The NYC Capacity Building Collaborative is accepting applications for Comprehensive Succession Planning, a 2-part webinar-based training, with a limited number of optional, post-session 1-on-1 coaching hours.

Executive Director transitions may seem daunting and intimidating. Organizations hold fears and trepidations in time of transitions. Compounded by the stress of running an organization during a global pandemic, organizational transition may seem impossible. However, succession planning can be successful if planned diligently and with care, intention, resources, and a team. Join the NYC Capacity Building Collaborative for a 2-part training on comprehensive succession planning that addresses some of the challenges an organization may experience during this moment.

The first webinar, led by Zahida Pirani, organizational development consultant, will provide an overview of essential elements to successful succession planning. This includes: how to include succession planning as an integral part of organizational planning, how to tailor processes based on your organization’s unique needs and values, ensuring organizational stability and cohesion during leadership transition and how to create a holistic succession plan that accounts for board and staff turnover during an ED transition.

The second webinar, led by Cathy Dang, former Executive Director of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, will share the steps the organization took to ensure a successful and stable transition including building team leadership and buy-in, personnel infrastructure, finance and organizational infrastructure, and internal and external communications. Sasha Wijeyeratne, current Executive Director of CAAAV will also join as a guest speaker to discuss with Cathy how the transition process set up the organization and its new leadership to thrive a few years later, contributing to CAAAV’s significant growth post-transition.

TRAINING INFO

Webinar Part 1: Zahida Pirani will provide an overview of essential elements to successful succession planning

When: Thursday, August 26, 2021 , 10am-11:30am ET

Webinar Part 2: Cathy Dang will share a successful model in CAAAV’s ED transition and Sasha Wijeyeratne, CAAAV’s current Executive Director, joins as guest speaker.

When: Thursday, September 2nd , 10am-11:30am ET

Participants will be automatically registered for both sessions.

EXPECTATIONS and READINESS

Each organization should send one to two participants who hold roles with authority to develop and implement succession planning (e.g. board members, Executive Directors, Deputy Directors, or senior staff). Applicants must commit to participating for the full length of the webinars on both days, as well as discussing and implementing practices within their own organizations.

ELIGIBILITY

This training is free and designed for community-based nonprofit organizations including 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.

In order to create a space where participants feel comfortable discussing organization-specific succession planning information, funders will not be eligible to participate in either webinar and participants will have the option to join the webinar anonymously via phone.

DEADLINE TO REGISTER

Registration opens July 19 and closes August 16. Space is limited. You will be notified by August 18th whether you have been accepted into the webinar training.

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CÓMO DESARROLLAR UN PLAN INTEGRAL DE SUCESIÓN

La NYC Capacity Building Collaborative está aceptando solicitudes para una capacitación de seminarios web de dos sesiones: Cómo Desarrollar un Plan Integral de Sucesión con la opción de un número limitado de horas de asesoramiento individual después de cada sesión. 

Las transiciones de dirección ejecutiva pueden parecer intimidantes y, cuando hay transiciones, las organizaciones tienen miedos e inquietudes. Aunado al estrés de dirigir una organización durante una pandemia global, las transiciones dentro de una organización pueden parecer imposibles. Sin embargo, los planes de sucesión pueden tener éxito si se planifican con diligencia y cuidado, con intención, recursos y un equipo. Participe con la NYC Capacity Building Collaborative en una capacitación de dos sesiones sobre cómo desarrollar un plan integral de sucesión que aborda algunos de los desafíos que una organización puede enfrentar durante este momento.

El primer seminario web, dirigido por Zahida Pirani, consultora de desarrollo de organizaciones, ofrecerá una visión general de los elementos básicos para una planificación de sucesión exitosa. Esto incluye: cómo incluir un plan de sucesión como parte integral de la planificación dentro de una organización, cómo adaptar los procesos en función de las necesidades y los valores propios de la organización, cómo garantizar la estabilidad y la cohesión de la organización durante la transición del liderazgo y cómo crear un plan integral de sucesión que tenga en cuenta la rotación de la junta directiva y del personal durante la transición de la dirección ejecutiva.

El segundo seminario web, dirigido por Cathy Dang, exdirectora ejecutiva de CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, compartirá los pasos que dio la organización para garantizar una transición exitosa y estable, lo que incluyó la creación de un equipo de liderazgo y participación, la infraestructura de personal, la infraestructura financiera y de organización y la comunicación interna y externa. Sasha Wijeyeratne, directora ejecutiva actual de CAAAV, también se unirá como oradora invitada para hablar con Cathy sobre cómo el proceso de transición preparó a la organización y a la nueva dirección para prosperar unos años después, contribuyendo al importante crecimiento de CAAAV tras la transición.

DATOS SOBRE LA CAPACITACIÓN   

Seminario web sesión 1: Zahida Pirani ofrecerá una visión general de los elementos básicos para desarrollar un plan de sucesión exitoso.

Fecha y hora: jueves, 26 de agosto de 2021, 10 a. m. — 11:30 a. m. Hora del este

Seminario web sesión 2: Cathy Dang compartirá un modelo exitoso en la transición de la dirección ejecutiva de CAAAV y Sasha Wijeyeratne, directora ejecutiva actual de CAAAV, se une como oradora invitada.

Fecha y hora: jueves, 2 de septiembre, 10 a. m. - 11:30 a. m. Hora del este

Las personas que participen quedarán inscritas automáticamente en ambas sesiones.

EXPECTATIVAS y PREPARACIÓN

Cada organización deberá enviar a une o dos participantes que desempeñen funciones con autoridad para desarrollar e implementar planes de sucesión (por ejemplo, miembres del consejo de administración, la dirección ejecutiva, directores adjuntes o personal superior). Les solicitantes deben comprometerse a participar durante todo el seminario web en ambos días, así como a analizar e implementar prácticas dentro de sus propias organizaciones.

ELEGIBILIDAD

Esta capacitación es gratuita y ha sido diseñada para organizaciones comunitarias sin fines de lucro, incluidas las beneficiarias 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, North Star Fund, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Scherman Foundation y Stonewall Community Foundation.

Con el fin de crear un espacio en el que les participantes tengan la comodidad de discutir información sobre el desarrollo de planes de sucesión específicos a su organización, les financiadores no podrán participar en ninguno de los dos seminarios web y les participantes tendrán la opción de unirse al seminario web de forma anónima por teléfono.

PLAZO DE INSCRIPCIÓN

Inscríbase antes del 16 de agosto.  Cupo limitado. Les solicitantes recibirán los detalles del seminario web antes del 18 de agosto.

Have the events of the last few months brought existential questions about your role as an organization in this moment? Are you asking big questions about how to adapt your organizing plans in the midst of the pandemic and changing political conditions? Have you experienced rapid membership growth and participation that you are having trouble keeping up with? 

If the answer is yes to any of these questions then we hope that this webinar series can help! In a series of two workshops we will share some of the frameworks and lessons from international and historic movements on how existing organizations can relate to moments of mass protest and changing political conditions. We will offer tools on how to onboard new members at scale and how to put people into meaningful action when there is higher-than-usual engagement. This training is hosted by the Momentum Training Institute: a training program and community of practice on movement building. 

Webinars:

• Wednesday, October 7th (7pm - 8:30pm)

• Thursday, October 8th (7pm - 8:30pm)

Office Hours: October 12th (Mon) - 16th (Fri), 19th (Mon) - 21st (Wed); 8:00am - 11:00am

The deadline to apply is September 18. Space is limited. Up to two people per organization may apply. Participants will be notified of acceptance by September 25.

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.

The NYC Capacity Building Collaborative is accepting applications for Creating Safer Workplaces, a 1.5-hour webinar. Rooted in traditions of transformative justice, prison abolition, and movements to end sexual violence led by women, femmes, and trans & queer BIPOC, this webinar will look at what is sexual harassment, why it happens in our organizations, and how we can respond.

We invite leaders and members of social justice organizations to explore options for anticipating and responding to sexual harassment from a transformative lens, while proactively shifting our organizations to create safer and more empowered workplaces.

Tuesday, October 8th from 1pm-2:30pm EST

When people in our movement spaces come forward with stories of sexual harassment, our organizations are often scrambling to figure out how to respond. People impacted by sexual harassment are doubly harmed when our organizations, funders, and communities fail to respond adequately. In Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, it makes sense to avoid bringing the criminal (in)justice system in to cases of sexual harm, but what do we do instead?

There is no magic guidebook to follow when sexual harassment happens, but we can learn important lessons from transformative justice, prison abolition, and movements to end sexual violence, all led by women, femmes, and trans & queer BIPOC. We can also build organizational cultures that understand and combat cultures of patriarchy and white supremacy, so that our organizations are safer, more empowering, and ready to address harassment if and when it happens.

In this webinar, we will learn from stories of social justice organizations responding to sexual harassment, provide tips and principles to apply when harm occurs, and discuss how to proactively shift the culture within our organizations to create more safe and empowered workplaces.

This webinar will be interactive, with the opportunity to engage and ask questions throughout, and we request that you find space in your day when you can resist multitasking. Please come prepared with thoughts about why this topic is important to you. You will also be asked to share what next steps you will take as a result of attending.

* This webinar does not meet the mandatory New York state training standards for sexual harassment education. If you are looking for information about how to complete that training, please check out this free resource from the NYC Human Rights Commission.

This webinar is a “sneak preview” to a Peer Learning Cohort on Creating Safer Workplaces offered through the NYC Collaborative. The Peer Learning Cohort will take place from January-July of 2020, and will bring together leaders from different grassroots organizations who would like to commit to a process of guided peer learning towards workplaces that are safer for all genders. Peer Learning Cohort applications will open in early October.

ELIGIBILITY

This webinar is designed for leaders that: 

• Come from organizations with a small staff (<15 employees)

• Use an anti-oppression lens

• Work with front-lines BIPOC communities

• Are working to center the leadership of womxn & gender non-conforming people

• Are willing to dedicate time and resources to addressing sexual harassment and gender-based oppression in the workplace

• Are leaders in building organizational culture, policies and practices, or in responding to incidents of harm that may occur.

• Have active concerns about sexual harassment or safety from gender-based violence at your workplace among members or staff.

The training is open to grantees of 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, North Star Fund, NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Scherman Foundation, and Stonewall Community Foundation.

TRAINERS

Amanda Aguilar Shank is a queer, mixed, Salvadoran mom, organizer, writer, trainer, English/Spanish interpreter, and abolitionist living in Portland, Oregon. She believes in practicing social transformation grounded in the self and extending outwards.

Amanda has worked for 15 years in labor, non-profit, and community organizations in the US, Mexico and Central America. Most recently, they served as Deputy Director and Interim Executive Director at Freedom to Thrive, a national Black & brown network dedicated to ending criminalization of communities of color. At Freedom to Thrive, Amanda led international trainings of directly impacted organizers, and local decriminalization campaigns.

After experiencing sexual harassment as a younger organizer in the immigrant rights movement and seeking transformative solutions, Amanda realized the great need for organizations to plan for, preempt, and respond to instances of harm. They now consult with organizations on best practices for responding to sexual harassment, and creating safer organizations. Amanda has a forthcoming article in the January 2020 anthology Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement, edited by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon.

Nathan Shara is a queer, South Asian therapist and community educator whose work focuses on trauma healing, transformative justice, and building loving and accountable power for liberatory struggle. Politicized through queer women of color feminism, Nathan has spent over 15 years engaged in grassroots anti-violence education and organizing-- including ongoing experimentation with community-based responses to harm and violence that do not rely on prisons or policing.
 
Nathan is a lead teacher and practitioner with the Bay-Area based organization generative somatics. He maintains a small practice as a trauma therapist working with survivors of intimate violence, as well as individuals who have perpetrated harm. Nathan’s essay “Facing Shame: From Saying Sorry to Doing Sorry” will be in the forthcoming January 2020 anthology Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement, edited by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon.

DEADLINE TO APPLY

Friday, October 4th. Space is not limited. Participants will receive Zoom link to participate in the webinar on Monday, October 7th.

If you have questions, you can reach out to cori schmanke parrish at cori@northstarfund.org.