Given the current state of the economy and world, we feel it’s important to take the time to demystify the current economic context and focus on what our grantees need to know to make informed decisions to maintain financial health. In order to provide context and technical support around fundraising and fiscal management, we’ve engaged consultants from KPPS and Fun with Financials to provide a set of dynamic webinars with follow-up one-on-one technical assistance.
The first webinar, scheduled for August 27th from 1 – 2:30pm ET, will focus on separating the impact of the current market downturn and the economic downturn on the nonprofit sector.
Together, we’ll examine the impact of the downturns on different sources of revenue as well as explore the effects of increased community needs on the expense side of your budgets. The webinar will include grounding in fundamentals of budgeting that can reduce risks, mitigate uncertainty - all while planning for the long-term financial health of your organizations.
The second webinar, scheduled for September 21st from 1 - 2:30pm ET, will feature guest speakers from organizations with innovative grassroots fundraising strategies in the time of COVID and explore the logistics, best practices, and necessary culture shifts groups can consider when adopting or deepening their grassroots fundraising.
Webinars will be recorded and made available upon request.
After the webinars, all participants will receive instructions on how to sign up for one-on-one technical assistance with both sets of consultants, so we’re able to explore your specific situation and questions together.
Please join us for this exciting program to help build your financial health!
Sign up by Monday, August 24th, 2020.
This training is free and available only to grantees of the Andrus Family Fund, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Cricket Island Foundation, Daphne Foundation, Korean American Community Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Foundation, New York Women's Foundation, NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color, North Star Fund, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Scherman Foundation, and Stonewall Community Foundation.
About Krystal Portalatin
Krystal Portalatin is an independent consultant with 15 years of experience working for and with social justice grassroots community-based organizations. Her time working at several social justice organizations and her experiences as a youth organizer has laid the foundation that informed her values, practices, anti-oppression framework, and popular education tools. Krystal focuses on providing expertise and support to groups in the following areas: fundraising strategy development, grassroots fundraising frameworks and strategies, organizational development, and facilitation. Krystal works with a team of individuals who also have a background in working with grassroots organizing groups committed to racial justice. They hold expertise in nonprofit finance and bookkeeping, operations, and transformative justice frameworks and structures.
About Fun with Financials
Fun with Financials teaches nonprofit organizations practices that support informed financial decisions. We also work with foundations to align philanthropic processes to support a culture shift toward financial health. We make nonprofit finance engaging while holding a larger vision of change. Fun with Financials also seeks to transform the culture of competition for resources into one of cooperation and solidarity. We do this by creating a shared language and understanding of financial health. Our work encourages honest, direct conversations about money that build trust - and we have a good time doing it. We also aim to build a financially strong and, therefore, politically independent social justice movement. We work together to replace fears associated with money with knowledge, and with strategies to sustain movements that can achieve our shared vision of a just and equitable society. Please visit us at www.funwithfinancials.net.