CompassPoint Nonprofit Services Online Learning

CompasPoint Nonprofit Services is one of the country's leading nonprofit professional development organizations, serving over 7,000 nonprofit staff persons each year. Our new online course, Budgeting for Programs and Proposals, will teach you how to create accurate program budgets and effectively communicate your financial needs in grant proposals. Approved by the Association of Fundraising Professionals for continuing education credit, this affordable and convenient course includes six months access to personalized feedback from expert course tutors.

Groundspring.org

Groundspring.org is a nonprofit technology startup that helps small and mid-size nonprofits use the Internet for fundraising, communications, and advocacy. Groundspring offers a suite of affordable online software services: DonateNow for credit card processing, EmailNow for email messaging, PublishNow for multi-page eNewsletter publishing, SurveyNow for surveys, AdvocacyNow to engage supporters online, and ebase for community relationship management. Our training program offers workshops in online fundraising and Internet strategy in cities nationwide and online. Our learning program offers a free downloadable Online Fundraising Handbook and an Internet Techniques Series to help nonprofits get the most out of the Internet.

Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations

The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University, is internationally known for its comprehensive graduate programs in nonprofit leadership and management. It is ranked among the top ten programs of its kind by U.S. World and News Report. The Center offers a Masters Degree in Nonprofit Organizations and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management. Students in the Center's partner schools may also receive a dual degree or dual credential combining the study of the nonprofit sector with other disciplines. The Center is a partnership of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the Weatherhead School of Management, the School of Law and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Stanford Center for Social Innovation

The Stanford Center for Social Innovation inspires current and future generations of executives to become agents of social change and promote the mutual exchange of ideas and values across sectors, across disciplines, and between theory and practice. The Center's executive education programs are designed not only to develop exceptional leaders and managers but also to equip professionals with the critical knowledge and tools they need to build capacity within their organization and the communities they serve.

Join us for Executive Program for Philanthropy Leaders (EPPL) the week of June 3 – 9, 2007. EPPL focuses on leadership development for high-level grantmakers using cutting-edge strategic frameworks with a special emphasis on vision, power and trust, board governance, and collaboration. Selected topics include strategy, financial analysis, organizational performance, and closing the knowing-doing gap. For more information, please visit us online at http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/eppl/.

You might also consider sponsoring your grantees for one of our nonprofit programs. The Center subsidizes a significant portion of the cost of these programs, enabling us to keep tuition low for nonprofit executives. A complete listing of our 2007 Social Innovation Programs can be found on the program page of our web site, http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/programs.html.