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.
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
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.
This session will explore how branded storytelling can transform Giving Day and year-end campaigns from generic appeals into powerful donor experiences. We’ll dig into why cohesive messaging and visuals drive stronger results—and how fundraisers can apply branding across channels, from emails to donor conversations. You’ll leave with practical tools, real-world examples, and insights from KidGlov’s 2025 End-of-Year Fundraising Survey to make your next campaign clearer, more compelling, and more successful.
AI for Nonprofits is a pair of live, 90-minute, interactive workshops that will introduce you to the essentials of AI and walk you through, step-by-step on creating several useful tools.
What We'llCover
This course will be live on Zoom. You will need to have a subscription to ChatGPT (preferably paid) in order to participate, as this is a hands-on experience.
In this rich, hands-on intensive workshop designed for communications, marketing, and development staff or any nonprofit leader managing communications, you'll learn a proven framework for developing a public relations plan that weeds out unnecessary time and cost, protects resources, allows you to engage the people most critical to your success, and inspires them to take action.
Through thought-provoking exercises, you’ll collaborate with peers to apply new concepts, address your unique communication challenges, and problem-solve together. This hands-on session will equip you to navigate today’s changing landscape, capitalize on opportunities, and overcome obstacles.
By the end of this intensive, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how to create a plan that strengthens stakeholder relationships, drives fundraising efforts, and advances your mission!.
AI for Nonprofits is a pair of live, 90-minute, interactive workshops that will introduce you to the essentials of AI and walk you through, step-by-step on creating several useful tools.
What We'llCover
This course will be live on Zoom. You will need to have a subscription to ChatGPT (preferably paid) in order to participate, as this is a hands-on experience.
Successful fundraising is an ongoing process. As you continue to identify new donors, you also need to maintain good relations with current donors and encourage them to repeat and increase their giving. Learn and strengthen the fundraising skills that can sustain your organization including direct mail, online giving, major gifts and special events.
Fundraising success depends on organization-wide efforts from the leadership of the board to the dedication of front-line staff. This course focuses on the role the board plays in fundraising and how to best structure the organization to support this role. Board members and staff will work collaboratively to develop an action plan to improve the culture of philanthropy in your organization, improve board recruitment and training, and ensure the organization has a solid case for support. We recommend that a staff person and a board member attend together but it’s not a requirement for the course.
With each staff person registration, a complimentary board member registration is included. The registration form will have space for you to enter your board member’s name.
Don’t have a board member available to attend with you? We recommend that a staff member attend with a board member but it’s not required.
Millennial households now donate more on average than their parents. Nonprofits need to update their fundraising strategies to properly cultivate and steward this next generation of donors. Dr. Michael Moody, co-author of, “Generation Impact,” will discuss how best to develop long-term donor relationships with millennials.
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.
Discover the keys to successfully planning a fundraising campaign. This course explores capital, endowment, comprehensive, and project-based campaigns. You will navigate the decision-making process, considering the "why" and "why not" factors, and uncover intangible benefits for your organization, beyond finances. Learn how to engage stakeholders effectively, utilizing proven strategies and tools to design, implement, and manage campaigns. You will gain practical skills that you can apply within your nonprofit context.
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.
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.
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.