Nonprofit Management Institute

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Join nonprofit leaders from across North Carolina to connect with peers and invest in yourself to build your management and leadership skills through the Nonprofit Management Institute.

Hosted by the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, the Institute brings together a cohort of nonprofit executives, managers, and board leaders to assess their organization’s management practices, identify successes and challenges, build capacity where there are gaps, and work towards long-term sustainability.

The weekly virtual sessions meet on Tuesdays from 9:30 am-12:30 pm and are designed around the Center’s Principles & Practices guide. Participants graduate with a Nonprofit Management Institute certificate.

  • Session 1: Orientation, Nonprofit Management Overview, Capacity Assessment
  • Session 2: Board Governance
  • Session 3: Program Design, Management & Evaluation
  • Session 4: Strategic Planning
  • Session 5: Fundraising, Financial Management
  • Session 6: Human Resources, Graduation

Cost includes a printed workbook to be mailed to each attendee.

This event is SOLD OUT.

Center-Hosted Event
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Virtual
Cost:
Members: $400
Non-Members: $600
Presenter:
​​​​​​​Dr. Pamela Palmer

About the Facilitator

Dr. Pamela Palmer has over 25 years of experience providing capacity-building support to nonprofit organizations as an educator, facilitator, consultant, and coach. She has collaborated with the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits and Guilford Nonprofit Consortium to conceptualize and design curricula for the Nonprofit Management Institute. She has served in various roles related to leadership and management of nonprofit organizations and has consulted in the areas of capacity building, nonprofit start-up and management, program development and management, strategic planning, organizational development, staff development, program evaluation, and community development. She was previously an instructor and assistant professor of nonprofit leadership and management at High Point University. She is one of the founders and current executive director of the Guilford County Resource and Referral Center. Dr. Palmer has a Ph.D. in leadership studies and a Master of Science in human resource counseling from North Carolina A&T State University, and an undergraduate degree in business administration from Winston-Salem State University.