Essential NFP

Supporting managers in the not-for-profit sector

Are you a manager in a not-for-profit organisation? Would you like to develop your business and management skills in a group of like-minded people? Do you feel frustrated with the challenges facing your sector? Would you like to have more support from other organisations or people in your team? Do you want to achieve more but lack time and resources to develop yourself and your team? Do you want to have easy access to a pool of resources, people and information that could help further develop your organisation?

If so, join Essential NFPnow!

What is Essential NFP?

Essential NFP is a mastermind group organised by CaDVAS and Quantum Leap Training & Consultancy for the not-for-profit sector in Kent, building on the successful Management in Action training series delivered in Autumn 2011.

The group will meet every six weeks and it will provide an opportunity for learning, sharing, networking and discussion for managers in the not-for-profit sector. Meetings will be divided into two parts:

1.    Skills training & development

2.    Learning sets where participants will be able to bring their business challenges to other participants for discussion and sharing of experience and expertise.

What is in it for me and my organisation?

• Develop and acquire business and management skills which can be applied immediately in your organisations;
•  Access to a sector-specific group who will serve as a pool of talent and expertise;
• Flexibility to bring your own priorities to be discussed in the group or for which you would like more skills/training;
• Networking opportunity with added value;
• Cost-effective way to improve and update your skills.

CaDVAS is an  infrastructure organisation providing support and development services to Voluntary and Community Organisations (VCOs) across the Canterbury district. These services include:

• Training  for staff, volunteers and trustees
• Monthly newsletter
• Directory of local VCOs, managed in partnership with Canterbury City Council via its community portal
• Advice and information about a range of issues including setting up and registering a charity,  sample policy documents, funding, governance
• Organisational health checks
• Representation and promotion of the VCO sector

What should I do next?

Book your place now! Essential NFP’s launch meeting will be held on 13^th of March at the Canterbury Innovation Centre.

In this event, Ana Paula Nacif will give a brief talk on ‘the art of influencing people’. The meeting will focus on what participants would like to get out of this group, topics for training & discussion and other useful resources CaDVAS/QuantumLeap could provide to members of this group. 

“If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.”
Anita Roddick

Group facilitator: Ana Paula Nacif of Quantum Leap. Ana is an experienced coach and trainer who works with teams and individuals on career progression, leadership and management skills. Prior to coaching, Ana spent over 15 years working in media, journalism and public relations. As a journalist, she wrote for leading financial and public sector publications and, as a PR consultant, she worked with various local and central government departments, think tanks and not-for-profit organisations.

She is a regular contributor to a range of publications, including Changeboard, Changing Careers magazine and The Association for Coaching Bulletin. She is also a speaker at the City Business Library in London. Ana is passionate about working with not-for-profit sector organisations and social enterprises that are ready to step up, achieve more ambitious goals, inspire their people, and have a bigger impact on their communities.