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Christian Community Development Association

Christian Community Development Association

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Welcome to the online institute: providing courses to effectively equip you to live out the CCD philosophy and help create wholistic transformation in your community.

CCDA’s mission has always been to inspire, train and connect Christians called to marginalized communities. The CCDA Institute Online provides accessible training through online courses designed to help you be part of the restoring work God is accomplishing in your neighborhood.

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Featured Courses

  • The Holistic Coaching Model

    2 Lessonsin Featured, Strengthening Your Organization
    • The Holistic Coaching Model - $10.00

    Michael Sickles and Madison Walter from Back2Back Cincinnati share about The Holistic Coaching model. The model is designed to equip adults investing in teenagers, so that they may coach and train youth towards holistic care and sustainability through an established, trusted relationship following the principles of Luke 10, as people of peace.

  • Planning and Experiencing a Sabbatical

    2 Lessonsin Featured, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Renewed for the Journey: Planning, Experiencing, and Re-entry of Sabbatical - $10.00

    The Lord gave us sabbath and sabbatical as gifts. A sabbatical well planned, funded, supported, experienced, and reported on can refresh and renew a person’s soul, family, and ministry. Join Rev. Dr. Jason Leininger who will share resources, perspectives, and planning tools to plan, experience, and re-enter a sabbatical well and whole.

  • Everybody is a Leader

    1 Lessonin Featured, Organizational Development, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Everybody is a Leader: A System of Staff Development - $40.00

    The most important ingredient for an organization to succeed is leadership, yet many do not have an intentional process to grow leaders. Join Dr. Alvin Sanders to learn a model that creates & maintains a leadership “pipeline” to guarantee a supply of skilled leadership within the organization.

  • Dignified Storytelling

    0 Lessonsin Featured, Organizational Development, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Dignified Storytelling - $40.00

    Create and promote stories that inspire while honoring the life and dignity of people, their experiences, and the storyteller. Join Angelica 'Lica' Acosta Garnett and Nate Ledbetter to integrate ethical storytelling standards into your practices.

Courses

Course Category: Strengthening Your Organization

  • Forming a New Nonprofit Ministry

    1 Lessonin Strengthening Your Organization
    • Forming a New Nonprofit Ministry - $40.00

    Join Mindy Muller, MS, CFRE, to explore several key questions to consider as they seek to build organizational structure around their vision and calling. Learn the five-step process to starting a new nonprofit including how to incorporate, pull the required organizational documents together, and secure 501c3 nonprofit status.

  • Dignified Storytelling

    0 Lessonsin Featured, Organizational Development, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Dignified Storytelling - $40.00

    Create and promote stories that inspire while honoring the life and dignity of people, their experiences, and the storyteller. Join Angelica 'Lica' Acosta Garnett and Nate Ledbetter to integrate ethical storytelling standards into your practices.

  • StrengthsFinder for Team Building

    0 Lessonsin Featured, Organizational Development, Strengthening Your Organization
    • StrengthsFinder for Team Building - $40.00

    Leaders need teams to accomplish their mission, but it’s not easy. People with diverse perspectives and communication styles can face many challenges when working together. Discover the benefits of using StrengthsFinder for team-building. Learn more about your team's individual and collective strengths, nurture personal, spiritual, and emotional health within your organization and between team members. Led by pastor and leadership coach Steve Garcia, leaders will receive tools to build their teams, play to their strengths, and get things done. 

  • Building The Sustainable Organization

    0 Lessonsin Featured, Organizational Development, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Building The Sustainable Organization - $40.00

    Which evaluation lens best fits your organizational context right now?Join us for the Check Yourself: The Spiritual Practice of Review and Evaluation class with Sonja Schappert to learn seven key areas to review and evaluate for organizational wellbeing. Learn important evaluative rhythms, multi-directional aspects, and how to root your vision in your present context. 

  • Key Strategies for Developing a Resilient Board

    0 Lessonsin Strengthening Your Organization
    • Key Strategies for Developing a Resilient Board - $40.00

    Having a strong board made up of the right people at the right time is one of the strongest indicators of sustainability for any nonprofit organization. Join Daniel Watson, Matthew Best, & Jonathan Haskell to learn. how to develop the board that is going to take your organization into the future and not just survive today.

  • Shifting Culture: Is Your Organization Inclusive & Welcoming?

    0 Lessonsin Featured, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Shifting Culture: Is Your Organization Inclusive and Welcoming? - $40.00

    How can you ensure your ministry's programs address the root causes of poverty from a wholistic CCD lens? Come unpack key principles you can use to self-evaluate your programs and leave with a simple, usable tool for further integration work with your staff and colleagues. 

  • Program Design Principles

    0 Lessonsin Featured, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Program Design Principles - $40.00

    How can you ensure your ministry's programs address the root causes of poverty from a wholistic CCD lens? Come unpack key principles you can use to self-evaluate your programs and leave with a simple, usable tool for further integration work with your staff and colleagues. 

  • Facilitating Change & Managing Resistance in Organizations

    0 Lessonsin Strengthening Your Organization
    • Facilitating Change and Managing Resistance in Organizations - $40.00

    Having a hard time communicating the ROI for your organization? Learn how to create a framework for effectively envisioning and communicating your organization’s mission, vision, programmatic outcomes, and impact. Come create a foundational map for your organization with Daniel Watson.

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