Amplify: Heighten Your Impact™

79% of nonprofit leaders don’t feel confident of their abilities. Professional development for nonprofit leaders can help. Build leadership capacity and a program evaluation mindset for social sector leaders — improving outcomes, reducing burnout, and sustaining positive change — with our nonprofit leadership course.

Best for

Nonprofit executives & leaders

Format

Asynchronous online

Duration

1.5–2 hours / week, over 6 weeks

Model

Self-paced

Class Size

Varies; rolling enrollment

Locations

Online – Global

About the Program Experience

Strengthen the fabric of your organization by building evaluation and leadership skills at scale.

Amplify provides engaging and flexible online professional development for nonprofit leaders that builds leadership capacity and a program evaluation mindset. Participants learn to navigate complex challenges, increase sustainability, improve outcomes, and adapt to an ever-evolving landscape.

Amplify is a nonprofit leadership training program designed to address the unique challenges experienced by those leading nonprofits.

Amplify provides nonprofit leadership professional development by building the mindsets and skillsets that social sector leaders need to better understand their personal and organizational impact, helping them cultivate resources to build mission momentum. This research-based, online training for nonprofit leaders focuses on expanding leadership and evaluation skills, including:

  • Learning Agility: Developing an evaluative mindset
  • Theory of Change: Staying focused and evaluating the programs in service of the mission
  • Direction – Alignment – Commitment (DAC)™: Leadership as a social process and engaging all stakeholders
  • Social Identity & Emotional Intelligence: Understanding self to better serve the community
  • Evaluation Design & Data Collection: Measuring impact and alignment to organizational mission
  • Storytelling & Influence: Communicating your organization’s story for greater impact

Developed in partnership with the Edna G. McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF), our online training for nonprofit executives and leaders includes:

  • Research-based capacity-building curriculum for nonprofit professional development to grow leadership and program evaluation skills
  • Practice applying new skillsets and mindsets to real-world challenges to advance the mission

  • A tangible action plan connected to the course curriculum

Online registration requires payment by credit card. If you require other payment methods, such as invoicing your organization, please contact us to register.

Please review our Transfer & Cancellation Policy for information about refunds and substitutions.

The Amplify: Heighten Your Impact™ experience is a 6-week learning journey designed exclusively for nonprofit leader professional development.

Section 1Section 2Section 3Section 4Section 5Section 6
Learning Agility: Developing a learning mindsetTheory of Change & Logic Models: Staying focused & evaluating the programs in service of the missionDirection – Alignment – Commitment (DAC)™: Leadership as a social process & engaging all stakeholdersSocial Identity & Emotional Intelligence: Understanding ourselves to help inform strategic decisionsEvaluation Design & Data Collection: Measuring impact & alignment to organizational missionStorytelling & Influence: Communicating your story for greater impact

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Want More Options for Nonprofit Leadership Training?

Amplify may be offered as part of a larger nonprofit leadership journey for your organization. Contact us to discuss offering this nonprofit executive training to multiple leaders or your entire organization.

Let’s co-create a custom nonprofit leadership program for your organization. Our dedicated experts can assess and design a solution for your organization’s unique needs for nonprofit professional development.

For more comprehensive nonprofit executive leadership training, contact us to discuss offering a more in-depth, 16-week version of the Amplify nonprofit leadership development program to your organization.

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Designed From the Ground Up, Just for Nonprofits

Proven Professional Development for Nonprofit Leaders

Originally developed and run by the Edna G. McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF), this nonprofit leadership online course focused on teaching youth-serving nonprofit leaders to use data to drive better outcomes. When EMCF decided to sunset their PropelNext program, they selected CCL as their trusted partner to create the next iteration as Amplify: Heighten Your Impact™, infusing this nonprofit leadership online training with additional research-based leadership development and program evaluation content. 

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Why Choose Our Online Nonprofit Leadership Course?

Leadership
Development

Rooted in the most relevant leadership frameworks, research, and best practices to help nonprofit leaders navigate complex challenges and serve their communities in an ever-evolving landscape

Evaluation
Mindset

Equips leaders with an evaluation and measurement approach for their organization, developed in partnership with the Scattergood Foundation to drive greater impact

Societal
Impact

Practical and actionable, so participants can immediately apply what they learn — resulting in improved outcomes, increased sustainability, and a ripple effect of positive change

What Participants Are Saying

As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve shaped the industry for more than 50 years and are trusted globally to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Clients around the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — have partnered with us to develop both for-profit and nonprofit leaders, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.

But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.

Nonprofit leaders work tirelessly to improve the lives of individuals and communities … [yet] they’re often not able to quantify their work, systematically analyze the data they collect, or identify specific ways their organizations need to improve. Evaluating one’s work also requires commitment from leadership and an openness to hearing ways their organization can improve. That’s why we believe in capacity-building, especially Amplify, because this nonprofit professional development program will better equip leaders to evaluate and improve their work and ultimately deliver on their missions.

Joe Pyle

Joe Pyle, MA

President

Scattergood Foundation

We have a network of 188 nonprofit organizations across the United States. We’re always looking at ways to help develop them and we have our own institute to try to elevate the military veteran ecosystem, and I would encourage all of the organizations to apply for this program … I think it was incredibly beneficial.

Executive Director

Texas-Based Regional Nonprofit with a $3M annual operating budget serving the Veteran population

I learned that self-awareness, openness, and agility are essential tools to effectively lead a team. I learned that as leaders, our direct thoughts, actions, and behaviors impact the teams we lead and that program evaluation is crucial to fulfillment of the mission of the organization.

Participant

Amplify nonprofit leadership program attendee

The Impact of This Online Nonprofit Leadership Program

What participants said about our nonprofit professional development training:

were satisfied with their nonprofit leadership program experience
1 %
were better able to view evaluation as a learning cycle
1 %
felt the program was applicable to their job
1 %

Learn More About Amplify: Heighten Your Impact™

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