics that matter and continuously improve your results
Scale content across teams and markets without losing quality or focus
Packed with checklists, templates, and actionable insights, this playbook is built for executives, marketers, and business leaders who want to stop guessing and start seeing measurable growth from their content.

Practical Tools for Building High-Performing Nonprofit Teams
Strong teams drive results. This workshop distills decades of cognitive psychology and team science into practical lessons for nonprofit leaders. Participants will gain evidence-based strategies for how to form teams, structure collaboration, and sustain performance with an emphasis on tools they can apply immediately.

Audience: Nonprofit managers, team leaders, HR and program directors.

Learning Takeaways:

Learn the “Big Five” of teamwork: leadership, monitoring, adaptability, backup behavior, and orientation
Apply proven tools for communication, trust, and decision-making
Structure team environments that improve performance and resilience

Learn about our facilitator, Jonathan Alba

Financial decisions shape your mission, team, and future. This course builds the confidence nonprofit leaders need to lead with clarity.
A 2-part series (March 24 & March 31 | 9:30am – 1:30pm CST):
Few nonprofit leaders sign up to be financial experts—but financial decisions shape everything you care about: your mission impact, your team’s sustainability, and your organization’s future. This course gives you the financial confidence and clarity to lead boldly, whether you’re an executive director navigating cash flow, a board member fulfilling fiduciary duties, or a staff leader championing program priorities.
Move beyond confusion and compliance to true financial leadership. You’ll learn to read the story behind the numbers, build trust between board and staff, prevent the pitfalls that derail good organizations, and lead budgeting as a mission-driven tool—not a dreaded chore. Walk away with practical strategies you can implement immediately to strengthen decision-making, prevent fraud, and unite your team around a shared financial vision.

What You’ll Master:

• Core Financial Roles & Responsibilities – Clarify who does what (executive director, finance staff, and board) to eliminate confusion and gaps
• Building Healthy Financial Relationships – Foster productive board-staff collaboration, engage your finance committee effectively, and develop a sustainable relationship with time and money
• Making Sense of Financial Reports – Decode balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and dashboards so you can speak up with confidence
• Protecting Your Organization – Understand audits, implement fraud prevention strategies, and establish separation of duties that actually work
• Budget Leadership That Unites – Lead budgeting processes that bring your team together and drive mission results

What You’ll Gain:

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Clearly define financial roles and hold yourself and others accountable without overstepping
• Foster collaboration where board and staff work as partners, not adversaries, around money decisions
• Participate confidently in financial discussions and ask the right questions at the right time
• Implement safeguards that genuinely protect your organization from financial risk and fraud
• Lead budgeting as a strategic, unifying process that reflects your values and priorities
• Translate financial information so everyone on your team—regardless of background—can engage meaningfully
• Lead with financial clarity. Strengthen your impact. This is financial leadership for mission-driven leaders.

Meet the Facilitator:
Sean Hale has served a variety of nonprofits since 1999. During his 20 years as a nonprofit finance leader, he made improvements that reduced waste, generated new revenue, boosted staff productivity and morale, grew financial transparency, and shrank risk.
In 2020, he founded Nonprofit CFOs: now a 12-person team that helps small and medium-sized nonprofits ensure they have strong, effective financial management. Services include interim staffing, fractional CFO, bookkeeping, and indirect cost rate calculations.
Sean holds a Master’s degree, Certificate in Nonprofit Management, and a Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship.

Financial decisions shape your mission, team, and future. This course builds the confidence nonprofit leaders need to lead with clarity.
A 2-part series (March 24 & March 31 | 9:30am – 1:30pm CST):
Few nonprofit leaders sign up to be financial experts—but financial decisions shape everything you care about: your mission impact, your team’s sustainability, and your organization’s future. This course gives you the financial confidence and clarity to lead boldly, whether you’re an executive director navigating cash flow, a board member fulfilling fiduciary duties, or a staff leader championing program priorities.
Move beyond confusion and compliance to true financial leadership. You’ll learn to read the story behind the numbers, build trust between board and staff, prevent the pitfalls that derail good organizations, and lead budgeting as a mission-driven tool—not a dreaded chore. Walk away with practical strategies you can implement immediately to strengthen decision-making, prevent fraud, and unite your team around a shared financial vision.

What You’ll Master:

• Core Financial Roles & Responsibilities – Clarify who does what (executive director, finance staff, and board) to eliminate confusion and gaps
• Building Healthy Financial Relationships – Foster productive board-staff collaboration, engage your finance committee effectively, and develop a sustainable relationship with time and money
• Making Sense of Financial Reports – Decode balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and dashboards so you can speak up with confidence
• Protecting Your Organization – Understand audits, implement fraud prevention strategies, and establish separation of duties that actually work
• Budget Leadership That Unites – Lead budgeting processes that bring your team together and drive mission results

What You’ll Gain:

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Clearly define financial roles and hold yourself and others accountable without overstepping
• Foster collaboration where board and staff work as partners, not adversaries, around money decisions
• Participate confidently in financial discussions and ask the right questions at the right time
• Implement safeguards that genuinely protect your organization from financial risk and fraud
• Lead budgeting as a strategic, unifying process that reflects your values and priorities
• Translate financial information so everyone on your team—regardless of background—can engage meaningfully
• Lead with financial clarity. Strengthen your impact. This is financial leadership for mission-driven leaders.

Meet the Facilitator:
Sean Hale has served a variety of nonprofits since 1999. During his 20 years as a nonprofit finance leader, he made improvements that reduced waste, generated new revenue, boosted staff productivity and morale, grew financial transparency, and shrank risk.
In 2020, he founded Nonprofit CFOs: now a 12-person team that helps small and medium-sized nonprofits ensure they have strong, effective financial management. Services include interim staffing, fractional CFO, bookkeeping, and indirect cost rate calculations.
Sean holds a Master’s degree, Certificate in Nonprofit Management, and a Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship.

Peer Circles & Cohorts

6-Week Learning & Leadership Development Series

The Peer Circles & Cohorts program offers structured, cohort-based learning designed to support nonprofit leaders through shared experience, guided reflection, and practical problem-solving. These 6-week cycles bring together peers facing similar challenges and transitions, creating trusted spaces for learning, accountability, and growth.

Featured Cohort: Emerging Non-profit Leaders

This cohort is designed specifically for manager and director level professionals, offering a supportive peer community during one of the most critical leadership positions in the nonprofit sector.

What Participants Can Expect

• A small, consistent cohort of peers
• Facilitated sessions focused on real-time challenges
• Space for candid conversation, shared learning, and trust-building
• Practical tools and frameworks leaders can immediately apply

Core Themes May Include

• Managing up
• Establishing culture, authority, and leadership presence
• Programmatic oversight
• Navigating people management and decision-making
• Personal sustainability and leadership resilience

Program Structure

• Cohort Length: 5 weeks
• Format: Group-based, facilitated sessions
• Approach: Acting Learning + leadership development + applied problem-solving

Who Should Participate

• Directors and managers serving a non-profit organization
• Leaders seeking community, clarity, and confidence
• Individuals who value learning alongside peers over traditional training models

The Peer Circles & Cohorts program strengthens leadership from the inside out—building confidence, connection, and capacity at the moments it matters most.

Cohort Dates:
All sessions are held virtually on the following Wednesdays from 9am-10:30am.

• Session 1: April 1
• Session 2: April 8
• Session 3: April 15
• Session 4: April 22
• Session 5: April 29

Peer Circles & Cohorts

6-Week Learning & Leadership Development Series

The Peer Circles & Cohorts program offers structured, cohort-based learning designed to support nonprofit leaders through shared experience, guided reflection, and practical problem-solving. These 6-week cycles bring together peers facing similar challenges and transitions, creating trusted spaces for learning, accountability, and growth.

Featured Cohort: Emerging Non-profit Leaders

This cohort is designed specifically for manager and director level professionals, offering a supportive peer community during one of the most critical leadership positions in the nonprofit sector.

What Participants Can Expect

• A small, consistent cohort of peers
• Facilitated sessions focused on real-time challenges
• Space for candid conversation, shared learning, and trust-building
• Practical tools and frameworks leaders can immediately apply

Core Themes May Include

• Managing up
• Establishing culture, authority, and leadership presence
• Programmatic oversight
• Navigating people management and decision-making
• Personal sustainability and leadership resilience

Program Structure

• Cohort Length: 5 weeks
• Format: Group-based, facilitated sessions
• Approach: Acting Learning + leadership development + applied problem-solving

Who Should Participate

• Directors and managers serving a non-profit organization
• Leaders seeking community, clarity, and confidence
• Individuals who value learning alongside peers over traditional training models

The Peer Circles & Cohorts program strengthens leadership from the inside out—building confidence, connection, and capacity at the moments it matters most.

Cohort Dates:
All sessions are held virtually on the following Wednesdays from 9am-10:30am.

• Session 1: April 1
• Session 2: April 8
• Session 3: April 15
• Session 4: April 22
• Session 5: April 29

Peer Circles & Cohorts

6-Week Learning & Leadership Development Series

The Peer Circles & Cohorts program offers structured, cohort-based learning designed to support nonprofit leaders through shared experience, guided reflection, and practical problem-solving. These 6-week cycles bring together peers facing similar challenges and transitions, creating trusted spaces for learning, accountability, and growth.

Featured Cohort: Emerging Non-profit Leaders

This cohort is designed specifically for manager and director level professionals, offering a supportive peer community during one of the most critical leadership positions in the nonprofit sector.

What Participants Can Expect

• A small, consistent cohort of peers
• Facilitated sessions focused on real-time challenges
• Space for candid conversation, shared learning, and trust-building
• Practical tools and frameworks leaders can immediately apply

Core Themes May Include

• Managing up
• Establishing culture, authority, and leadership presence
• Programmatic oversight
• Navigating people management and decision-making
• Personal sustainability and leadership resilience

Program Structure

• Cohort Length: 5 weeks
• Format: Group-based, facilitated sessions
• Approach: Acting Learning + leadership development + applied problem-solving

Who Should Participate

• Directors and managers serving a non-profit organization
• Leaders seeking community, clarity, and confidence
• Individuals who value learning alongside peers over traditional training models

The Peer Circles & Cohorts program strengthens leadership from the inside out—building confidence, connection, and capacity at the moments it matters most.

Cohort Dates:
All sessions are held virtually on the following Wednesdays from 9am-10:30am.

• Session 1: April 1
• Session 2: April 8
• Session 3: April 15
• Session 4: April 22
• Session 5: April 29