Trainings
Nonprofit
Successful nonprofit organizations remove employment barriers, enhance local economic development, provide critical safety-net services and increase civic participation. The Foundation’s nonprofit programming aims to improve the fiscal health and management of nonprofit organizations; increase the quantity and quality of nonprofit services; and strengthen board members’ abilities to contribute to the organizations they serve.
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Business
The Initiative Foundation’s business trainings are shaped by your feedback. From building basic business credit to bookkeeping to marketing your venture, we’ve taken your feedback and have enlisted experts in the field to offer free or small-fee workshops. Review our offerings and consider signing up, because when your business is humming, the local economy is humming right along with you.
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Upcoming Trainings
2025 Executive Roundtable
As a nonprofit executive director with a range of responsibilities, it can be a challenge to build leadership skills and network with others. We get…
- Subject
- Nonprofit
- Location
- Little Falls
- Start Date
- March 26, 2025
2025 Continuous Improvement Cohort Program
The Initiative Foundation and Sourcewell are excited to bring the Performance Excellence Network back to Central Minnesota for a Continuous Improvement cohort. Join…
- Subject
- Nonprofit
- Location
- Staples
- Start Date
- March 27, 2025
Rural Business Success Series: Grow with Google
In partnership with the North Central Small Business Development Center (SBDC), the grow With Google workshop is for small business owners and…
- Subject
- Business
- Location
- Wadena
- Start Date
- March 27, 2025
Rural Business Success Series: AI for Small Business
In partnership with the North Central Small Business Development Center (SBDC), the AI for Small Business workshop is for entrepreneurs who want…
- Subject
- Business
- Location
- North Branch
- Start Date
- April 3, 2025
Rural Business Success: AI for Small Business
In partnership with the North Central Small Business Development Center (SBDC), the AI for Small Business workshop is for entrepreneurs who want…
- Subject
- Business
- Location
- Pine City
- Start Date
- April 10, 2025
Grant Writing 101
This beginner-level workshop is intended to help build new capacity for nonprofit organizations and local units of government. This intensive, hands-on training will help aspiring…
- Subject
- Nonprofit
- Location
- Staples
- Start Date
- April 17, 2025
Nonprofit Lunch & Learn
Join the St. Cloud nonprofit community for lunch and an exclusive Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN) State of the Sector briefing! Emily Steinmetz, Minnesota Council…
- Subject
- Nonprofit
- Location
- St. Cloud
- Start Date
- May 22, 2025
Grant Writing 201
This intermediate-level intensive workshop is geared toward nonprofit staff or long-term volunteers with grant writing experience who are ready to take the next step in…
- Subject
- Nonprofit
- Location
- Little Falls
- Start Date
- August 7, 2025
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