Playhouse Square Center, by Margaret Oakar, Envisioning Cleveland Photo Contest

The Center for Nonprofit Policy and Practice (CNP&P) links practical knowledge and useful applications to the Greater Cleveland nonprofit sector. The Center facilitates dialogues to identify issues that prevent organizations from achieving their goals. The CNP&P recognizes that organizational change must go hand-in-hand with organizational learning and adaptive creativity. To that end, it creates community programs and provides technical assistance to help organizations achieve their goals. The CNP&P provides services through the following programs:

Executive Roundtables will be held at noon on the third Friday of each month. Sessions are presented by community leaders on cutting-edge topics for executive directors and organizational leaders. Each session focuses on a specific topic with the discussion centered around shared challenges and effective responses from the participants.

For more information on the next Executive Roundtable please call or email the Nonprofit Center at (216) 687-5271 or j.k.alexander@csuohio.edu.

Discussion groups by and for nonprofit consultants. Opportunities for nonprofit organization seeking consulting to post their RFPs.

The Center is launching an effort to form a professional association for nonprofit managers and board members in the Greater Cleveland area. The market for the Cleveland Council of Nonprofit Managers includes Cleveland-area nonprofit organizations with paid staff who have a desire to network, learn, and participate in strengthening the local nonprofit ocmmunity of organizations. Initial membership will consist of individuals with nonprofit affiliations only. Annual dues are anticipated to be $25.

• Leadership Institute for Organizational Change
• Leadership Institute for Organizational Succession
• Interim Executive Director Pool
• Executive Directors Moving On

This type of work includes board and director training, environmental scans, strategy development, and executive coaching. Technical assistance also encompasses CNP&P's workshop series, which delivers foundational, skill-related information and training. Participants leave the final workshop of the series with a tangible product, such as a proposal outline, staffing plan, budgeting approach, or needs assessment strategy.

Market research, operations, planning, program planning, community assessment, and recommendations.

• Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management
• Master of Nonprofit Administration and Leadership
• 5-Year BA + Master in Nonprofit Administration and Leadership