Advanced Budgeting: Maximizing Your Budget as A Management Tool
Can't make sense of your nonprofit's financial reports & planning tools? NFF can help demystify and clarify nonprofit financial reporting. Learn to better articulate your financial picture to staff, constituents, board members and potential funders.
As the economy continues to change and remain uncertain for many of us in the nonprofit community, many organizations are revisiting current budgeting practices and exploring new options to better navigate this changing environment. This workshop provides a review of basic budgeting practices and covers advanced concepts, such as program profitability analysis, reforecasting, and scenario planning. The content is designed for executive directors of organizations with annual budget sizes between $500,000 and $5 million, and other staff leaders seeking to enhance their budgeting experience.
NPower PA September Training Calendar
Need to spice up your presentations to board or funders? Learn how to use PowerPoint to enhance your presentations and give your audience hard copies to take with them. Students will learn how to create a slide show presentation with text and graphics so that your presentations are more professional.
Breakfast Club: Shared Lessons in Audience Research & Engagement
Finding new opportunities to expand and deepen audience engagement can be a challenge; particularly at a time when consumer trends and technologies are rapidly shifting and competition from new forms of entertainment are on the rise. Despite these challenges, how can cultural organizations continue to build and sustain new audiences? How can we create programming and marketing that is more relevant and appealing to the target markets we hope to reach?
Join us for this special Breakfast Club as we learn how three organizations involved in the Philadelphia Wallace Excellence Grant Program have addressed these same issues and discovered that strong audience research is the first critical step to developing successful audience engagement strategies.
Our program will begin with presentations from the following organizations, followed by an open Q&A session:
- The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
- Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
- Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe
Presentations will focus on key findings from the research each organization conducted and how these findings have shaped their audience development strategies. Particularly, how has the research altered the way they think about their audiences and how have they put the results from this research into action.
Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8:30am, the presentation will begin at 9:00am.
Breakfast Clubs are supported by The Wallace Foundation and The Philadelphia Foundation and are a program of the Cultural Alliance’s research and marketing initiative Engage 2020. Engage 2020 is sponsored by a lead grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, with additional support from The Wallace Foundation and The Philadelphia Foundation.
Barcamp Philly
BarCamp is an open-format conference where the attendees are the presenters. Our subject matter will be directly tied to what ideas people bring to share with the community.
What is BarCamp?
According to Wikipedia, Barcamp is “…an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.”
Read more on the official Barcamp website.
What will BarCamp Philly be like?
BarCamp is an open-format conference where the attendees are the presenters. Our subject matter will be directly tied to what ideas people bring to share with the community. Most of the rooms at UArts are equipped with projectors if participants would like to give a slide presentation. Discussion groups, round tables, Q&A, brainstorming together are also options.
A typical day at BarCamp goes something like this…
From 8 to 10am, attendees plan the schedule on a large grid. We’ll have index cards at the ready. Write your session title on the card and choose a room and time slot. We will provide a blank form to enter in all of the sessions that you would like to attend for the day. We will kick off after a brief welcome message from the organizers.
Some of our sessions from last year included:
- OnLine Organizing – tools, methods, secrets, software
- The Internet Sux – unfollowing, cancelling, unfriending, unplugging – a roundtable discussion
- Building Your Community, Sponsors, and Your Brand as a Full Time Job Online
- Learn to Make Cheesy iPhone Apps 101
- Rethinking the .edu
- Quit Your Job! – Pick my brain about going independent
- Intro to JQuery
