Center for Non-Profits and Faith Based Organizations

Our Center for Non-Profits and Faith Based Organizations offers a range of Web courses that will help enhance your skills or the skills of your employees.  Great for those who volunteer and industry professionals.

Classes run on the following dates. 11/10 -12/17, 12/8 -12/14, 1/19-2/25, 2/16-4/8, 3/16-4/22, 4/20-5/27, and 5/18-6/24.   

Non-Profit Management and Marketing

Starting a Nonprofit $135  (Web)

Do you dream of starting and running your very own nonprofit? This highly interactive, hands-on course is ideal for anyone who is interested in forming a new nonprofit, converting an informal group to tax-exempt status, or reorganizing an existing organization. It provides practical how-to information about incorporation, organization, and other issues pertinent to anyone involved with a nonprofit start-up. This clear and enjoyable course, taught by an industry veteran, will answer your every question, providing detailed instructions describing every step you'll need to take to establish and operate a successful nonprofit.

Introduction to Nonprofit Management $135 ( Web)

Develop the skills and strategies you need to become an integral part of one of America’s fastest growing service sectors. In this course, a twelve-year veteran in the nonprofit management field will show you how to transform your good intentions into a professional plan of action. You'll understand the unique characteristics of nonprofit organizations while mastering the core knowledge necessary to become an effective leader in the nonprofit arena

Nonprofit Fundraising Essentials  $135 ( Web)

Take your first step toward a rewarding career in fundraising for nonprofit organizations!
First, you’ll explore the skills you’ll need to become a successful fundraiser. After that, you’ll discover where the best corporate and foundation fundraising jobs are and how to apply for them.  You’ll delve into every area of nonprofit fundraising—annual funds, special events, corporate relations, foundation relations, major gifts, and planned giving. 

Marketing Your Business on the Internet $135 ( Web)

Find out how to market your business on the Internet from an e-commerce expert, even if you have little or no money to spend. In this practical, hands-on course, you'll learn little-understood secrets about the types of businesses that thrive on the Web. You'll even learn several low-cost promotion strategies that you can use to drive visitors to your site, and you'll find out how a media kit can help you earn extra revenue by selling advertising space on your site.

Marketing Your Nonprofit  $135 ( Web)

Under pressure to increase membership, expand program value, attract media, entice donors, and develop volunteers, all while keeping an eye on the bottom line?  In the face of stiff competition, more worthwhile causes, more regulations, more watchdog agencies, and fewer funding opportunities, you need to work smarter—not longer. This course will show you how to use powerful marketing techniques to compete more effectively for customers, donors, members, and volunteers.

Wow, What a Great Event!  $135 ( Web)

Learn how to create and coordinate successful special events. Develop skills, find resources and gain confidence to plan and produce any size or type of event. This course reveals proven tips, tools, techniques, and procedures used by experts and master event planners to help you avoid embarrassing and costly planning errors or production mistakes.  You'll discover how to select the right suppliers for food, decorations, entertainment, and you'll learn how to effectively employ them within your own budgetary constraints. You'll get easy access to event industry information compiled by and for professional event planners.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing: Evaluation - Web Enhanced  EDI 0474 $149

Ready to submit your grant proposal for funding, or presently had your proposal rejected? This course is for you! An experienced grant writer will EVALUATE your proposal with feedback on what to do next. Gain an understanding of the criteria funding sources used to determine whether
your proposal gets funded.

A to Z Grantwriting- Noncredit Class   $135  (Web)

A to Z Grant Writing is an invigorating and informative course that will equip you with the skills and tools you need to enter the exciting field of grant writing!  You'll learn how to raise needed funds by discovering how and where to look for potential funders who are a good match for your organization.  You'll also learn how to network and develop true partnerships with a variety of funders, how to organize a successful grant-writing campaign, and how to put together a complete proposal package. 

Advanced Grant Proposal Writing  $135  (Web)

Do you know the best way to present information in a grant proposal? In this course, an experienced grant writer will show you how to research and write winning proposals that get funded. You'll become proficient in the proposal format used by the vast majority of public foundations. Learn what to do--and, more importantly what not to do--on your cover sheet, narrative, background page, and your stakeholder and third-party evaluation plan.   Before the course is over, you will have discovered a number of significant finishing touches that can give your project the edge over others.

Becoming a Grant Writing Consultant  $135  (Web)

Good grant writing consultants are always in demand. Learn how you can use a basic knowledge of grant or proposal writing to become an expert in the red-hot grant consulting field. Your instructor, a national grant consulting veteran, will provide you with easy-to-follow instructions that you can use to start your own home-based business. You'll learn what services to offer, how to find clients, and how to set your fees. This is one field where your creative writing skills can literally touch thousands of people and make a true difference in their quality of life

Get Grants!  $135  (Web)

Learn how to develop successful, fundable grants from experts whose proposals have garnered millions in funded projects.   This course focuses on the skills you'll need to prepare professional, competitive and compelling grant proposals. You'll be guided step-by-step through the entire process of developing and writing a grant proposal.

Writing Effective Grant Proposals  $135 ( Web)

Preparing successful grant proposals to receive funding from corporations or foundations requires careful research, meticulous preparation, and graceful writing. Grant administrators tell us that many grant requestors have no real understanding of the proposal writing process and as a result, their worthy causes lose out.  If you learn how to avoid the errors that lead to the rejection of your proposal, you will be better prepared to help the causes you most admire.

For more information you may e-mail:kwollard@broward.edu