For the fourth year, the New York City Capacity Building Collaborative is partnering with The Management Center to provide practical management skills training designed for social justice leaders. 

You are invited to apply for an online training course, Managing with an Equity and Inclusion Lens. This 4-part training will be held via Zoom at the following dates/times: 

• Monday September 20, 10-1

• Tuesday September 21, 10-1

• Monday September 27, 10-1

• Wednesday September 29, 10-1

This course will teach best practices for high-performing, equitable organizations, including: aligning on clear, inclusive expectations on both specific projects and broad responsibilities, effectively seeking and sharing feedback across lines of power, and hiring and developing a strong team. The goal is to provide knowledge and tools that help turn good intentions into outstanding and lasting results through effective, equitable management.  

This training will consist of individual work, group activities, role-plays, and presentation. Participants will have time to apply and translate the tools to their work contexts and get input from the trainer and peers.
 
You should apply if:

• You directly supervise staff, interns or consultants in some capacity, or

• You consistently manage others on significant projects or campaigns (even if you’re not directly supervising)

• You’re eager to learn new tools, frameworks, and practices to support your management

• You’re open to thinking critically and newly about your individual and organizational practices on managing with an equity and inclusion lens.

About The Management Center

The Management Center helps social justice leaders learn how to build and run more effective organizations. Since 2006, they have worked with hundreds of the most influential social justice groups in the country and trained over 15,000 individual managers working on issues like immigration reform, reproductive justice, health care, racial justice, and more. Over the past year alone they have provided hands-on training and coaching support to over 150 organizations that are at the forefront of resisting injustice across the country, instilling practices that help visionary leaders deliver on their aspirations.
 
Please note this training is free 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, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, North Star Fund, Scherman Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation.

Application Deadline

To apply, please fill out this brief application by Friday, September 3. We’ll review applications and notify applicants of selection by Thursday September 9. Due to a cap on the number of participants (30), we can’t guarantee that everyone who applies will be accepted but will do our best.

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Capacitación de The Management Center para New York City Capacity Building Collaborative

Por cuarto año, New York City Capacity Building se asocia con The Management Center para ofrecer una capacitación de habilidades prácticas del manejo administrativo diseñadas para líderes de la justicia social.

Se le invita a solicitar a un curso en línea: El manejo administrativo a través de una lente de equidad e inclusión. Esta capacitación de 4 sesiones se llevará a cabo a través de Zoom en las siguientes fechas/horarios:

• Lunes septiembre 20, 10-1

• Martes septiembre 21, 10-1

• Lunes Septiembre 27, 10-1

• Miércoles Septiembre 29, 10-1

Este curso enseñará las mejores prácticas para organizaciones equitativas de alto rendimiento, que incluyen: la alineación de expectativas claras e inclusivas tanto en proyectos específicos como en responsabilidades generales, la búsqueda y el intercambio de opiniones de manera afectiva a través de las designaciones de poder y la contratación y desarrollo de un equipo fuerte. El objetivo es proveer conocimiento y herramientas que lleven a las buenas intenciones a convertirse en resultados extraordinarios y duraderos mediante un manejo administrativo eficaz y equitativo.

Esta capacitación consistirá en trabajo individual, actividades de grupo, juegos de rol y presentaciones. Les participantes tendrán tiempo para solicitar y traducir las herramientas a su contexto laboral y recibir aportaciones de la persona a cargo de la capacitación y sus compañeres.

Debe de solicitar si:

• Supervisa directamente a personal, pasantes o consultantes en alguna capacidad o

• Dirige a otras personas de manera sistemática en proyectos o campañas importantes (aunque no supervise directamente)

• Tiene deseos de aprender nuevas herramientas, esquemas y prácticas para apoyar su administración.

• Tiene la apertura para pensar de una manera crítica y nueva sobres sus prácticas individuales y organizativas en la administración a través de una lente de equidad e inclusión.

Sobre The Management Center

The Management Center ayuda a líderes de la justicia social a aprender cómo desarrollar y dirigir organizaciones más efectivas. Desde 2006, han trabajado con cientos de los grupos de justicia social más influyentes del país y han formado más de 15,000 administradores individuales que trabajan en temas como la reforma migratoria, la justicia reproductiva, el cuidado médico, la justicia racial, entre otros. Tan solo en el último año han proporcionado capacitación práctica y apoyo de orientación a más de 150 organizaciones que están a la vanguardia de la resistencia ante la injusticia a lo largo y ancho de todo el país, inculcando prácticas que ayudan a les líderes con visión a cumplir sus aspiraciones.

Por favor tenga en cuenta que esta capacitación no tiene ningún costo para las copartes de 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, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, North Star Fund, Scherman Foundation y Stonewall Community Foundation.

Más datos sobre la solicitud:

Para solicitar, complete esta breve solicitud antes del Viernes septiembre 3. Revisaremos las solicitudes y notificaremos a les solicitantes de la selección antes del Jueves septiembre 9. Debido al límite de participantes (30), no podemos garantizar la aceptación de todas las personas que soliciten, pero haremos todo los posible.

Bad virtual meetings are more than just boring. In this training, we will look at how systems of oppression creep into our online meetings and learn facilitation strategies that lead to more equitable participation including group decision making, supporting groups in conflict, and naming, intervening, and addressing power dynamics when they arise.

Date and Time: October 14 at 2-4pm
 
The deadline to apply is October 2. Space is limited. Up to two people per organization may apply. Participants will be notified of acceptance by October 7.
 
AORTA Team (read more at aorta.coop):
 
Bex Kwan (they/she) is a Chinese queer/trans multimedia artist, organizer, social worker, and athlete who was born and raised in Singapore. Engaged in a lifelong process of undoing the effects of growing up in a Chinese supremacist culture, they are invested in creating loving movement spaces and consider deep friendship to be the basis of their work. As a facilitator, Bex has worked with grassroots organizers, co-operatives, non-profits, and universities on political education, anti-oppression practices, conflict mediation, and strategic planning.  They bring a wholehearted belief in a group’s potential for learning and change. Formerly an educator in pre-schools, they love to create environments that inspire play and new possibilities while remaining grounded in a pursuit of systemic and cultural transformation.
 
Jenna Peters-Golden (they/she) is an organizer, trainer, anti-Zionist Jewish rabble-rouser and artist. She is a white queer with class privilege, raised in southeastern Michigan and currently based in West Philadelphia. Jenna has focused much of her political work around prison abolition and transformative justice, Palestinian solidarity/anti-occupation work, and Indigenous solidarity. She spent 8 years as a core member of Philly Stands Up, a transformative justice collective. As a facilitator, Jenna loves to use art and storytelling as tools for staying grounded in political history and collective vision, in order to support groups generating new ways forward. She believes that all people and groups have the ability to grow and transform, and her belief in transformation is critical to her work.

Please note this training is free 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, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, North Star Fund, Scherman Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation.

For the third year, the New York City Capacity Building Collaborative is partnering with The Management Center to provide practical management skills training designed for social justice leaders.

You are invited to apply for an online training course, Managing with an Equity and Inclusion Lens. This 4-part training will be held via Zoom at the following dates/times:

• Tues., Sept. 8, from 1pm-4pm

• Wed., Sept. 9, from 1pm-4pm 

• Tues., Sept. 15, from 1pm-4pm

• Wed., Sept. 16, from 1pm-4pm

This course will teach best practices for high-performing, equitable organizations, including: aligning on clear, inclusive expectations on both specific projects and broad responsibilities, effectively seeking and sharing feedback across lines of power, and hiring and developing a strong team. The goal is to provide knowledge and tools that help turn good intentions into outstanding and lasting results through effective, equitable management. 

The content will also address the needs of the current moment related to COVID-19 and the racial justice uprisings, including working in a remote environment, reprioritizing/making space to live and work in the time of pandemic, and meeting the opportunity and urgency in the current social and political climate.

This training will consist of individual work, group activities, role-plays, and presentation. Participants will have time to apply and translate the tools to their work contexts and get input from the trainer and peers.

You should apply if:

• You directly supervise staff, interns or consultants in some capacity, or

• You consistently manage others on significant projects or campaigns (even if you’re not directly supervising)

• You’re eager to learn new tools, frameworks, and practices to support your management

• You’re open to thinking critically and newly about your individual and organizational practices on managing with an equity and inclusion lens.

More details on applying:

• To apply, please fill out this brief application by Friday, August 21.

• We’ll review applications and notify applicants of selection by Monday, August 31.

• Due to a cap on the number of participants (30), we can’t guarantee that everyone who applies will be accepted but will do our best. 

About The Management Center

The Management Center helps social justice leaders learn how to build and run more effective organizations. Since 2006, they have worked with hundreds of the most influential social justice groups in the country and trained over 15,000 individual managers working on issues like immigration reform, reproductive justice, health care, racial justice, and more. Over the past year alone they have provided hands-on training and coaching support to over 150 organizations that are at the forefront of resisting injustice across the country, instilling practices that help visionary leaders deliver on their aspirations.

Please note this training is free 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, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, North Star Fund, Scherman Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation.

Join us for a day of engaging activities where we will explore and (re)define success, financial priorities, and how your values fit into your organization's financial statements. This is a great opportunity to build skills to strengthen your organization’s approach to finances and budgeting for social change. Throughout it all we will play games and have fun!

We will go over the basics of building and using a budget as well as prioritizing competing needs and areas for growth as a group.  We will share tools for facilitating deeper participation and buy-in in financial processes and integrating organizational values into financial decisions.

We will go over the four basic financial reports: Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Budget, and Cash Flow Projections. You will leave with a better understanding of how to create and read these reports and use them to answer your most common fiscally-oriented questions. One-on-one consulting will be available to interested attendees as a follow-up to the training.       

TRAINING INFO

Date and Time: November 7th, 2019, 10am-5pm (7 hours with a 1 hour lunch break)
Location: Midtown

A Bookkeeping Cooperative

ABC is a worker-owned cooperative committed to building a solidarity economy. We provide accounting + bookkeeping + consulting services to coops, nonprofits, freelancers, and small businesses. We create and maintain strong financial systems to serve as a foundation for transparency, clarity, and abundance in your work.

We love to facilitate financial literacy trainings and workshops and believe that participatory education is a powerful tool for organizational success and social change.  

Facilitators           

María Teresa López: María Teresa is an experienced entrepreneur bringing a powerful combination of a lifelong commitment to social justice together with hard financial, managerial, and administrative skills rooted in 40 years of experience.  She studied accounting in her native Honduras and has lived in the New York metropolitan area since 1991. María Teresa brings the same spirit of fearlessness, dedication, and precision to all of her work, which has ranged from running her own Spanish language magazine to working as a bank loan officer to consulting with small businesses.  María Teresa is also a cooperative trainer in the NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives Training Collective. 

Emma Yorra: Emma brings 10 years of experience in cooperative development, management and finance as a tool for building power in low-income communities at the non-profit organizations the Center for Family Life and The Working World.  She has a broad background in financial management in cooperative, non-profit and private business settings. Emma thrives on opening up new possibilities for her clients through her work as a trainer and consultant. She is passionate about building an economy that works for all and holds a master’s degree in Social Economics and Cooperative Business Management at Mondragon University in Spain.  Emma is also part of the NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives Training Collective.

Lauryl Berger-Chun: Lauryl is a worker-owner & ABC's Admin. Manager.  She brings 8 years of experience in student, food, and worker cooperatives and has done trainings, technical assistance, facilitation and cooperative education most recently as a peer advisor through the Democracy At Work Network (DAWN) and The Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC (CEANYC).

Veronica Dougherty: Veronica was born in the Bronx, raised in New Jersey, and has long been interested in what bubbles up at the margins, participating in spaces where people to come together to build and share resources outside of dominant models.  She has worked collaboratively and learned by doing on everything from building loud scary carnival rides, sailing in an junk boat armada down the Mississippi, writing horoscopes, and working as a counselor at a camp for adults with disabilities.  She came to bookkeeping in the same spirit of teamwork and resourcefulness, gaining hands on experience with small businesses and non-profits over 10 years of freelancing. Before coming to ABC, Veronica spent 4 years as the Financial and Employee Services Director at BIG Reuse, where she was inspired by the mix of employees with different experiences and perspectives drawn to a visionary idea that transformed the way people look at everyday material. Veronica loves supporting people in moving from anxiety to a place of clarity and confidence regarding money.

DEADLINE TO APPLY

Thursday, October 24th. Space is limited. Applicants will be notified of acceptance into the training by Thursday, October 31st.

This fall the NYC Funders Capacity Building Collaborative is offering the annual grassroots fundraising training series. The series titled “Engaging Organizational Stakeholders in GRF” will engage participants to explore the values and principles of grassroots fundraising through a social justice lens. From exploring the impacts of capitalism and class on our ability to fundraise to devising fundraising strategies that empower and engage organizational stakeholders (members, board, volunteers).

This series builds off the work of traditional individual donor engagement strategies while exploring the learnings and teachings of various grassroots groups and individual’s innovative applications of these strategies. This will allow participants to think more broadly and expand on the ways we think of raising dollars for our work that is relevant to the communities we serve. The series offers a training for trainers (T4T) to support participants to engage their larger organization in the work of grassroots fundraising. Additionally, there will be two 3-hour workshops to engage organizational participants to determine and implement a grassroots fundraising strategy.

ELIGIBILITY & EXPECTATIONS

The training consist of eight sessions – five full-day sessions, and three 3-hour sessions

• Four 6-hour sessions focusing on GRF skill development and political education.

• One 6-hour Training for Trainers (T4T) session: Participants learn and practice how to facilitate a GRF 101 session in their organization.

• Two 3-hour multi-stakeholder trainings: Organizational participants would choose one of the two trainings dates/times. This would allow participating organizations to send their members, board, and other stakeholders to learn how to plan and implement GRF strategies in addition to co-planning their fundraising project.

• One 3-hour session to debrief and celebrate: This would be the final session to evaluate and celebrate the successes of their projects.

• Coaching: Each organization would receive one 45 min coaching session and up to 15 min of email support.

Participant Criteria

This training is suited for groups who 1) are currently engaging in or want and have the capacity to implement grassroots fundraising strategies into their work, and 2) have committed organization stakeholders to engage in grassroots fundraising. This could be your members, volunteers, or board members. Each organization accepted into the training is expected to create and implement an end of year fundraising grassroots fundraising strategy. The training curriculum creates space for groups to plan and implement their grassroots fundraising activity.

We recommend that the applying stakeholders discuss with organizational decision makers on the capacity of the organization to support participants ability to implement training learnings into the organization. Participation in all sessions is mandatory as each session builds on one another. Please note while board members are invited to participate this is not a board grassroots fundraising training. Additionally, the training does not cover corporate fundraising strategies or content dedicated to large event planning.

​​​​This training is free 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.

TRAINING INFO

The sessions will be held on:

• Session 1: 8/28/19, 10a – 4p

• Session 2: 9/4/19, 10a – 4p

• Session 3: 9/18/19, 10a – 4p

• Session 4 T4T: 10/2/19, 10a – 4p

• Stakeholder Training: 10/16/19, Afternoon 11a – 2p or Evening 4p – 7p

• Session 5: 11/6/19, 10a – 4p

• Celebration and Evaluation: 1/8/20, 1p – 4p

Location: Midtown

This training will be conducted by Krystal Portalatin. Krystal is a Queer Femme Nuyorican. Currently, as a consultant, she brings her knowledge of organizational development, program development, leadership development, fundraising, non-profit finance, and operations to support grassroots organizations to build their capacity and functionality. Her approach to consulting draws from the skills she cultivated while working for social justice organizations that are rooted in an anti-oppression and intersectional analysis.

DEADLINE TO APPLY

Applications are due no later than August 12th, 2019 and accepted organizations will be notified via email the week of August 19th, 2019. Please note the training starts the following week on August 28th, 2019. One application per organization applying.

Want to develop an effective communications strategy? Insight into how to craft dynamic message for the media? 

The New York City Capacity Building Collaborative (CBC), a collaborative of social justice foundations that collectively pool resources to build the capacity of grassroots community-based organizations, is accepting applications for a multi-session media training workshop. 

GOAL

Participants will leave the training with a basic to intermediate understanding of communications and media strategy and their role in advancing social change work. At the end of the training, participants will have a working knowledge of how to develop strong messages, integrate effective communications practices into their organization, and work successfully with and through the media.

Specifically, participants will:

§  Develop and/or hone media literacy skills through training on framing;

§  Identify audiences and develop profiles to assist in communications strategy and messaging;

§  Develop media messages and a pitch note, as well as communications leadership and spokesperson skills;

§  Assess their communications capacity and effectiveness of media strategy, if any;

§  Develop a basic understanding of how to work with the media, including types and definitions, best practices to communicate with and through the media;

§  Identify next steps for communications planning and/or capacity building; and

§  Receive actionable knowledge and guidance from seasoned journalists on pitching best practices

ACTIVITIES

• Two (2) required in-person trainings: 10am-2pm on Thursday, January 31st and Thursday, February 14th at locations in midtown Manhattan (lunch included)

• One (1) optional webinar (date in late February TBD)

• Personalized follow-up with the trainer

APPLICATION

• Deadline to apply: Friday, January 4, 2019

• Due to training design and limited space, only one attendee per organization may attend, for a total of 22 participants/organizations.

• Each attendee/organization must complete the application survey.

• Applicants will be notified of acceptance into the training by Friday, January 11, 2019.

Trainer

Alison R. Park of Urbanity, LLC has been developing media and communications strategies in the human services sector and gender justice movements for more than 15 years to help grassroots advocacy organizations and funders to connect to their audiences and build their power to communicate their vision of social justice forward. She began Urbanity as a vehicle to integrate communications; creative direction, art and culture; and change management (including training, capacity building and process facilitation) as a solution to the silos that so many of organizations and movements experience in internal alignment with strategic vision and external impact and reach. Alison centers her trainings for social justice organizations in Freire’s definition of praxis—“reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it,” engaging participants in an expansive learning process and using discussion, creative interaction and feedback to cultivate an environment where each participant’s current base of knowledge and power to communicate is acknowledged and integrated in new learning.  

This training is free 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.  

Want to develop an effective communications strategy? Insight into how to craft dynamic message for the media? 

The New York City Capacity Building Collaborative (CBC), a collaborative of social justice foundations that collectively pool resources to build the capacity of grassroots community-based organizations, is accepting applications for a multi-session media training workshop. 

GOAL

Participants will leave the training with a basic to intermediate understanding of communications and media strategy and their role in advancing social change work. At the end of the training, participants will have a working knowledge of how to develop strong messages, integrate effective communications practices into their organization, and work successfully with and through the media.

Specifically, participants will:

§  Develop and/or hone media literacy skills through training on framing;

§  Identify audiences and develop profiles to assist in communications strategy and messaging;

§  Develop media messages and a pitch note, as well as communications leadership and spokesperson skills;

§  Assess their communications capacity and effectiveness of media strategy, if any;

§  Develop a basic understanding of how to work with the media, including types and definitions, best practices to communicate with and through the media;

§  Identify next steps for communications planning and/or capacity building; and

§  Receive actionable knowledge and guidance from seasoned journalists on pitching best practices

ACTIVITIES

• Two (2) required in-person trainings: 10am-2pm on Thursday, January 31st and Thursday, February 14th at locations in midtown Manhattan (lunch included)

• One (1) optional webinar (date in late February TBD)

• Personalized follow-up with the trainer

APPLICATION

• Deadline to apply: Friday, January 4, 2019

• Due to training design and limited space, only one attendee per organization may attend, for a total of 22 participants/organizations.

• Each attendee/organization must complete the application survey.

• Applicants will be notified of acceptance into the training by Friday, January 11, 2019.

Trainer

Alison R. Park of Urbanity, LLC has been developing media and communications strategies in the human services sector and gender justice movements for more than 15 years to help grassroots advocacy organizations and funders to connect to their audiences and build their power to communicate their vision of social justice forward. She began Urbanity as a vehicle to integrate communications; creative direction, art and culture; and change management (including training, capacity building and process facilitation) as a solution to the silos that so many of organizations and movements experience in internal alignment with strategic vision and external impact and reach. Alison centers her trainings for social justice organizations in Freire’s definition of praxis—“reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it,” engaging participants in an expansive learning process and using discussion, creative interaction and feedback to cultivate an environment where each participant’s current base of knowledge and power to communicate is acknowledged and integrated in new learning.  

This training is free 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.