About this event
April 12 to May 17, 2016 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Full Six-Session Series: $382.50
Individual Sessions: $67.50 NAO Members, $75 Nonmembers
NAO Members get 10% off individual sessions by using the discount code on the Members Only Page. You must be logged in to view this page.
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This event is produced in partnership with the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). Registration is hosted on the NFF website; for more information, visit the registration page.
This sequence demonstrates an array of tools and strategies to help inform data-driven decision making for nonprofit professionals. The sessions can be taken as a full financial management curriculum, or can be chosen a la carte for organizations seeking to address specific business challenges.
Registration includes an invitation to join the live broadcast for each webinar, as well as a recorded version and downloadable PowerPoint slides that participants can view at their convenience. Recordings and PowerPoint slides will be disseminated shortly after each webinar.
April 12, 2016: Budgeting as a Communication Tool
This webinar provides nonprofit leaders with a review of key budget terms and concepts and demystifies the budgeting process by focusing on the essential nonprofit budget, which clearly depicts the organization’s true financial story. Although this 60-minute webinar is beginner level, the emphasis is not on how to create a line item budget. Rather, the focus is on creating a budget that appropriately communicates the organization’s economic realities. NFF concludes the webinar by pointing participants toward more advanced budgeting concepts, such as addressing key balance sheet needs. Learn More.
April 19, 2016: Monitoring Cash Flow
Planning in today’s uncertain environment requires that nonprofit leaders know where their organization stands financially. In this 60-minute webinar, NFF offers nonprofit managers the guidance they need to lead during challenging times, offering tips on managing cash flow through use of reports that will identify months of low cash. The session also identifies the ways in which cash flow management can be essential to accessing credit. Learn More.
April 26, 2016: Assessing Program Profitability
Every program impacts your organization’s bottom line. Making informed decisions about critical organizational issues like hiring or fundraising requires a clear understanding or each program’s profit or loss. Is it inherently profitable? Does it require subsidy? How does it fit together financially with other programs? NFF’s unique Program Profitability Model provides a clear-sighted way for nonprofit managers to answer these questions. Through real-life examples, this 60-minute webinar will explain how participants can use a program economic assessment to make adjustments and improve financial health with minimal impact on programs. Learn More.
May 3, 2016: Scenario Planning
At NFF, scenario planning balances exploration and dialogue with a tools-driven approach. As such, this 60-minute webinar introduces participants to several ways of planning through periods of uncertainty and focuses on the financial implications of future scenarios (with respect to the income statement as well as the balance sheet) during single year or over a multiple year period. Learn More.
May 10, 2016: Managing to a Dashboard
Increasingly popular among nonprofit boards, a dashboard is a reporting tool for communicating with an organization’s key stakeholders and leadership about mission-related goals, capacity-related goals, resource needs, and desired outcomes/outcome measurement. In this 60-minute webinar, NFF will discuss how to engage your organization in thoughtful and relevant conversations about its financial situation, needs, challenges and opportunities before it reaches a crisis point. Participants will explore two types of organizational dashboards that help to measure progress against goals and manage uncertainty. Learn More.
May 17, 2016: Strategic Alliances, Collaborations and Mergers
In a post-recession environment, nonprofits are increasingly looking to collaborate and some are even considering mergers. Through this 60-minute webinar, NFF will lead an informative discussion about how nonprofits can recognize the conditions that contribute to successful collaborations and when a merger would be warranted. Participants will gain an understanding of how partnerships, alliances and mergers can be positive, strategic decisions—and an incredibly powerful tool for two organizations with compatible missions and services. Learn More.