Illinois Community Colleges Online

Illinois Community Colleges Online (ILCCO) is a consortium of Illinois community college leaders collaborating to provide leadership, facilitate collaboration, and share resources in technology-enhanced and online education. As a gathering of leaders in online education in Illinois, ILCCO contributes to the leadership development of their members by strengthening skills and abilities while striving to guide and advocate for online learning in the state.

ILCCO is a membership organization available to all Illinois community college districts for the purpose of promoting quality online learning and providing additional online learning opportunities for students through course sharing.

Health Tech Academy

Health Tech Academy’s self-paced online bootcamps are designed to accelerate your path to a well-paying career in healthcare. With a focus on excellence, innovation, and personalized learning, their bootcamps are tailored to fit seamlessly into your schedule. They collaborate with universities and employers to transform the healthcare workforce, one talent at a time.

Health Tech Academy’s healthcare leadership training uses insight and contributions from top healthcare leaders and executives across the country to target specific leadership techniques and skills needed to drive results. Learn proven communication strategies, self-evaluation techniques, and relationship development methods to level up your healthcare career, build confidence, and lead high-performing teams capable of making a big impact.

Health Tech Academy aspires to transform and innovate the way healthcare professionals are educated, hired, and retained.

Trevor Project

The LGBTQ+ Ally Training is designed to create dialogue around being an adult ally for LGBTQ+ youth by informing participants about common terminology, the “coming out” process, and challenges at home, in school, and in the community. Through activities in this course, participants are encouraged to explore their biases, build knowledge, and develop empathy. The Trevor Project also offers training for youth-serving professionals like foster parents, teachers, and social workers.

The Trevor Project is the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ+ young people. They provide information and support to LGBTQ+ young people 24/7, all year round. In addition to the Ally Training, their Resource page offers free articles, resources, and guides on sexual orientation, LGBTQ+ mental health, gender identity, community resources, talking about suicide, a coming out handbook, and more.

Get Smarter

GetSmarter offers market-led executive education courses with edX, a 2U company that delivers online education from world-leading universities and institutions to transform the lives of thousands of learners across the globe. GetSmarter’s online certificate courses are designed to advance your career and fit in with your busy lifestyle. Each course is expert-led, fully supported, and community-based, helping you build career-critical skills.

Everfi from Blackbaud

Everfi provides online workplace compliance training that drives change, is easy to use, and is backed by compliance expertise. Offerings include DEI, unconscious bias, harassment prevention, leadership, and ethics and compliance. Everfi also offers content related to financial literacy, workplace banking, and health and wellness.

In addition, Everfi engages the K-12 target audiences with free digital lessons and resources. Interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring real-world skills to your classroom. Learn more at https://everfi.com/k-12/.

SAGECare

SAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBTQ+ older people and their caregivers.

SAGECare is a cultural competency training program for agencies providing services to older adults. SAGECare training helps service providers create more LGBTQ+-welcoming environments. Having SAGECare credentials helps LGBTQ+ people find trained providers. Options for foundational and leadership courses are available.

SAGECare provides training for all levels of employees, administrators, and executives. They offer personalized consulting on virtually anything related to LGBTQ+ aging. Schedule a free discovery chat, learn more about credentialing, get a free quote, sign up for their free monthly e-newsletter with care-focused tips and resources, or sign up for their free live webinar series, ReDefining Care. See the Contact link above for details.

Disability Belongs

Disability Belongs™, formerly RespectAbility, is a diverse, disability-led nonprofit that works to create systemic change in how society views and values people with disabilities and advance policies and practices that empower people with disabilities to have a better future. Their mission is to fight stigmas and advance opportunities so people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of the community.

Disability Belongs™ is ready to help make your organization welcoming and inclusive of people with physical, sensory, cognitive, mental health, or other disabilities. Partner with them to create a more inclusive world for people with disabilities! Their team can review your policies and procedures, train your team on accessibility, inclusion, and belonging, and help your organization reach a better future where disabled people’s authentic experiences, innovations, and dedication can flourish. They offer Entertainment Media Consulting, connecting the industry to experts with lived disability experience to advise on all things disability inclusion, equity, and access throughout the overall storytelling process.

In addition, Disability Belongs™ offers free resources in these areas and beyond:
Training and consulting
Webinars
Communications, marketing, advertising
Education
Equity and inclusion
Faith inclusion
Inclusive philanthropy
LGBTQ+
Policy makers
Sex education

SynerChange Chicago

SynerChange Chicago (SCC) is a change leadership firm that helps organizations and individuals see new possibilities, change their mindset, and move from where they are to where they want to be. Their mission is to bring about the conscious and consistent practice of Creative Interchange in organizations today. SCC offers strategic planning, leadership development, and speaking opportunities.

SCC’s Leadership Development Program focuses on enhancing leadership skills and fostering learning and collaboration within your organization. Participants attend monthly learning sessions and are provided with a portfolio that includes a personalized profile, session agendas, and additional materials.

In their Leadership Education Series, participants attend one or two days of sessions per month for six months to a year, and will continue to build their portfolios with completed assignments, articles, and notes.

Illinois ABLE

IL ABLE is a savings and investment plan that makes it possible for people with disabilities and their families to save and invest their money for expenses related to living with a disability. ABLE Accounts can help solve a long-time predicament that many people with disabilities face: how to build financial wellness without risking much-needed federal government benefits. IL ABLE is sponsored by the State of Illinois and administered by the Office of the Illinois State Treasurer.

Nonprofit Ready

Nonprofit Ready supports nonprofit professionals and organizations by providing access to free sector-specific learning so that they have the knowledge and resources to create a transformative impact in their own communities. Choose from over 600 free learning resources, including Fundraising, Grant Writing, Leadership, Governance, Accounting and Finance, Operations, Marketing and Communications, Volunteer Engagement, and Program Management.

Take training on any device, anywhere, anytime! Head to the website above to create your free account.