Learning Experiences

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 the Tamarack Institute, explore how to design an engaging Data Walk from start to finish, present complex information in clear, accessible ways, create space for dialogue that amplifies community voices,  and turn data into insights that inform decisions and spark change. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by NTEN, this three-month learning program is designed to significantly advance the functional security of nonprofits while building cybersecurity leadership, management, and confidence for nonprofit staff. Deadline to apply is December 1. Cohort begins on January 6. No cost associated.

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 LifeLabs Learning, explore research and learn tools that make a big impact on creating an inclusive culture, including leveraging difference, making sure all voices are heard, and creating a space where everyone can be themselves and do their best work. No cost associated.

Offered by CandidLearning, gain an understanding of the fundraising landscape and learn the key components of an individual giving program. No cost associated.

Offered by Stanford Social Innovation Review, this 2-part workshop will explore how to shape and deliver messages that stick with your audience, improve your nonverbal presence to enhance your credibility and clarity, receive real-time feedback on message design and delivery, and gain confidence in your speaking skills. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Collective Impact Forum, explore  10 challenges that often hinder a collective, from strategy drift to setting up a culture of accountablity, and learn practices and principles to navigate through them and help set (or reset) your initiative on a path forward. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Bolder Advocacy, learn the different roles of 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, unions, and political organizations, federal tax rules affecting how these organizations can work together, the legal separations necessary between affiliated organizations, such as funding and fundraising constraints, and permissible joint activities of different types of nonprofits, including election-year activities. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Rotary Charities through a collaborative funding partnership with the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, the Oleson Foundation, and the Huckle Family Foundation, join us as we explore how to make purpose-driven and values-based decisions around programming, staffing, and resource allocation and how to communicate those choices with clarity and courage. The session will also offer adaptive fundraising strategies that respond to evolving donor behavior and systemic realities, helping organizations build resilience and donor trust. This workshop will be led by Megan Motil, of Parallel Solutions, and Christie Perdue, of The Solvent Group. No cost associated.

Offered by ZingTrain, learn tools to transform your meetings into energizing, purposeful gatherings that people actually want to attend - be they in-person, virtual, or hybrid. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by ZingTrain, explore how you can use visioning as a tool that can help clarify what is most important and define what success looks like at a particular point in time in your future. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Collective Impact Forum, explore practices that build and repair trust both interpersonally and among community members and partners. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.