Lesson #1 Course Overview
The first session is an in-depth introduction to a set of six seminars based on grounded research (or on-the-ground study over time) of the diverse and distinctive financial dynamics of different types of nonprofits. What drives, disrupts, and needs to be measured and monitored to optimize your organization’s financial outcomes, as compared to a performing arts or foster care operation? What do you have to consider when diversifying or shifting a revenue source? These seminars will provide a valuable framework that will help nonprofit leaders smooth out any periodically turbulent operations and strategically advance their organization’s financial positions.
This webinar will provide participants an overall framework of the unique business principles that distinguish nonprofit enterprises from other sectors. From that foundation, you will
Instructors:
Hilda Polanco
Managing Partner, BDO FMA
Ruth McCambridge
Director of Content, Nonprofit Financial Commons
Douglas Rushkoff
Media Theory and Digital Economics Professor, CUNY/Queens
Financial Commons - Business Model Webinar_v7 10MB
RESOURCES
GRID - 5 business models based on primary revenue sources PDF
Everyone Deserves A Fair Slice Video video
READING
In, but not Of, the Market: The Special Challenge of Nonprofit-nes
The Looking-Glass World of Nonprofit Money: Managing in For-Profits’ Shadow Universe