Our learning experiences will help you build collaborative capacity and make greater impact.

Offered by Bolder Advocacy and the Alliance for Justice, learn about the “fundamentals” of advocacy evaluation theory and practice, practical tips and resources on how to build capacity to evaluate and advocate, and where to find user-friendly advocacy evaluation tools and resources. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by LifeLabs Learning, learn the key skills to lead and enforce change initiatives, practice your change messaging skills, and leave with a strategic checklist to implement your change. No cost associated.

Offered by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, learn how to use free AI tools to write better emails, organize your to-do list, plan events, and save hours every week. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by ACMP, learn strategies for building trust and engagement through open-ended questions, techniques to guide teams toward self-reflection and accountability without micromanagement, and how to use inquiry to identify and address "interference" factors that slow progress in change initiatives. No cost associated.

Offered by ZingTrain, gain an understanding of the elements of an effective annual plan, what components to consider including in your own plan, and how to draft a plan to help your organization achieve success. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Volunteer Fairfax, explore practical ways to support and empower volunteers to share your mission with confidence, learn about tools, resources and training to foster a culture of advocacy, and learn strategies to amplify impact through the voices of those who know your organization best. No cost associated. 

Offered by Candid Learning, gain an understanding for making your case for support, diversifying your organization's fundraising base, and creating a plan of action. No cost associated.

Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, learn about the power of networks, how networks can support the core determinants of shared prosperity and equitable wellbeing, and the core network principles to guide your work. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Bolder Advocacy and the Alliance for Justice, learn how federal tax law permits lobbying for charities and how lobbying is defined, one easy step most charities can take to maximize the amount they’re allowed to spend on lobbying, yearly lobbying limits for charities, tips for taking advantage of the narrow definitions of lobbying – which will help charities make the most of their lobbying limit, and  how to apply these rules to ballot measure activities.  Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Unity Effect, explore how to use communication tools for delivering and receiving feedback, methods for feedback one-or-one or in a team, and setting ourselves up for success: conditions for effective feedback. No cost associated. 

Offered by ZingTrain, learn how to recognize and better handle interpersonal workplace conflict and how to engage effectively in courageous conversations. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by ZingTrain, learn about the correlation between effective self-management and personal/organizational success and new tools and techniques to live and lead more intentionally. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, learn about board responsibilities and explore the nuances of board authority and relationships. Participants will receive Propel’s Nonprofit Board Governance workbook and the workshop is designed for those new to serving on a board or those who are contemplating joining a board. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by ZingTrain, learn the benefits of building an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, key qualities and traits of an inclusive leader, and how to evaluate your current systems and practices to find opportunities for greater equity and inclusion. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Candid Learning, learn how to draft SMART objectives for a program, identify the parts of a logic model, and report the impact on your Candid profile. No cost associated.

Offered my Nonprofit Quarterly, learn about the Block, Bridge, Build organizing framework—to interrogate the tensions of current times and explore effective ways to advocate and bridge across difference in divided times. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, learn smart ways to map out donor meetings, craft compelling messages, and track key metrics to ensure you make the most of the next six months and hit your goals for the year. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by The Collective Impact Forum, this 2-part workshop will explore tools and strategies to help you more intentionally plan, design, and facilitate meetings that are results-driven and move your collaborative forward. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the School of Systems Change, explore systems diagramming as a tool for sense making, engagement and communication, discover an approach to help you gain reflective insight, enable better conversations between different stakeholders, and generate just strategy and action, understand how systems diagrams can enable you to focus on systemic ways of seeing, and learn how to integrate diagramming into your own practice for cultivating systemic change. Register by July 28. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, learn why reserves are valuable and for what purpose, the perennial question of how much, and some practical tools for managing and communications. No cost associated.

Offered by Bolder Advocacy, learn how your nonprofit can take advantage of social media while staying in compliance with laws that govern advocacy, how to treat social media and other communications in the context of lobbying limits for 501(c)(3) organizations, and how 501(c)(3) organizations can avoid violating campaign intervention rules during an election season. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by LifeLabs Learning, learn the key skills to lead and enforce change initiatives, practice your change messaging skills, and leave with a strategic checklist to implement your change. No cost associated.

Offered by CompassPoint, in this 4-part series you will explore the coaching mindset (“How attitude, openness, and the outlook create the right space for others’ discovery and development”), build on your communication abilities through three key coaching skills (“deeper/engaged listening,” “inquiry,” and “championing”), and learn how coaching interrupts dominating behavior and builds power with others. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 7-part series will explore facilitative leadership and building power equitably, how to encourage continuous improvement by focusing on process and relationships, creating the conditions for collaborative action, and learn how to make sense of complexity by involving others to understand the visible and invisible levels of systems. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, explore how to assess your current and future financial positions by developing new scenario and contingency plans for your organizations, learn techniques and approaches to having practical conversations critical to organizational decision making, and work with analytical tools to assist in gauging the risks to your income and the flexibility of your expenses. No cost associated.

Offered by ACMP, learn how behavior change is triggered, activated and reinforced and gain strategies for behavior change into immediate practice with a simple job aid. No cost associated.

Join us for a morning at Elk Rapids Rotary Park from 9-11am. This event, hosted in partnership with Paddle Antrim as part of our Connecting with Changemakers series, offers a unique opportunity to connect with local leaders, social entrepreneurs, and community advocates. Engage in authentic discussions, share your ideas, and explore potential collaborations with like-minded individuals who are passionate about making a positive impact in our community. Rotary Charities is dedicated to fostering connections and providing resources that drive positive change. This event is designed to create a space for genuine dialogue and community building. All are welcome! Registration is not required to attend, but we appreciate an RSVP so we know how many folks to expect. We look forward to seeing you there!

Offered by CompassPoint, in this 2-part series you will explore the distinction between change (an event or situation) and transition (a process) and recognize the impacts on people in your organization, gain an understanding of the Margin to Center framework as a way to identify solutions to challenges, and learn to distinguish between adaptive challenges and technical fixes and how they apply to a change occurring in your organization. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Candid Learning, learn the basic elements of a proposal, the "do's" and "don'ts" of writing and submitting a proposal, and how to follow up whether the answer is yes or no. No cost associated.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, learn how to create the conditions for a healthy relationship between the board chair and ED/CEO that will increase your nonprofits ability to accomplish its mission and minimize stress of board and staff. It is ideal to have the ED/CEO 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. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week, self-paced online course will explore how to deliver presentations that spark a shift in beliefs, behaviors, and mindsets, sequence your information in a way that will create a meaningful journey for your audience, and apply techniques to help people pay attention and remember the information you share. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week, self-paced cohort course will explore techniques for mapping complex systems and identifying the root causes, establish a shared view of the system, and reframe problems from different perspectives to uncover new solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
 

Offered by IDEO U, this 5 week, self-paced cohort course how to use data to inspire new ideas, opportunities, and directions, frame your question and determine the types of data you need, discover insights in your data and effectively communicate why they matter, turn insights from the data into compelling stories and visualizations, and take a human-centered approach to data analysis. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the School of System Change, explore the range of methodological options available for evaluating systems change, how to make a methodological choice when designing or implementing evaluations of systems change, how to craft evaluation designs that are appropriate for systems change and can stand up to scrutiny, and explain how your evaluation design supports quality and rigor in conditions of complexity. Register by August 17. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Bolder Advocacy, learn how to track your lobbying time and expenses so that your 501(c)(3) organization stays within its lobbying limits, how a 501(c)(3) reports its lobbying to the IRS, such as on the Form 990 or Form 990-EZ;, how tracking and reporting varies depending on whether a charity measures its lobbying under the insubstantial part test or the 501(h) expenditure test, and how state and local law may require additional tracking and reporting. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Tamarack Institute, learn new ideas, tools and approaches to effectively engage diverse community partners and intentionally build trusting relationships and collaborative impact. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 5-part series will explore the foundations of systemic racism, the power of storytelling, how to prepare as a facilitator, facilitation fundamentals and will include coaching and practice. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, gain an understanding of nonprofit finance terminology, financial statements, and staff and board roles and responsibilities. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 5-part series will explore the internal conditions needed to build self-awareness to effectively facilitate racial justice conversations, practical skills for facilitating productive conversations and building shared understanding about race, racism, and racial justice, in both virtual and in-person environments, and a deeper understanding of the development of racial identity, the system of racialization in the U.S., and one’s own story within this context. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, gain an understanding of the critical actions nonprofit boards can take in this time of ongoing uncertainty when the ability to adapt is more important than ever before. No cost associated.

Offered by CoCreative, gain hands-on experience and learn proven methods for recognizing, mapping, and harnessing the diverse values and perspectives within your team to turn conflict and polarization into genuine alignment and productive collaboration. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by CoCreative, gain hands-on experience and learn proven methods for recognizing, mapping, and harnessing the diverse values and perspectives within your team to turn conflict and polarization into genuine alignment and productive collaboration. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by The Systems Studio, explore the mindset of a systems practitioner and reflect on your current approach to change, learn the purpose of systems mapping, types of maps, and when to use them, and gain hands-on experience using a mapping tool to analyze and address real-world challenges. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, learn to use budgeting as another tool for you to tell the story of your organization’s plans, priorities, and aspirations and explore ways to engage your board as well as staff across the organization. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the School of System Change, this 5-part series will explore how stories shaped the worlds we live into, how stories can help us develop situational awareness and take wise action, co-creating stories as living artifacts, and how narratives can interrupt, shift, and shape cultural transformation. Register by September 16. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by CoCreative, learn the key elements of Collaborative Innovation, compare the approach to other common practices in multi-stakeholder collaboration, familiarize with key concepts and tools, and explore the six conditions for success. No cost associated.

Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this quarterly gathering is a space for connection, reflection and action where challenges are explored, progress is celebrated, and strategies to advance racial justice are shared. No cost associated.

Offered by the Tamarack Institute, this 2-part workshop will explore the mindset needed to create a successful Collective Impact Initiative that's intentionally designed to drive systems change and how to incorporate programmatic and systems change strategies into your Collective Impact implementation plans. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, learn how nonprofits are turning the tide and get proven ways to inspire and connect with a broad pool of donors. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the School of System Change, this 3-part series will explore four different systemic worldviews and why they are important to systems change work, gain an understanding in systemic capabilities and practices to help you clarify the role you play in change, and how to take a multi-method approach in your unique change-making work. Register by September 22. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Nonprofit Quarterly, this 2-part series will explore how to refine your Chart of Account set-up to efficiently accomplish nonprofit GAAP accounting and reporting in QuickBooks, allocation of expenses across programs and grants, tracking restricted grants, building and managing your annual budget, and tailored reporting for management, board, and funders. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Ideo U, this 5 week self-paced, online cohort course will explore how to look at problems through different perspectives, develop actionable and innovative solutions, learn how to de-risk and experiment to build resilient strategies, and balance creative thinking and rigor to get to breakthrough ideas and sustainable solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week, self-paced cohort course will explore techniques for mapping complex systems and identifying the root causes, establish a shared view of the system, and reframe problems from different perspectives to uncover new solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
 

Offered by Bolder Advocacy and the Alliance for Justice, learn how federal tax law permits lobbying for charities and how lobbying is defined, one easy step most charities can take to maximize the amount they’re allowed to spend on lobbying, yearly lobbying limits for charities, tips for taking advantage of the narrow definitions of lobbying – which will help charities make the most of their lobbying limit, and  how to apply these rules to ballot measure activities.  Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by IDEO U, this 5 week, self-paced cohort course how to use data to inspire new ideas, opportunities, and directions, frame your question and determine the types of data you need, discover insights in your data and effectively communicate why they matter, turn insights from the data into compelling stories and visualizations, and take a human-centered approach to data analysis. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, explore practical exercises that will help you identify your program costs and develop realistic budgets. and learn tools to help you calculate program costs and move your organization to greater financial sustainability. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the School of Systems Change, this 5-week course will explore group dynamics and energies, power, process design, leadership and understanding your self as an instrument for change. Deadline to apply is October 2. The course starts on October 20. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 3-part series will explore how to identify the "who, what, why, and how" of your racial justice work and articulate what racial justice could look like for your organization or network, gain an understanding of collaborative planning principles using a framework for developing a racial justice action plan, and practice communicating to stakeholders about the importance of your racial justice change process. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Tamarack Institute, gain an understanding the importance of community and power in place, build the knowledge and competence to think about policy change, and build a foundation and next steps for change. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by CompassPoint, in this 2-part series you will explore the distinction between change (an event or situation) and transition (a process) and recognize the impacts on people in your organization, gain an understanding of the Margin to Center framework as a way to identify solutions to challenges, and learn to distinguish between adaptive challenges and technical fixes and how they apply to a change occurring in your organization. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by CompassPoint, in this 2-part series you will learn how to use the “purpose, outcome, and process” (P.O.P) format to design a meeting, how to center marginalized voices in meetings, and strategies for interrupting oppressive power dynamics in meetings. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the School of System Change, this 5-part series will explore introductory knowledge and application of tools and frameworks from across the systems change field and orientate yourself to what it means to integrate systemic ways of working and collaborating. Course starts on November 4. Deadline to apply is October 16. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by CoCreative, this 4-part series will explore an integrative approach to leading and facilitating collaboration through a blend of mini-lectures and applied facilitation, and will allow you to engage in meeting facilitation scenarios, addressing actual challenges faced by participants and learn practices to navigate conflicts, work across diverse perspectives, and build trust within your collaboration. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, develop a mindset that embraces budgeting as a leadership and planning tool, learn about key nonprofit finance terminology and concepts, including direct vs. indirect costs and donor restrictions, follow a step-by-step process to build a project budget from scope to tracking, and practice using budgets to tell compelling stories to funders, stakeholders, and staff. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, 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. No cost associated.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, gain an understanding of 2hat a cashflow projection is, review what data you need to collect to create a cash flow projection, understand how to manage cashflow opportunities, understand how to share the information with affected parties, and have a key tool to predict upcoming expenses. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Tamarack Institute, in this 2-part workshop you will explore seven essential facilitation practices, learn and apply practical tools, and actionable facilitation strategies, and practice your skills in small groups and receive specific coaching. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Ideo U, this 5 week self-paced, online cohort course will explore how to look at problems through different perspectives, develop actionable and innovative solutions, learn how to de-risk and experiment to build resilient strategies, and balance creative thinking and rigor to get to breakthrough ideas and sustainable solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week, self-paced cohort course will explore techniques for mapping complex systems and identifying the root causes, establish a shared view of the system, and reframe problems from different perspectives to uncover new solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
 

Offered by IDEO U, this 5 week, self-paced cohort course how to use data to inspire new ideas, opportunities, and directions, frame your question and determine the types of data you need, discover insights in your data and effectively communicate why they matter, turn insights from the data into compelling stories and visualizations, and take a human-centered approach to data analysis. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by CoCreative, identify common dynamics in collaborative work, apply strategies to expand creative possibilities, utilize reflective and iterative processes to ensure shared alignment, transform differing perspectives and conflicting ideas into opportunities, and implement structured problem-solving and human-centered design techniques to enhance collaboration. No cost associated.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, learn about nonprofit financial reports including the income statement (statement of activities) and balance sheet (statement of financial position) and gain an understanding of nonprofit finance terminology, financial statements, and staff and board roles and responsibilities. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Tamarack Institute, learn the seven steps to craft compelling stories which highlight your collaborative’s successes and progress to help you to attract and retain the funders and partners needed to deepen your community impact. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Tamarack Institute, explore how to shift your mindset and practices around conflict engagement, strengthen your ability to sit with tension, listen across difference, and navigate uncertainty, and build personal and collective practices that center safety, dignity, and accountability. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofits, explore 10 key indicators of financial health, blending both financial metrics and leadership practices that contribute to long-term sustainability, analyze financial trends and ratios to understand your organization’s fiscal trajectory, use cash flow projections and operating reserves to plan for uncertainty, review budget-to-actual reports to make informed decisions, and align your strategic plan and succession planning with financial realities. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this quarterly gathering is a space for connection, reflection and action where challenges are explored, progress is celebrated, and strategies to advance racial justice are shared. No cost associated.

Offered by the Tamarack Institute, discover practical tools and prompts to help to use insights your past experiences to inform your future plans, explore what rest means to you and identify ways to integrate rest into your daily life, develop strategies to maintain momentum, and discover how to shift your mindset towards embracing challenges and viewing failures as opportunities for learning and growth. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Propel Nonprofit, gain clarify on roles and responsibilities of board and staff with governance and management to be the collaborative partners you need to be to achieve your mission. No cost associated.