Continuing Education & Workforce Training Nonprofit Management Certification www.southeastmn.edu/training Minnesota State College Southeast Technical 877.853.8324 ext. 2740 1 www.southeastmn.edu/training
Information About the Program This 30-hour, Nonprofit Management Program is aimed to build the leadership and management skills for individuals working in the nonprofit or governmental sectors. This program is designed for the individual to take five core classes and have the opportunity to take elective classes in related areas. Each month a new core topic, along with electives, will be introduced that will help individuals gain the knowledge and skills that can be applied to a changing nonprofit environment. Our skilled instructors are from educational and nonprofit areas in your community. This program will also provide a great networking opportunity for students. Students must take all core classes. Five electives must also be taken to earn the certificate. Each class will offer a wide range of experiential, lecture, and peer-learning opportunities. Classes will be held on the Southeast Technical College s Red Wing Campus. Classes meet from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm on Thursdays. Cost: $1,075.00 for the series of 10 classes $127.50 for each individual class To register: Businesses registering employees for the Full Certification Program must contact Calli Ekblad at 651-385-6320 or cekblad@southeastmn.edu. Individuals signing up for individual courses can visit our website at www.southeastmn.edu/training to register. For questions call or email Calli Ekblad. Southeast Technical is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer/educator. This document can be made available in alternative formats to individuals with disabilities by calling: 877.853.8324 TTY - 507.453.2785 (Winona) TTY - 651.385.6430 (Red Wing) 2 www.southeastmn.edu/training
Registration To register visit our website at www.southeastmn.edu/training and click on Register for Continuing Education Courses link. Individuals can sign up for a single course or the series which includes five core courses and five elective courses in the areas you choose. Once you register for the series we will contact you for your elective choices. You won t need to register for those electives separately on the web. Required Courses: ABC s of Nonprofits Basic Accounting for Nonprofit Managers Basic Principles for a Collaborative Workplace The Leader in Each of Us Marketing Essentials for Nonprofits 3 Hours 3 Hours 3 Hours 15 hours Electives If taking the full series you will choose five of the following: Maintaining the Force: Effective Volunteer Management Board Roles and Responsibilities Financial Survival Skills for Nonprofit Leaders and Grant Writers Budgeting for Nonprofit Organization Moving from Conflict to Collaboration Coaching: Bringing Out the Best in Others Strategic Planning: Setting the Course for a Successful Future Sustaining Momentum for Continuous Improvement Fund Development Designing Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collect for Nonprofit Organizations For more information on the program contact Calli Ekblad at 651-385-6320 or cekblad@southeastmn.edu Tuition and appropriate billing information are required at the time you register. Payments must be made online at the time of registration. Don t have a computer? Up-to-date computers and high-speed internet are available at our Red Wing and Winona s Tandeski Center locations. Assistance will be provided. 877.853.8324 ext. 2740 3
Core curriculum ABC s of Nonprofits In this workshop, you ll learn the basics of nonprofit management. Participants will get a brief overview of core components: working with boards, volunteer management, the planning process, budgeting, risk management, fundraising, collaborating partnerships, marketing, technological tools, community resources, program development and evaluation. Thurs, 10/4/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Beth Forkner Moe Basic Accounting for Nonprofit Managers Do you dread the financial responsibilities of nonprofit management? Understanding transactions, financial statements, and budgets are essential, and often-neglected aspects of operating a successful nonprofit. This course will offer participants the level of accounting expertise appropriate for an executive director of a nonprofit organization. Develop skills in recording transactions, preparing reports, analyzing financial statements, estimating revenues and expenses, and allocating costs. Thurs, 11/1/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Judie Foster-Lupkin/Gayle Plank The Basic Principles for a Collaborative Workplace Organizations today require a workplace where everyone is willing and able to work together in new and collaborative ways. Collaboration positively impacts productivity, quality, customer expectations, and overall organizational performance. This unit shows how The Basic Principles create a climate where everyone is able to cooperate, share ideas, and work together for a common purpose. The Basic Principles provide a set of behaviors for putting an organization s shared values into practice to develop a strong network of relationships at every level of the organization. Thurs, 12/6/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Gayle Plank The Leader in Each of Us Today, far-reaching advances in technology, continually increasing customer expectations, and the expansion of the global marketplace are redefining the standards for competitive success. As a result, organizations everywhere face a host of challenges, many of which were not visible even a few years ago. One of the key methods for responding to these new challenges is to make leadership the responsibility of everyone in the organization. This is an awareness unit that defines what is common to leadership roles regardless of the individual s specific assignment or position in the organization. Thurs, 1/10/2013, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Judie Foster-Lupkin Marketing Essentials for Nonprofits Every nonprofit organization needs to understand and promote its brand, whether it is seeking funding, advocating for a cause, or simply trying to reach more clients. This course provides a broad overview of the differences between marketing, advertising, public relations and other promotional tools. Explore new ways to reach the wide range of publics that interact with your organization, and learn business terms that will increase your confidence when working with advertising vendors, marketing consultants and media representatives. Analyze your situation, develop objectives, evaluate advertising and public relations tools, and strategize with your classmates as you create a custom communications plan for your organizations or group. Thurs, 2/7/2013, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Nancy Brown 4 www.southeastmn.edu/training
Elective courses Maintaining the Force: Effective Volunteer Management In any community, most service programs are run by volunteers. Consequently, as a community leader your knowledge of volunteer management is a necessary tool. You will discover when recruiting volunteers that people volunteer for many reasons. When you know and understand these reasons, you are better able to utilize volunteers time and more effectively promote a healthy program. Did you know that recognition is an essential element to a sense of job satisfaction? Pay is not in the reward column-recognition, leadership opportunities, and increased responsibilities are. Continuously evaluate your volunteer program and the volunteers. Jobs change, volunteers needs change, and program criteria change. Thurs, 10/11/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Beth Forkner Moe Board Roles and Responsibilities An effective non-profit organization must have a strong board that knows what their duties are and how to carry out those duties. At the same time, a non-profit leader needs to have this information, and be able to share it with board members. This course will cover what board members and management staff need to know, including fiduciary duties, accountabilities, ethics, finances, and how the roles of board and staff differ. Thurs, 10/18/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Beth Forkner Moe Financial Survival Skills for Nonprofit Leaders and Grant Writers If you are a beginning grant writer, this course will provide you with the essential tools needed to write a successful grant proposal from start to finish. For those more experienced, this workshop will sharpen your skills and keep you up-to-date through discussions of current grant writing trends. Learn about the grantsmanship process - from foundation research and cultivation to the development and writing of a winning proposal. You will learn about the typical questions funders ask when considering a proposal and the criteria used. Class participants will have an opportunity to review and critique a proposal. Tips for ensuring grant compliance and improving your chances of future grant success will be discussed. Thurs, 11/8/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Nancy Brown Budgeting for Nonprofit Organizations This course covers budgets and how they are used in nonprofit organizational settings. You will gain an understanding of the uses and functions of budget and the relationship between strategic budgeting and tactical budgeting. You will also learn about the organization-wide budget and different budget systems. The course will continue on to slightly more advanced budgeting topics such as capital budgets, cash flow budgets, and opportunity budgets. You will also learn how non-profit organizations are using different budgeting techniques to handle operating challenges. Thurs, 11/15/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Judie Foster-Lupkin Moving From Conflict to Collaboration Changes in the workplace are placing new emphasis on the importance of effective collaboration. Organizations are expecting employees at all levels to work together, often across functions, to make decisions that were formerly the exclusive responsibility of management. This type of collaboration can bring out new potentials for conflict, thus creating a need for employees at every level of an organization to have the skills to deal successfully with conflict. This unit gives participants the skills they need to turn conflicts into opportunities to achieve positive, productive results. Thurs, 12/13/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Gayle Plank 877.853.8324 ext. 2740 5
Elective courses Coaching: Bringing Out the Best in Others Effective coaching aims to maximize the performance of everyone associated with an organization employees, managers, customers, and suppliers. By applying coaching skills in the workplace, employees can motivate, guide, and support one another in working toward and achieving top performance. This unit helps participants recognize daily opportunities to coach people they work with and provides participants with the coaching skills they need to bring out the best in everyone. Thurs, 12/20/2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Gayle Plank Strategic Planning: Setting the Course for a Successful Future In an increasingly complex world, leaders and managers in public, private, and nonprofit organizations need to be strategic in planning and creating effective, collaborative programs and services. This workshop will explore the role and process of strategic planning with an emphasis on collaboration, cooperation, and coordination within and among organizations. Major trends affecting non-profits will be reviewed and future implications for all agencies will also be discussed. Participants will leave with an understanding of how to develop a strategic plan for their own organization. Thurs, 1/17/2013, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Judie Foster - Lupkin Sustaining Momentum for Continuous Improvement Whenever there are changes in the way an organization operates, employees within the organization may feel as if they re see-sawing back and forth between the old ways and the new. Continuous, sustained improvement efforts take time, attention, and constant bolstering to keep employees directed and to help them realize their progress and accomplishments. In this unit, managers explore the obstacles that often cause employees to lose sight of their goals or that dampen their resolve. Managers learn how to reinforce the efforts that their employees make to improve quality. Thurs, 1/24/2013, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Judie Foster - Lupkin Fund Development Do you want to strengthen your organization s fund development? This course will provide important information to address in your organization s fundraising. Topics include: fundraising trends and approaches, methods for successful fundraising, fundraising plan, engaging your volunteers, and monitoring fundraising effectiveness. This interactive course provides specific steps to develop immediate actions back at the office as well as strategies and fundraising processes to discuss with your Board, committees, or other staff members. Thurs, 2/21/2013, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Nancy Brown Designing Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collection for Nonprofit Organizations Increasingly, nonprofit agencies are being asked to collect information about their activities and results as well as those of projects and agencies they fund. This course will introduce you to the basics of developing data collection instruments that provide measurable evidence of intended outcomes. This course will cover the following topics: types of data, types of data collection instruments, question development, instrument development, sampling, analysis, and reporting. Thurs, 2/28/2013, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Instructor : Nancy Brown 6 www.southeastmn.edu/training
Instructors Gayle Plank Gayle Plank is an eighteen-year veteran who leads the Supervisory Management Program at Southeast Technical College. Gayle constructs low threat, high energy training modules for her business and industry clients. She works closely with the Workforce Training and Education division of the college to customize training sessions that meet the organizational goals of their clients. Gayle has a Bachelor of Science degree in Distributive Education, which is the teaching of marketing, merchandising and management, from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in Education-Professional Development from the University of Wisconsin Lacrosse. Beth Forkner Moe Beth Forkner Moe is Executive Director of United Way of the Greater Winona Area. She has more than 20 years experience assisting numerous non-profit organizations in the areas of fundraising, board and staff development, governance, budgeting, leadership, special events management, conflict resolution, collaboration, communications and public relations, business planning, volunteer recruitment and management, and disaster preparedness and response. She also has spoken on these topics at local, state and regional events. Beth has taught non-profit management as an adjunct instructor at Saint Mary s University in Winona. She received a bachelor s degree in mass communications/english writing from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. Nancy Brown Nancy Brown, MSA, CFRE, is Executive Director of Development at Winona Health. She has been a professional fundraiser for 15 years with a broad range of experience in annual fund, major gifts, database management and donor relations in higher education and healthcare settings. Brown became a Certified Fund Raising Executive in 2003. She is a former board member and president of the Upper Mississippi Valley Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and actively serves on committees of AFP International. Brown served as a member of the Executive Committee for Leave a Legacy Winona program for six years. She has a master s degree in nonprofit administration from the University of Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree in Journalism/Public Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judie Foster - Lupkin Judie Foster-Lupkin, Executive Director, of Winona Occupational Rehabilitation Center (WORC). Judie, in addition to her MBA, has over 30 years of business experience in both profit and not-for profit operations. Judie has a passion for organizational management, effective and efficient processes that enhance the organization and empower those in management positions. Transparency, collaboration, accountability and communication in regards to the strategic plan and direction for the organization are the areas she feels make a great business. 877.853.8324 ext. 2740 7
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