Our Faith Based Community Leadership & Organization Development Training educates faith-based organizations in how they may participate in the delivery of social services funded in whole by or in part by tax dollars. Participants will examine program and fiduciary accountability expectations tied to using government resources, The course will examine the meaning and responsibility associated with community nonprofit organization 501 (c) designations, charity choice laws and regulations, audit preparation and audit principles. This training teaches faith based organizations and community organizations the necessary tools including charitable choice laws, difference of government and quasi governmental organization requirements, corporate, government, and foundation funding assumptions and the empirical evidence to date on the special civic significance of faith based leadership in the lives of disadvantaged and underserved populations. 

This instructor led training teaches and enhances “participants” workplace and lifeskill knowledge, organizational responsibilities, public and private communications, and professional skills. Participants will use real-life experience (work or personal) communication examples as part of the training. This instructor led training teaches skills in interpretation associated with organizational mission, vision, culture, group dynamics, and structure. Participants will be able to understand and develop transactional methods for influencing and impacting organization development both inside and outside of their respective organizations. Participants will understand and practice the model FOURTalk (Framing, Openness, Understanding, and Reciprocity) that will provide a set of skills for influencing communication that will yield effective collaborative outcome.

Trainees will also learn community leadership, collaboration, program, and resource leveraging skills that will enhance economic, business, and community development initiatives. Participants will take back to their organizations a set of skills, and resource knowledge that will strengthen their capacity for effective community building, gaining an understanding about important elements necessary to attract resources, build partnerships, create effective systems, and design programs that yield appropriate vision, measurable objectives, and quantifiable outcomes for individual, professional,

and community success.