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Register for upcoming watch parties!
November 13, 2024 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Cash Flow Planning
In times of uncertainty, it’s especially critical to understand how cash flows in and out of organizations. Unlike a budget – which summarizes revenue and expenses for a block of time – cash flow projections plot total cash received and spent month-by-month or week by-week. In this session, you will learn how to create a cash flow projection, manage cash flow, avoid common missteps in cash flow planning, differentiate between cash and accrual accounting, and connect cash flow management to credit assessment.
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December 11, 2024 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Strategic Budgeting and Scenario Planning
To effectively plan for the future requires nonprofit leaders to imagine possible scenarios and determine how their organizations would respond. This webinar will show you how to incorporate scenario planning into your budget, allowing your team and your board to understand budget implications for various “what-ifs” and create plans of action. NFF will help you quantify the unknown, develop budget scenarios for possible future crises, identify key drivers of change, assess revenue and expense variability, and prepare for both best- and worst-case scenarios.
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January 8, 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Understanding Full Cost
Full cost refers to the true cost of doing business for nonprofits, including total expenses, working capital, and reserves. In this webinar, NFF will walk you through how to calculate the full cost of operating your organization and communicating that cost to funders. We’ll define the components of full cost, provide language that names and claims nonprofits’ full cost needs, offer guidance for prioritizing your organization’s hidden costs, and share tips for discussing full cost with key stakeholders.
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February 12, 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Understanding Your Mission/Money Mix
To make informed decisions, nonprofit leaders must understand how their programs contribute to both financial and mission objectives. You will use NFF’s Program Economics Analysis to see how your mission can inform financial decisions, explore where well-placed subsidies can maximize your organization’s impact, and determine how to adapt your programs in response to the current moment.
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March 19, 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Managing Risks and Opportunities
Nonprofit leaders are most adaptable when they understand their organization’s financial risks and the resources required to manage them. NFF will cover how an organization’s capital structure supports financial resilience and how to strengthen capital structure during times of uncertainty. NFF will also introduce the concept of “full cost” – a concept that we will explore in greater detail in the following session.
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April 9, 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Financial Leadership for Boards
Board members can better serve nonprofits when they are well-versed in financial management and understand their roles as stewards. This webinar reviews how boards can help guide nonprofits to think about the “big-picture:" identifying strengths, gaps, opportunities, and risks; understanding financial health and performance; and supporting an organization through times of crisis.
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May 14, 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Partnerships and Collaborations
Nonprofits are exploring new ways to work with like-minded organizations. In this webinar, you will learn how to recognize the conditions for successful collaborations, evaluate mission alignment, assess prospects, and facilitate productive conversations with potential partners. NFF will cover the difference between partnership and collaboration, strengths and full costs in partnerships and collaboration, value propositions for collaboration, partnership and collaboration finances, and potential barriers to forming new partnerships.
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June 11, 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Telling Your Financial Story to Different Audiences
Nonprofit leaders must know, own, and effectively articulate their organization’s financial story. By communicating this story well, leaders build trust and credibility, contextualize financial reports, connect finances to mission, and advocate for their organization’s needs. In this webinar, NFF will guide you through the process of crafting a compelling financial story for your organization with budgets, dashboards, financial statements, and other materials. NFF will also offer techniques for getting to know your various audiences, positioning your financial story for each of your audiences, and engaging your board and other stakeholders during times of crisis.
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