Leading with Impact: Nonprofit Executive Certificate

• Faculty: Margie DuBrow, PhD
• Change is external, such as new executive leadership, new organizational policies, or movement into a new site. Transition is internal, the process we go through to adapt to these new situations. During this workshop, you will gain a deeper understanding of your leadership style and how it impacts the way you respond to transition and change. We will also identify the potential effect of change on your team’s morale, their flexibility and productivity.

• Faculty: Margie DuBrow, PhD
• Traditional strategic planning has focused on generating a three-year plan that sets clear goals and objectives, Yet such plans often do not define strategies that will achieve measurable outcomes. Using David La Piana’s model called The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution, we will apply tools that help you analyze your business model, assess trends in your market, and identify your competitive advantage. You will then define key sustainability questions your organization is facing and develop outcomes-based strategies to address them.  We will also generate ways to gather input from the communities we serve, so their voices and values are integrated into our work.

• Faculty: Margie DuBrow, PhD
• Traditional strategic planning has focused on generating a three-year plan that sets clear goals and objectives, Yet such plans often do not define strategies that will achieve measurable outcomes. Using David La Piana’s model called The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution, we will apply tools that help you analyze your business model, assess trends in your market, and identify your competitive advantage. You will then define key sustainability questions your organization is facing and develop outcomes-based strategies to address them.  We will also generate ways to gather input from the communities we serve, so their voices and values are integrated into our work.

• Faculty: Fernando Chang-Muy, JD
• Understand how your Board’s developmental stage plays an important part in your Board’s practices in governance, ranging from its methods in recruitment and retention to how well leaders understand their roles and responsibilities. Invite a Board Officer to join the discussion regarding the Board’s role in navigating transition and change.

• Faculty: Kary James, MSW and the Moriah Group
• Understand dehumanization and the importance of Culturally Responsive Healing Practices (CRHP) and their connection to trauma in the workplace. Discover a humanity-affirming approach to leadership development focused on self-healing and knowledge of the effects of trauma. Explore and promote opportunities for Rest, Reflection, Restoration, Self-care, and Healing both for leaders and their organizations.

• Faculty: Danie Greennwell, PhD
• Assess your organization's financial management practices and its efforts to increase financial literacy in-house. Discover and test tools that can strengthen your financial decision making and sustainability. Bring your CFO or Treasurer to share their experience and insights.a

• Faculty: Danie Greennwell, PhD
• Assess your organization's financial management practices and its efforts to increase financial literacy in-house. Discover and test tools that can strengthen your financial decision making and sustainability. Bring your CFO or Treasurer to share their experience and insights.

• Faculty: Tiffenia Archie, PhD
• Evaluate your organizational culture to learn where your organization stands in terms of its norms and practices that show respect for diversity, encourage inclusion, and integrate equity into its values and behave. Learn best practices to help your organization move to the next level.

• Faculty: Quanisha Green, MSS
• Evaluate your personal readiness for the leadership journey ahead. Discover common obstacles leaders face as they progress in their careers and learn best practices to overcome them. Reflect on your leadership journey and identify growth opportunities.

Leading with Impact Program Fee: $4,550

Tuition includes 360 Leadership Self-Assessment followed by Executive Coaching.

NELI receives money from funders who support the work of organizations in the Philadelphia five-county area and in southern New Jersey.

We raise scholarship funds from funders who support the work of nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia five-county area and in southern New Jersey. Organizations are only eligible for scholarships if they have offices and serve clients in one of these areas. NELI Scholarships are contributed by the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, as well as by individuals and other local, small foundations. A limited number of scholarships are reserved for participants with the greatest need. 

Two local funders offer support to nonprofit leaders pursuing professional development. At the same time you apply to NELI, you may also submit an application to the funders listed below. 

Through its Nonprofit Training Resource Fund, nonprofit organizations can receive a grant for approved training to increase their organization’s capacity and skill set. The maximum grant is for $1,000. Applications are rolling.

The foundation’s Fund for Visionary Leadership is committed to supporting leadership development for aspiring and executive women leaders of nonprofit organizations that improve the lives of women and girls in the Greater Philadelphia region.

The foundation prioritizes funding of organizations and executive and emerging leaders who are Black, Indigenous and People of Color and women, trans, and gender-expansive people.