Live Virtual Programs

Our live virtual programs are purpose-built to deliver a world-class experience comparable to our in-person programs, with class sizes limited to provide a rich and personal learning environment. You’ll engage in real-time interaction with professors and peers online, immerse yourself in discussions around ideas and solutions, and acquire strategies and tools that you can immediately deploy to solve your most pressing challenges.

Live Virtual Programs feature:

• Live Virtual Learning – Delivered in our live stream classroom, with a limited number of participants to ensure maximum engagement
• Top Kellogg Faculty – Kellogg’s renowned thought leaders and nonprofit practitioners will share their knowledge and facilitate thoughtful discussion in real time throughout the program
• Peer-to-Peer Connections – Many opportunities to interact with your peers through both formal and informal activities
• A Rich, Interactive Experience – A high-quality, transformative learning experience with timely, actionable content and seamless interactivity
• Credit towards a Kellogg Executive Scholar Certificate – Many of our live virtual programs count towards completion of your certificate
• Schedule Designed to Maximize Learning and Balance – Most live virtual program meet from 9am – 12:30pm CT with optional evening sessions. Typically programs occur across four to six business days over a two-week period. Specific program schedules will be provided 2-4 weeks prior to each program start

Advanced Fundraising: Accelerating your Development Strategy

April 13-14 & 20-21, 2021 (half days)

Now more than ever, nonprofit organizations need their development strategies to be well structured, creative and data-driven. Nonprofit organizations not only need an understanding of the donor market, stakeholders and fundraising strategy, but also a strong infrastructure to drive fundraising decisions. Learn how to assess your current fundraising systems, communicate your philanthropic value and leverage data for strategic fundraising.

Fundraising & Marketing: Building Nonprofit Capacity

March 2-3, 5, 8-9 & 11, 2021 (half days)
September 20-21, 23, 27-28 & 30, 2021 (half days)

This program is designed to encourage the psychology and thought processes that drive consistent, creative and effective fund generation techniques for all scales and types of nonprofit organizations. The participants will work collaboratively to thoughtfully assess their own fundraising practices and discover which techniques work best.

Leadership and Management in Core Facilities

April 12-16 & 19-22, 2021 (half days)

This hands-on exploration of the unique challenges of leading a university core facility or research hospital will enhance your business and management skills and give you practical experience in applying them to a project specific to your organization.

Leadership, Management and Fiscal Strategies for Clinical Investigators

May 17-20, 2021 (half days)

For clinical investigators and administrative staff in clinical labs, this program offers a strong foundation of business concepts from finance and fundraising to organizational culture, strategic time management and influence strategies. Kellogg faculty will share principles of building collaborative teams and how to leverage personal leadership strengths. Participants will then have the chance to apply the learnings to their own situations.

Leading Change in Nonprofits

Jan. 26-27 & Feb. 2-3, 2021 (half days)

Will the leaders of today be able to prepare their organizations to meet the social and leadership challenges of a world in transition? This program is designed to prepare nonprofit leaders to understand, lead and manage change initiatives to transform their organizations.

Leading Innovation in Nonprofits

Feb. 10-11 & 16-17, 2021 (half days)

The word "innovation" elicits images of high-tech contraptions and digitized everything. However, innovation is also about organizational design, creative & blended processes and exploring new applications of existing systems. This program will focus on how leaders infuse and sustain an innovation mindset into their organizations.

Nonprofit Data Analytics & Impact

Harness the power of data to fuel your organizational decision-making in today’s competitive environment.

Nonprofit Finance: Toolkit for Leaders

Feb. 18-19 & 23-24, 2021 (half days)

Deepen your knowledge of nonprofit finance and broaden your understanding of your organization's financial picture. Improve your ability to analyze financial statements, spot trends, identify cost containment opportunities and foresee the implications of your financial management decisions.

Step Into Impact

Jan. 13-14 & 20-21, 2021 (half days)

Learn how to drive impact by applying your private sector skills to the nonprofit world. This program will help leaders looking to make a career change or deepen their understanding of social impact.

Strategic Leadership: Leading the Self

April 27-28 & May 4-5, 2021 (half days)

This program focuses on new ways to think strategically about one's own leadership style, issues and challenges. Participants will also look at how to maximize your own performance while engaging and inspiring others by communicating a sense of purpose, value and vision.

The Impact of Equity: Leaders Activating Change

March 15, 18-19, 23-24 & 26, 2021 (half days)

Embracing diversity, equity and inclusion is no longer a conversation but an expectation. As a leader, you must look within yourself to understand your power and privilege and commit to addressing systemic inequities. Now is the time to set the strategic direction for equity in your organization and become an agent for change.

In these times of extraordinary change, nonprofit leaders are called on to be adaptable and resilient in order to solve complex challenges. Our live virtual programs will provide you with the knowledge, insights and confidence you need to lead through unprecedented circumstances.

Visit each program page to register and for more information about content and schedules. Or email us at nonprofit@kellogg.northwestern.edu for more information.