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LGBTQ Learning Hub
Welcome to a dedicated corner of LUNA Experience, one built just for LGBTQ centers and community organizations
Because your work is bold, beautiful, and often held together by equal parts passion and duct tape…and you deserve training, resources, and guidance that matches your brilliance.
In partnership with CenterLink, we’re offering a curated suite of courses designed to strengthen your organization from the inside out – financially, narratively, relationally, and emotionally.
Everything is built by seasoned practitioners who know the realities of leading small and mid-sized nonprofits, and who pick up the phone when you call. Really.
Each course blends practical tools, real-world case studies, and a supportive learning community that sticks with you long after the last session ends.
Finance Fundamentals is a hands-on, practical introduction to nonprofit financial management. Whether you're just getting started or looking to strengthen your skills, you'll learn how to set up solid financial systems that support your mission, keep things transparent, and meet all the right compliance standards.
We’ll break down the key differences between nonprofits and for-profits, especially when it comes to budgeting, tracking income, and staying accountable to donors. You’ll be guided through building a budget that aligns with your goals, setting up a nonprofit-friendly chart of accounts, and managing both restricted and unrestricted funds the right way.
We’ll also cover how to track revenue, allocate expenses (including payroll), and prepare financial reports that make sense to staff, board members, and funders alike.
- A clear, confidence-building understanding of nonprofit financial basics
- Template and tools you can use immediately - no accounting degree required
- A crisp annual budgeting process your board and staff will finally celebrate - and understand
- A roadmap for sustainability, not scarcity
- The comfort of knowing you can proudly use your financials to tell a story
This course is built for busy nonprofit leaders, emerging finance staff, and "suddenly in charge of money" program managers who want to do things right without drowning in jargon.
LGBTQ-focused organizations operate at the intersection of identity, justice, and urgency - and that makes storytelling hard. When your story isn’t clear, fundraising feels reactive, messaging feels exhausting, and trust is harder to sustain.
This course is designed to change that.
In a flexible online format with live sessions, you’ll learn how to build clear, human-centered storytelling that strengthens fundraising, aligns your team, and builds long-term donor trust, without burnout or tokenism.
You’ll walk away with a shared language and structure your organization can rely on, so storytelling stops feeling like pressure and starts feeling like the superpower it is.
This course is for team members and leaders of LGBTQ Organizations with smaller teams or limited resources working in:
- Fundraising & Development
- Executive Leadership
- Marketing & Communications
- Programs & Community Engagement
Philanthropy is the lifeblood of most nonprofits. In good times, fundraising helps us do more. In challenging times, it helps us not just to survive, but to thrive.
This course explores the essentials:
- How to be successful at fundraising no matter your role in the organization
- The critical importance of donor relations and stewardships in maintaining and deepening relationships and ensuring a healthy bottom line
- Fundraising strategy for annual giving, mid-level giving, major gifts, corporate partnerships, and foundation relationships
- How to create a customized development plan for your organization
This course is for team members and leaders of LGBTQ Organizations with smaller teams or limited resources working in:
- Fundraising & Development
- Executive Leadership
- Marketing & Communications
- Programs & Community Engagement
Through online content and Zoom workshops, this online course is designed to equip nonprofit leaders, board members, and staff with practical tools and strategic insights to navigate and withstand these external pressures. Through a combination of expert-led video lessons, downloadable planning guides, and interactive exercises, you will learn how to improve governance to best engage board members, enhance your organization’s storytelling, strengthen your culture of philanthropy with an “attitude of gratitude", and finesse fundraising strategies to attract annual, mid-level, and major gift donors, and create strategic, actionable development plans.
Whether your organization is already feeling the effects of policy-driven challenges or looking to prepare for what’s ahead, this course offers a timely and empowering roadmap to not only survive—but thrive.
This course is for team members and leaders of LGBTQ Organizations with smaller teams or limited resources working in:
- Fundraising & Development
- Executive Leadership
- Marketing & Communications
- Programs & Community Engagement
Why LUNA?
Because we’re not a faceless training platform.
We’re real practitioners who:
- Build authentic community – not the buzzword kind, the lived-in kind
- Offer scholarships to make learning accessible (but you gotta qualify)
- Teach holistically, across all the things leaders actually juggle
- Bring practical know-how, not academic abstraction
- Tailor learning for small and mid-sized nonprofits, where capacity is real life
- Show up, share generously, and stay in relationship with you long after the class ends*
(* By the way, LUNA was built – and these classes are taught – by members of the LGBTQ community and a couple of allies we adore.)
Ready to strengthen your organization?
Thanks to a generous donor and members of our LUNA community, we’ve created the LUNA Scholarship Fund. If your organization qualifies (and we have funds available), you may receive a 75% scholarship for any single course.
Here’s the qualification criteria:
- You must be incorporated as a 501(c)(3) or have a fiscal sponsor
- You must have the minimum number of board members for your state
- The board members must not be related to one another
- You have to be raising less than $250,000 per year from individuals
- Your organization has to be committed to the ideals of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (yeah, we still use those words). But if you’ve accessed this page, it’s pretty much given that you hit this mark.
