Partnership Foundations Certificate
A 5-week live virtual certification cohort in corporate / industry engagement and partnership development. Built for nonprofit professionals and career changers ready to build real partnerships and a practice around them. Reserve Your Spot See the CurriculumBuilt for Two Specific Audiences
This is not a generic fundraising course. It is a practical certification built for people who want to develop real skills in corporate / industry partnership development and apply them immediately.
Nonprofit Professionals
You work in development, communications, or program leadership at a nonprofit or association. You know your mission but want a more strategic, relationship-based approach to corporate partnerships.
Career Changers
You are transitioning into the social sector from corporate, HR, workforce development, or another field. You bring real-world skills and want a credential and a framework that is valuable for opening doors to nonprofit leadership opportunities and career growth.
5 Weeks to Partnership Readiness
Each week combines a live Zoom session with practical fieldwork applied to your real organization or target practice area. You will leave every session with something you can use.
- Introduction to the customer discovery methodology
- What makes a strong corporate / industry partnership
- Defining your organization's partnership value proposition
- Overview of the partnering landscape
- How to structure a discovery conversation
- Conducting your first customer discovery interviews
- Surfacing insight from what you hear
- Building and prioritizing a targeted prospect list
- Researching a prospective corporate partner
- Aligning your mission to corporate priorities
- Crafting your organization's narrative for partnership conversations
- Preparing your outreach approach
- Building a relationship maintenance rhythm
- Using newsletters and opportunities to stay visible
- Recognizing when a prospect is ready for a deeper conversation
- How to move from relationship to real conversation
- Synthesizing what you learned from your discovery conversations
- Identifying the partner's needs and where your mission aligns
- Drafting your Partnership One-Pager
- Building your 90-day action plan
You Earn It. You Own It.
Partnership Foundations Certificate Capstone Deliverable
To earn the Partnership Foundations Certificate from CustomerDiscoveryPros.com, participants submit a Partnership One-Pager based on at least one real discovery conversation conducted during the program.
- The prospective partner and what you learned about their priorities
- The needs you identified and where alignment with your mission exists
- A proposed next step and 90-day action plan
A Globally Proven Methodology
This certification is built on a partnership discovery methodology with hands-on delivery experience across six continents. It is not theoretical. It has been successfully tested in the field, across cultures, sectors, and geographies.
WIPO-Published Author
Randy Fisher is the author of a forthcoming book on customer discovery for technology transfer professionals, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Six Continents of Delivery
Workshops delivered in Albania, North Macedonia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Chile, Canada, and the United States. The methodology works across cultures because it is built on listening, not pitching.
Delivered by CustomerDiscoveryPros.com
The Partnership Foundations Certificate is a CustomerDiscoveryPros.com program. It is built on the same discovery methodology used across industries, sectors, and six continents.
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