Webinars and Events

Participation in these events is open to all members of the Nonprofit Builder community: grantees, foundations, and consultants.

UPCOMING EVENTS

When Funding Falls Away: 3 Actions You Can Take Today with Michelle Stein(Handmade Fundraising)

That feeling of powerlessness? I get it. But here’s the thing— even when traditional funding sources shift or disappear, there are concrete steps you can take right now to strengthen your position. In this 45-minute session, I’ll share practical tools—the same ones I use with my clients—to help you maximize your existing donor relationships without feeling like you’re constantly asking for more, craft a compelling narrative that truly resonates (beyond generic crisis messaging), and build the confidence needed for those tricky conversations ahead. Because in times like these, mindset matters more than ever.

Date: 19th February, 2025 at 4 PM EAT/ 3 PM SAST/ 1 PM GMT SIGN UP HERE!

Leadership et Gouvernance pour un impact : Renforcer les organisations pour une croissance durable with Larissa BYLL CATARIA

Diriger une organisation axée sur une mission nécessite de trouver un équilibre entre vision, gouvernance et dynamique d'équipe, souvent avec des ressources limitées.Ce webinaire interactif explorera les principales stratégies de leadership et de gouvernance adaptées aux organisations émergentes. Les sujets abordés peuvent inclure le leadership avec vision, le renforcement des structures de gouvernance, le leadership adaptatif, lagestion d'équipe et la prise de décision éthique. Les participants auront l'occasion de façonner la discussion en sélectionnant les domaines d'intérêt les plus pertinents par rapport à leurs défis. Rejoignez-nous pour obtenir des informations et des outils pratiques pour diriger avec confiance, résilience et impact.

Date: 19th March, 2025 at 11:00 AM EAT (10:00 AM CAT) Zoom link SIGN UP HERE!

The 5 mindsets required for effective leadership with Taaka Awori, Busara Africa

Effective leadership isn’t just about skills—it’s about mindset. The way you think shapes how you lead, impacting decision-making, team dynamics, and long-term success. But what are the mindsets that truly set exceptional leaders apart? In this practical session, we’ll explore the five essential leadership mindsets and how to cultivate them. Through engaging discussions, real-world case studies, and interactive exercises, you’ll learn practical strategies to shift your perspective, make better decisions, and lead with confidence in any situation. We’ll cover the importance of mindsets in leadership, the key mindsets required to lead oneself and others, and practical tools for transforming your approach to leadership.

Date: 26th March, 2025 at 11:00 AM EAT (10:00 AM CAT) Zoom link

Transformation digitale pour les organisations à impact social with Jordan Omalokolo, Malabar

Nous explorerons des outils et stratégies pratiques pour optimiser vos opérations, renforcer votre communication et maximiser votre efficacité grâce au numérique. À travers l’automatisation, la gestion des données et les plateformes collaboratives, vous découvrirez comment mieux atteindre vos bénéficiaires et partenaires. Nous aborderons l’impact de la transformation digitale sur l’efficacité opérationnelle, les outils essentiels pour gérer projets, données et communication, ainsi que des stratégies pour élargir votre impact et mobiliser votre communauté, illustrés par des études de cas concrets et des bonnes pratiques. Que vous soyez novice ou déjà engagé dans le digital, vous repartirez avec des solutions concrètes pour accélérer votre transition numérique.

Date: 18th June, 2025 at 11:00 AM EAT (10:00 AM CAT) Zoom link

Empowering NGOs with Digital Tools for Mapping, Data Collection, Visualization, and Project Management with Allan Bio, Veritas Interactive

Data visualization and reporting are game-changers for non-profits looking to showcase their impact and engage stakeholders. Through powerful open-source tools, organizations can transform complex data into compelling visual stories without breaking the bank.

For mapping and geographical insights, QGIS offers robust capabilities alongside OpenStreetMap's free data and Leaflet's interactive features. When it comes to dashboards and general visualization, Metabase and Apache Superset stand out for creating intuitive displays, while Python libraries like Plotly and Streamlit, or R's Shiny and ggplot2, enable custom solutions.

These tools help create engaging impact dashboards and annual reports that combine real beneficiary stories with data visualization, making abstract goals tangible through metrics like people served or communities reached. Whether using network diagrams to show community connections or timeline visualizations to demonstrate sustained impact, these open-source solutions help non-profits make complex social issues more accessible to diverse audiences - from board members to community partners.

Date: 25th June, 2025 at 11:00 AM EAT (10:00 AM CAT) Zoom link

PAST EVENTS

Ready to explore how AI can transform your MEL work? By Samson Mbugua

Want to cut through the hype and understand what AI can (and can't) do for monitoring, evaluation, and learning? Join us for a practical 90-minute session where we'll dive into real examples of AI in MEL work. You'll learn about tools that can help with everything from analyzing survey data to spotting patterns in program feedback. We'll also tackle the tough questions about using AI responsibly and making sure it adds real value to your MEL work.

We'll cover:

What AI tools are actually useful for MEL right now
How organizations are already using AI to improve their MEL work
Common pitfalls to avoid and ethical questions to consider
Where this technology is headed and what it means for MEL

Whether you're AI-curious or AI-skeptical, you'll walk away with practical insights you can use in your work. Perfect for anyone working in monitoring and evaluation who wants to understand what all the AI buzz means for them.

On Zoom on 6th December, 2024 at 3:00 PM CEST/ Recording/ Material

The Counter: Support for activists standing up to corporate power by Roberta Cowan

The Counter is a global help desk providing free corporate research and information to activists, CSOs, public interest journalists, and strategic litigators working to hold companies accountable for societal and environmental harms. SOMO has supported social justice groups and communities fighting corporate power for decades. The Counter’s dedicated company investigators help those most in need of information about companies causing environmental harm, climate collapse, social injustices, and human rights abuses.

Register for a webinar to learn about how The Counter works, who can submit requests, and what sort of information The Counter’s team of company investigators can dig up about companies causing environmental and social harm.

For more information, visit us: The Counter Blog

On Zoom on 5th December 2024 at 3:00 PM CEST

Communication: Strategic communication tools and trends for 2025 by Mark Dessauer

Communication skills and strategies are central to successful nonprofits, campaigns and social change. Spitfire Strategies has been creating tools and trainings over the last 22 years to help foundations, nonprofits and movements move people and policies to make the world more just and safer. Mark Dessauer of Spitfire Strategies will provide an overview of Spitfire’s communication tools (all free to use and share) and share some upcoming projects on ethical AI, communication capacity assessment,messaging around equity and narrative landscape. After the overview, we will open the discussion on current and future trends in communication training and capacity building. Spitfire recently conducted a survey of foundations to discuss their perspectives on their communication needs, grantee requests and future communication concerns. Mark will share the responses and lead a discussion on what participants are seeing in terms of current and future communication trends.

On Zoom on 4th December 2024 at 3:00 PM CEST / Recording/ Material

Replenish your soul and realign with your purpose for 202Thrive By Lauren Bright

Are you exhausted and anxious about not achieving your New Year Resolutions? Do not despair, the Brightsparkcoach is here and will help you unlock the pathway to making 2025 your best year yet. I shall share with you the power of neurolinguistic programming, neuroplasticity and ikigai to reconnect with yourself as you prepare to wind down for the year.

We'll cover:

Techniques to rewire your mindset
How to overcome limiting beliefs
Finding your purpose
Practical NLP tools to empower yourself for greatness & thrive

This 90 minute training will unlock the transformative power of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and IKIGAI to reconnect with yourself.

On Zoom on 2nd December, 2024 at 3 PM CEST/ Recording

Legal support: Leveraging Pro Bono Legal Expertise for Sustainable Development: Insights from ISLP

Discover how the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP) could help advance your work with international legal support. ISLP is a non-profit organization that mobilizes world-class pro bono legal expertise to promote inclusive, accountable, and sustainable development worldwide.

Whether you work with a civil society org, social impact enterprise, or a funder/donor organization, this is a unique opportunity to explore how ISLP can support and enhance your initiatives and networks.

In this session, you’ll learn about how ISLP collaborates with civil society organizations, governments, and social enterprises to promote the rule of law and sustainability while supporting partners in achieving their goals. Types of legal support include: law and regulatory reform support and advice; legal research and toolkits; practical capacity-building workshops; corporate governance advice and best practices; and direct negotiation and transactional support.

Join Sara Lulo, ISLP's Executive Director, along with Africa and Latin America Legal Advisors Glory Kinyua and Pedro Villegas, for an engaging session showcasing ISLP’s transformative work. Through real-world examples, this webinar will highlight how international legal support can contribute to locally-led climate justice work, renewable energy initiatives, and accountability reforms.

On Zoom on 3rd December 2024 at 3:00 PM CEST / Recording / Material

Case-study Showcase: Coaching as an effective competency development tool for Leaders and Managers

Join us for a special experience-sharing session where the African Climate Alliance (ACA) will showcase the transformational impact of capacity-building support on their leadership development and organizational strengthening. For the past 1.5 years, ACA’s senior leaders have been supported by Juan Pablo Escorcia of Purpose and Motion (P+M), one of our stellar consultants at Nonprofit Builder, through tailored one-on-one and group coaching sessions. Six months ago, this support was extended to ACA’s program coordinators, fostering even greater alignment across the organization.

In this session, ACA will share their experiences of how this coaching support has enhanced their leadership skills, improved team dynamics, and helped them realise their organizational vision. This is an opportunity to learn directly from an organization that has benefited from Nonprofit Builder’s capacity-building efforts.

As one Management Circle member stated, “Pablo from P+M assisted our management team with working toward our organizational vision of co-leadership and co-governance. After transitioning from having a sole managing director towards a co-leadership model called the Management Circle, we engaged Pablo in coaching us individually and as a group. After attempting to work with many other organisational development consultants who were unable to see the potential in our vision for co-leadership, we were not only happy to find someone like Pablo who believed in this but who could also assist us in getting on the right path for this journey. This has resulted in great feedback between each other and from the broader team as well.” This session will focus on the practical outcomes of ACA’s journey, with insights from both ACA’s leaders and their coach, Pablo. Participants will be able to ask questions, explore the tangible benefits of coaching as part of capacity building, and learn how similar support could enhance leadership and organizational development in their own context.

On Zoom on 13th November 2024 at 3:00 PM CEST. Recording/ Material

Webinar Get the most out of COP 29, by Jennifer Milliken, Major events facilitator and consultant

Is your organization planning to attend COP 29 in Baku? How to get the most out of this investment of your precious time and money? Jennifer Milliken is a programme director and event facilitator, from in-house workshops to mega-conferences. She draws on her COP and Davos mega-conference experiences to discuss how you can start preparing now to get the most out of your participation in these challenging events in terms of concrete results that will advance your cause - whether new insights, new ideas, new contacts, or even new funding.

On Zoom on 6 September, 9:00 AM CEST -Recording/ Workshop material

Webinar Are you ready to scale? By Alice Kennerley, Senior consultant at Spring Impact

Scaling means to grow your impact, but this does not necessarily mean to grow your organisation - it can be through partnerships or other strategies. Do you want to scale, and are you ready to scale, and if yes, through what is the best pathway? This webinar will help you answer these questions, and also get more information on how Spring Impact can help you in this journey. Spring Impact is a global nonprofit that supports organisations in overcoming challenges and resolving the critical questions on the journey to scaling impact, helping teams build the strategies, knowledge, and mindsets they need to tackle problems at scale -- through consulting and training.

On Zoom on 10 September 2024 at 9:00 AM CEST - Recording

Scaling Toolkit/ Scaling Mindsets Video Series/ ScaleMail / Scaling with Government: Foundation for Ecological Security

Webinar Beyond Branding - The Power of People By Christopher Kent Meunier, the founder of Unscene

Transform your approach to branding by exploring the monumental shifts from the Industrial Revolution to today’s digital age.
Learn how to craft your brand persona to uncover your business’s unique purpose and mission, drawing inspiration from iconicbrands like Nike and Airbnb. Discover how these brands leverage community insights to create identities that resonate and endure.

Discussion Highlights:

From Signifiers to Significance: Learn how to elevate your brand narratives and enrich consumer connections, turning simple signifiers into stories of significance.
Beyond Transactions: Gain a practical glimpse into the future of branding, where relationships and experiences trump mere transactions.
Evolving Markets: Understand how to adapt and thrive in new consumer landscapes, ensuring your brand remains relevant and impactful.