Connection for All

At Mission Capital we believe meaningful connection is paramount to creating community. Creating spaces where everyone belongs, can relate to each other and share experiences is critical to sustaining a nonprofit network. One of the ways we create opportunities to connect is through our nonprofit events.

As we continue our feedback journey at Mission Capital, we’re responding to the insights you share with us to develop new programming and revamp existing offerings. This summer we heard from you the importance of having education accessible to multiple staff members, the value of accountability and processing partners, and connection and learning from peers. With that in mind, we’ve redesigned what membership events look like for this coming year.

Standard Membership Offerings 

With all membership levels you’ll have unlimited access to a suite of events and programming scheduled for the year ahead. For all of the following offerings you can send as many of your staff, board, or key volunteers as you want, ANY TIME the course is offered. 

AUSTIN’S COMPOUNDING STRUCTURAL RACISM LEARNING SESSION

While we have many ways to confront interpersonal and internal racism, dismantling structural racism is just as important in the nonprofit sector. We’ll cover ways policies and laws have created layers of racism experienced today in the Austin area.  

Time Commitment: 2-hour single session
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Pillar: Personal Transformation

BOARD ESSENTIALS

Everything about Board Service in two short hours. You’ll receive an overview of board expectations and an invitation to reflect on the culture you’re creating with your board structure and makeup.

Time Commitment: 2-hour single session
Frequency: monthly
Pillar: Personal Transformation

COFFEE CHATS WITH MADGE 

An opportunity for CEOs and ED’s to connect with our CEO, Madge Vasquez.  

Time Commitment: 1-hour single session
Frequency: Quarterly
Pillar: Community Cultivation

OFFICE HOURS 

Office hours are a virtual opportunity to workshop an issue or share challenges and advice with a group on a specific topic. Every session will have breakout rooms on different topics hosted by Mission Capital staff members experienced in that area. 

Time Commitment: 1-hour single session
Frequency: Quarterly
Pillar: Organizational Resilience

WETHRIVE: STORYTELLING

In these sessions, we’ll cover the basics of building a public narrative and how to evoke an emotional connection that stirs our communities to action. Most importantly, it’s our strategy to chip away at the interpersonal barriers that keep us from joining in community with one another by centering the moments that remind ourselves of who we are and what values we share. 

Time Commitment: 2-hour single session
Frequency: Quarterly
Pillar: Community Cultivation

Premium & Unlimited Membership Offerings

Introducing the Membership Suite!

This year the Premium and Unlimited Membership Packages include access to 10 offerings we’re bundling up as our Membership Suite. Five of these offerings are single-ticket courses, and five are team trainings. How you can access them will vary, depending on the membership package:

• Premium Members: This membership package gives you the option to choose between sending three individuals to any of our single-ticket courses* OR sending one team of five individuals to ONE of the team courses. 

• Unlimited Members: This package will give you access to send one team and up to five individuals to EACH of these offerings, every time they’re offered! 

Single-Ticket Courses 

* Premium Members can mix and match individual registrations across the different courses.  

CONFLICT MITIGATION & TEAM DYNAMICS

In this interactive session, you will explore the dynamic stages of team development, learn how they may lead to conflict, and practice techniques and tools for healthy communication, especially in a virtual or hybrid work environment.

Time Commitment: 6-hour single session with 1-hour break for lunch.
Frequency: Biannual
Pillar: Organizational Resilience

DISC BEHAVIORS ASSESSMENT

Understand your own leadership style using the TTI Success Insights® Behaviors (DISC) Assessment. This assessment is designed to increase the understanding of an individual's leadership style and unique talents, and how they relate to the style and talents of their colleagues. As a participating member of the cohort you will complete the assessment and receive a 20+ page report about your own leadership style.

Time Commitment: 6-hour single session with 1-hour break for lunch.
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Pillar: Personal Transformation

LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

This highly interactive class uses the TTI Emotional Quotient™ Assessment to identify the 5 areas of emotional intelligence, and where your strengths and areas of improvement lie. Develop your emotional intelligence to create a ripple effect and make systemic changes.

Time Commitment: 6-hour single session with 1-hour break for lunch.
Frequency: Quarterly
Pillar: Personal Transformation

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Get the tools, resources, and templates you need to juggle your multiple projects. This hands-on course is designed to give you foundational skills to manage nonprofit projects.

Time Commitment: 6-hour single session with 1-hour break for lunch.
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Pillar: Personal Transformation

SUPERVISING PEOPLE

This course is specifically designed for supervisors and team managers of nonprofit organizations who want tools and guidance for feedback, delegation, and accountability.

Time Commitment: Two 3-hour sessions.
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Pillar: Personal Transformation

Team Courses

DATA YOU CAN USE

In this hands-on workshop you will work in teams to develop a data evaluation strategy for a program within your nonprofit organization. You’ll also receive in-depth training and real-time coaching from an experienced evaluation and data practitioner.

Time Commitment: 6-hour single session with 1-hour break for lunch.
Frequency: Biannual
Pillar: Organizational Resilience

IMPLICIT BIAS IN THE WORKPLACE SERIES

More info coming soon!

POWER, PRIVILEGE & SHARED LEADERSHIP

This workshop delves into the relationships between power, socialization, privilege, and equity. We map how relationships of power are influencing an organization or program. We then dig into how those relationships are reinforcing inequities and reducing power of people with lived experiences of the challenges the specific organization or program is trying to address. This workshop is tailored to attendees participating to allow for a discussion and analysis of power in the organization and how to begin to address inequities.

Time Commitment: 3-hour single session
Frequency: TBD
Pillar: Organizational Resilience

REVENUE GENERATOR

Cohort-based program where you will go through an intensive design sprint to build out a potential earned revenue opportunity, test it with potential customers, refine it, create an initial budget plan, and pitch the concept to a panel of local philanthropists and investors for feedback.

Time Commitment: Three course days of 3 hours each, two coaching 1-hour sessions, plus assignments and engagements in between sessions.
Frequency: Biannual
Pillar: Organizational Resilience

STRATEGY & SUSTAINABILITY INTENSIVE

Interactive course designed to help your organization create a strategy road map to respond to new opportunities and challenges.

Time Commitment: Three sessions of 3 hours each.
Frequency: Triannual
Pillar: Organizational Resilience

Make sure your organization has the support and connection that you need to fulfill your mission-driven work. Enroll in our membership program today!