Project & Volunteer Management for Associations

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Lead Projects with Confidence. Engage Volunteers with Impact.

If you manage projects or work with volunteers in an association or nonprofit organization, you know the challenges: balancing timelines with mission-driven priorities, coordinating key players, and ensuring projects deliver real impact.

This course is the only program tailored to the unique association context, combining project management fundamentals with strategies for engaging volunteers effectively. Unlike generic project management training, CESSE’s program addresses the realities of nonprofit governance, volunteer leadership, and collaborative decision-making.

Through a mix of direct instruction, breakout groups, and applied activities, this course combines foundational principles with hands-on strategies for real-world challenges.

Registration Information

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CESSE Project and Volunteer Management Attendee

Learning Objectives

Understand the fundamental principles of project management
Gain skills for effective people management, including volunteer groups
Identify tools and techniques to improve communication and collaboration
Learn to develop and manage project plans and timelines
Develop strategies to address common challenges in nonprofit project management

Program Details

Two interactive 4.5-hour Zoom sessions
Breakout rooms and real-world scenarios
Workbook for applied learning

Participants will earn 8 CAE credits, and CESSE is also a CMP Preferred Provider.

Upcoming Session

June

Day One: Wednesday, June 24 | 10:00 am - 2:30 pm ET
Day Two: Thursday, June 25 | 10:00 am - 2:30 pm ET

What Previous Attendees are Saying

“The Project and Volunteer Management offered by CESSE was excellent. It covered topics that I was familiar with, but this provided a good foundation that connected all the key elements together into a single course geared for Association team members.”

Curt Gomulinski, Executive Director, Tau Beta Pi

"This course helped me put words and structure around things I’ve been doing intuitively for years. It was reassuring, useful, and immediately applicable to the way our organization really operates."

India Williams, Manager Strategic Projects, INFORMS

"This is my second course with CESSE and it was just as helpful as the first one. This course gives you so much amazing information to implement in project management."

Megan Murphy, Operations, Psi Chi The International Honor Society in Psychology

Space is Limited

This course is limited to the first 36 registrants. Once registration has closed, we will open a waitlist. If you have any questions, please email our team at [email protected].