October Workshop Round-Up
- Nonprofit Learning Lab
- Oct 1
- 4 min read
Happy October! Below we have provided a list of workshops we’re offering this month at the Nonprofit Learning Lab! To register and find out more about each workshop, click the workshop titles of your choice to head to the workshop page.
Our memberships provide discounts to all our paid trainings - along with many other benefits. Learn more about our memberships here.
Not seeing a topic you'd be interested in learning more about? Let us know via email at info@nonprofitlearninglab.org.
Scott Garell | Garell Coaching
We all encounter ethical dilemmas in our daily work with and for community, but rarely do organizations focus on ethics related to volunteer engagement. This session provides an opportunity for practitioners to understand the difference between personal, organizational and professional ethics. The core values and principles identified by the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA) will be shared. Participants will learn a process for ethical decision-making that can be applied in any situation, and then practice this using real-life scenarios related to volunteers. Finally, several specific strategies will be offered for increasing awareness of ethics within an organization and helping both volunteers and staff become more effective at handling ethical dilemmas.
FREE: Guide to Becoming a Data-Powered Organization: Unlocking Your Organization’s Greatest Assets - Oct 6
Joan Benson | Martus Solutions
With unprecedented changes in a dynamic technology environment, it is critical that we prepare to build and invest in the best resources at the right time to achieve the greatest outcomes.
With a laser focus on return on investment (R.O.I.), we focus on leveraging your greatest assets to strengthen, grow, and sustain the mission and impact of your nonprofit organization.
Nathan Groce | Market Me Consulting
Learn how to build and grow a sustainable monthly donor program that boosts predictable revenue and donor loyalty. This session covers key strategies for recruitment, retention, messaging, and technology. Whether you're starting fresh or refining your approach, you’ll walk away with actionable tips and real-world examples to strengthen your recurring giving program.
Meghan Goff and Liz Blaszkiewicz | OnWord Communications
In this session, we’ll provide a framework for impact storytelling that you can replicate again and again, helping you identify, tell, and share the stories that illustrate the impact of your work and inspire your audiences to become even more invested in your vision for the future.
What’s better? We’ll show you how to streamline your storytelling across channels, amplifying that carefully crafted impact all year long in your web, direct mail, email, and social media campaigns.
Meena Das | NamasteData
AI is everywhere in 2025 - but most nonprofits are unsure where to begin. This session is designed for nonprofit professionals who want clarity, confidence, and practical tools to bring back to their teams. Together, we will cover three essentials every nonprofit should know:
Foundations – What AI can (and can’t) do for nonprofits right now.
Ethics – How to use AI responsibly, avoiding risks to trust and equity.
Practical Prompts – Simple, hands-on examples with ChatGPT that can save your team time and support your mission-driven work.
You will also hear key insights from the AI Equity Project, showing how nonprofits across North America are approaching AI - and what lessons you can apply to your own organization.
Up Your Fundraising & Storytelling Game: Strategies for Effectively Collecting and Using Data - Oct 27
Jenn Ballentine | Highland Nonprofit Consulting
Are you struggling with how to capture and translate data to help effectively tell your story and secure additional funding? In this workshop, you will acquire practical tips and easily applied strategies for effectively collecting and using data to strengthen your fundraising and communications efforts. You will gain insight into how to create an organizational culture of growth and learning that supports data collection and usage, low cost-effective ways to systematically track and manage data, and common pitfalls faced when collecting, reporting, and using data. Armed with practical tools and strategies for effectively incorporating data into your efforts, you will be equipped to up your fundraising and storytelling game.
FREE: Strategy-Culture Connection - Oct 27
Brandon Wilks | LVD Strategies, in partnership with Consultants for Good (C4G)
Given the increasing level of change we face, it's not viable to treat strategy as purely a logical chain of events. To manage the change, strategy should be the results of shared beliefs to take operational bets. This highlights the importance of aligning strategies with culture to guide leadership behaviors and employee expectations. By doing so, we ensure our culture motivates the right habits, norms and rituals to execute change successfully.
Crafting Your Nonprofit's Video Strategy: Ethical and Authentic Visual Storytelling for Nonprofits - Oct 29
Matt Pearl | Pearl Impact Media
Uncertainty, surprise announcements, and jeopardized funding have created a chaotic time for so many essential organizations. In times like these, video can be extremely powerful.
It can help raise awareness, supercharge fundraising, and captivate clients, donors, and everyone in-between - and particularly now, it can reassert the necessity and vitality of what you provide. But what kind of video? What's the best way to use it on social media? And how do you know when to DIY and when to invest in a high-end production company? I answer those questions with a variety of workshops centered around video and visual storytelling.
