Nonprofit Builder's Training Courses

We offer 20 online courses every year to nonprofit professionals:

  • Acquire the skills to build a successful organisation, from leadership to strategy.
  • Designed for busy professionals - each course is four online workshops.
  • Small groups ensure personal attention and quality interactions with peers.
  • Tangible takeaways to easy implementation after the course.
  • Courses are free of charge to most grantees of our member foundations.
  • 3 training seasons per year: Spring Training Series (March to May), Summer (June to August), and Autumn (September to December).
  • All sessions start at either 7:00 AM UTC or 2:00 PM UTC (depending on the specific course).
  • Many participants work in the Climate sector, providing an excellent opportunity for peer learning and expanding your global network.
  • A tailor-made training course for teams of 5 or more participants interested in the same topic. Our flexible working model makes our services unique!

Upcoming Courses

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    Adapting Your Fundraising To Uncertain Times: How To Plan For Success - Jess Templeman Steve Sweet

    The current funding climate is challenging for everyone! Donors are changing priorities, lowering their funding pots and in some cases terminating contracts entirely. For many NGOs it feels like there are existential challenges. 

    In the best of times donors and prospective donors seemed a million miles away. They seem to speak a different language, and it can be hard to translate your impactful, transformative work on the ground into the kind of information that will grab their attention, and get them to open their wallets - to either give you money in the first place, or increase their current giving. With all the changes and pressures in global funding, this is only getting harder. For NGOs to survive, many will need to reconsider their fundraising, adapt how they are doing it and move beyond the typical systems that have worked to date. 

    This course is designed to give you the frameworks and tools in order to adapt your fundraising in this changing world. It will be a practical course, bringing together financial and fundraising experts, to allow your organisation to develop your own strategies, rooted in best practice, to ensure that you’re able not just to survive, but to thrive in this uncertain time! 

     

    There’s a short introductory video from the trainer under "Meet the Trainer" that gives an overview of the course and a chance to meet them—feel free to watch it to help you decide if you'd like to enroll.

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    Using a Systematic Model to Plan and Organize Projects - Laura Slater_The Management Centre Learning

    Too often projects go wrong for one of two reasons; planning and/or people. In this programme we tackle both by introducing you to the =mc Systems Model. This project framework takes you through a project from start to finish and allows you to plan anything from small and straightforward projects, to large and complex projects. Throughout the programme we explore the importance of collaboration and how to involve people, involved and affected, from the very early stages of planning. 

     

    There’s a short introductory video from the trainer under "Meet the Trainer" that gives an overview of the course and a chance to meet them—feel free to watch it to help you decide if you'd like to enroll.

     

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    Speak with Confidence and Earn the Respect You Deserve - Clarice Cabanlit (Work Well Teams)

    This course will equip professionals working in NGOs to communicate with clarity, confidence, and impact—no matter the setting.

     

    Through a combination of mindset work, communication tools, and practical application, participants will build the internal clarity and external skills needed to express themselves assertively, speak up in meetings, and deliver compelling presentations.

     

    Whether you’re navigating power dynamics in global meetings, advocating for your team’s work, or simply trying to be heard in a fast-moving environment, this course is designed to help you find and own your voice.

     

    We understand the cultural nuances, self-doubt, and unspoken rules that often hold people back from speaking up. This training creates a safe, structured space to explore those blockers and develop the tools to move past them—with the support of a cross-cultural, Asia-based learning community.

     

    There’s a short introductory video from the trainer under "Meet the Trainer" that gives an overview of the course and a chance to meet them—feel free to watch it to help you decide if you'd like to enroll.

     

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    DISC for Communication - Jo Richings/Purple Cow Un Limited

    DISC for Communication – A Game-Changing Masterclass for Managers & Leaders in the Nonprofit Sector

    Are you tired of team miscommunications, frustrated by missed deadlines, or struggling to connect with different personalities? You're not alone—and there’s a proven solution!.

    DISC for Communication is a practical, high-impact 3-hour workshop designed specifically for new managers and current leaders in charities, NGOs, and nonprofits. Whether you lead volunteers, coordinate across cultures, or manage hybrid teams, this course will give you the tools to communicate with clarity and confidence.

     

    There’s a short introductory video from the trainer under "Meet the Trainer" that gives an overview of the course and a chance to meet them—feel free to watch it to help you decide if you'd like to enroll.

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    Robust by Design - Building Processes and Team to Navigate through Uncertainty - Andreas Wettstein (Agility3)

    As nonprofits operate in a world of increasing uncertainty, the challenges they face less about scaling  — they are about staying resilient to survive an strive despite the new realities.. In unpredictable environments, even the strongest missions can falter without the right systems and leadership structures in place.

    Clear roles, focused priorities, lightweight but robust processes, and shared accountability are not luxuries — they are survival skills. They allow teams to stay agile, make smart decisions, and maintain momentum even when conditions shift rapidly. Most important of all, they allow leaders to focus on strategic priorities.

    This course provides nonprofit leaders with the practical tools and systems to strengthen their organizations from the inside out. Rather than chasing growth for its own sake, you will learn how to build the foundations that enable your team to thrive — no matter what the world throws at you.

     

    Note: This is a small training of 12 seats per group and enrolments will be based on first come first serve basis

     

    There’s a short introductory video from the trainer under "Meet the Trainer" that gives an overview of the course and a chance to meet them—feel free to watch it to help you decide if you'd like to enroll.

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    Digital Security Essentials - Tzviatko Chiderov

    In an increasingly digital world, nonprofit organizations face growing digital threats to their data, operations, and teams. This training equips nonprofit professionals with knowledge about various cyber threats, and the practical skills to defend against them, while fostering a culture of enhanced digital security within their organizations.

     

    There’s a short introductory video from the trainer that gives an overview of the course and a chance to meet them—feel free to watch it to help you decide if you'd like to enroll.

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    Managing uncertainty: scenario development and use for civil society leaders - Diana Scearce

    In these times of cascading crises and sustained uncertainty it’s easy to feel paralyzed or to respond with false certainty. Scenario thinking can help civil society leaders and organizations get unstuck, and make decisions with greater confidence under volatile and uncertain conditions. According to futurist Jane McGonigal, “This habit of unsticking your mind is. . . the basis of all creativity and personal reinvention. To create something new, or make any kind of change, you have to be able to imagine how things can be different.”

    Scenarios are stories about how the future might unfold for our organizations, our issues, our nations, and even our world. Importantly, scenarios are not predictions. Rather, they are provocative and plausible stories about diverse ways in which relevant issues outside our organizations might evolve, such as the future political environment, social attitudes, regulation, and the strength of the economy. Developing and using scenarios can help us rehearse the possibilities of tomorrow, and then act today empowered by those insights.

     

    There’s a short introductory video from the trainer that gives an overview of the course and a chance to meet them—feel free to watch it to help you decide if you'd like to enroll.

About the Nonprofit Builder

NonprofitBuilder.org is a global platform dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of nonprofits and social enterprises, particularly those leading climate action and social change initiatives.

We collaborate with philanthropic foundations to provide their grantees with tailored capacity-building services, including consulting projects, leadership coaching, capacity coaching, and training courses.

Our pool comprises over 500 vetted consultants and coaches worldwide, ensuring that support is contextually relevant and available in multiple languages, and has supported more than 800 grantees globally.

In our innovative model, services are free for the nonprofits, as each member foundation pays for services consumed by its grantees.

We manage the entire capacity-building process — from assessing needs and matching consultants to handling administrative tasks like contracting and payments—allowing nonprofits to concentrate on their development.

“Through the Nonprofit Builder, participating foundations can support all their grantees anywhere in the world on any organisational development expertise.”

Register or Learn More

These courses are only available to grantees who are sponsored by foundations who are members of the Nonprofit Builder (see home page for the list of member foundations). The courses are not open to self-funded participants.

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