Hear from United Way fundraising experts about the principles of fundraising and best practices for success. Dive into corporate engagement and key pathways for individual engagement. Explore ways in which we can grow donors. Offered twice per year at no charge to support new team members’ success.

Explore the concepts of a growth mindset and mindset transformation. This self-directed course spans 9 TED-Talk-style modules with interactive learning exercises, providing tools to facilitate a lasting Mindset shift. Learn how this shift enables higher performance and greater satisfaction in both personal and professional lives.

The 2023 Advocacy Forum and Capitol Hill Day is United Way Worldwide’s signature public policy and advocacy event. Leaders from across the Network gather for policy updates and advocacy training, engage with policymakers, and share best practices for state and local policy work.

A program for new United Way professionals. Through two short sessions you will learn the basics of United Way: our vision and mission, our superpowers, our history, and opportunities. Set yourself up for success – locally and within the worldwide Network. Offered quarterly to support new team members’ success.

This unique opportunity offers comprehensive major gift training filled with tried-and-true best practices, developed and crafted by Veritus Group founders, to bring proven-successful philosophies, approaches, systems, tools and skills to all skill levels and market sizes. Major Gift Academy and Tocqueville Training is a 9-module, 36 CFRE point OnDemand course that requires approximately 3-5 hours to complete per module over several weeks. Designed with your busy schedule in mind, this OnDemand course allows you to progress at your own pace through each module on any day and at any time that is most convenient for you. Employing a "back-to-basics" approach, your learning will take place through a multi-media experience, including video, podcasts, webinars, live calls, and the MGA Facebook page. This approach will keep you engaged, help you reignite your passion, retain your joy of fundraising and eliminate the challenges standing between you and greater success!

Maximize your fundraising by asking for planned gifts. In this six-week virtual course, learn how to communicate with donors about their wealth and their financial assets – not just their cash – and learn how a planned gift can provide them with current income, an inheritance for their heirs and a legacy through your charitable organization. Then, after learning the foundation of planned giving, dive into our newly added United Way specific module, focusing on building a planned giving program in your local United Way!

This unique opportunity offers comprehensive major gift training filled with tried-and-true best practices, developed and crafted by Veritus Group founders, to bring proven-successful philosophies, approaches, systems, tools and skills to all skill levels and market sizes. Major Gift Academy is a 8-module, 36 CFRE point OnDemand course that requires approximately 3-5 hours to complete per module over several weeks. Designed with your busy schedule in mind, this OnDemand course allows you to progress at your own pace through each module on any day and at any time that is most convenient for you. Employing a "back-to-basics" approach, your learning will take place through a multi-media experience, including video, podcasts, webinars, live calls, and the MGA Facebook page. This approach will keep you engaged, help you reignite your passion, retain your joy of fundraising and eliminate the challenges standing between you and greater success!

The Certification Course for Managers and Executives is a comprehensive training designed to support non-profit leaders seeking to strategically and impactfully establish a system and structure that will create major gifts success.