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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.

Contract Trainings

Propel Nonprofits can provide trainings or webinars just for your organization! We work with you to adapt our trainings to your audience. You can choose from a variety of finance and board governance topics including, but not limited to, Board Roles and Responsibilities, Fundamentals of Nonprofit Finance, Financial Clarity for Boards, or Fundamentals of Nonprofit Board Governance.

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. We are currently booking for summer and fall trainings and retreats. Reaching out to our team well in advance of when you’re hoping for a training is recommended so we can get you on our schedule!

To discuss scheduling a training for your organization, contact Elizabeth Appel at eappel@propelnonprofits.org or give her a call at 612.249.6829.

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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$95
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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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$70
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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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$95
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Reserves – What, Why, When, and How (Much?)

In this webinar, we’ll dig into why reserves are valuable and for what purpose, the perennial question of how much, and some practical tools for managing and communications.

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Scenario Planning

The webinar will provide techniques and approaches to having practical conversations critical to organizational decision making, while also providing analytical tools to assist in gauging the risks to your income and the flexibility of your expenses.

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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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$95
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Fundamentals of Nonprofit Finance

This workshop is right for you if you are new to the nonprofit sector, nonprofit finance, or your position as staff or board member.

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$95
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Board in Times of Uncertainty

This webinar highlights the critical actions nonprofit boards can take in a time of ongoing uncertainty when the ability to adapt is more important than ever before.

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