Session 1: How Do We Understand Leadership?

• Participants will identify and strengthen management and leadership skills
• Participants will begin to view themselves as leaders
• Participants will learn how to recognize and address adaptive challenges
• Participants will gain basic understanding of self-and peer-coaching
• Participants will create professional development goals

Session 2: Nonprofit Legal and Organizational Structures

• Participants will understand the purpose and responsibility of 501(c)(3) organizations
• Participants will develop strategies to ensure that an organization’s vision, mission, and values are reflected in organizational structure
• Participants will understand the role and responsibilities of non-profit executives and board members
• Participants will examine different internal systems for structuring and distributing authority and power with respect to operations, programs, and resource development
• Participants will explore the relationship between hierarchy and accountability

Session 3: Building Organizational Capacity for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

• Participants will examine how organizational mission informs internal practices
• Participants will develop analysis of how organizational policies, practices, training, and culture can reflect organizational values with respect to equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Participants will develop strategies to build internal organizational equity

Session 4: Understanding Mission, Developing Vision, and Implementing Strategy

• Participants will understand how to use change statements, identity statements, and strategy screens to make strategic choices for an organization or program
• Participants will understand tools for increasing alignment within an organization on strategic direction
• Participants will examine the relationship between measuring impact and implementing strategy

Session 5: Non-Profit Revenue Models/Fundraising/Financial Management

• Participants will gain basic understanding of non-profit finance concepts
• Participants will understand how revenue models can engage with organizational mission and shape organizational programs
• Participants will learn fundraising strategies and begin to build fundraising skills

Session 6: Managing Yourself, Managing Others, Managing the Work

• Participants will learn strategies for using time effectively, staying organized, and exercising authority
• Participants will learn how to develop staff and hold them accountable
• Participants will learn how to delegate work, assign meaningful roles, and articulate clear goals with concrete measures of success

Session 7: Team Dynamics, Organizing and Running Meetings, Coalition Dynamics

• Participants will understand the dynamics of group decision-making
• Participants will develop facilitative behaviors and skills which create an environment that enables a group to identify and solve problems together
• Participants will learn tools that increase the effectiveness of group meetings

Session 8: Strategic Communications – Guest Trainer from The Opportunity Agenda

• Participants will learn how to develop values-based messages to advance legal and policy reform goals
• Participants will learn how to target messages to different audiences
• Participants will learn how to stay on message while engaging with different audiences

Session 9: Measuring to Change the World

• Participants will understand the main challenges to measuring the impact of social justice work
• Participants will understand the benefits of using evaluation tools to clarify and articulate how social change happens
• Participants will learn basic evaluation concepts (inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, impact) and how to apply them to their work

Session 10: Your Individual Impact and Sustainability

• Participants will understand how we can define individual success in ways that support and inform our choices
• Participants will develop a clearer perspective on how defining our own individual leadership styles can advance our programs, organizations and personal lives
• Participants will identify next leadership goals and create an individual plan to advance those goals