Core Learning Areas

Access to Practical Resources

The Thrive Collective is built on connection and that includes connecting you to high quality resources. Our Core Learning Areas organize the tools, training, and knowledge most relevant to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) care, making it easier for you and your team to find what you need, when you need it. Resources include assessments, research studies, online training, workbooks, articles, blogs, and much more!

We invite you to explore the Core Learning Areas, identify what’s most relevant to your work, and dive into the content that will help you elevate care for the children and families you serve.

If you have additional resources that align with our Core Learning Areas, please contact us at [email protected].

1. Leadership and Management Development

Focus: Individual leader capability and effectiveness

Builds the mindset, skills, and decision-making capacity of nonprofit leaders and managers. Focuses on how individuals lead teams, make strategic decisions, manage complexity, and influence systems.

2. Improving Care & Program Practice

Focus: Deepening your knowledge and understanding of effective programming

Builds advanced understanding and practical application of effective models, interventions, and service delivery approaches across the care continuum for children, families, and communities.

3. Trauma, Wellbeing & Social-Emotional Capacity

Focus: Highlighting the need for more nuanced care and skills in the sector

Strengthens understanding of trauma, resilience, social-emotional development, and relational care for leaders, staff, children, and families supporting both effective program delivery and the long-term sustainability of those doing the work.

4. Organizational Development

Focus: Strengthening the structure, systems, and sustainability of organizations

Builds how organizations are structured, managed, and sustained, including systems, strategy, operations, governance, and long-term organizational health.

5. Systems, Collaboration & Ecosystem Influence

Focus: How organizations influence systems beyond themselves

Supports leaders and organizations to collaborate, influence policy, shape systems, and contribute to sector-wide change.

Other Miscellaneous Resources

Focus: General knowledge topics and other specialized areas relevant to the OVC sector.