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Company profile<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nonprofit.Courses is an organization that offers the most comprehensive open access to educational resources for <\/span>nonprofits, charities and NGOs on the web. It is a place where thousands of learners from all over the world gather to watch videos, podcasts and read documents that contain nearly  every aspect of nonprofit charity operations and funding.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best part about the organization is that more than 200 eminent content experts have contributed to the subject content of the courses that are very easy to understand. <\/span><\/p>\n

Majority of the courses are free and need no additional payment or memberships at all. However, <\/span>Nonprofit.courses<\/a><\/strong> offers premium paid courses as well and many of these courses <\/span>confer CEU or academic credit, and\/or lead to degrees or certifications. <\/span><\/p>\n

The organization usually deals with subjects that are mainly non-profit sector oriented like  <\/span>fundraising<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>grantwriting<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>volunteer management<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>nonprofit accounting<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The founder of the company <\/span>Matt Hugg<\/a><\/strong> said “Nonprofit.Courses content is both nonprofit focused and nonprofit helpful. Nonprofit focused subjects are specific to the nonprofit sector, such as <\/span>fundraising<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>grantwriting<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>volunteer management<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>nonprofit accounting<\/span><\/a>, to name a few. Nonprofit helpful content are subjects that apply to any organization, but that nonprofits also need, such as <\/span>marketing<\/span><\/a>, human resources, <\/span>diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)<\/span><\/a>, how to make presentations, build websites, social media and so much more!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides the pre-recorded content, Nonprofit.Courses also provides a popular Live Event Calendar for Content Expert’s webinars, seminars and conferences. Many learners believe that it is an essential tool that keeps them updated about the latest things happening in the nonprofit field. <\/span><\/p>\n

The company has recently introduced an exclusive professional development management system named Record Your Success. The main objective behind this is to let learners track what they have watched, heard and read, create learning plans and goals. This helps them make resumes, point out gaps in their learning method.<\/span><\/p>\n

The founder said “<\/span>Unlike many professional development management systems that are run by employers or professional associations, <\/span>Record Your Success!<\/em><\/strong> is totally portable. The subscriber is able to take their information between jobs, use the system to create resumes, and show their progress on professional development goals in their annual personnel reviews.“<\/span><\/p>\n

Inspiration behind the project <\/strong><\/h2>\n

The long term academic teaching experience of the founder Matt Hugg has given birth to the company Nonprofit.Courses. During these years he realized that the learners in <\/span> nonprofit management fundraising, grant writing and marketing graduate school classes are more interested in watching video and audio content than assigned papers. So, he started to develop playlists for his classes. Surprisingly, many of his students shared those playlists with their colleagues and volunteers. <\/span><\/p>\n

It won’t be wrong to say that Nonprofit.Courses is the ultimate, fully indexed, nonprofit educational playlist that’s growing all of the time. Currently, it is being used as a go-to resource by nonprofit staff, volunteers and board members, as well as those who teach them. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to that the founder has also described the <\/span>Nonprofit.Courses Deals page<\/span><\/a>. It has been brought to the market to fulfill the requirement of support products in nonprofits. Currently, more than 50 companies have partnered with them and offer services from accounting and branding to video creation and website development. <\/span><\/p>\n

Issues faced <\/strong><\/h2>\n

While talking about the issue, Hugg mentioned its Live Events Calendar which is a <\/span> date-ordered compilation of webinars, seminars and conferences as presented by Nonprofit.Courses’ with 200+ Content Experts.<\/span><\/p>\n

They first tried out one of our competitor plugins and it was going well until the calendar received immense popularity. According to the founder the heavily coded calendar started taking up more resources than their hosting plan’s capacity. As a result, their site began to crash and after testing and researching on the problem they discovered that the plugin was the main culprit here. <\/span><\/p>\n

So they immediately launched a search for a replacement.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did Nonprofit Courses find WP Event Manager? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

They initiated a research on good WordPress Event Manager plugins online and finally ended up choosing WP Event Manager. The founder expressed that WP Event Manager was consistently well reviewed for <\/span>“lite” code – which was critical to their requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the founder’s words “We were also impressed by its flexibility, and that we could easily allow Content Experts to submit their events for our approval. Alternative plugins either didn’t offer that capability, or when they did it wasn’t as easy to use and expensive.”<\/span><\/p>\n

They also liked the layout that they were able to showcase their learners.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“WP Event Manager gave us a layout that allowed the user to quickly get the information they needed to decide whether an event was right for them. Once they click through, the details are easy to grasp, as well.”<\/span><\/p>\n

He also mentioned the <\/span>pricing<\/a><\/strong> structure of the <\/span>plugin<\/a><\/strong> which according to him is very affordable. The plugin has also helped them reduce expenses by eliminating the need for a higher level hosting plan, which would have been necessary with the old plugin. <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Our future plans include our own Nonprofit.Courses webinars, and <\/span>WP Event Manager<\/a><\/strong> is ready to facilitate those, too.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The plugins Nonprofit Courses used and the features that helped them the most<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Matt Hug expressed that he used multiple plugins from WP Event Manager that worked magically for the issues he faced. The plugins include the following: <\/span><\/p>\n