Enhance your management skills and explore new techniques to effectively lead your organization.
Enhance your management skills and explore new techniques to effectively lead your organization.
Intensive: The Certificate program is only four months long. We’ve created a curriculum that will deliver results similar to other longer and more expensive programs.
Practical skills: Instead of relying on textbooks and lectures, we focus on real-life, Alaska-relevant examples and the experiences of your fellow class members to guide your work the next day.
Peer network. The Certificate experience includes a mix of small and large group interactions, which translates into an instant statewide network of nonprofit colleagues who share similar struggles and victories and who will provide resources and referrals for you throughout your career.
The courses are designed to immediately apply what you learn in class to your workplace. Those who are currently in leadership roles and who have the ability to influence positive change within the organization will find the program most valuable.
Certificate is for nonprofit professionals across the state – no matter whether you’re leading a large organization or a small one, or if you have been in the field for decades or only a year, this program is designed to meet you where you are in your career.
The fee is $3,000, or $2,500 for Foraker Partners.
The Mat-Su Health Foundation offers scholarships each year to Mat-Su nonprofit leaders to attend Certificate. For more information go to www.healthymatsu.org. Other scholarships may be available. Check with your employer and local resources.
Day | Date | Course | Instructor |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Aug 21 | Fundamentals of the Nonprofit Sector | Laurie Wolf |
2 morning afternoon |
Aug 22 Aug 22 |
Professional/Personal Development Strategic Direction |
Laurie Wolf Laurie Wolf |
3 | Aug 23 | Strategic Direction | Laurie Wolf |
4 | Sept 11 | Budget and Finance | Chellie Skoog |
5 | Sept 12 | Budget and Finance | Chellie Skoog |
6morning afternoon |
Sept 13 Sept 13 |
Business Planning Evaluation |
Mike Walsh Mike Walsh |
7 | Oct 11 | Board Development | Laurie Wolf |
8 | Oct 12 | Board Development | Laurie Wolf |
9 |
Oct 13 |
Organizational Development |
Gwen Kennedy |
10 | Nov 1 | Public Policy | Mike Walsh |
11 | Nov 2 | Human Resources | Rebecca Savidis |
12 | Nov 3 | Volunteer Engagement | Sue Brogan |
13 | Nov 29 | Marketing and Communication | Kimberly Waller |
14 | Nov 30 | Fundraising | Laurie Wolf |
15 | Dec 1 | Fundraising | Laurie Wolf |
At the end of the program, we issue official Certificates for participants who attended each day. In addition, you will receive 10.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from the University of Alaska. If you are absent from class, you will need to make-up the class the following year to receive your Certificate and CEUs.
Applications for the 2023 fall cohort are now closed. The program is offered each fall. Check back for details.
Space is limited. Our goal is to select a cohort of nonprofit leaders that represents the diversity of nonprofit missions, leadership experience, and geography of the state. This is a competitive process, and we encourage you to engage fully in the application process.
Questions? For more information on the Certificate program, contact us or call 907-743-1200.