NonProfit

The Non-Profit Management Institute’s professional development programs:

• Designed for nonprofit managers, directors, key staff and volunteers
• Improve your governance and management skills
• Ensure successful sustainable operation of your organization
• Prepare for advancement

Significant benefits of the programs include peer networking, 10 hours of one-on-advising, access to extensive online resources, the ability to include others from your organizations when appropriate, and exposure to experienced professionals as guest speakers.

The Institute is offering, newly revised, programs for new or early-staged nonprofits and advanced organizations. The Non-Profit Business Management and the Advanced Non-Profit Business Management programs are nine-month, professional development programs running fall, winter, and spring terms starting the first week of October 2012 through June 2013.

Non-Profit Business Management–is a 9-month program for directors and staff of organizations that have been recently formed or have been operating for less than five years. It is also suitable for board members and others new to nonprofits. The program focuses on the fundamentals of governance, operational policies and procedures, financial management and funding, volunteer programs, and marketing. Ten hours of one-on-one advising is part of the program.

Start Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012-June 2013–meets every other week, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Cost: $795 Class size is limited, instructor approval required.

Location:  Small Business Development Center, LCC Downtown Campus, 101 West 10th Avenue, Room 318, Eugene, OR 

Advanced Non-Profit Business Management–is a 9-month program for executive directors and staff of established nonprofits. The emphasis is advanced governance and policy development, volunteer program development, program and service assessment, sustainable funding, donor development, grant writing, marketing, branding, and strategic planning. As an added benefit, the information is customized each year to meet the specific needs of participants. Additional staff or board members of participating organizations may attend relevant sessions at no additional cost. Participants also receive ten hours of one-on-one advising which can be used at any time.

Start Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012-June 2013–meets every other week, 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Cost: $895  Class size is limited, instructor approval required.

Location: Small Business Development Center, LCC Downtown Campus, 101 West 10th Avenue, Room 318, Eugene, OR

Tim Armstrong

Tim Armstrong has over 20 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations in a variety of roles, including most recently as the director of the ReStore, a sustainable funding source of the Springfield/Eugene Habitat for Humanity affiliate office. He has worked with nonprofits involved in conservation, education, arts and music, international affairs, civic spaces, museums, and wildlife preservation. As a staff member of a statewide nonprofit trade association, he consulted with members on strategic planning, marketing and communications planning, and staff training.

For 13 years, he ran a business providing strategic planning, market research, marketing and advertising services to nonprofit organizations and for profit businesses in Oregon and Washington. Tim has served on the board of directors of three different nonprofits. He has owned and operated several businesses.

As an instructor and counselor at the Clackamas Community College Small Business Development Center, he taught business management classes in marketing and management and a highly successful business start-up course. Tim joined the Lane SBDC team in the fall of 2011.

Contact Tim Armstrong, director at 541.463.6212, email him at armstrongt@lanecc.edu, or call the Lane SBDC 541.463.6200 for more information and to reserve space in a program.

Online Non-Profit Program registration form

Link to support web site: http://www.endazzle.com

Link to on-line schedule: https://tungle.me/timarmstrong