Workshops and Labs
Learn more about each workshop or lab through the links below. Register for them all on our events page.
Vantage Point works with various partners to provide a limited number of bursaries to staff and board members of eligible organizations to attend Vantage Point’s workshops and multi-day labs.
Find all bursary programs and eligibility requirements here.
Workshops
Board Development Workshops
- Advanced Governance: Strategic and Generative Conversations
- Advanced Governance: Strategic Financial Governance
- Board Fundamentals: Critical Role of the Board Chair
- Board Fundamentals: Supporting Your Executive Director
- Board Fundamentals: Fund Development
- Board Fundamentals: Financial Governance
- Board Fundamentals: Roles and Responsibilities
- Board Fundamentals: Roles and Responsibilities (eLearning)
- Board Fundamentals: Succession and Recruitment
- Board Fundamentals: Effective Board Meeting Facilitation
- Board Fundamentals: Executive Director Succession Planning
Board Diversity & Inclusion Workshops
- Board Diversity & Inclusion: Introduction to Key Concepts
- Board Diversity & Inclusion: Deepening Foundations and Embedding Actions
- Board Diversity & Inclusion: Navigating Power and Dominant Culture(s)
- Volunteering on Non-Profit Boards: How and Why to join a Board
- Board Diversity & Inclusion: Disability Perspectives
Capacity Building Workshops
Leadership Workshops
Multi-day Labs
Advanced Executive Lab (7 half-days)
Collaboration Lab: Bridging People, Organizations, and Sectors (3 half-days)
Essentials for New Managers Lab (3 half-days)
Executive Director 101 Lab (3 half-days)
Leadership Principles Lab (3 half-days)
Capacity Development Lab (7 half-days)
Raising the Right Revenue: A Fund Development Lab (8 half-days)
Workshops and Lab Settings
- Our workshops and labs are facilitated by a mix of staff and volunteers (known as Knowledge Philanthropists) who are subject matter experts in the given topic.
- Workshops and labs that are delivered in partnership with other organizations may differ slightly in structure. You can find this information on the specific workshop or lab page.
- For hybrid sessions, please inform the Vantage Point team of any changes to your participation mode as soon as possible. (For example, if you originally planned to attend in person but are now attending online.) This will help facilitators prepare accordingly and ensure that the session is inclusive and engaging for everyone.
About Our Workshops
- All workshops are scheduled for 3 or 4 hours with 2 short breaks.
- Approximately 50 minutes to 1 hour of workshops will be used for peer-to-peer discussion, reflection, learning, and problem-solving.
About Our Labs
- All labs are multi-day commitments, usually weekly or bi-weekly. Each day involves a 3-hour session with at least 2 short breaks.
- Participants are asked to attend all days of a lab. Your attendance plays an important role in creating community, holding one another accountable, and exchanging learnings with your peers.
A note on safety
Vantage Point is committed to fostering a safe learning environment that minimizes emotional or psychological harm and allows participants to explore difficult issues and express their views honestly.
We recognize that safety is a group responsibility and ask all participants to commit to respectful and considerate engagement.
Though we cannot always guarantee participant safety, Vantage Point:
- Seeks to create a space where diverse participants can work with issues that are challenging to them, through discomfort, without threat of judgement or prejudice.
- Encourages participants to learn from each other’s perspectives, opinions, and mistakes.
- Supports facilitator skills and confidence to engage with compassion if a participant is experiencing emotional or psychological harm.
- Takes opportunities to learn from participant feedback around safety.