Center For Nonprofit Excellence

Education & resources:the center conducts various workshops, advanced training, and longer-term academy programs. The center also provides a wide array of publications, books, and virtual resources that strengthen nonprofits and their board, executive, and staff leadership. Based on extensive research, the center has developed 7 actionable principles for a strong social sector, a framework to enable the social sector to be more effective, make better use of resources, and increase community impact. The center also delivers various programs centered on redressing inequities within the nonprofit sector in support of equitable, thriving, and just communities throughout virginia.

Advocacy & communications:the center engages in collection and reporting of nonprofit sector data to increase understanding of the sector and its needs. This work includes the facilitation, convening, and communications activities to enhance the public understanding of the commonwealth's nonprofits. The center also conducts advocacy campaigns and convenes local, state, and national stakeholders in support of a thriving and vibrant social sector.

Membership services:the center offers nonprofit organizations membership benefits that include the following: discounted rates for the center's workshops, advanced trainings, academies, and other programs. Exclusive access to the center's leadership circles, a leadership development program of facilitated small groups made up of nonprofit professionals. These circles provide a confidential setting in which peers can discuss and solve real-time problems with real-world experience, and support each other's learning and growth. Free access to our nonprofit help desk, providing customized technical assistance and resource requests.