June 2026 Nonprofit Institute Newsletter

Welcome to June and all the sunshine, celebration, and summertime fun that comes with it! While you continue doing the incredible work of serving others, we hope you’ve also added yourselves to the list for a little rest, relaxation, and joy this season. You deserve it! Here at the Nonprofit Institute (NPI), creativity and excitement continue to flow, and we are thrilled to officially announce a new event:

Making the Net Work:
The Collaboration Collective
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
College of Southern Maryland
Center for Business and Industry
(BI Building)
8730 Mitchell Road, La Plata, MD 20646

As mentioned last month, we heard your requests loud and clear for more opportunities to connect, collaborate, and build stronger relationships across our nonprofit community and we are making it happen!

While our annual conference will continue to focus on professional development and sustainability strategies for nonprofits, this event is designed with one major goal in mind: bringing the work of caring together in one room. This experience will be all about relationship-building, discovering new partnerships, sharing ideas, learning about each other’s missions, and identifying opportunities for meaningful collaboration throughout Southern Maryland.

Yes, you’ll leave with plenty of business cards and new contacts or maybe a few QR code scans, but even more importantly, you’ll walk away with a broader understanding of the extraordinary impact happening across our region every single day.

You asked. We listened. We’re delivering! And trust us, we can hardly wait to see the energy in the room!

Go ahead and save the date, and look for more information when registration opens in July.

Meanwhile, summer planning is in full swing at NPI as we prepare exciting new professional development offerings for the fall. Alongside our traditional training, we are also curating innovative learning experiences focused on real-time, right-now skill development that keeps pace with the rapidly changing marketplace and evolving nonprofit landscape.

And one more exciting update, NPI is officially on tour this summer!

We’ve begun visiting nonprofits throughout Southern Maryland to experience firsthand the incredible work happening within your organizations. Seeing service delivery in real time has been deeply inspiring, eye-opening, and energizing. These visits are helping us think creatively about new ways to support, strengthen, and sustain the work of caring across our communities.

If you would like us to visit your nonprofit this summer, please email sdrolle@csmd.edu, and we’ll be happy to explore adding your organization to our summer visit schedule.

And now… that’s enough reading for one summer newsletter because honestly, these beautiful warm days were made for sunshine, laughter, and maybe a little less screen time!

With gratitude and summer joy,

Stephanie
Stephanie D. Rolle
Director, Nonprofit Institute at CSM
Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant