CERTIFICATE IN SUPPORTING BOARD FUNDRAISING
When your board understands its fundraising role, everyone wins. This certificate equips nonprofit professionals with the tools to support, guide, and activate board members in effective fundraising. You’ll explore how to build a culture of philanthropy, clarify board responsibilities, and use proven models to set goals, inspire engagement, and strengthen this essential partnership.
Through the 9 courses included in this certificate, you’ll learn how to support board members in fulfilling their fundraising role—by clarifying expectations, building trust, and aligning efforts with your nonprofit’s greater strategy.
Understand the board’s legal duties, their role in a culture of philanthropy, and how governance—not management—shapes fundraising involvement.
Learn how to guide conversations, set shared goals, and help board members define their responsibilities in donor cultivation and giving.
Explore practical tools like the CLEAR and V2MOM models to support strategic board goal-setting and visioning.
Develop skills in servant leadership, identify growth opportunities, and learn how to support performance and development with confidence.
Learn how to build board engagement, set clear expectations, and drive results—together.
Each certificate includes nine bite-sized, 15-minute courses packed with video lessons, reflection exercises, knowledge checks, and interactive activities. Even better? They're fully mobile-friendly, so you can learn anytime, anywhere—right from your phone or tablet.
Incorporating 9 micro-learning courses, learning checks, and a reflective workbook.
Checking your savvy on 5 related leadership competencies.
Complete the coursework for both a brag-worthy certificate of completion plus 3 CFRE points.
Thousands of nonprofit professionals have completed courses and certificates on the Merit® Nonprofit Professional Development platform. Here are just a few of their thoughts.
This certificate gave me the language and confidence to talk with our board about fundraising expectations.
- Elise T., Richmond, VA
The goal-setting models were a game-changer for board engagement.
- Jonas W., Flagstaff, AZ
I’ve worked with boards for years and still learned so much—especially around servant leadership.
- Karla M., Tampa, FL
Give your board the tools and structure they need to fundraise with purpose and clarity.
Merit® is a signature product of the Nonprofit Help Center, a company founded in 2018 by Dr. Emilie Socash. The Nonprofit Help Center team helps nonprofits and the people who power them go from mission impossible to mission unstoppable with a just-for-nonprofits suite of capacity-building solutions, fixing what's holding them back.
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