The Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by cloud-based talent management software provider Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ:CSOD), today announced enhancements to its Gift of Learning program (www.thegol.org), an online portal that offers free high-quality content – from e-learning courses and recorded webinars to business book summaries – designed to broaden nonprofit professionals’ skills.

As one of the signature programs offered by the Foundation, Gift of Learning helps nonprofits invest in the training and development of their people by leveraging Cornerstone’s learning and development technology.

With the all-new enhancements, Gift of Learning now offers customized curriculum that better supports individual training needs in common nonprofit job areas. These areas include fundraising, leadership, accounting and finance, marketing and communications, operations, volunteer engagement and program management. Each area of focus is populated with e-learning and video courses, book summaries, webinars and best-practice resources made available in collaboration with content providers and industry experts such as Cegos, Energize Inc., Foundation Center, getAbstract, Nonprofits Assistance Fund, Skillsoft and VolunteerMatch.

“Gift of Learning fulfills a critical and often-overlooked need,” says Jan Masaoka, director and editor-in-chief of Blue Avocado and CEO of California Association of Nonprofits. “The positive response from our network clearly demonstrates that nonprofit professionals are eager to enhance their skills, and programs like the Gift of Learning make relevant resources more accessible and available to the sector.

Since the program’s inception in 2011, the Foundation has teamed with organizations such as Blue Avocado, the Taproot Foundation and others to make the Gift of Learning available to their networks. To date, more than 4,000 nonprofit professionals and more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations have received free access to training through the program.

“Due to limited resources and the lack of funding for human capital needs, the nonprofit sector faces significant challenges in developing, managing and retaining their talent,” said Julie Brandt, executive director of the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation. “Our goal with the Gift of Learning is to help nonprofits invest in their people so they can more effectively deliver on their organization’s mission.”

As part of the offering, the Foundation also develops content to help meet sector-specific needs. It also recently created an e-learning course with Blue Avocado’s Masaoka to help new and veteran board members better understand how to help their nonprofits generate revenue. The course, “The Role of Nonprofit Board Members in Revenue Generation,” is free to all nonprofit professionals and board members through August 15, 2013.

To read additional commentary regarding the Gift of Learning program, check out Brandt’s blog post at www.cornerstoneondemand.com/blog/giving-invaluable-gift-learning. For more information about the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation or the Gift of Learning program, please visit www.csodfoundation.org. To follow the Foundation on Twitter, go to twitter.com/csodfoundation.

About the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation
The Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation transforms the way people help people. By offering Cornerstone OnDemand’s talent management technology and the Foundation’s capacity-building programs to the nonprofit sector, the Foundation helps organizations around the world better develop, engage and empower their employees and the people they serve. The Foundation focuses its efforts in the areas of education, workforce development and disaster relief. Since its founding, the Foundation has forged strategic relationships with many leading nonprofits such as Teach for America, Women for Women International, KIPP, Oxfam America, Save the Children and Goodwill Bay Area.

About Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is a leader in cloud-based applications for talent management. Our solutions help organizations recruit, train, manage and connect their employees, empowering their people and increasing workforce productivity. Based in Santa Monica, California, the company’s solutions are used by over 1,300 companies worldwide, spanning 11 million users across 190 countries and 41 languages. For more information about Cornerstone, visit csod.com. Read Cornerstone’s blog at csod.com/blog. Follow Cornerstone on Twitter at twitter.com/CornerstoneInc. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/CSODcommunity.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation

Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation

The Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation was established in 2010 to address the severe lack of investment in the nonprofit sector’s human capital -- a reality that threatens to undermine the effectiveness of nonprofits as organizations face high employee turnover and a shortage of available talent. The Foundation provides free capacity building services to the nonprofit sector by donating our learning management technology and HR and staff development expertise to organizations globally. We focus our efforts in three areas: disaster relief, education, and workforce development. Beneficiary organizations include Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Feeding America, Oxfam, Save the Children, and Teach for America.

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