A family charity has honoured 14 graduates who completed a rigorous 11-month management programme.

The Inter Agency Committee for Children, Families and the Community helped the adult students to complete its 2021 Introduction to Non-profit Management Certificate programme.

Graduates included Katie Berry, of Keep Bermuda Beautiful, and Pahn-ya Ratteray, the development director for the Bermuda College Foundation.

The programme involved weekly online classes and monthly in-person lab sessions.

Coaches Glenn Faries and Amanda Outerbridge helped students with classes.

Each graduate received an Essentials to Non-profit Strategy Certificate from the online college Philanthropy University and an Introduction to Non-profit Management Certificate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The Introduction to Non-profit Management Certificate programme gives students a basic overview of key management problems that charities face.

It is part of the Non-profit Leadership Development Programme, which aims to strengthen the third sector through educational and career development opportunities.

The full list of graduates is: LeeAnn Simmons with the Department of Education; Charlotte Andrews with the Bermuda National Trust; Latisha Lister-Burgess with EAP Bermuda; Ardleigh Young with Friends of the Bermuda National Library; Althea Penny Saltus with the Reading Clinic; Kerry Judd with Bermuda First; Danielle Frith with Endeavour Sailing; Pahn-ya Ratteray, also with Bermuda College; Shana Williams with IAC; Laura West-Burt with Action on Alzheimer’s; Pamela Amaral with the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences; Lauren Yelle-Simmons with the Bermuda Sloop Foundation; Katie Berry with KBB; and Coral Wells with ConnecTech Coding.

A cohort of 13 new candidates started the 2022 Introduction to Non-profit Management Certificate programme at the start of this month.

Those interested in future classes can register by e-mailing Shana Williams, the IAC programme co-ordinator, at programmes@iac.bm.