Courses | Nonprofits

Do you desire more meaning in your work? Are you ready for a change but don't know how to get started? Or maybe you just need some extra help getting that special project off the ground? Our courses can help you expand your skills through life's challenges and changes and guide you to the path that leads to greater personal satisfaction.

Business Development Approach to Building Revenues for Nonprofits
Wednesday, May 28, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Tuition: $25; Register online or by phone at 206-268-4111.

In collaboration with Executive Service Corps Washington, Donald Summers, director of Principal Consulting LLC, will share his approach to building sustainable organizations by using a business development model that maximizes nonprofit fundraising effectiveness and efficiency and optimizes organizational structure and strategy. Come to learn more about this approach and contribute your thoughts and experience to the discussion.

Workshop Leader: Donald Summers, Director of Principal Consulting LLC, has broad development experience ranging from projects with small community schools and human service organizations to multi-billion dollar campaigns with research universities, engaging major foundations and CEOs, foreign ambassadors and heads of state. He has secured many 6- and 7-figure investments from individuals, foundations and federal agencies. He has led four multi-million dollar fundraising campaigns in service areas all considered unusually difficult to fund; each campaign increased gift revenue from 100% to 1000% in the first fiscal year.

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Legacy Leadership Institute on the Environment

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your leadership, energy, talent and skills to meet the environmental challenges facing our region?

The Legacy Leadership Institute on the Environment is a new program being launched this spring by Antioch's Center for Continuing Education and Leadership Tomorrow.

The Institute assists experienced, skillful and passionate adults transition into meaningful roles in the non-profit sector—specifically organizations and agencies devoted to environmental stewardship, advocacy and education.

15 regional and local environmental organizations have signed on to participate in the Institute and host the graduates as they move into the hands-on practicum phase of the program.

Read more about the Legacy Leadership Institute certificate program that begins March 25, 2008.

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Grant Writing (1.5 CEUs)
Offered again spring 2009
Tuition: $375 general public, $350 Antioch alumni, staff and faculty, $325 Antioch students

Survey the process, structure and skill of professional proposal writing. Learn the entire proposal-writing process and gain a solid understanding of factors that contribute to getting your program funded. Identify and use online and database research tools, as well as publications and directories that contain information about foundation, corporation and government grant opportunities.

Instructor: Jenny Senh is development directorat Community Voice Mail, a national nonprofit that provides free voice mailboxes to people in crisis and transition. She brings more than seven years of fund development experience from United Way of King County and community volunteer roles. She holds a certificate in nonprofit management from the UW.

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Decision Traps
Offered again winter 2009
Tuition: $25 Antioch alumni and friends of Next Chapter, free to Executive Service Corps volunteers. Register here.

Are nonprofit organizations really unique? Do they require a different consulting perspective? What kind of skills and understanding help consultants work successfully with their nonprofit clients?

In this workshop offered in partnership with Executive Service Corps Washington, you explore decision traps, ways our brains work that complicate decision-making. An example is the recency effect: We remember what happened last week better than what happened last year. Another is confirmation bias, the tendency to look for evidence which supports pre-existing beliefs and to discount evidence which does not. Remind you of anyone? We will discuss ways to help boards and leaders avoid these traps when making critical decisions.

Instructors: Jim Pullen, whose early career was in public service, as a counselor, teacher, manager and researcher at the university and community college-level. Later he joined ADP as research manager of a home-banking trial in 2000 households across North America. As Vice-president at Frank Russell Company, the world's largest pension consulting company, Pullen introduced new products and methodologies in financial services to clients in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. Pullen led acquisitions for a private cable company and later held senior positions in Internet start-ups in areas as various as freight optimization, patent processing, mortgage banking and supply chain management. As a former corporate executive, independent business owner and franchisee, Pullen has a unique perspective on realizing possibilities.  Further, he believes that people can accomplish a great deal more than they often allow themselves to hope if they take Lincoln's advice to heart: always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Nancy Long is the Executive Director of Executive Service Corps of Washington. She has expertise in strategic planning, organizational development, public policy, marketing to underserved populations and process design for effective decision-making. She was the Vice-president of Strategy and Organizational Development at Group Health Cooperative and the Director of Quality for the Washington State Hospital Association and Washington Health Foundation. She has a master's degree from the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. She has led nonprofit boards and organized coalitions of community organizations and was chair of the Seattle Planning Commission. She is currently the President of Next Chapter of Puget Sound. For many years, Long was an affiliate faculty member at GSPA where she taught courses on management and leadership of nonprofit organizations.

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Practical Instructional Design (1.5 CEUs)
Offered again fall 2008
Tuition: $375 general, $350 Antioch alumni, staff and faculty, $325 Antioch students

Learn to develop, design and deliver successful training and teaching materials for traditional and online classroom settings. Analyze learners' needs, create and assess learning objectives, and design a course blueprint and lesson plan. Apply research-based principles to your organization's training. Work with a variety of instructional media and tools and evaluate their usefulness. Come to the first class with a course project in mind (an actual project is preferable, but a hypothetical project also is fine).

Instructor: Jan Kinney has served more than a decade as an instructional designer in distance learning design at the UW. She has created teaching materials for subject areas that include high school and undergraduate-level courses, certificate programs in construction management and bioengineering and master's programs in information science and emergency preparedness.

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