Flintridge provides learning opportunities that

• focus on relevant topics
• use best practices in educating adults, including opportunities for peer learning
• are tailored to a range of proficiency levels
• are led by skilled, culturally competent experts

Trainings

The courses have been very informative, and I look forward to using my new knowledge. The Flintridge Center is an amazing resource.
Constituent comment

Our trainings serve a range of individual experience levels and stages of organizational development.

Startups

For individuals interested in launching a community project and/or creating a new organization or for new organizations with little or no infrastructure in place, we offer two workshops: Before You Seek a Grant and Fiscal Sponsorship (in partnership with Community Partners).

Beginners

For individuals with less than two years nonprofit experience and an organization with some basic infrastructure in place, Flintridge offers The Basics, five courses designed to provide a solid foundation in board development and fundraising.

• Fundraising Fundamentals
• Grantseeking Technology
• Engaging Your Board in Fundraising
• Proposal Budgeting Basics
• Grantwriting 101

Intermediate

For organizations with 501(c)(3) status for two or more years; a minimum $100,000 budget; one or more paid staff and an active board of directors (minimum five members), Flintridge offers Nonprofit Essentials. Designed to help organizations build their skills and knowledge, participants are encouraged to use our consulting services to help them bridge the gap between classroom learning and implementation. Examples of offerings: Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers, Effective Time Management, Event Marketing and Human Resources 101.

Leaders

For nonprofit leaders with five or more years of experience, Flintridge offers the S. Mark Taper Foundation Investing in Leadership Program. Made possible by a generous grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation, these full- and half-day training sessions are designed to provide leaders with advanced level learning that will allow them to lead more effectively. Sessions include: Building a Sustainable Organization, Effective Decision Making, Stress Management for Nonprofit Leaders and Dealing with Conflict.

Mentors / Youth Service Workers

To strengthen the skills of staff and volunteers working with the community’s many youth-serving organizations, Flintridge offers the Building Youth Series, workshops that provide training in asset-based youth development. Trainings include:

• From Risk to Resilience: Inside Out Prevention (Community Prevention Institute * California ADP)
• Mentoring 101 – The Basics
• Youth Behavior – What’s Normal?
• Mentoring Gang Impacted Youth

Peer Learning Opportunities and Convenings

For many nonprofit organizations, the only access they have to grantmakers is via a web site. Flintridge’s Conversation with the Funder Luncheons provide a forum where constituents can meet foundation representatives and hear about their funding priorities directly. Attendees learn how (or whether) to approach the foundation, what the foundation is interested in supporting and how to improve their chances for a successful application.

Building Better Boards - quarterly Board Building Breakfasts for current and potential board members to help them gain a better understanding of their responsibilities and to network with peers.

The Pasadena Executive Roundtable offers leaders a safe space to engage with their peers, learn about community issues and needs, discuss common challenges, and strategize solutions to problems. Flintridge serves as the Roundtable’s fiscal sponsor and provides coordination for this informal consortium of local nonprofit executive directors.

Please check the Calendar of Events for the latest offerings.

The Four Core Capacities

Flintridge trainings focus on skill-building in four core capacities*:

Adaptive Capacity
The ability of a nonprofit to monitor, address and respond to changed circumstances-both internal and external. Examples: Identifying and using good decision-making tools, having sustainable resources.

Leadership Capacity
The ability of organizational leaders to achieve mission by creating and sustaining the vision, inspiring, modeling, prioritizing, making smart decisions, providing direction and innovating. Examples: Motivating staff, strong board/staff working relationships, decision making grounded in mission and vision. 

Management Capacity
The ability of an organization to ensure the effective and efficient use of organizational resources.  Examples: managing finances, staff and volunteers, matching staff with programs.

Technical Capacity
The ability of an organization to implement all of the key organizational and programmatic functions. Examples: effective service delivery, marketing, program evaluation.

* Based on TCC group research identifying factors contributing to nonprofit effectiveness.

 

 

 

Photos: Sayuri Hanna (upper right) / Lisa Wilson (left)