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BVU Workshops for Nonprofits

Business Volunteers Unlimited (BVU) offers seminars and events packed with useful and practical knowledge, focusing on nonprofit governance, board roles, public policy, corporate community engagement, business volunteerism, and much more.

Candid.

Candid. is a database featuring more than 140,000 foundations. Grant-seekers can search for trainings, data, reports, case studies and more to take your research and planning to the next level. This service is FREE at any Akron Summit County Public Library location (in person only).

Canva for Nonprofits

Canva for Nonprofits has a design tool made with you in mind. Discover the easy way to create high-impact social media graphics and marketing materials. As a nonprofit, you know the importance – and challenges – of spreading the word. With our free Canva for Nonprofits program, you get access to premium design tools to help you create impactful marketing and campaign materials. Canva is easy to use, so your whole team can use it.

Communication Matters

Communication Matters designed a model for effective communications to help organizations build a common language and shared understanding around strategic communications. This model is based on attitudes, beliefs, and practices reported by hundreds of professionals across the social sector. Effective communications help drive your mission, engage volunteers, attract donors, and connect with your audience.

Compass Consulting Services

Compass Consulting Services, LLC is a minority and women-owned and certified organizational development firm that helps companies meet their optimal performance by maximizing employee relationships and fostering inclusive work environments.

Crossroads

Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training's mission is to equip institutions with shared language, frameworks, practices and tools that will assist them in: diagnosing how their institutions are structured to uphold white supremacy culture and systemic racism and; deploying strategies aimed at animating antiracist ways of being that result in racially equitable institutional culture and practices.

D.L. Plummer & Associates

D.L. Plummer & Associates are a team of seasoned professionals who support organizations and communities to leverage differences in order to drive their missions and achieve their business objectives. They believe that managing diversity effectively is the most complex human resource challenge of the century, permeating every aspect of an organization’s internal functioning and external marketplace.

Daniel Juday

Daniel Juday can help your team understand and embrace meaningful inclusion. Topics range from anti-harassment training to systemic racism to organizational culture-building coaching, and everything in between. Create an opportunity for real learning and growth by transforming a blasé training into a compelling, interactive experience.

Dunham+Company

Dunham+Company developed a study to help identify the gap between how organizations use social media to relate to their donors, and how they can better leverage these assets. Social media is an excellent way to keep your donors informed—and fill the pipeline with potential new donors.

Equis Group

Equius Group founder Erica Merritt is a gifted facilitator, skilled coach and stellar leadership and organizational development expert. A Gestalt-trained professional, Erica has extensive experience leading and designing organizational development initiatives, designing and facilitating leadership programs and navigating complex environments. She expertly moves through environments ranging from community rooms to classrooms to board rooms.

ERC

ERC has been a trusted resource for organizations in Northeast Ohio and around the country for over 100 years. We help leaders build great workplaces through thought leadership, comprehensive data, and HR solutions that include membership, training and professional development, consultative services, and more.

GAR Foundation

GAR Foundation has compiled a helpful "Financial Best Practice" checklist for nonprofits.

Google Workspace for Nonprofits

Google Workspace for Nonprofits help your organization collaborate more effectively with smart, secure business apps like Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive, and Google Meet, so you can focus on what matters. Workspace gives your nonprofit everything you need to get anything done, now in one place. Through Google for Nonprofits, eligible organizations get access to Google Workspace offers at discounted rates.

Grants.gov

Grants.gov is your place to find and apply for federal grants and other grant opportunities.

Heart to Heart Leadership

Heart to Heart Leadership is a leadership development fee-for-service non-profit organization that partners with individuals and organizations to cultivate purpose-driven, values-based, community-minded leadership.

Heising-Simons Foundation

Heising-Simons Foundation has provided a helpful document of free communication tools available online for nonprofits.

Heritage Ohio

Heritage Ohio, Ohio’s official historic preservation and Main Street organization, fosters economic development and sustainability through the preservation of historic buildings, revitalization of downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts, and promotion of cultural tourism.

Jennifer Brown Consulting

Jennifer Brown Consulting works across industries and sectors no matter where they are in their DEI journey. Our clients include multinational corporations, middle-market and small companies, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies.

Leadership Akron

Leadership Akron's mission is to inspire, strengthen, and empower leaders.

Marlon Moore Consulting

Marlon Moore Consulting's mission is to change the world with practical, leading-edge solutions that fosters innovation, promotes equitable cultures, empowers diverse talent, and elevates inclusivity through leadership. Dr. Moore assists organizations and diversity professionals with strategic objectives designed to create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces, communities, and societies.

National Council of Nonprofits

The National Council of Nonprofits has provided a sample Risk Management Plan, drafted based on recommendations shared in a board
retreat for a real nonprofit. The plan was drafted with the help of a software tool called: “My Risk Management Plan” that is available from the Nonprofit Risk Management Center.

Nonprofit Learning Lab

Nonprofit Learning Lab is a national nonprofit that connects and supports individuals seeking to lead the nonprofit sector. Their trainings work to sharpen skills in fundraising, organizational leadership, and capacity building.

Ohio Diversity Council

NDC Consulting, a division under the National Diversity Council, is committed to help organizations achieve success in today’s global market. We offer strategic consulting in three major areas and provide results tailored to individual client needs. Our recognized consultants have vast knowledge and experience in the D&I field.

Piktochart

Piktochart allows for an easy way for nonprofits to drive awareness and impact with social media graphics, flyers, infographics, and brochures.

Project Ujima

Project Ujima is a grassroots community engagement organization that teaches and facilitates Discussion Circle processes that enable diverse citizens to come together, discuss issues of shared concern, develop relationships of trust, discover common ground, and go from talk to action.

QuickBooks Made Easy for Nonprofits

QuickBooks Made Easy for Nonprofits was created by a certified CPA with 20+ years in the nonprofit space and is your partner in getting industry-specific Quickbooks education. Designed specifically for those in the nonprofit world, their streaming training videos and accompanying handbooks teach you how to easily set up your QuickBooks file and enter transactions common to nonprofit organizations. They also offer tech support to help you with any questions along the way.

Race Forward

Race Forward’s Racial Justice Training series is a collection of interactive sessions for those who wish to sharpen their skills and strategies to address structural racism and advance racial equity.

SHIFT Consulting

SHIFT Consulting works with you to assess, identify, implement, and support your diversity, equity, and inclusion focused efforts. This includes many different types of engagement, ranging from the design and delivery of educational opportunities and workshops, to full service consultation services centered on operationalizing and integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into all levels and functions of the organization.

SHRM

SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) creates better workplaces where employers and employees thrive together. As the voice of all things work, workers and the workplace, SHRM is the foremost expert, convener and thought leader on issues impacting today's evolving workplaces.

The Communications Network

The Communications Network focuses on key ways for your nonprofit to address controversial topics.

ThirdSpace Action Lab

ThirdSpace Action Lab was created to disrupt the vicious cycle of disinvestment and displacement that exploit low-income communities of color. They are a grassroots research, strategy, and design cooperative dedicated to prototyping creative place-based solutions to actualize racial equity. They are institutional and community organizers turning evidence-based strategies into action and co-creating liberated “third spaces” for people of color.

Torchbearers

Torchbearer's mission is to enhance Greater Akron by investing in the development, connection and engagement of our membership, comprised of evolving leaders with a passion to impact our community.

TRIAD's Design4Good Program

TRIAD has always believed in providing pro bono services to organizations that serve their community, contributing free creative services and helping to stretch the marketing budgets of these nonprofit groups that make a difference. If your organization is qualified and interested in applying for these services, complete the application on their website.

United Way of Summit and Medina

United Way of Summit & Medina is changing the way our community tackles complex challenges. They seek out root causes and build connections that make an overwhelming system easier to navigate. They find out why people are struggling and walk side by side with them, making sure they get the help they need. They are working to create a system that empowers people to achieve lasting success through education, financial stability and healthy lives.

V. Randolph Brown Consulting

V. Randolph Brown Consulting (VRBC) provides strategic consulting, advisory, education and training services on a variety of current business, leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) topics for corporate and not-for-profit clients as well as consulting and marketing support to thriving small business enterprises.

Wallace Foundation

Wallace Foundation’s library of financial resources helps organizations fulfill their missions, deliver high-quality services, and become fiscally fit.

White Men as Full Diversity Partners

White Men as Full Diversity Partners aims to awaken dominant leadership groups (“insiders”) to their privilege, enlightening them to what they personally have to gain from bringing “outsiders” in through a series of customized solutions — ranging from introductory sessions to intensive learning experiences to skills applications.