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:

Making a Compelling Ask

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

Messaging to Evoke Action

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

Informed Practice

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

Broadening the Base

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

Stewardship. Stewardship. Stewardship.

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

Philanthropy as a Competitive Advantage

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

Building Organizational Relevancy and Sustainability

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

Facilitating an Effective Meeting

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

Communicating with Intention

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

‘Ask Me Anything’ Infusion of Expertise

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:

Fundamentals of Group Facilitation

The issues we deal with today – in businesses, nonprofits, professional associations, and advocacy groups – are growing more difficult to manage. Fundamentals of Group Facilitation participants will learn how to harness the intelligence, energy, and commitment of teams searching for strategic solutions to complex problems.

Participants will spend two hands-on sessions learning how to:

Use a standard set of group process skills to facilitate teams of 15 – 20 participants.
Develop effective meeting outcomes and agendas.
Manage group dysfunction.
Use a seven-step problem-solving/opportunity-finding model.
Apply other interactive process tools.

DATE + TIME
Thursday, November 20 @ 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Friday, November 21 @ 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

LOCATION
Maximizing Excellence Training Room
200 N Phillips Ave #101
Sioux Falls, SD 57104

COST
$80 per person

Spots are limited! Sign up today!
Call (605) 271-9970 or email Debbie to sign up

About the Facilitator
Candy Hanson spent the first 15 years of her professional career leading conflict resolution and strategic planning processes for scores of nonprofit organizations in the Sioux Falls area. An experienced trainer and nonprofit executive, Hanson holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas, an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, and is a graduate of the Advanced Facilitator Institute, Interaction Associates, San Francisco.
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Board Optimization Workshop

Maximizing Excellence is offering a hands-on Board Optimization Workshop designed for nonprofits of any size. This two-hour workshop will engage board and executive staff with:

Understanding the fundamentals of board governance.
Assessing the board’s stage and understanding what that means.
Creating tailored goals and strategies to optimize board governance and performance.

This hands-on workshop can be utilized as an extension of a board meeting, as part of a board retreat, or as a team-building session. It will help your board and executive staff align around goals to continue the important work that your board does – the work that your organization relies on.

Reach out to Cindy Peterson at Cindy@MaximizingExcellence.org or 605-271-9970 to learn more!

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