The nonprofit basics most founders learn the hard way, taught in one free, practical crash course.
A nonprofit management education built for grassroots leaders: the tools to run your organization well, grow it, and stop stressing about the parts of the job no one explained.
At a glance
Founders, executive directors, and emerging leaders
Whether your organization is all-volunteer or newly funded, and whether you've led for one year or fifteen.
Virtual, cohort-based, and practical
Live sessions plus short lessons and real work on your own organization. The full schedule is coming soon.
Free · Small cohorts
Dates to be announced. Small on purpose, so every participant gets real support.
Three levels. Each one builds on the last.
Know how your nonprofit really works
- What a nonprofit is, and who it answers to
- What your board is for and how to build a strong one
- Reading your own financial statements
- Budgets, cash, and smart spending decisions
- Staying in good standing all year
Build the systems to grow
- Theory of change and program design
- Measuring what matters to funders
- Financial controls and policies
- Winning and managing grants, including large public grants
- Hiring, HR, and volunteers
Lead for the long run
- Strategic planning
- Sustainable funding and reserves
- Board development
- Partnerships and advocacy
- Succession, and building beyond the founder
More than knowledge
Grow faster
Learn in months what most leaders piece together over years of trial and error.
Real documents
Every session produces something your organization needs: a budget, a board plan, a compliance calendar.
Confidence
Walk into board meetings and funder conversations knowing exactly what you're talking about.
A peer network
Grassroots leaders facing the same challenges, and a community that lasts beyond the program.
Finish a level, earn a Brandl Academy certificate.
Join the waitlist
Tell us about your organization and we'll reach out when the first cohort opens. Free, no commitment.