GCN Events
ACCT 200 | Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting
Certificate of Nonprofit Accounting
Certificate of Workplace Communication and Leadership
LDR 250 | Conflict Resolution: Dealing With Difficult People
Certificate of Supervision and Management
MGT 110 | Understanding the Role of a Supervisor
Member | Georgia's Budget & Your Work presented by Georgia Budget & Policy Institute
NPO 220 | Nonprofit Marketing and Communications
FND 220 | Understanding Donors
Certificate of Nonprofit Volunteer Management
Certificate of Annual Giving Campaigns
VOL 110 | Essentials of Volunteer Management
Revenue Forecasting
MGT 120 | Transitioning from Tactical Manager to Strategic Leader
NPO 230 | Nonprofit Fundraising and Resource Development
Certificate of Nonprofit Human Resource Management
HR 210 | Strategic Human Resources Management
VOL 120 | Volunteer Roles and Recruitment
Certificate of Fundraising Essentials
MGT 130 | Hiring and Evaluating Performance
Accounting for Your Mission: Finance for the Nonfinancial Manager
HR 220 | Talent Development and Performance Management
ACCT 230 | Internal Controls and Accountability
FND 222 | Annual Appeals
VOL 130 | Best Practices in Volunteer Supervision and Training
LDR 253 | Closing the Generation Gap in the Workplace
FND 120 | Intro to Corporate and Foundation Relations
MGT 140 | Employee Performance Challenges
Certificate of Emotional Intelligence
Certificate of Digital Fundraising
NPO 250 | Managing Staff and Volunteers
HR 230 | Employee Relations and Policy Management
ACCT 240 | Audits and the Audit Committee
FND 223 | Annual Giving Planning
VOL 140 | Making Volunteers Your Best Advocates and Leaders
FND 130 | Intro to Individual Donor Development
MGT 150 | Understanding People, Building Teams
Strategies for Eliminating Bias in Nonprofit Organizations
HR 240 | Legal Compliance and Policy Development
MKT 210 | Planning for Marketing Success
Certificate of Nonprofit Marketing Essentials
Certificate of Major Giving
FND 140 | Intro to Government Funding
MKT 220 | Brand Management
FND 231 | Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Donor Prospecting
FND 150 | Fundraising and Special Event Planning
MKT 230 | The Marketer's Toolbox
FND 160 | Intro to Development Planning and Budgeting
FND 232 | The Art of the Ask: Donor Cultivation
Certificate of Change Management
MKT 240 | Your Friends, the Media
FND 233 | Now What? Donor Stewardship
GCN Resources
Funding & Resource Opportunities | January 2021
January edition: New grant opportunities for addressing structural racism, strengthening democracy, enhancing national forests, educating youth in STEM subjects, improving life for those with spinal cord injuries, building new skateparks, furthering peace, and more!
Georgia Nonprofit NEWS | November 2020
The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more.
Nonprofit COVID-19 Impact Survey Results
GCN President & CEO Karen Beavor shares findings from our COVID-19 Nonprofit Impact Survey, including insights on revenue, service delivery, plans and strategies for reopening, and more.
Why your nonprofit needs a cash flow analysis
It’s easy to overlook in favor of more immediate demands, but a cash flow analysis can reveal coming problems or missed opportunities – even when everything seems to be going fine. Mauldin & Jenkins expert Chris Fields explains how.
Video recap: Strategies for eliminating bias
If nonprofits really want to be part of the solution, we must first understand, confront, and overcome our own unconscious bias. To help you get started, check this review of the recent Nonprofit University course led by Tiffany Simpson-Crumpley.
Webinar replay for Peer to Peer Fundraising
Find out to equip your board, leaders, and other stakeholders to utilize this powerful fundraising technique in preparation for any important campaign.
Webinar replay for PPP loan recipients
In this webinar recording, accounting experts from Mauldin & Jenkins share their knowledge and experience regarding current SBA loan regulations, including what you need to know to document your PPP loan properly.
Webinar replay for Cash is King
Financial recommendations for the present moment, including the reasons that maintaining cash in your organization is of paramount importance.
Georgia Nonprofit NEWS | COVID-19 Response Edition
The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting the ways you have adapted to help Georgia meet the challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Georgia's budget cut redux: What we know, what we can do
State lawmakers are facing the biggest revenue shortfall in modern history. Find out what's at stake, and how nonprofits can help officials make the right choices, with insight from the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.
Get audit-ready in 3 steps
Reduce the stress and cost of your next audit, head off audit-season issues, and automate best practices with these tips from nonprofit accounting experts Chazin & Company.
Want to engage staff? Go to the source
If you’re serious about retention, it's critical to solicit employee involvement directly, and give them a voice in the organization's retention initiatives.
A local look at Giving USA
The latest Giving USA Report is out, with news of the first donation downturn in five years. Find out how Georgia nonprofits fared, and what they’re doing to adapt.
Hindsight 2020: Stop, breathe, take stock
With the volume of work we take on as nonprofit pros, it's tempting to launch into the new year without more than a quick glance behind us. CEO Karen Beavor demonstrates what a longer look can show us.
No higher calling: How to engage next-generation support
For years, The Atlanta Shakespeare Company has been filling the house with a young and diverse audience. Find out the tactics they use to power their perpetually-renewing support base.
7 marketing tools that cost nothing (or next to it)
Getting people’s attention is a continuous challenge. Check out this list of mostly free design, visual & PR tools for your next fundraising campaign, event invite, or any other featured communication.
Outsourced accounting for nonprofits: A why-and-how guide
Finances are a multi-layered challenge, especially when your bottom line is a mission. Why outsourcing is a popular solution, and how to pick a trustworthy firm, from GCN partner Chazin & Co.
Everyone's Mission: Advocacy
The spending cuts recommended in this year’s State and Federal budget proposals are bad news, but a good reminder: Every nonprofit needs to add their voice and expertise to the policy discussion.
Social media trends for savvy nonprofits
NU instructor April Voris walks you through four ways to make the most of your always-on communication channel – an especially vital platform for outbreak-related emergency communications.
How a major ask happens
A six-step guide to “the ask” from some of Georgia’s experts in major gift cultivation, with tips for any request you might make of your most important supporters.
Year-round professional training for your team
Exclusively for GCN member nonprofits, our Nonprofit University + ThinkHR Subscription gives you two seats in every one of NU's core curriculum classes, unlimited on-call HR support from certified pros, and more.
Conflict and the intergenerational board
Intergenerational conflict in nonprofit boards can take many forms, but the underlying issues involve the same dynamics: generation-specific interests and beliefs, and how willing we are to hear and understand those outside our cohort.
4 ways to keep fundraising through a crisis
Easy, upbeat, and service-oriented methods for inspiring stakeholders and prospects to give in a time of economic and personal uncertainty, from NU instructor and philanthropy director Brenda Johnson.
How strategic planning happens: From environmental scan to the board-staff retreat
With tips for gathering data and aligning the team behind a common set of goals, GCN Senior Consultant Elizabeth Runkle kicks off a two-part walkthrough of the strategic planning process.
The "Yes, and" advantage: How to cultivate an improv culture
What makes Dad’s Garage Theatre uniquely positioned to respond in a crisis? Managing Director Lara Smith details four principles that have helped them succeed in fast-changing circumstances, each rooted in their commitment to improvisation.
Four types of leaders – and the one you need
One of the common problems we see in our work: a mismatch between the skills of the executive and the needs of the organization – such as the need to grow, change, or restructure due to changes in the environment.
How strategic planning happens: Preparing for launch
In part two of this strategy planning recap, GCN Senior Consultant Elizabeth Runkle tackles the draft-and-refine process and board approval, then get into the implementation plan – a critical aspect that’s too often overlooked.
Latest News & Resources
Funding & Resource Opportunities | January 2021
January edition: New grant opportunities for addressing structural racism, strengthening democracy, enhancing national forests, educating youth in STEM subjects, improving life for those with spinal cord injuries, building new skateparks, furthering peace, and more!
Georgia Nonprofit NEWS | November 2020
The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more.
Nonprofit COVID-19 Impact Survey Results
GCN President & CEO Karen Beavor shares findings from our COVID-19 Nonprofit Impact Survey, including insights on revenue, service delivery, plans and strategies for reopening, and more.
Why your nonprofit needs a cash flow analysis
It’s easy to overlook in favor of more immediate demands, but a cash flow analysis can reveal coming problems or missed opportunities – even when everything seems to be going fine. Mauldin & Jenkins expert Chris Fields explains how.
Video recap: Strategies for eliminating bias
If nonprofits really want to be part of the solution, we must first understand, confront, and overcome our own unconscious bias. To help you get started, check this review of the recent Nonprofit University course led by Tiffany Simpson-Crumpley.
Webinar replay for Peer to Peer Fundraising
Find out to equip your board, leaders, and other stakeholders to utilize this powerful fundraising technique in preparation for any important campaign.
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Certificate of Nonprofit Accounting
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