Services

Trainings and Workshops

We raise your staff and board’s skills with nonprofit communications through interactive, dynamic training and workshops. Building on Big Duck’s thirty years of work with hundreds of nonprofit organizations, our facilitators can help you raise the bar on how you operate.

Whether you need a training partner to take your organization’s communications team or grantees to the next level or a fun, interactive, team-building workshop for your next staff retreat, Big Duck can provide an experience tailored to your requirements and budget. We also host free and low-cost training opportunities for the broader nonprofit sector.

Webinars

Helpful tips and insights delivered in a dynamic format combining educational content with interactive exercises for practical, real-life application. We offer standalone and series-based webinars that build on each session and provide a deeper learning experience.

Training workshops

In-person or hybrid, hands-on learning experiences with practical, real-world examples tailored to your organization’s mission and needs. Offered as half-day or full-day training workshops.

Cohort learning series

Small groups of up to 15 people gain practical skills through virtual, in-person, or hybrid workshops, typically in three to five sessions over a few months. Combining instructional content, guided discussions, hands-on exercises, and peer collaboration, cohorts create tangible outputs like a communications plan, brand strategy, or campaign roadmap.

Individual and group coaching

Tailored support ideal for reinforcing concepts from previous trainings. Easily scaled to be right-sized, these 1:1 or small group calls create opportunities to apply learnings, ask questions, and get personalized feedback on work, ensuring learning takes hold and can be applied.

Training Topics

Our trainings cover a wide range of nonprofit communications topics, like branding, storytelling campaigns, marketing, and fundraising. Choose from standard sessions or design a customized training tailored to your organization’s unique learning needs.  Here are a few of our most popular topics—explore more examples here.

  • How to plan, create, and evaluate a digital fundraising campaign
  • Telling compelling stories: Using narratives to inspire action
  • Developing persuasive messaging to engage donors
  • Creating donor communications plans
  • Is it time to change your nonprofit’s name?
  • Hello, my name is: Getting to know your audiences
  • Brand architecture: Strengthening and organizing your family of brands

Training clients

We partner with foundations, nonprofit associations, and nonprofit organizations to support professional learning and capacity-building. Here are a few recent training clients.

 

Our training is ideal for:

  • Foundations aiming to provide capacity-building and learning opportunities for their grantee partners
  • Nonprofit associations, networks, and coalitions looking to offer shared training and development for their member organizations
  • Nonprofits seeking to strengthen a specific skill or area within their teams

[It was] helpful to have time and a safe space to connect the workshop content to real challenges we’re facing.

— From a two-day brand and messaging workshop

Fees

Big Duck’s training fees vary based on customization level, travel requirements, and other variables. If you’d like to explore bringing training to your organization, please fill out the form below with any relevant dates and details or call 718-705-7574.

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