Amplify: Heighten Your Impact®

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: Heighten Your Impact® is based on programming originally developed and run by the Edna G. McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) for nonprofit leaders, as well as program evaluation expertise from the  Scattergood Foundation.

Amplify is designed for nonprofit leaders who are shaping programs, strengthening impact, raising resources, and building the skills to evaluate and tell the story of their work:

• Executive directors and senior leaders in a small to mid-sized nonprofit organization
• Program officers, directors, and community leaders responsible for delivering programs or initiatives
• Fundraising, development, and advancement leaders who need to connect program outcomes to donor and funder support
• Nonprofit leaders who want to strengthen evaluation skills, measure what’s working, and communicate impact more clearly
• Foundations and funders looking for practical ways to build leadership capacity among nonprofit grantees

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

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

At CCL, we’ve shaped the leadership development industry for nearly 6 decades through pioneering research and evidence-based innovation. We’re proud of our extensive expertise and experience helping nonprofits with professional development that furthers their mission.

With Amplify, you get:

• 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
• An evaluation mindset along with with an evaluation and measurement approach for the organization, developed in partnership with the Scattergood Foundation to drive greater impact
• Societal impact from a course that’s practical and actionable, so participants can immediately apply what they learn — resulting in improved outcomes, increased sustainability, and a ripple effect of positive change