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Public Trainings

As a nonprofit staff or board member, you want your nonprofit to thrive. Our trainings provide you with the competence, confidence, and capability you need. We offer a comprehensive curriculum on a variety of financial management and board governance topics. Our trainers are engaging and insightful experts who want to help you be the best in your role.

With Propel Nonprofits workshop and webinar trainings, you will develop practical skills, engage in strategic thinking, and build advanced management capabilities. After attending our trainings, you will understand how mission and money work together, and the important relationship between planning, strategy, and sustainability. Your organization will not only be prepared for what’s ahead but will be proactive in making changes to meet your mission.

Custom Trainings

Propel Nonprofits can provide any of our trainings or webinars just for your organization. We work with you to gear the trainings to your audience. You can choose from a variety of finance and board governance topics including, but not limited to, Fundamentals of Nonprofit Finance, Financial Clarity for Boards, Fundamentals of Nonprofit Board Governance, or any of our trainings you find listed in our upcoming trainings below.

Don’t see a training or webinar you are looking for? Call us and we’ll talk with you about creating a customized finance or board governance training for you. If you would like to discuss scheduling a customized training for your organization, contact Sara Wessling at 612.249.6675 or email swessling@propelnonprofits.org

Fundamentals of Nonprofit Budgeting

Learn to use budgeting as another tool for you to tell the story of your organization’s plans, priorities, and aspirations.  Propel’s 10-step budgeting process will also highlight ways to engage your board as well as staff across the organization.

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Fundamentals of Nonprofit Board Governance

While this training is open to all, it is designed for those new to serving on a board or those who are contemplating joining a board.

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$85
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Managing Cash Flow

This webinar will help you anticipate and prepare for the ebb and flow of cash coming in and going out of your organization and identify ways to avoid and manage cash flow challenges.

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$60
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Preparing for a Nonprofit Audit

Join us as Propel trainers walk through the important phases of preparing for an audit.
You’ll leave this webinar empowered with a better understanding of the audit process, understanding of how your financial processes and procedures will help you prepare, tips for building a good relationship with your auditor, and what roles & responsibilities you’ll have during the audit process.

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12 Golden Rules of Nonprofit Finance

Join us as Propel trainers will go through 12 Golden Rules of nonprofit finance to keep your organization healthy.

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Fundamentals of Nonprofit Board Governance

While this training is open to all, it is designed for those new to serving on a board or those who are contemplating joining a board.

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$85
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Transforming Business Models

Join us to learn the four core components of a nonprofit business model – revenue mix, understanding the cost of programs, infrastructure, and capital structure – and explore how all these components connect to mission and your organization’s financial health.

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Building an Effective CEO + Board Chair Partnership

We recommend the nonprofit’s executive director and board chair attend this session together to explore their critical relationship and to discuss how they will support each other in leading their organization to success.

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