Organization Training Opportunities
New Jersey State Council on the Arts | Free Webinar Watch Party Series on Financial Management for NJ Arts Nonprofits | Join New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Nonprofit Finance Fund, and other nonprofit leaders for a Webinar Watch Party series on key financial management concepts for arts nonprofits! | December 11, 2024 @ 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Strategic Budgeting and Scenario Planning | January 8, 2025 @ 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Understanding Full Cost | February 12, 2025 @ 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Understanding Your Mission/Money Mix | Register for these and more webinars.
NJ Theatre Alliance | ArtsPayNJ Educational Offerings | Based on the key findings of ArtsPay NJ’s inaugural survey, we will offer four virtual trainings throughout the year to address some of the needs identified in the data, such as retirement benefits, employee classification, salary banding, and ethical internships. Several Zoom workshop meetings will be held through October 2024 into March 2025. | ArtsPayNJ meetings.
Kerkhoff Technologies | Webinars for Navigating Microsoft Tools, Cybersecurity, Empowering your Nonprofit Organization, and More | Join the wonderful team at Kerkhoff Technologies in this series of free webinars on a variety of complex, in-depth, and important topics that will help put your organization ahead of the game in this fast-paced world. | Webinars available here.
Compass Pro Bono | Get Free Support for Your Organization | Compass Pro Bono provides free resources and consultations on topics such as strategic planning, nonprofit management, and more. | More information and registration.
Nonprofit Finance Fund | Webinar: Let’s Talk About Capital Debt: Best Practices for First-Time Borrowers | Join us for the fourth and final session in NFF's free webinar series on debt for first-time borrowers, made possible by Empire State Development. Is your nonprofit considering taking on debt to finance a capital project for the first time? Do you have questions about whether you can or should? Many nonprofits use debt to finance capital projects like renovations, leasehold improvements, real estate purchases, and more. This webinar will help demystify the capital loan approval process for first-time or newer borrowers. Please bring your questions! | Date & Time: Dec 17, 2024 @ 3:00 PM | Register here.
GrantStation | Free Webinar: Cultivating Strategic Partnerships with Funders | Nonprofits often struggle to secure sustainable funding, which is essential for long-term growth. Building strong partnerships with funders can address these challenges by providing consistent support and aligning the goals of both parties. During this interactive session, Alice Ruhnke will help you explore the world of funders and master the art of engagement! This session will delve into the process of building partnerships with funders, from researching potential grantmakers to effective outreach and communication. | More information and registration.
GrantStation | Free Webinar: Your Guide to GS: Features, Tools, & Updates | Finding the funds needed to fulfill your mission is a never-ending challenge for all nonprofits. Whether you’re part of an established nonprofit constantly searching for new funding to expand your programs, or you’re a one-person development office, which means you need to do it all, GrantStation can work for you because it is designed to help nonprofit organizations of all sizes get funded. During this live demo and Q&A session, Jeremy Smith, Director of Communications Technology, and Kerry Glauser, Director of Research, will show you how you can use GrantStation to complete your grant research quickly and get high-quality results. You’ll see how you can find and vet funding opportunities in a quick, streamlined fashion, so you and your staff can focus on what's most important—serving your community. | Date & Time: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 2 PM EST | More information and registration.
GrantStation | TargetED Webinars | GrantStation is now offering 45-minute webinars that provide deep dives into specialized topics. TargetED sessions are designed in an easy-to-digest format to advance your grant seeking and proposal writing strategies. These sessions include 30 minutes of practical content followed by 15 minutes of interaction. | More information and registration.
GrantStation | On-Demand Learning: Take the Express Route | Do you prefer to learn at your own pace and on your own schedule? Take the express route though GrantStation’s On-Demand Learning! Our library of courses is growing all the time. We currently have one video course and five web-based courses. Click on the options below to find out the practical information covered in each module and get started learning now! | More information and courses.
New Jersey Theatre Alliance | Cultural Access Network Virtual Access Thursdays | Open to the full arts and culture community of New Jersey. The Cultural Access Network Project is a program of The New Jersey State Council on the Arts and New Jersey Theatre Alliance. | Past and future webinars available here.
ArtsEd NJ | Inclusive Practices: Arts Education for All Abilities- Webinars | As districts make strides in becoming more inclusive, there is an opportunity for students of all abilities to thrive through arts education! Join Arts Ed NJ, NJCIE, and NJPSA/FEA for this co-sponsored virtual series. This is a unique opportunity to learn directly from arts educators, supervisors, and other educational professionals about a range of topics that are most relevant to inclusive practices in arts education right now. | More registration and information.
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts | Collections Climate Resiliency Cohort | The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), in partnership with Christopher Cameron of Sustainable Heritage, are introducing as Collections Climate Resiliency Cohort for collecting institutions (any museum, library, archive, historic site, and/or organizations with historic and/or cultural collections available to the public), with generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The vast majority of land in both New Jersey and Delaware lies within what geologists call the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which has a heightened vulnerability to storm inundation and sea-level rise. Collecting institutions need to undergo a paradigm shift in their thinking, a monumental task, to begin to approach planning in a way that both increases sustainability efforts to mitigate their own contributions to climate change while also preparing and adapting for projected outcomes in an ever riskier world. The curated cohort of small institutions will commit to this paradigm shift by examining their everyday operations with a lens toward sustainability and climate change. We will provide sites with environmental dataloggers and work with them to collect environmental data including temperature, relative humidity, and dew point for a one-year period. | Apply Here.
Performing Arts Readiness | Free Webinars | The Performing Arts Readiness project offers free webinars, on-site training, and presentations at professional conferences on various topics related to emergency preparedness. | Visit website for more webinars and information.
Nonprofit Learning Lab | Several Online Trainings Available | The Nonprofit Learning Lab offers a variety of online training programs to help nonprofits meet their organizational goals and increase their impact within the community. Click here for more information.
New Jersey Historical Commission & The African American History Program | About the New Jersey Black Heritage Trail | The New Jersey Black Heritage Trail was signed into law by Governor Murphy on September 7, 2022. The legislation calls for the New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC) to establish a Black Heritage Trail “to promote awareness and appreciation of Black history, heritage, and culture” that will “highlight Black heritage sites through historical markers and a trail-like path that connects the stories of Black life and resiliency.” Under this program, the Historical Commission will work in cooperation with other state agencies, such as the Historic Preservation Office, the Division of Travel and Tourism, as well as local governments, owners or operators of Black heritage sites, and others to identify a series of sites. The bill also names the New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation as a principal collaborator, due to its mission which includes broadening, deepening, and diversifying statewide participation in and appreciation for Black arts, history, and culture. | More information available here.
Art Equity | Professional Development Opportunities | Art Equity has several upcoming professional development and workshop opportunities for 2025 focusing on antiracism, equity in the workplace, antiracist approaches to hiring in the workplace, and much more. | More information here.
Springboard for the Arts | Art-Train: Professional Development Opportunities for Artists and Organizations | Art-Train is a virtual technical assistance program for artists, municipal agencies, and community-focused organizations in all sectors, in communities of all sizes across the nation. Trainings are free for artists and for Native, Black, Indigenous and People of Color-led and focused community-based organizations. We have a sliding scale fee for other organizations and agencies. | More information here.
Springboard for the Arts | Upcoming Webinars | Springboard for the Arts has several upcoming webinars focusing on funding, grant writing, writing artist statements, and more. | More information here.
American Association for State and Local History | Winter Online Courses- Registration Now Open! | Courses available: Introduction to Financial Management | Project Management for History Professionals | Best Practices for Inclusive Workspaces | Basics of Archives | Developing Exhibitions: Planning and Design | Collections Management 200: Stewardship and Public Access | To learn more about these online courses and other resources available, click here.
New Jersey Center for Nonprofits | Upcoming Webinars | Looking to expand your organization’s knowledge, capabilities, and resources? The New Jersey Center for Nonprofits has a lineup of upcoming webinars to help you achieve your organizational goals. | More information and registration.
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts | Succession Planning for Cultural Institutions: 2 Webinars Available | This program of the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is provided with generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 2 webinars are now available to view: Part One | Research Findings | Part Two | Resource Roadmap | More information available here.
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts | Cultural Stewardship Succession Planning Initiative | The Cultural Stewardship Succession Planning Initiative is a two-year project of CCAHA, in partnership with Lyrasis, created to actively address the need for leadership development and knowledge transfer in the cultural heritage workforce. Funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the initiative will gather data and build professional development resources to support succession planning for cultural stewardship staff and volunteers. As succession planning is a critical instrument in addressing a long-term shift at cultural heritage organizations toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion, the suite of resources will promote strategies to keep these important concerns at the forefront during times of transition. As service providers to the country’s cultural heritage collecting institutions, CCAHA and Lyrasis have long recognized the need for succession planning, especially in smaller organizations with fewer resources. CCAHA and Lyrasis will utilize a series of small group listening sessions to learn about successful succession planning strategies and pathways that have proven more challenging for institutions in the project’s target group. | Upcoming events and previously recorded webinars can be found here.
NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development | SkillUp NJ: Free Online Learning | New Jersey workers – whether or not they are currently unemployed – can now access more than 5,000 free online Skillsoft courses via the SkillUp New Jersey training program. Courses are offered in a variety of high-demand industry sectors, including information technology, business analysis, customer service, project management, and digital literacy. Visit the website for more information. | SkillUp NJ Website
dPlan | ArtsReady | Arts organizations, sign up for a free year of dPlan|ArtsReady!!
With support from the Mellon Foundation, we are able to provide a limited number of free one year subscriptions to dPlan|ArtsReady so performing arts organizations can develop readiness plans. | Read more about dPlan|ArtsReady here. | Apply here.
New Jersey Association of Museums | Artifact Assessment Program | The New Jersey Association of Museum offers a free program to museums wishing to assess the policy, management, and care of their artifact collections. For more information about the Artifact Assessment Program, visit their website.
RevolutionNJ | Become a Proud Partner! | As New Jersey plans to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, we aim to create a statewide experience that invites participation from everyone. We invite all organizations to join us in this endeavor by submitting an application to become a RevolutionNJ Partner. Click here to get started. | More information and application.
