What We Do
The Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence helps nonprofits build the resiliency and sustainability needed to achieve their charitable missions. We empower local nonprofits to grow their community impact and make life better in Broward.
About the Nonprofit Center
Launched by the Community Foundation of Broward in 2022, the Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence is a go-to resource for nonprofit professionals, volunteers and others who support the missions of local charitable organizations. We help you grow your skills and tap into new sources of charitable support. We offer:
- Training, mentoring, and continuing education
- Support for capacity building and core mission work
- A comprehensive online resources hub
- Grants to implement strategies for your charitable organization to become stronger and more resilient
Working together, we strengthen the charitable organizations that do so much for our community.
Click here for a summary of the Nonprofit Center's first year impact.
Our leadership
Cathy Brown is the Director of the Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence. She brings valuable experience to her role leading our pioneering effort to help Broward’s nonprofit community reach new heights.
Prior to joining the Nonprofit Center, Cathy worked as the Associate Director of Education for Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy where she led training programs for nonprofit organizations across the country. Along with her more than 15 years of experience running small nonprofits and quasi-government agencies, Cathy is a former classroom teacher who never lost her passion for helping others achieve their full potential.
“I believe the Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence will be a valuable resource for any nonprofit to learn more and strengthen their work to make life better in Broward.” – Cathy Brown
Nonprofit directory
Our nonprofit directory can help you build new collaborations and broaden your community by reach by connecting with other local nonprofits.
We have created the largest searchable database for nonprofits in Broward County. You can use this go-to resource to sort through thousands of local organizations and find partners to help accomplish your charitable goals.
Search by name, subject area, location and other helpful categories to find the nonprofit partners that are right for you.
Resource Library
Our Resource Library is an online, multi-media hub featuring helpful information and tools to support your charitable mission.
Check out our inventory of templates for reports, communications and other forms that you can put to use for your charitable organization. And please check back often to see the updates to our Resource Library.
Explore our collection of videos, podcasts, special reports and more to grow your community knowledge and gain insights into best practices for nonprofits
Consultants Directory
Enlisting outside help enables you to tap into valuable expertise and be more efficient with your workload, so you can focus on accomplishing your charitable mission.
Our consultant directory is a tool to help you find local professionals across a variety of fields who are available for special projects, support services and more.
You can search for attorneys, fundraisers, accountants, graphic designers and many, many more categories of consulting professionals ready to partner with you.
Upcoming Training Events
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.
Get your organization ready to submit applications and receive funding!
Join Nonprofit Center Director Cathy Brown ONLINE for an interactive, 'start from the beginning' VIRTUAL workshop series on planning, developing and preparing a grant proposal for submission. If you have never developed a grant proposal before or want to go back at the beginning and fine tune the basics, this is the series for you!
Session 1 April 8, 2024 Organizational Readiness will help you prepare your organization to receive grants. Spoiler alert - there's more to it than "we need money!". Leave this session with a clear understanding of what your organization needs to have in place to be a strong grant applicant.
Session 2 April 22, 2024 Project Development will help you take your idea or ideas and turn them into fundable projects. We will work to develop all of the aspects of the project to support an application to Community Foundation of Broward, as well as many other potential funders. Leave this session with the knowledge and confidence to tell the story and develop the components needed for a successful application.
Session 3 May 6, 2024 Proposal Application will help you learn how to match your project to the right funder and refine the language to match funder priorities and values with yours. Leave this session with a peer reviewed proposal ready (or close to it) to be submitted to the funder of your choice, including CFB.
You may invite up to 3 people with your organization to participate, but please note that everyone who registers needs to register for and commit to all 3 sessions for the most effective use of time and the interactive learning strategy used for this series. The sessions are truly interactive, and all participants will be expected to actively participate.
If you are an experienced grant writer or have had numerous proposals successfully funded throughout your career, you will likely prefer our Grants Refresh session. That session will be specifically focused on those more experienced with this work. Check back for updates on our next session!
All programs offered through Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence are open exclusively to nonprofit organizations located in or providing services in Broward County, Florida.
Webinars: The Fund Raising School: Lilly Family School of Philanthropy: Indiana University Indianapolis (iu.edu)Artificial intelligence is just the latest technological development that can influence your nonprofit’s fundraising. Jay Love, who created two of the most-utilized donor management systems (eTapestry and Bloomerang), will discuss how nonprofits, regardless of budget size, can best use technology to maximize their fundraising possibilities.
Join Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence's own Cathy Brown as she talks with Jay Love about how AI and other technology can help you grow your own fundraising efficiency and effectiveness.
This year's Ignite! conference serves as a beacon for nonprofit leaders and their teams, offering a comprehensive day of learning with practical and applicable insights that address their most pressing challenges.
With a new theme, "Inspiring Hope, Resilience, and Action," we embrace the transformative power of optimism, the strength of social sector professionals to persevere, and the impact of decisive and strategic movement. While the world around us is constantly facing a variety of hardships that can feel daunting to tackle, it is through nurturing hope, bolstering resilience, and undertaking meaningful action that we can forge a brighter future for Miami-Dade—a future where every individual has the opportunity to flourish.
This year, let's connect and thrive under the banner of hope, resilience, and action.
Learn More!
Please contact Director Cathy Brown to learn more about how the Broward Center for Nonprofit Excellence can provide training, grants and other critical resources to help you amplify your impact in our community.
