MemberPrep

Certification Courses

MemberPrep offers 45 online courses for members and candidates of membership organizations. Every course combines video instruction, in-depth reading and scored assessments.

Core Mandatory Courses

  • MP-101 — Organizational Values, Mission & Member Purpose: Founding principles, historical mission, values framework, ethics, and purpose-driven leadership.
  • MP-102 — Organizational Governance, Operations & Parliamentary Procedure: Parliamentary procedure, chapter governance, Robert's Rules of Order, financial oversight, elections, bylaws, and operational mechanics.
  • MP-103 — Risk Management, Safety & Harm Prevention: Hazing law, organizational liability, personal responsibility, bystander intervention, mental health, and crisis response.
  • MP-104 — Personal Integrity, Accountability & Ethical Decision-Making: Character, ethical frameworks, accountability without authority, whistleblower protections, and personal responsibility.

Elective Courses

  • MP-105 — Communication, Leadership & Organizational Culture: Communication styles, leadership models, culture-building, difficult conversations, and public speaking.
  • MP-201 — Financial Literacy for Organizational Members: Personal budget management, chapter financial statements, fundraising, and grant writing basics.
  • MP-202 — Social Media & Digital Brand Management: Personal brand vs. organizational brand, platform strategy, crisis communications, and content creation standards.
  • MP-203 — Community Engagement & Social Impact: Defining community impact, partnership development, volunteerism, and measuring social ROI.
  • MP-204 — Alumni Relations & Chapter Continuity: Alumni engagement strategy, knowledge transfer, succession planning, and building alumni networks.
  • MP-205 — Academic Excellence & Time Management: Academic integrity, time blocking, study facilitation, and balancing GPA with membership commitments.
  • MP-206 — Event Planning & Execution: Event concept development, vendor management, risk assessment, budget management, and day-of execution.
  • MP-207 — Conflict Resolution & Interpersonal Dynamics: Understanding conflict, communication in conflict, mediation and facilitation, and grievance procedures.
  • MP-208 — Recruitment, Retention & Member Development: Ethical recruitment principles, inclusive recruitment pipeline, structured onboarding, and retention systems.
  • MP-209 — Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity: Data privacy, cyber threats, safe practices for officers, and incident response for membership organizations.
  • MP-210 — Project Management for Chapter Leaders: Project planning, stakeholder management, execution frameworks, and post-project evaluation for organizational leaders.
  • MP-211 — Strategic Planning & Organizational Goal Setting: Vision setting, strategic analysis, goal frameworks, and implementation planning for chapter leadership.
  • MP-212 — Mentorship, Coaching & Member Growth: Mentorship frameworks, coaching skills, feedback delivery, and building a culture of continuous development.
  • MP-213 — Nonprofit Law & 501(c) Compliance: Organizational legal structures, 501(c) compliance, fiduciary duties, and protecting chapter tax status.
  • MP-214 — Professional Development & Career Readiness: Professional identity, networking, career planning, and leveraging organizational experience for career success.
  • MP-215 — Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Practice: Moving beyond DEI as a concept to concrete skills: facilitating inclusive meetings, addressing microaggressions in real time, designing equitable chapter processes, and measuring inclusion outcomes.
  • MP-216 — Mental Health, Wellness & Member Support: Recognizing members in distress, having supportive conversations without overstepping, building chapter cultures that protect mental health, and connecting members to professional resources.
  • MP-217 — Parliamentary Procedure & Meeting Mastery: A deeper practical dive than MP-102: running efficient meetings using Robert's Rules, handling contested votes and appeals, managing difficult dynamics, and using consent agendas to reduce meeting time while improving decisions.
  • MP-218 — Writing & Professional Communication: Business writing for organizational contexts: member-facing communications, officer reports, formal correspondence with national organizations and institutional partners, and editing for clarity and professionalism.
  • MP-219 — Data Literacy & Evidence-Based Decision Making: Reading and interpreting data relevant to chapter leadership: membership trend analysis, event attendance, financial ratios, survey design and analysis, and making arguments with data rather than anecdote.
  • MP-220 — Hazing Prevention & Healthy Initiation Culture: Goes deeper than compliance training: the psychology of hazing, why good people participate in harmful traditions, designing initiation experiences that build belonging without harm, and intervening when culture starts to drift.
  • MP-221 — Intercultural Competence & Global Citizenship: Developing skills to work effectively across cultural difference: understanding cultural frameworks, navigating communication style differences, building inclusive communities for international members, and representing the organization in diverse contexts.
  • MP-222 — Peer Education & Facilitation Skills: Training members to teach other members: designing and delivering educational programming, facilitating sensitive topic discussions, assessing learning outcomes, and creating a chapter culture of peer knowledge transfer.
  • MP-223 — Advocacy, Policy & Civic Engagement: How organizations engage with policy and advocacy: understanding the line between organizational advocacy and prohibited political activity, building relationships with elected officials, and mobilizing members for civic participation.
  • MP-224 — Personal Finance & Financial Independence: A member-focused complement to organizational finance: budgeting for early career life, understanding student loans and debt management, credit building, early investing basics, and navigating financial decisions during and after college.
  • MP-225 — New Member Experience & Expectation Setting: For new members specifically: navigating your first semester, building relationships intentionally, asking for help, managing the gap between expectation and reality, and getting the most from membership.
  • MP-226 — Officer Transition & Term Planning: The first 30-60 days of an officer term: how to inherit a role, set priorities, establish relationships with predecessor and successor, and avoid the most common first-term mistakes.
  • MP-227 — Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Making good decisions with incomplete information, under time pressure, and with competing stakeholder interests. Covers decision frameworks, cognitive biases, and building decision-making cultures that are fast and sound.
  • MP-228 — Organizational Change Management: Leading a chapter through significant change: restructuring, policy updates, cultural shifts, leadership transitions after a crisis. Resistance to change, stakeholder buy-in, communication sequencing, and sustaining change.
  • MP-229 — Influence Without Authority: Moving people and decisions when you don't have positional power — as a committee member, new member, or peer. Coalition building, framing, timing, and the ethics of influence.
  • MP-230 — Organizational Diagnosis & Culture Repair: What to do when you inherit a chapter with real problems: low trust, conduct history, declining membership, or toxic culture. Assessing organizational health honestly, prioritizing what to address first, and realistic timelines for culture change.
  • MP-231 — Accountability Without Punishment: Holding members and officers accountable in ways that are fair, consistent, and actually change behavior — without the chapter becoming permissive or punitive. Restorative practices, graduated responses, and building accountability culture.
  • MP-232 — Working with Your National Organization: How chapters and nationals actually work together: understanding the relationship, navigating policy requirements, getting support from national staff, escalating issues appropriately, and advocating for chapter needs.
  • MP-233 — Campus & Institutional Relations: Building and maintaining productive relationships with university administration, housing, student affairs, and campus partners. Understanding institutional decision-making, navigating bureaucracy, and protecting the chapter's campus standing.
  • MP-234 — Emotional Intelligence for Leaders: Self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills as leadership competencies — with practical exercises rather than theory. How EQ shows up in chapter leadership and how to develop it deliberately.
  • MP-235 — Resilience & Leading Through Setbacks: Recovering from organizational failures, personal leadership mistakes, and external crises — and helping your chapter do the same. Distinguishing productive struggle from destructive discouragement. The personal toll of organizational leadership.
  • MP-236 — Human Trafficking Awareness & Prevention: What human trafficking is under U.S. law, how traffickers recruit and control people, the warning signs members can recognize on campus, online and in their communities, how to respond safely, and how chapters can keep their events, vendors and service work from contributing to exploitation.
  • MP-237 — Alcohol & Other Drugs Awareness: How alcohol affects the body, what a standard drink really is, the signs of alcohol poisoning and opioid overdose, the new dangers of counterfeit pills and fentanyl, how to respond in an emergency, and how chapters build event policies and cultures that keep members alive.
  • MP-238 — Sexual Violence Prevention: What sexual violence is and how common it is on campus, what real consent looks like, how alcohol and power affect consent, how members can intervene safely as bystanders, and how to respond to a disclosure in a way that supports survivors and meets reporting obligations.
  • MP-239 — Consent, Bullying & Harassment Prevention: Consent as an everyday principle of respect — for touch, photos, recordings and personal information — plus how to recognize bullying and harassment in person and online, how they differ from ordinary conflict, and how members and chapters respond, report and build a culture where everyone is treated with dignity.
  • MP-299 — Capstone: Applied Leadership Challenge: Members identify a real chapter problem, apply frameworks from across the curriculum, and produce a documented leadership plan — giving them something tangible to reference in professional contexts and demonstrating mastery of applied leadership.