NANOE CNC Credential Exam

Congratulations! Your application for NANOE’s Certified Nonprofit Consultant has been accepted! You are now a candidate to take the NANOE Certified Nonprofit Consultant Exam.

The NANOE CNC exam consists of 221 questions. The exam covers the following topics.

  • What a consultant is
  • Creating and managing a successful consulting practice
  • Working with clients
  • Creating effective proposals and contracts
  • Establishing fees
  • Managing RFPs and retainers
  • Growing your consultant business
  • Marketing your consulting business
  • Using the internet for business purposes
  • Basic knowledge of federal and state nonprofit finance and compliance regulations
  • Ethical consultant practices
  • Maintaining efficacy and self-esteem during the highs and lows of consulting practice

The following materials should be read and understood before starting the exam.  Each section of the exam is linked to background readers or reviews of codes and regulations as found on the IRS and state charitable corporations’ websites.  Purchase of Alan Weiss’ book can be done by going to NANOE Central and clicking on the Downtown NANOE box.

  • Weiss, Alan. (2016).  Million-dollar consulting: The professional's guide to growing a practice.  New York: NY: McGraw Hill Education, Fifth Edition. (Be sure you access 5th edition.) This book can be order through NANOE Central’s Downtown NANOE link.
  • Review the IRS website on nonprofit corporation compliance to IRS regulations by visiting Here and Here
  • Review the ethics laws for public employees for all states in which you consult.
  • Review the nonprofit corporation law for all states in which you consult.
  • Review the requirements for registration of consultants in the states you practice (if any).
  • Stroh, L.K. & Johnson, H.H. (2006). The basic principles of effective consulting. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Erlbaum Associations Publishers. This can be freely obtained by A href=" http://lifecycle-performance-pros.com/phocadownload/Resources/Consulting/The-Basic-Principles-of-Effective-Consulting.pdf/>Clicking Here
  • If you are a member of the American Marketing Association, review their Marketing Toolkit Here

The exam is an open book exam and not timed. Candidates must achieve 70% or higher to pass the exam. The exam is accessed online. Candidates are able to complete a section, go offline, and return. Candidates can enter and exist as many times as needed. If you re-think previous answers, you are able to go back to adjust exam answers. Once the exam is completed, the candidate will be told immediately what their score was and, if they passed, will be able to download their Certificate of Achievement immediately. Candidates will also immediately receive feedback on exam questions that were correct and not correct.

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NANOE leaders wish you all the best of success in completion of the exam! Call 1-800-257-6670, if you have questions.

OUR MEMBERS ARE OUR MISSION

National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives (NANOE) is a nationwide network of donors, volunteers and charitable leaders whose relentless commitment to significant and sustainable impact transforms the communities we serve. NANOE members are innovators who solve problems (not just service them) by deploying heroic missions of scale that confront social and environmental dilemmas so completely that money chases after their every need.

  1. We connect philanthropists, funders and academics to people that transform their worlds;
  2. We create platforms, programs and tools that supercharge financial capacity building;
  3. We form economic impact engines infusing capital into charities to guarantee mission success;
  4. We confront intellectual dishonesty using mass communications to dispel myths and disseminate truth;
  5. We disrupt industry associations, organizations and media outlets whose activities injure nonprofits;
  6. We build personal relationships with leaders that strengthen them and meet their needs;
  7. We establish compensation standards that safeguard the financial success of those employed in our sector;
  8. We credential executives in advanced management models, capacity-building and consulting;
  9. We research and report on scale, sustainability and significant impact;
  10. We host forums, conferences and events on scale, sustainability and significant impact;

NANOE, a 501(c)3 corporation, has unveiled a new and growing set of capacity-building “best practices” that empower nonprofits in ways previously thought to be impossible. These approved techniques are based on field tested university research and have been peer-reviewed by NANOE Governors during NANOE’s Convention & Expo. They have been designed for leaders who have a passion to grow their mission. For more information on NANOE’s Board of Governors’ Convention & Expo please visit our Events Page.

NANOE is the only nationwide membership organization in the U.S. for executives seeking credentials in the art of nonprofit capacity-building. Practitioners who hold a prestigious NANOE credential are “best practice” experts who grow charitable enterprise and discover new ways to advance the common good. For more information on CNE, CDE & CNE credentialing please visit our Credentials Page.

Ultimately, NANOE members believe that “innovation never fears a challenge” and that the greatest contribution nonprofit practitioners can make to charity is to become the creative enterprise-leaders our sector so desperately needs. For more information on how you can join please visit our Membership Page.

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