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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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Public Speaking for Impact & Communicating Your Vision - Jennifer Clickner
Effective leadership requires effective communication. The ability to connect with your target audience and speak clearly and confidently to build trust and influence is critical. The best idea risks going unnoticed without persuasive and impactful communication skills to create engagement. This course is designed to give you the time and space to develop authentic and impactful communication skills, practice your presentation and pitch, and benefit from personalized 1:1 expert feedback.
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This course by Jennifer Clickner is scheduled to align better with Europe, Americas and West Africa time zones. If this timing doesn’t work for you, we have another course on a similar topic, titled: Own Your Voice: Speak with Confidence and Earn the Respect You Deserve by Clarice Cabanlit which will be conducted at 7 AM UTC.
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Essential Management Skills - Emma Brown (Source Coaching)
As leaders in an NGO, managers have responsibilities in developing an organisation's vision and goals, strategizing and analysing risks, working with teams to ensure cohesion and good communication, ensuring well-being of staff and building relationships with stakeholders. Challenges in funding, communicating with external partners and managing internal people resources can be alleviated by strong management skills.
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How to Communicate Effectively with Donors - Jess Templeman
Donors and prospective donors can often seem a million miles away. Too often it feels like they speak a different language. It can be a struggle 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. And this only gets harder as more and more donors are over-subscribed and moving towards an invitation only model!
While every NGO and donor is different, this course will help you identify your own strategies, rooted in best practice, to ensure that you’re able to most effectively tell the story of your amazing work to get more funding!
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Using a Systematic Model to Plan and Organize Projects - 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 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.
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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.
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This course by Clarice Cabanlit is scheduled to align better with Asia and East Africa time zones. If this timing doesn’t work for you, we have another course on a similar topic, titled: Public Speaking for Impact & Communicating Your Vision by Jennifer Clickner which will be conducted at 2 PM UTC.
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Junior Leaders Management - Jo Richings/Purple Cow Un Limited
I am excited to present a comprehensive training program designed specifically for junior leaders in the non-profit, charity, and NGO sectors.
Junior managers often encounter unique challenges in the non-profit sector, including limited resources, balancing multiple responsibilities, and maintaining team morale. This program will address these challenges and provide actionable strategies for overcoming them.
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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.
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A Practical System for Scaling Climate Action - Andreas Wettstein (Agility3)
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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.