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Join us as Sean facilitates this 5-part series covering all aspects of Fiduciary Excellence!Everyone is welcome!Although this course is aimed at nonprofit board members, everyone is welcome to attend. That includes leadership staff who want to understand board responsibilities and perspectives better as well as individuals who do not currently serve on boards.Join us for this five-week course for boards to dig deep on nonprofit financial best practices, help them avoid pitfalls and permit them to make a strong overall contribution to the organization they serve.Nonprofit Austin reserves the right to postpone this learning opportunity if there is inadequate registration.Week 1: Core roles and duties:-Legal requirements of all board members (quoting TX law)-Legal liability-Horror stories (Family Connections, my mom, etc.)-D&O Insurance-Treasurer role-Chair’s role-Finance Committee role (briefly; more next week)Week 2: Relationship with staff – getting it right; adding value:Board relationship with staff-Executive Director-Accounting and finance staff-Power dynamics and the importance of clear rolesFinance Committee Role-Adding value to the board-Adding value to the staff-Overperforming and underperformingWeek 3: Financial ReportsWhy read the financial reports? Plus, how to read the financial reports-Balance Sheet-Profit and Loss-Materiality (what to worry about and what not to worry about)-Dashboards-Inclusion-Engaging the full board in financial decisionsWeek 4: Fraud […]

This five-part series guides participants through the process of visualizing their business model utilizing the matrix map.This five-part series – facilitated by Steve Zimmerman, a co-author of Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability - guides participants through the process of visualizing their business model utilizing the matrix map, a visual depiction of an organization’s business model – or how every program contributes to the organization’s sustainability, impact, and profitability. Together, they will learn how to assess mission impact, determine profitability, and plot the map. More than a picture, the matrix map offers strategic imperatives to drive decision making to strengthen sustainability. Participants will receive templates throughout the process to implement on their own and will have access to extra engagement during the process to answer their questions.What is “sustainable” is constantly changing as the environment in which nonprofits operate changes. Sustainability is an orientation, not a destination. As such, truly sustainable organizations have leadership with a shared understanding of what is driving their impact and financial viability and are able to make ongoing strategic decisions while holding both of these elements together.There is a deep interconnectedness between a nonprofit’s ability to be financially viable and to have impact. […]

Learn the importance of your bylaws for guiding your organization and assuring its effective achievement of your mission.Join us as our very own Executive Director, Barry Silverberg, reviews the importance of your bylaws for guiding your organization and assuring its effective achievement of your mission. We will review the essential components and suggest others that can be helpful in guiding your organization through difficult situations.Nonprofit Austin reserves the right to postpone this learning opportunity if there is inadequate registration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------More about our facilitator: Barry has over 50 years of nonprofit professional and volunteer leadership, management, resource development, communications, capacity-building and civic engagement experience focusing on strengthening nonprofit board governance, strategic thinking, board development and engagement, professional and organizational development, and public policy awareness and advocacy. A passionate advocate of community-based organizations both locally and Texas-wide, he founded the Center for Nonprofit Studies at Austin Community College in 2000, which he continues to lead as its Director. He created and taught Nonprofit Leadership and Management for St. Edward’s University’s Nonprofit Management Certificate. The creator of ACC’s Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership and Management Certificate in 2007, he continues to serve as both its administrator and as a faculty member.

In this three hour workshop, participants will learn the fundamental building blocks and principles of ethical organizational storytelling.In a world inundated with information, nonprofit organizations face the unique challenge of capturing the hearts and minds of their audiences to drive meaningful engagement and support for their work. In this three hour workshop, participants will learn the fundamental building blocks and principles of ethical organizational storytelling and how to employ it within their organization and externally. Attendees will learn the storytelling tools needed to connect deeply with stakeholders, inspire action, foster empathy, and generate lasting impact. They will also learn essential building blocks of creating effective social impact stories and how to balance storytelling authenticity with responsible narrative framing that centers the individuals and organizations involved.______________________________________________________________________________________________________About the presenter:Lacy Alana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, corporate trainer, multidisciplinary artist, and creator of The Yes And Brain framework. As Lacy spent time in the clinical, educational, corporate, and expressive arts worlds over the last decade, she recognized that she was having great success blending facets from each discipline into the others.When colleagues asked her to teach them tools to mimic her work, she developed the Yes And Brain framework to serve as […]