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
Lead with Impact: Essential Skills for Modern Managers
Instructor: Amanda Silver
Learn the tools, skills and frameworks to manage others effectively. In this intensive management training, new and experienced managers will focus on the core competencies essential for supervisors to succeed.
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.
Spotlight: Email Fundraising Magic
Instructor: Emily Goodstein, CEO + Founder, Greater Good Strategy
Learn best practices to format emails for maximum impact, ways to write emails so they produce results (read: donations), and recommendations to get your potentially anti-email colleagues on board with your new approach.
Spotlight: Canva for Beginners
Instructor: Eve Tyler
This beginner-level class will teach you how to elevate your design projects in Canva, so they consistently look polished and in line with your organization’s brand and mission.