NeighborWorks Board Operations-Focused E-Learning Courses

NEW! — ML272el A Board Member's Guide to Ensuring Organizational Health
In this course, participants will learn and apply skills, methods and tools, including NeighborWorks® America’s PROMPT model, to effectively monitor and diagnose indicators that relate to an organization’s health and well-being. At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• identify “red flags”;
• use several decision-making and diagnostic tools that help identify
  whether an organization is healthy, at risk or potentially at risk; and
• apply those tools to help chart their own organization’s health by
  looking at critical performance areas.

ML240el Board Oversight and Governance
This online course is designed specifically for board members. Novices and seasoned board members alike will take away valuable knowledge and skills to
enhance their performance:

• Basic responsibilities of nonprofit boards and individual board members
• An organizational mission and overall strategy, while including
  key stakeholders
• Ways to set up structures, including committees, that work
• Tools to build and maintain relationships among board/chair/executive
  director and staff
• How to measure the effectiveness of the board and the organization
• How to develop, oversee and conserve the organization’s resources —
  both funds and property
• Recognize the importance of diversity and cultural competency in the
  functioning of an organization
• Board development cycle, including succession-planning for the board

 

More courses are coming this fall — keep posted on the latest offerings by bookmarking this page!

The courses cost only $195. To take a course:

1. Register online at www.nw.org/onlinereg.  (If you haven’t registered for a NeighborWorks course online before, you’ll need to first fill out a profile and obtain a user name and password.  The online user profile requires that each person use a unique email address as their login that can not be used by anyone else. Within minutes, you’ll get an e-mail with a temporary password and a link with instructions to log back into your online user account, where you will be prompted to reset your temporary password with a permanent password of your choosing.)
   
   
2. Enter your user name and password and your online learning home page will open. From this page you can register for an e-learning course or any of the NeighborWorks public events. Select the e-learning option, and click on “Register Now”.
   
   
3. Then select the check box for your desired course and select “NEXT” at the bottom of the page to continue to the payment page.
   
   
4. On the payment page, you will be required to submit course payment in full by credit card (Visa, MasterCard or American Express) to complete your course enrollment. Once your credit card payment is confirmed, you’ll be given a link and instructions to log in to the course. Please print this page for your records as proof of payment.

Each of the four modules of this course will take between ½ to 1-½ hours to complete. You’ll have 60 days, as your schedule allows, to work through the four modules and pass the final exam once you begin. 

Visit us regularly at www.nw.org/training for updates on the complete range of training and certification opportunities offered by NeighborWorks America.