You’re in the right place.
NTXLN is a community built by and for nonprofit professionals across North Texas. Whether you’re early in your career, leading a team, or somewhere in between, you’ll find real conversations, practical learning, and a peer network that genuinely understands your work.
Membership is free. Community is the point.
What We Do
We bring nonprofit professionals together around the topics that matter most; how the sector works, how organizations are funded, how to collaborate well, and how to grow a career that lasts. Our programming runs all year, follows a connected theme, and is designed for people who are already doing the work and want to do it with more confidence and clarity.
C.O.R.E. Monthly Meetings
Free, facilitated monthly gatherings. Every session is conversation-forward, grounded in real sector dynamics, and hosted with partnering nonprofits across the region. Come curious, leave with something you can use.
C.O.R.E. = Collaboration, Organizational Growth, Relationships, Ecosystem Impact
Connection Circles
Small group discussions hosted at Tarrant Area Food Bank, designed to go deeper. These sessions are where strategic reflection, applied learning, and peer exchange come together in a space built on trust and shared experience.
Professional Development Workshops
Skill-building sessions with practical tools, digital playbooks, and peer learning you can take straight back to your organization. Open to the full North Texas nonprofit community.
Partnering Nonprofits
Why It Works
Peer-driven. Practically focused. Genuinely connected.
Most professional development in the nonprofit sector targets either executives or people just getting started. NTXLN was built for the people in between: managers, directors, coordinators, and emerging leaders who carry real responsibility and deserve a community that reflects that.
We’re a network of people who learn better together than alone, and who believe that stronger professionals build stronger organizations.
Upcoming Gatherings
April 7th, 2026
Connection Circle
Hosted by: Tarrant Area Food Bank
Admission: Free with Food Donation
We've all seen programs that look great on paper but don't quite land in practice. And we've seen the opposite - scrappy programs that somehow deliver every time.
This session is a peer conversation about what actually makes programs work, how you know when something isn't working, and what gets in the way of fixing it.
April 16th, 2026
C.O.R.E. Meeting
Hosted by: UNT Health Fort Worth
Admission: Free
Together, we will hear how program design works across different types of organizations, what makes a program fundable, how to recognize the building blocks of a logic model, and what common design mistakes look like when practitioners are honest about them.
Whether you are designing programs in your current role or want to understand what strong program design looks like as you grow in the sector, this session will give you something concrete to take back to your work.
May 7th, 2026
Connection Circle
Hosted by: Tarrant Area Food Bank
Admission: Free with Food Donation
Most of us learned volunteer coordination on the fly, and nobody warned us about the parts that are challenging.
This session is a candid conversation about what volunteer management looks like in real life: what motivates people to show up, what makes them disappear, and how to handle the situations nobody trained you for.
May 19th, 2026
C.O.R.E. Meeting
Hosted by: Girl Scouts Texas Oklahoma Plains
Partnership with: SouthState Bank
Admission: Free
We will dig into what motivates volunteers, how to set expectations that work for everyone involved, and how to create structures that keep your programming running even when coordinator capacity shifts.
We will look at how volunteer engagement is shifting, particularly around flexible and skills-based opportunities, and spend time on a hands-on activity to help you think through the different types of volunteers your organization works with and what coordinating them requires.
Why Join
Connection.
Build relationships with nonprofit professionals across the region who are navigating the same terrain.
Learning.
Short, substantive formats built around what mid-level and emerging leaders actually need.
Action.
Every session is designed to send you back to work with something concrete.