Meetings are one of the most powerful — and most underutilized — tools for moving change forward in an organization.

This class equips facilitators and leaders with practical techniques to design and lead meetings that generate momentum, surface real issues, and move groups from stuck to action. Participants will explore common patterns that derail meetings, learn facilitation methods that invite authentic engagement, and practice tools for helping teams make decisions and commit to next steps.

Whether you're leading staff meetings, board retreats, or community convenings, you'll leave with a toolkit ready to use immediately.

Leadership Longevity equips nonprofit CEOs and Executive Directors with a balanced mindset and practical tools to stay effective without burnout. Leaders will explore common pressures of the role, reframe expectations around productivity and balance, and learn simple, high-impact approaches to prioritization, delegation, and time management. The session emphasizes creating margin so leaders can make better decisions, protect energy, and lead with clarity, consistency, and resilience over the long term, with practical examples and reflection exercises.

Supervision is one of the most impactful ways you can shape a staff member's experiences with an organization and their professional trajectory. The supervisory relationship often determines if a staff member remains with an organization and influences the supervisor's satisfaction with their job. Supervisors must balance the need to invest in and support staff to reach their fullest potential with organizational needs to provide programs and services efficiently and effectively. Impactful supervisors cultivate a range of tools in their toolkit to navigate the varied aspects of supervision; coaching and empowering staff while holding them accountable, modeling the behavior which supports the organization's values and mission while ensuring compliance with programmatic and HR best practice.

This workshop will help you broaden and strengthen your supervisory skills and get you excited about the transformative relationships you can cultivate with those you supervise!

In this workshop, participants will learn:

• Strategies to develop clear roles and expectations for staff
• Strategies to support staff in meeting and exceeding expectations
• Skills to discern the best supervisory approach to deploy with different personalities and situations
• Strategies to navigate unique supervisory scenarios
• The importance of documentation in a supervisory relationship

Across Virginia, libraries are facing a growing transition as experienced leaders retire or pursue new opportunities. The question is not if change will happen, but how prepared your organization will be when it does.

This workshop is designed to help library leaders proactively prepare for the future by building a practical, sustainable approach to succession planning. Participants will learn how to identify critical roles, develop internal talent, and preserve the institutional knowledge that keeps their libraries strong.

Succession planning is more than filling positions; it's about ensuring continuity of service to the communities you serve. When done well, it strengthens your organization, creates growth opportunities for your team, and positions your library for long-term success.

Join us to begin building the next generation of leadership, so your mission continues, no matter who steps into the role next.

Nonprofits are driven by mission, but managing people comes with responsibilities that many organizations are not prepared for. Even without a formal HR department, every nonprofit must navigate employment laws, shape workplace culture, and manage the systems that support employees.

In this practical two-hour workshop, we will explore the essential HR responsibilities every nonprofit organization must address. Participants will learn how HR steers organizations through compliance, culture, and administration, and how these areas influence hiring, performance management, compensation, and employee relationships.

Topics will include foundational HR documents such as employee handbooks and job descriptions, the employee lifecycle from hiring to separation, worker classification (employees, volunteers, contractors, and interns), and key HR challenges facing nonprofit organizations today.

Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of their HR responsibilities and practical next steps to build stronger teams while protecting their mission.

Legacy giving is one of the most powerful, and most underutilized, drivers of long-term financial sustainability for nonprofit organizations. While only a small percentage of donors currently make a planned or estate gift, research consistently shows that many more would consider doing so if invited into the conversation.

This session explores how organizations can thoughtfully grow a legacy giving program by identifying the right prospects, normalizing legacy conversations, and integrating planned giving into broader fundraising efforts.

Participants will examine the direct correlation between legacy giving and endowment growth, including why planned gifts often represent a significant share of comprehensive and endowment campaign totals. The session will highlight how legacy donors tend to deepen their engagement over time, frequently increasing annual giving.

Designed for development professionals, executive leaders, and board members, this session will focus on practical strategies for building momentum: engaging trustees as ambassadors, positioning blended gift asks, and aligning messaging to donors' values and long-term vision. Attendees will leave with a stronger framework for elevating legacy giving from a passive offering to an intentional strategy one that ensures financial, resilience, mission continuity, and impact for generations to come.