The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center
Training Information
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Nonprofit Essentials Training
March 19 | 2 PM - 3 PM
Successful Virtual Teams
Building Excellence in Remote & Hybrid Teams
Presenter: Ted Benson
Remote & hybrid work can offer wider talent access, improved retention, better perception of work-life balance, lower costs, higher productivity, and improved client service.
But how do you practically manage a far-flung team?
This session will help you understand crucial components of remote and hybrid work – terms, trends, best practices for virtual meetings & communication, and bringing it all back to your workplace.
Learning Objectives
- Hybrid and Virtual Meeting Professionalism
- Keys to Effective Communication
- Virtual Collaboration Best Practices
This is a FREE Training
April 9 | 10 AM - 11 AM
The Basics of Enterprise Risk Management
Presenter: Donna Galer
This session will focus on the basics of enterprise risk management for nonprofits. It will overview the risk landscape for nonprofits. It will detail what ERM is and the process steps to implement it.
There will be examples of nonprofits that failed to recognize their risks and how ERM might have helped them avoid the negative outcomes these risks created. Additionally, the session will showcase certain typical reporting outputs from the ERM process. Participants will be encouraged to think strategically about risk.
Learning Objectives
- To be able to articulate the definition, value, and process steps in ERM.
- To be able to create a scoring methodology for prioritizing risks
- To be able to construct a risk register
- To be able to think more broadly and more strategically about risk
This is a FREE Training
May 7 | 2 PM - 3 PM
Pitch Perfect – Winning Media Coverage for Nonprofits
Presenters: Michelle Young (ABC11) & Cecily Kalkhof (Kalkhof Consulting)
Have you ever sent a press release to the media and gotten ZERO calls back?
Are you struggling to get your organization noticed in today’s competitive & fast-paced news environment?
Do you know where to start when building relationships with the media BEFORE you ask for coverage?
Register now to learn from two media veterans who can give you inside tips on how the media works, including how to tell your story in a way that highlights the high-impact work you’re doing in the community.
This is a FREE Training
March TRIAVA Training
What’s your ROVI?
(Return on Volunteer Investment)
Presenter: Daniel Janssen
Remote & hybrid work can offer wider talent access, improved retention, better perception of work-life balance, lower costs, higher productivity, and improved client service.
Return on Volunteer Investment (ROVI) measures the value an organization gains from volunteer engagement relative to the resources invested in recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers.
Research shows that for every $1 invested in volunteer engagement, organizations can see approximately $3–$6 in return through increased capacity and mission impact.
Date: March 26
Time: 10 AM – 11 AM
Cost: Free for TRIAVA Members / $29 for nonmembers
TRIAVA Nonprofit Spotlight
Keep Durham Beautiful
Dawn Keyser, Program Director
Dawn started with Keep Durham Beautiful as an AmeriCorps service member in 2017-18. After working on a part-time basis doing communications and grant coordination, she joined the KDB team full time in 2021. Dawn is an NC native, graduate of NCSU, and lover of all things outdoors. She enjoys working with volunteers, digging in the dirt, picking up litter, and generally making Durham a more pleasant place to live, work, and play.
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September TRIAVA Training
Nonprofit Agency Policies on Volunteers
Volunteers are an essential resource for most nonprofit agencies. Many agencies could not succeed in their mission without a highly effective volunteer workforce. It is, therefore , important for nonprofit managers and staff to understand the correct and most efficient manner in which volunteers fit into their organizational structure, and how volunteers differ from paid employees. All of this is defined and regulated by the agency’s policies on volunteers. This workshop reviews important volunteer policy areas and offers suggestions and guidelines for composing a nonprofit volunteer policy document.
After completing this course, people will:
- Understand why it is important and helpful for a nonprofit agency to have a volunteer policy document
- Recognize some common concerns about which nonprofit agencies should define their policies
- Be familiar with two different policy model templates
- Have the knowledge and examples they need to create or improve their own agency’s policy document
Presented by Joel Zimmerman, TRIAVA Program Manager
September 25th, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
FREE for TRIAVA Members
Since retiring in Raleigh, NC, in 2015, Dr. Joel Zimmerman has done volunteer work and pro bono consulting with many nonprofit organizations including Braver Angels, the Executive Service Corps of the Triangle, The Triangle Nonprofit Volunteer & Leadership Center, AARP, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. He has been a Director on, as well as a consultant to, several nonprofit Boards of Directors.
Joel’s 40-year career included organization and leadership development, nonprofit governance, program management, adult training, group facilitation, and team building.
Joel holds an M.A. in organizational design and effectiveness from Fielding University, where his special area of study was strategic planning. He also holds an M.S. in industrial psychology from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern in experimental psychology.