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Becky Wolfe - Leadership & Health Coach

Becky Wolf - Leadership & Health Coach offers leadership coaching for individuals and groups. Benefits include scalable, relatable tools that can be used and taught to others on your team for improved communication and efficiency.

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).

Controversy: Communicating When the Topic Is Tough

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

Grants Plus

Grants Plus understands the grant seeking process, how to interpret the grant making patterns of funders, and how to guide nonprofit leaders to strategically grow their grant revenues.

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.

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.

Leadership Akron

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

Minerva Financial Arts

Minerva Financial Arts, Founded by Elaine Grogan Luttrull, CPA-PFS, AFC®, is the leading authority on financial wisdom in the arts. We empower creative individuals with pro-artist financial education and counseling, delivering clear and actionable financial content built specifically for creative individuals.

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.

Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI)

Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) at UC Berkeley offers free classes that teach structural marginalization, the processes of othering, and the building blocks of belonging, so we can co-create a world where all are included in our circle of care and concern. They help changemakers build more vibrant, just and inclusive communities and structures.

QuickBooks Made Easy for Nonprofits

QuickBooks Made Easy for Nonprofits is 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.