Classes impart business skills to nonprofits' employees (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online)

Classes impart business skills to nonprofits' employees (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online): "Classes impart business skills to nonprofits' employees


By BENITA NEWTON, The Virginian-Pilot
� December 1, 2004

Nonprofit employees are usually experts at do-goodery, but they sometimes falter when it comes to the business elements that keep their organizations running.
As a result, the local nonprofit community has been hard at work to create more low-cost learning opportunities for their employees and board members. Next month, classes begin at the Academy for Nonprofit Excellence, an in-depth complement to the training offered by Norfolk-based Volunteer Hampton Roads. In addition, Volunteer Hampton Roads will sponsor its third annual Art of Leadership conference Jan. 28. "