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The Institute serves as our educational branch, offering a comprehensive program of presentations and trainings for nonprofits. We provide fun, interactive, and educational workshops and webinars focused on resource development and capacity building.

Institute Topics Include:

How to capture giving motivators and effectively connect an ask strategy to a donor.

Create a common language to explain, educate, and involve others in your mission.

How to collect, compile, and understand data to improve programming, influence funders, and provide more accountability to the donor on impact, outcomes, and transparency.

Equipping any nonprofit on how to expand their reach, introduce new donors to their mission, and increase community engagement.

Turn your nonprofit into a philanthropic culture builder by prioritizing what happens after the donors say ‘yes.’

Infusing philanthropy as a strategy and differentiator to achieve business objectives and retain employees.

Putting together an organization’s capacity building puzzle with mission at the forefront.

The art and science behind harnessing a meeting’s productivity potential.

Understanding and leveraging how perception, process, and motivation impact how a message delivery and reception.

Introduction to consulting and the different roles a consultant can play for an organization. Experience the expansive breadth of knowledge and experience assessable to advancing any mission.

Upcoming Presentations + Institute Sessions:

Nonprofit Board Governance:
Fundamental Roles + Responsibilities
Date: Friday, December 6th
Time: 8:15-9:45am & 10:15-11:45am
Location: Maximizing Excellence Training Room, 200 N Phillips Ave Ste #101 Sioux Falls, SD 57104

Nonprofit Board Governance: Fundamental Roles + Responsibilities:
Dr. Tasha Anderson, Maximizing Excellence's newest consultant, is hosting a free training focusing on the fundamental roles and responsibilities in nonprofit board governance. She has over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector and a Ph.D. in Political Science with specialized research on board governance and nonprofit effectiveness in rural nonprofits. This session will familiarize participants serving on boards and staff supporting nonprofit boards on how to make sound, beneficial governance decisions. 

Space is limited in this session! Reserve your FREE spot by Tuesday, November 26th. Call 605-271-9970 or email debbie@maximizingexcellence.org.


Siouxland Community Foundation Lunch + Learn
Date: Tuesday, February 18th
Time: 12pm
Location: TBA

Donor Retention + Stewardship 
This lunch and learn is open to area nonprofit leaders and will be led by Cindy Peterson, who will share her expertise on how donor retention and stewardship go hand in hand. Attendees will walk away with ideas on how to advance their donor stewardship, and therefor increase donor retention.


Siouxland Community Foundation's Nonprofit Summit
Date: Thursday, March 13th
Time: 3:15pm
Location: South Sioux City Marriott Riverfront

Broadening the Base 
Cindy Peterson's breakout session at this inaugural summit will cover how nonprofits can expand their base of donors, providing insider knowledge that comes from twenty-four years in the industry.

For more information contact us at (605) 271-9970 or fill out the contact form.

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