Nonprofit Relations Best Practices Cohort Program

Now booking for 2027!

Embolden’s six-week cohort programs are offered three times per year starting in January, April, and September.

Interested?

Please contact Kelli Cavey at kcavey@embolden.com to learn more or reserve your spot. We’d love for you to join us!

FAQS & PRICING

About this program

Community foundations invest significantly in their nonprofit communities, but staff on the community foundation’s programs and community investment teams rarely receive formal training on the relationship itself: what it is, what it makes possible, and how to manage it intentionally over time. This program fills that gap.

Ideal participant

The ideal participant is a community foundation professional who regularly works with nonprofits, whether on a community investment, programs, or development team, and regardless of tenure.

Learning objectives

Examples of learning objectives include:

  • How to use the full range of tools for nonprofits offered by their specific community foundation, including grant opportunities, endowment building, complex gift acceptance, technical assistance, capacity building opportunities, and/or planned giving support.

  • How to develop a productive and repeatable framework for Meaningful Conversations with nonprofits that (1) help educate nonprofits about how to work with the community foundation, and simultaneously (2) support a community foundation’s ability to learn from nonprofits to gain knowledge that can help support a community foundation’s relationships with its fund holders and donors.

  • How to build internal habits and efficient workflows so community foundations build “right-sized” yet strong, long-lasting relationships with nonprofits that ultimately improve quality of life in the community, including connecting the dots internally.

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