Project Management for Nonprofits Certification
02-25 to 02-28-2025 1:00 PM EST or 04-22 to 04-25-2025 1:00 PM EST
A project manager is responsible for planning, organizing, and facilitating the collaboration required to turn a brilliant idea into a tangible product, service, or program. Project managers who succeed advance in their careers. It's the perfect time to upskill! Your nonprofit has ambitious goals for the future. Success depends on mastering project management. It will be important to define the scope of your projects, identify deliverables, and manage risks with effective communication across your entire nonprofit team. Jami Yazdani will explain the essentials of project management. With this certification program, you will learn strategies that can help nonprofits plan and execute their projects effectively. By completing this four-session program, you will also earn a valuable certification that will help you to advance in your career.
What You'll Learn
An engaging series of four webinars packed with proven techniques will enable you to:
- Understand the importance of project management for the organization and your career
- Identify important stakeholders and improve your communication with them
- Implement the essential steps of project management, defining a clear scope, identifying the deliverables, and project scheduling
- Learn how to close a project successfully
- Build strong teams with effective communication
- Foster successful outcomes for your nonprofit
- Demonstrate your knowledge
- Accelerate your career
What You’ll Also Receive
- All courses include a PDF version of the presentation slides along with any additional materials or resources provided by the presenter
- Certification upon successful completion of the program
- One certification exam attempt is included
Project Management for Nonprofits Certification Series Outline
Session 1: Introduction to Project Management for Nonprofits
- Why project management
- Project processes
- Project Lifecycle
- Domains or areas of focus
- Planning management framework for nonprofits
Session 2: Stakeholders and Communications
- Project initiation
- Stakeholders and teams
- Inclusion
- Effective communication
- Communication planning
- Project communication process
Session 3: Scope, Deliverables, and Schedule
- Scope, scope planning, and scope creep
- Deliverables and deliverables planning
- Schedule and schedule planning
- Project management tools
Session 4: Project Closing and Beyond
- Project closing
- Recognition and retrospective
- Common project problems
- Agile project management
- In practice: scope, deliverables, schedule, shareholders, and communication
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Who Should Attend?
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) & Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)
- Founded Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation in 2018 to help mission-driven organizations solve management problems
- Over 15 years of experience managing complex projects and planning initiatives, leading technology innovations and process improvements, and guiding groups of diverse colleagues and stakeholders toward consensus and positive outcomes.
- More than 10 years of leadership experience in libraries and public higher education, managing people, budgets, and projects.
- Served on the boards of several nonprofits and professional associations, working in leadership, marketing, programming, and mentoring roles.
- Currently serves on the board of the Triangle Organizational Development Network.
- Master of Library and Information Science from Louisiana State University.
- Master of Technology Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus.