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This workshop is part of the Communications Masterclass series.

Participants earn a Certificate of Nonprofit Communications from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™s Center for Nonprofit Leadership—credentialing and skills that you can demonstrate to your Board, leadership team and staff.

Workshop Learning Objectives

Develop a strategic internal communications approach to attract, onboard, and engage employees while strengthening your organization’s culture. Topics include communicating with candidates and new hires, creating clear and consistent internal messages, fostering psychological safety, building feedback and recognition practices, and empowering employees to become authentic ambassadors for your mission.

Build the Right Team Workshop participants will be able to:

• Create a recruitment strategy that attracts exceptional talent by turning your organization’s mission into clear, role-specific messaging.
• Design an onboarding communications plan and toolkit that speeds understanding while promoting commitment and early wins.
• Develop an internal communications strategy that increases retention by building trust, psychological safety, and shared ownership so employees become informed, engaged ambassadors for your organization.

Certificate of Nonprofit Communications

This program is built for:

1. Executive Directors and CEOs who are setting organizational directions
2. Senior staff who manage donors, media, and community messaging
3. Board members who are responsible for governance and public trust

Our masterclass is ideal for 2-3 leaders to attend together so your organization builds shared language and strategy, not merely individual skills.

This certificate course offers a peer learning environment that fosters collaboration and support. Each cohort brings together a small group of nonprofit leaders working through their real-world communications challenges so you each gain feedback from peers and guidance from our expert instructors.

Tuition for the Certificate

• $1,000: Certificate of Nonprofit Communications (18 hours)

Participants leave with a full messaging framework and a crisis communications plan tailored to their organization.

About the Workshop Instructors

Valencia Saint-Louis

Valencia Saint-Louis is a communications professional and program manager with over five years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She has supported youth development, education, and mentoring organizations, helping them strengthen their teams, programs, and partnerships through strategic communication. She has recruited and onboarded staff, managed employees and dozens of volunteers, developed training and communication materials, and collaborated with community partners to support programs serving hundreds of students. Having guided organizations through every stage of the employee experience, Valencia understands how intentional communication strengthens organizational culture, increases employee engagement, and maximizes mission impact. A graduate of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ with a B.A. in Communications, she draws on her real-world nonprofit experience to help professionals build stronger teams, foster engagement, and create organizations where people feel inspired to contribute in ways that have a lasting impact.

Ian Sebbowa

Ian Sebbowa is a recruitment and program strategist who helps mission-driven organizations build teams that reflect and sustain their culture. His path to this work has spanned three continents: studies in East Africa and Europe, and an MBA earned at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­in the United States. That path, moving between different educational systems, workplace cultures, and ways of communicating, gave him firsthand insight into what it takes to help someone feel oriented, supported, and genuinely welcomed in an unfamiliar environment. That same instinct for meeting people where they are shaped his early work supporting neurodivergent students, helping them build executive functioning skills and access accommodations that let their strengths lead. Ian now channels these experiences into his work, translating organizational mission into recruitment messaging that resonates across audiences, and designing onboarding and communication systems that help diverse teams operate with clarity and trust.

Accessibility Statement

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