Partnerships & Collaboration

Learn a simple system that helps your organization understand what corporate partners look for, how to translate your mission into partnership opportunities, and what steps will set you up for success.

Join an evening of community, conversation, and bold ideas about the future of work and economy in North Carolina.

Rejection in fundraising isn’t personal or final - it’s an opportunity to build trust and deepen relationships. By responding to “no” with empathy, curiosity, and resilience, fundraisers can transform rejection into long-term connection and eventual success.

Stretch beyond the obvious and look outside your circle to find unlikely but powerful partners.

Developed from ongoing nonprofit management research and the Center’s guide, Principles & Practices: Best Practices for North Carolina Nonprofits, this 6-session series facilitates learning, discussion, and fundamental management strategies around board governance, program design and evaluation, strategic planning, fundraising, financial management, and human resources.

We throw around the words partnership and collaboration a lot, but they’re not exactly the same thing. It matters! Understand the difference and why we need both.

Commencement speaker Wren Davisson helped us celebrate the 51 newest graduates of the Nonprofit Management Institute.

Strategies to build strong financial management practices will help mitigate threats and ride out waves of uncertainty.

Share fundraising expertise, connect with fundraising professionals statewide, and tap into creativity at AFP Cape Fear's 2025 AFP Philanthropy Conference.

Discuss current public policy issues that affect Triad nonprofits and communities and brainstorming collective actions local nonprofits can take to address them.