Effective People and Performance Management
Sept. 10, 2025, 10 am - 2 pm, Walla Walla Airport Terminal Building Conference Room, 45 Terminal Loop, Walla Walla. Free. Light lunch provided.
Sherwood Trust and the Nonprofit Association of Washington present a free workshop on Effective People and Performance Management, September 10, from 10 am - 2 pm at the Walla Walla Airport Terminal Building Conference Room. Learn about feedback, supervisory skills and difficult conversations with Colleen Malmassari, who has more than 15 years of expertise in Federal and Washington State employment law as well as employee-centered strategic activities.
Whether you are a small shop, or a volunteer run organization, your nonprofit’s success depends on finding qualified, dedicated people and keeping them happy, engaged, and accountable. While small nonprofits face complex challenges in accessing and implementing strategic human resource management, leaders at all levels can still pursue impactful systems, even with limited time and resources.
Understanding the essentials is critical because nonprofit HR includes areas required for compliance with local, state, and federal law as well as great team development. In this workshop designed for small nonprofits with 1 – 50 employees, participants will explore regulations and practices that support an organization’s ability to pursue its mission in the most effective way possible through talent management, compliance, recruitment, and onboarding.
While this training is designed for organizations with 1-50 employees, all are welcome to join and learn about healthy nonprofit HR practices!
A light lunch will be provided.
Learn more and register here.
Strategic Planning in Nonprofits
Oct. 8, 2025, 9 am - 3 pm, Walla Walla Airport Terminal Building Conference Room, 45 Terminal Loop, Walla Walla. Free. Light lunch provided.
Sherwood Trust and the Nonprofit Association of Washington present a free workshop on Strategic Planning in Nonprofits with Gabriel Cruden, October 8 from 9 am to 3 pm at the Walla Walla Airport Terminal Conferene Room. Learn about the six stages of strategic planning, assess your organization and mission statement and find resources, templates and activities to complete your strategic plan.
Strategic planning can be a powerful process to guide the future of your nonprofit. There are many ways to approach strategic planning and there is no one-size-fits-all template. As you think about beginning a strategic planning process, you may have many questions about how to get started or how to improve upon past processes.
Pulling from a variety of strategic planning approaches and resources, Strategic Planning in Nonprofits (SPiN) is here to provide actionable information, tools, and activities to help you shape a process right-sized for your nonprofit. The full-day SPiN workshop will cover the six stages of a strategic planning process: Prepare, Listen, Envision, Plan, Implement, and Evaluate. You will leave with the tools and confidence to develop a strategic plan for your organization.
You will leave ready to…
Work through the six stages of a strategic planning process
Assess the current state of your organization
Assess and refine your mission statement
Name at least one strategic priority for your organization
Identify at least two next steps toward developing a strategic plan
Access resources, templates, and activities to complete a strategic plan
A light lunch will be provided.
Learn more and register here.
Building Next-Level Fundraising Leaders
Nov. 5, 2025, 10 am - 2 pm, Walla Walla Airport Terminal Building Conference Room, 45 Terminal Loop, Walla Walla. Free. Light lunch provided.
Sherwood Trust and the Nonprofit Association of Washington present a free workshop on Building Next Level Fundraising Leaders with Rebecca Zanatta of RJZ Connections, November 5 from 10 am to 2 pm at the Walla Walla Airport Terminal Conference Room. Learn how to instill a culture of generosity, execute successful campaigns, and fundraise with authenticity and equity in mind.
Fundraising is not a solo sport. It’s tough to be successful if you go at it alone. In this session, we will consider fundraising as a community driven activity and explore the art of teaching the joy of giving. Participants will learn the roles and tools necessary for success to create a sustainable development operation, including how to develop and share a vision for your fundraising operation. We will talk about how to recruit and retain talent, continually innovate, address challenges, and how to hold each other accountable for impact.
In this participatory workshop, you will gain some of the essential skills you need to:
Instill and lead a culture of generosity
Execute successful campaigns that provide resources and engage stakeholders
Build and diversify your fundraising team including a bench for the future
Fundraise with authenticity and equity in mind
A light lunch will be provided.