Nonprofit Center of Excellence
Aspen Community Foundation’s Nonprofit Center of Excellence (NCE) is a regional resource that supports nonprofit organizations throughout the Aspen to Parachute region, enabling them to recognize and actualize their full potential in delivering positive, sustainable community impact. We’ve partnered with Human Service Innovations to create a series of professional learning and development opportunities to strengthen the competencies and capacity of local nonprofit leaders and their teams.
The Nonprofit Center of Excellence provides year-round professional development and capacity-building workshops, offering valuable tools and techniques that optimize mission delivery and impact.
| NCE Academy
Save the Date: 2027 Academy
The Nonprofit Center of Excellence Academy (NCEA) is a week-long intensive capacity-building experience for nonprofit executives, their teams, and board leaders to learn the foundations of leading, managing, and governing a nonprofit organization.
January 11 – 15, 2027
The Hoffmann Hotel, 30 Kodiak Drive, Basalt, CO 81621
Curriculum
The curriculum for the NCEA is informed by community stakeholders and prior year
NCEA participant feedback and will focus on the following content areas:
- Values-Based Leadership
- Governance & Executive Leadership
- People, Process, Infrastructure, and Financial Resource Management
- Nonprofit Finance Best Practices
- Human Resource Management
- Data Driven Program Design & Evaluation
- Marketing, Communications & Effective Storytelling
- Fund Development
- Partnership & Collaboration
Eligibility
The NCEA is open to applicants who meet all the following criteria:
- A Colorado-registered 501(c)3 Nonprofit organization located in and/or serving the Aspen to Parachute region.
- The willingness of the Executive leader and up to one additional staff leader to participate throughout the duration of the Academy.
- The willingness and ability of the Board leader to participate in day one of the Academy.
| Capacity Building
Level-Up Workshop Series
A series of virtual workshops to provide ongoing focused development, building on the content covered in the Academy.
Valerie Carlin
Chief Impact Officer
| Questions?
Contact Valerie Carlin, Chief Impact Officer, to learn more about NCE and NCEA.