You may know CharityVillage as a great resource for non-profit jobs, or for their excellent fundraising, board development and agency management resources and links. Building on these resources, they have created CharityVillage Campus, an online learning site for non-profits in Canada.
CharityVillage Campus offers a series of web-based, self-paced courses that
focus on core non-profit subjects like fundraising, volunteer management, and
organization management. The courses are affordable, fun and can be accessed from the comfort of your own home or office, at your own pace. Each course is also available for you to access for a period of time, which means that you can start and stop the course, revisit specific sections and take breaks between modules.
Each course includes helpful worksheets, case studies, samples, and resources that you can download and save for future reference.
Current Course Offerings (2009):
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Attracting Corporate Sponsorship: Learn the key components of a sponsorship program, including how to attract and keep sponsors, write proposals, and develop appropriate pricing.
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Receipting Charitable Gifts in Canada: Learn the critical elements of gift receipting, from fair market value to split receipting rules and much more!
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Strategic Planning: Learn the core elements of a strategic plan and the basic process of strategic planning.
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Event Planning: Discover how to plan, run, and evaluate a flawless special event for your organization.
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Getting Started in Planned Giving: Learn how to get a planned giving program up and running successfully.
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Building a Great Volunteer Program: Delight your volunteers and deliver results for your organization by developing an effective system to manage your volunteers.
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Boards That Work : Learn what it takes to be an effective board member and build a successful board of directors.
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Proposal Writing: Translate your ideas into dollars by improving your funding proposals today.
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Grantseeking: You'll have better success with your proposals if you fully understand the grantseeking process.
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How Fundraising Works: Once you get the basics, you'll be in a great position to find support for your organization.
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Writing Effective Policies and Procedures: Policies and procedures form the backbone of your organization and this course makes them easy to write and implement.
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Telling Your Story Through the Case for Support: Write a compelling story about your organization that will entice and captivate supporters.
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SpringBoard: The Better Board Kit: a 3-step process to help your organization's board members ensure that they know their responsibilities, are prepared to act on them, and that your board works as a team to help accomplish the organization's goals.
