Our multi-week faculty-led courses are similar to the distance learning offered by top-notch universities. This interactive learning experience offers the opportunity to collaborate with an expert instructor and peers online. Courses are packed with resources and best practices that will immediately impact your work. Incorporating collaborative technology such as online discussion forums, chats and live web conferencing, our faculty-led courses deliver a comprehensive professional development experience, while allowing learners to save valuable time and travel dollars and build skills when it’s convenient.
The benefits of faculty-led courses
- The ability to communicate with and learn from both faculty and fellow learners.
- Content delivered in weekly lessons, with deadlines that allow you to learn according to your schedule.
- Feedback and instruction specific to the context of your community development challenges.
- Access to course materials, resources and reference tools online following the completion of the course.
- Saving time and travel money while benefiting from a high-quality learning experience.
All you’ll need is a computer and internet connection to take advantage of this reasonably priced and highly effective professional development opportunity!
Faculty-led courses we offer
Affordable Housing
- Creative Project Financing Strategies for Affordable Housing (AH226vc)
- Shared Equity Housing: Creative Models to Preserve Affordable Homeownership (AH256VC)
Asset Management
- Building a Property Deal Book as a Component of Your Asset Management Plan (AM210vc)
- Affordable Housing Finance Workshop for Asset Managers (AM225vc)
- Advanced Financial Tools for Asset Managers - Part 1 (AM321vc)
- Advanced Financial Tools for Asset Managers - Part 2 (AM322vc)
Community Engagement
- Conversations on Privilege, Power, Prejudice (CB199vc)
- Building Leaders, Building Communities for All: An Intergenerational Leadership Curriculum Resource (CB277vc - formerly CB275vc)
Community and Neighborhood Revitalization
- Make it Creative: Leveraging Arts and Culture for Affordable Housing and Equitable Community Development (NR190vc)
- Make it Last: Integrating Arts and Analysis to Leverage Creative Community Development (NR390vc)
Economic Development
Financial Capability
- Building Skills for Financial Confidence (HO208vc)
- Delivering Effective Financial Education for Today's Consumers (HO209vc)
- Measuring the Impact of Financial Capability Programs (HO212vc)
- Design, Deliver and Market Your Financial Capability Program Virtually (HO214vc)
- Financial Coaching: Helping Clients Reach Their Goals (HO310vc)
Foreclosure/Eviction Intervention
- Foreclosure Basics for Homeownership Counselors (HO109vc)
- Advanced Foreclosure: Case Study Practicum (HO307vc)
- Foreclosure Intervention and Default Counseling Certification - Part 1 (HO345rqvc)
- Best Practices to Improve Your Foreclosure Intervention Counseling Program (HO347vc)
Housing Counseling and Homeownership
- Compliance with State and Federal Regulations (HO105vc)
- Introduction to Housing Counseling (HO110vc)
- Ready, Set, Prep: Tackling the HUD Counselor Exam Step by Step (HO200vc)
- Homebuyer Education Methods: Training the Trainer (HO229vc)
- Post-Purchase Education Methods (HO247vc)
- Homeownership Counseling Certification: Principles, Practices and Techniques - Part I (HO250vc)
- Rental Housing Counseling Certification - Part 1 (HO274vc)
- Fundamentals for Resident Service Providers (HO277vc)
- Advanced Topics in HECM Counseling (HO365vc)
Management and Leadership
- Strategic Thinking and Planning (ML120vc)
- ABCs of Managing Projects and Collaborators (ML145vc)
- Laying the Foundation for Fundraising (ML170vc)
- Fundamentals of Sustainable Funding: Cultivating Individual Donors (ML172vc)
- Grant Proposal Writing (ML173vc)
- Leadership Development in Communities of Color (ML245vc)
- Sorting Through the Chaos: Effectively Managing Projects (ML249vc)
- Developing Successful Partnerships with Native Organizations (ML251vc)
- How to Negotiate: The Most Important Skill You Will Ever Learn (ML282vcx) UPDATED!
- Feb. 6-9, 2024
Accelerated 4-day faculty-led course
Each live session takes place from 9:00-11:00 am ET and 12:00-2:00pm ET
- Feb. 6-9, 2024
- Culture Revolution: Transformational Change for a Sustainable Business Model (ML321VC)
Native American Community Development
- Post-Purchase Homeownership Education Methods in Native Communities (NA247vc)
- Developing Successful Partnerships with Native Organizations (ML251vc)
Rural Community Development
- Rural Community Economic Development (RD130vc)