Georgia Center For Nonprofits Inc

Programs: Nonprofit university: gcn's nonprofit university delivered 120 high-quality, subsidized training workshops, special events, and custom training to 1,250 nonprofit professionals across the year. Tailored to the needs of georgia nonprofits, certificate series, targeted courses, and clinics build core competencies across the field of nonprofit practice, focusing on program management, fundraising, governance, finance, hr,marketing, and more. Annual leadership programs provided opportunities to develop capabilities at all levels-- nurturing emerging leaders,building strategic leadership skill among mid to senior executives, providing a peer-based executive forum for organization leaders, and supporting board leadership.

nonprofit consulting group: gcn's nonprofit consulting group works with organizations statewide, to build their organizational capacity through improved infrastructure, better strategic planning, and targeted intervention in areas like board development, succession planning and executive search, resource development, financial management, and organizational design. With a core staff team of consultants, gcn started or sustained 105 consulting engagements over the past year, including major cross-sector collaborative efforts in communities around the state.

work for good: gcn's national nonprofit job board, formerly opportunity knocks, relaunched in june 2016 as work for good, connecting 30,000 mission-driven employers with more than 165,000 registered job seekers and 1. 2 million site visitors in its first year. This revenue-generating social enterprise continues to serve as an indispensable resource for nonprofit hr professionals and also acts as a career development center by providing a platform for outreach, data-gathering and -sharing, and networking on a national scale.

membership: gcn's membership program delivers an extensive array of support services, onsite and online learning opportunities, publications, and a growing knowledgebase spanning all areas of nonprofit practice. Through membership, a thousand-member network of nonprofits and more than 5,000 sector professionals across georgia gained affordable access to critical tools, resources, services, and expertise needed to build nonprofit success. Advocacy: gcn advocates for the larger sector at the local, state, and federal levels. Through gcn's ongoing advocacy and education efforts, we informed members about community issues important to the sector, our causes, and stakeholders. Georgia gives day: on nov. 17, 2016, gcn held its fifth annual georgia gives day, a unique statewide online giving initiative that raised 3. 9 million from 19,748 donors to support 2,659 georgia nonprofits--and more than 12 million to date. Supported by a multi-sector coalition that spans media, corporate, foundation,government, and nonprofit communities, the pioneering gagives. Org platform provides a free year-round giving tool for all georgia nonprofits, supported by tools and training to help them leverage online technologies and social media to increase fundraising capacity. Our mass- media campaign reached millions, catalyzing awareness of the work and worth of the sector while inspiring first-time giving. The next event, our first unified campaign with givingtuesday, is nov. 28, 2017.