Master Classes
JPro Master Classes are best-in-class, skill-based trainings in areas requested by our members. Advance your professional skills and connect with colleagues from across the diversity of our sector, with discounted access for JPro members.
Past Classes
Program Evaluation: Surveying for Success with Rosov Consulting
Instructors: Dr. Frayda Gonshor Cohen and Allison Magagnosc, Rosov Consulting
This Master Class teaches best practices for evaluating programs by using surveys to collect data and describe impact. Participants will explore learning goals for data collection, discuss survey design and question writing, and create survey text together that participants can utilize as they evaluate their programs.
Spotlight: Creating Standout Resumes and Cover Letters
Instructor: Emily Kapit
Identify your Pattern of Excellence (your unique achievements and track record that demonstrates your skillset) to better understand how your accomplishments relate to your career trajectory and goals. Learn strategies, tips, and tricks for maintaining your career assets and how to integrate your resume with your LinkedIn profile.
Task Management with Less Stress
Instructor: Diana Bloom
Learn actionable steps that can be implemented to achieve higher productivity and efficiency, in order to bridge the gap between your intentions and your actions. Discover systems and processes in order to prioritize, track, and complete tasks with less stress.
Spotlight: 8 Practices of Excellent Project Management
Instructor: Jessica Eastman Stewart
In this interactive class, you’ll explore the essential practices of project management. Learn to define success, clarify roles and responsibilities, manage information, set realistic timelines, engage stakeholders, create templates, foster a great project culture, and close projects effectively.
Spotlight: Collaborative Brainstorming
Instructor: Aaron Henne
Learn a step-by-step process that will enable you to see how to best encourage productive brainstorming that will result in tangible outcomes. You’ll engage with structures and techniques designed to facilitate inclusive conversations and to build community in efficient ways.
Excel Formula Deep Dive: Learn 45+ Functions, Fix Broken Formulas, and Calculate Anything
Instructor: Shir Aviv
This course will teach you how to use formulas in a masterful way. You will learn how to calculate the right answer 100% of the time by using simple, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-modify formulas.
Strategic Communication
Instructor: Jordan Namerow
Learn the tools, techniques, and frameworks needed for building a strategic communications plan to help your organization achieve its goals and deepen its impact.
Spotlight: Getting Started with AI
Instructor: Dr. Sarah Rubinson Levy
Explore the history of AI, and to learn how to begin using this technology in an empowered way for good. You will learn how to develop prompts for ChatGPT specifically for efficiency, strategy, and creativity, so that you can begin using it and other AI tools to streamline your work.
Cultivating Team Wellness
Clockwise from top left: Yavilah McCoy, CEO and Founder, Dimensions Educational Consulting; Josh Feldman, Founder and CEO, and Rachel Zieleniec, Chief Program Officer, R&R: The Rest of Our Lives; and Sarah Waxman, Founder and CEO, At the Well
May 28, June 4 and 11 / 90-minute sessions
Spotlight Master Class: Strategic Fundraising in a Changed World
Instructor: Stephanie Schwartz, Founder and CEO, Little Bean Group
Evaluate your current fundraising strategies and practices post-October 7, while gaining insights into how to customize fundraising efforts to support donor engagement and giving.
Spotlight: Staying out of the Spider’s Web
Instructor: Deb Howard
When conflict arises between coworkers, they can pull in other people (often their manager) to fix the problem, fix the person, be the messenger, or be a sympathetic ear. Psychologists call this triangulation. This Spotlight Master Class will show you how to immediately and easily identify triangles in your work teams, and take positive steps to reduce the conflict, tension, and anxiety they can cause.
Mindful and Effective Leadership
Instructor: Aaron Henne
Uncover your personal and professional priorities so that you can show up as your best self. You will develop the hard and soft skills you need to help you communicate clearly and articulate your vision to others in order to harness your full leadership potential.