How Can Non-profits Benefit from a Learning Management System?

Non-profits and for-profits both need training to help sustain growth, but non-profits, unlike their for-profit counterparts, often train many different types of people like volunteers or the public. By using a learning management system (LMS) can be used by a non-profit to provide training and development for staff, volunteers, and members.

Volunteer Training

A LMS is the best way to deliver training to volunteers, as it is flexible, customizable, and can be accessed worldwide. However, a LMS like CoreAchieve is more conducive to this as CoreAchieve charges for only active users, but an organization could have unlimited registered users—complete with data. So, as the season for a non-profit changes or moves to a different location, the organization can keep previous volunteer’s data while training more without charge.

Fundraiser Training

Fundraisers are one of the most important activities that non-profits engage in, spreading awareness and gaining funds for their cause. By implementing a LMS, a non-profit can ensure that the people fundraising are trained in all of the best fundraising strategies and donor engagement, which will lead to more effective fundraisers.

Program Training

Many non-profits offer specific programs, like educational services or food drives, that can vary in volunteers, managers, and locations. Using a LMS to deliver training for these programs will help contain this variance as every group will receive the same training and will be assessed from the same standards.

Mandatory Compliance

Compliance is a necessary part of any professional organization and non-profits can take advantage of a LMS by delivering compliance, like sexual harassment prevention or workplace safety.

Offer Online Programs

If your non-profit offers educational programs as part of its mission, then by implementing a LMS, you could offer that program to anyone regardless of availability or location. Doing this will not only further your goals, but it’ll also be natural marketing and a tangible value proposition.

Other LMS Benefits for Non-Profits

It shouldn’t be surprising that a LMS could be useful for training, but there are other benefits to a non-profit using a LMS that extends beyond training.

Cost Saving

A non-profit using a LMS could save money on travel fees and accommodation. Rather, with a LMS non-profits can train anyone, anywhere as long as they have an internet connection.

Make Data Driven Decisions

Part of the reason that a non-profit can ensure effective training is because a LMS can collect data from all of its learners, which is then displayed to those who set up the LMS. Using this data allows the non-profit to make data-driven decisions based off their training. A benefit that is only furthered if the training is opened to the public, collecting huge swaths of data.

Reduced Environmental Impact

Having to travel or use printed materials for your non-profit training will produce a greater impact on the environment than training digitally with a LMS. The greater the size of the non-profit the bigger the impact on the environment will be and, naturally, the greater the potential to reduce that impact.

A non-profit can benefit from a LMS not only for training, but also for their value proposition, spreading their mission, and help make important decisions. While it may be tempting for a non-profit to disregard a LMS like CoreAchieve as something for for-profit businesses, there are numerous benefits that a non-profit could reap.

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