The Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center offers five certificate programs designed to assist nonprofit organizations, administrators, volunteers, and board members to operate more efficiently and effectively to extend scarce resources as they fulfill their mission. Click on the links below to learn more about each certificate program.

Certificate in Philanthropic Fundraising

The Certificate in Philanthropic Fundraising can help you advance in the field, achieve your career goals, and prepare you for leadership roles in nonprofit fundraising/development departments. The program offers training in fundraising fundamentals, major gifts, capital campaigns and planned giving.

Certificate in Nonprofit Management

This certificate program provides a practical foundation for those pursuing a career in the nonprofit sector. Participants will receive a broad-based professional education on fundraising and business topics to equip them for leading nonprofit organizations.

Certificate in Proposal Writing

The Philanthropy Center’s proposal writing workshop series was carefully developed to be interactive through the use of speakers, group discussions, group exercises, and the completion of an actual proposal, which is peer-reviewed. This certificate offers the tools to develop carefully targeted, well-written proposals that make a compelling case for an organization and its mission.

Certificate in Volunteer Management

Volunteer managers focus on maximizing use of volunteers in their organizations. This certificate program teaches techniques for recruiting, training, placing, retaining and rewarding volunteers, and offers a process for creating a manual that includes all aspects of a successful volunteer program.

Certificate in Leadership Practice

This certificate program convenes nonprofit professionals to discover and understand their personal leadership strengths and weaknesses and their applicability to the sector as a whole. Participants use self-assessment and feedback instruments to help identify critical behaviors and initiate personal development plans.

All participants wishing to use Indiana University Fund Raising School workshops to fulfill requirements for the Certificate in Philanthropic Fundraising or the Certificate in Nonprofit Management must notify the Philanthropy Center prior to October 1, 2009. After that date, the Philanthropy Center will no longer accept IU Fund Raising School programs toward the completion of Philanthropy Center certificates.