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Building Skills: Building Community
We offer an ever-evolving menu of free-to-you workshops for nonprofit leaders (and soon-to-be-leaders.) Join us to advance your career, help your organization become more sustainable, scale and deepen your impact
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Past Winter/Spring Events
Feb 6, Middle Managers: Embrace the Challenge (first of three)
Feb 25: Your Board: How to Build a Powerhouse
Coming Up
March 27: Middle Managers: Doing & Delegating (second of three)
May 8: Middle Manager: Thriving & Leading (third of three)
Much more to come!
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Stuck in the middle with you —and loving it!
Below, middle managers (with the help of EGF Accelerator staffers)
get ready to lead. Photo from the first of three sessions.
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A Great Board Can Change Your Life |
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Global Glimpse founder Eliza Pesuit, a longtime EGF Accelerator grantee turned Leader-in-Residence, gave a master class on board development—building the board you want, learning to speak their love language. teaching them to speak yours. It was WOW! |
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Beyond Grit:
How to Help Kids do Hard Things
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Lynn Cartwright-Punnet, Senior Director, Program Design Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), a longtime Accelerator grantee, is equipping students for STEM careers. She's an expert on the roots of motivation-- and what she says might surprise you.
Q: How do you help young people find their motivation?
A: It’s a process. It needs to be personal to the individual, their family, their context. And it needs to be theirs. And then they need to test it...
Read More Here
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News from our EGF Accelerator
Fellows Alumni
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Harlem Free Fight Receives The Better Fight Fellowship
Because it's not just about teaching kids to win, it's about showing them how to come back after they get knocked down. (Ok, and then, maybe, winning.) Hatched in the EGF Accelerator Fellows program, this organization, operating out of the Boys' Club of NY, is being recognized for the ways they are enhancing and strengthening the lives of young people in their community.
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Carnarsie Meets Austin, Texas
EGF Accelerator Fellow Alum and community activist Jabreel Jalloh, founder of The Flossy, is headed to hipster hangout South by Southwest, to talk about the road he has traveled to achieve impact and visibility.
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Show Your Support for Our Fellows! |
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Eight early stage nonprofit leaders have endured enjoyed 20 weeks of focused consulting and intense collaboration. Now they are ready to show you what they got! Come meet and mingle with funders, supporters, well-wishers and cheer them on. The fellow with the most support wins more $$! |
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Director of State and Local Engagement
Salary: $100,000 to $140,000
Location: NY, MA, CT
Apply by March 14th
This very cool organization is helping K-12 schools make the carbon transition while preparing our youth for a sustainable future in the face of climate change. This job will build coalitions of stakeholders and help shape policy around education, climate and the world to come.
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Chief Program Officer
Salary: $170,000-$180,000
AI is never going to replace good cooking!
That's one of the many reasons we love this organization. Not only do they create economic opportunity through culinary skills training, they also offer high-quality job placement, food entrepreneurship programs and small business incubation.
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Funding and Free & Discounted Tech Help |
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Keeping Brooklyn Nonprofits Thriving!
Three years/$45,000 per year
Deadline to Apply: April 15th
Our generous friends at Brooklyn.org are offering substantial grants for general operating expenses for organizations strengthening underserved communities in Brooklyn. Don't sleep on it.
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This nonprofit offers lots of savings to other nonprofit organization and foundations.
You can register at no cost and get discounted access to Canva, Hootesuite, Monday.com, Microsoft, Adobe, Quickbooks, etc. hardware, too and lots of consulting. Save money. Streamline your operations.
You know you need this.
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The EGF Accelerator is supporting strong leaders in sustainable nonprofits that are working to improve the education and life outcomes for low-income New Yorkers. We offer incubation, advanced leadership development, a remote Fellows program, and fund journalism about educational equity. Want to know more? Drop us a line. Peg@egfaccelerator.org
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