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.

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.