Our learning experiences will help you build collaborative capacity and make greater impact.
Build your capacity to work better together to address our region’s complex problems and create community assets for all. Learn to use systems practice, a process to understand the system you’re working in and identify leverage points for change, and explore a suite of skills and mindsets to help you create the conditions for meaningful collaboration. Filter the list of upcoming learning experiences by the impact areas below, find the path that is right for you and take the next step in strengthening your organization, network and community.
Ready to learn? Let us help! The Learning Fund provides financial support to help local changemakers cover tuition and conference fees for virtual learning experiences offered from partners across the globe.
Upcoming Learning Experiences
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Dorothy A. Johnson Center, explore Form 990 as an organizational tool and the information it communicates, identify often-cited flags in Form 990 and begin to challenge assumptions, and use 990 data to find trends or opportunities in the community. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 6:30 pm
Offered by NMC Extended Ed, learn how to create content that reaches your target demographic and how to track metrics so that you can see an actual return on your social media time investment and how to make compelling videos and stories, and get tips for creating content easily and with purpose. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Nonprofit Quarterly, learn how to enter budgets by month, quarter, and year, enter separate budgets for specific programs or projects, enter additional budgets for your restricted grants, and generate multiple budget reports for each of your budgets. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Candid Learning, explore an overview of how to write a standard project proposal to a foundation including 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.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Candid Learning, learn the basics of shifting focus from your nonprofit’s activities to its outcomes by drafting SMART objectives for a program, exploring the process of creating logic models, and reporting on impacts. No cost associated.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Dorothy A. Johnson Center, explore current trends and challenges affecting volunteerism in the U.S, initiatives and strategies to promote and sustain a culture of volunteerism, and tools and practices to streamline operations and effectively manage volunteers. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 9:00 am
Offered by the Center for Nonprofit Management, explore concepts to leverage Chat GPT and unlock its potential in content creation, marketing strategy, and ad-copy. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Offered by Rotary Charities, join Des Worthington and Megan Motil in the third of five sessions that will explore how to maximize board effectiveness through all stages of the nonprofit life cycle. In this session you will explore the importance of having shared goals, learn about tools to clarify the roles of the board and staff as they work toward the vision, develop an understanding of the power of leveraging an organization’s narrative and strategic direction for fundraising. No cost associated.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Candid Learning, learn step-by-step instructions on how to generate a standard project budget for a foundation proposal including the basic components of a project budget including income and expenses, how to estimate the realistic cost of a project, and what other financial documents you may also need to submit with your proposal. No cost associated.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Candid Learning, explore the different types of corporate giving, what motivates corporations to give, and how to find potential corporate partners. No cost associated.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by Kalamazoo Public Library, explore how an organization can balance being mission-focused while being centered in the community, connecting the dots between on-the-ground programs and the big-picture work bring accomplished through collaboration with others. No cost associated.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by Kalamazoo Public Library, explore how an organization can balance being mission-focused while being centered in the community, connecting the dots between on-the-ground programs and the big-picture work bring accomplished through collaboration with others. No cost associated.
Offered by Rotary Charities, join Des Worthington and Megan Motil in the fourth of five sessions that will explore how to maximize board effectiveness through all stages of the nonprofit life cycle. In this session you will explore the fundraising expectations of boards and staff depending on their organization’s life cycle stage and creating alignment between the two. No cost associated.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Candid Learning, learn the importance of individual giving in a nonprofit’s fundraising strategy, identify key steps for a successful individual giving program, and draft a plan to start or improve your annual individual giving program. No cost associated.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by TSNE, learn key concepts of strategic planning, facilitation, and community engagement for nonprofit organizations, gain insight to methodology and framework for analyzing data to develop strategy, learn how strategic planning fits within the governance and management roles / responsibilities of nonprofit organizations, and recognize how to engage the community to achieve social change. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 9:00 am
Offered by Propel Nonprofits, learn hands-on 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.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by The Chronicles of Philanthropy, learn how to better manage and analyze donor data to reveal the stories it can tell and make fundraising, at all levels, more strategic. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Dorothy A. Johnson Center, gain an understanding of the core functions, legal and other responsibilities of a nonprofit board of directors, understand board governance and how boards are structured, and identify common challenges and related strategies facing nonprofit boards. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the Center for Nonprofit Management, learn about surveying the digital media landscape, creating a research-informed social strategy, articulating goals and SMART objectives, creating basic content to engage your audience, and more. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Offered by Rotary Charities, join Des Worthington and Megan Motil in the last session of our five-part series that will focus on building a healthy board culture through behaviors and processes. In this session you will learn what it means to have a healthy board culture and relationships, explore how boards can clarify values and create shared expectations for communication processes and conduct, and develop a plan for how boards can stay accountable to shared expectations. No cost associated.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by The Communications Network, learn about the LinkedIn platform and how it lends itself to nonprofit communications, how to leverage the platform for communications, and hear about case studies on what has worked effectively. No cost associated.
Time: 9:00 am
Offered by TSNE, gain an understanding of the foundational principles for governance frameworks and strategies, learn about the benefits and challenges of these frameworks, and explore ways to apply the guiding principles of these new approaches to the governance of their own organization, coalition, or network. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.