COO hosted a series of two workshops to learn tools and practices around financial planning and sustainability. These workshops offered case studies on how organizations are using financial information and long-range planning to make strategic decisions about their visionary work, and offered tools and strategies to create financially sustainable and health organizations.
Read MoreFinancial Oversight is an important part of leading an organization – we need good financial information and tools to make sound strategic decisions about our work. In this workshop, Amy Michael and Sarah Tran discuss how organization leaders approach financial oversight. They share some tools and practices you can use at your own organization to check in on your own financial oversight. Recorded March 8, 2022
Read MoreThis workshop provides a high-level overview of capital campaign fundraising concepts and terms including campaign feasibility study, prospect research, gift pyramids, and other fundraising activities within the context of a capital campaign. Also included is a review typical capital campaign timelines and using a community-centric fundraising lens, an exploration of fundraising strategies that can leverage broader support for an organization’s vision and mission by centering on a shared vision for the future.
Read MoreWorkshop description: Illuminate what to consider when your communication starts local and then is shared more broadly. How does the strategy and tools change? What are the major thresholds, advantages, and challenges for different scales of audiences? Workshop focuses on scales of neighborhood, city, and county. Watch the recording here.
Read MoreLearn more about crafting effective messages and getting audiences with local government to meet your goals. Build relationships and reputations that facilitate generative partnerships and ways to influence public leadership and represent your community.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has redefined nearly every process and task. This workshop will look at the digital tools for communicating at various levels (team members, clients, community members, funders) that can keep us socially connected while physically distant. These tools can be power campaigns even without pandemic restrictions.
Read MoreExplore steps that align storytelling and policy change. We follow a process from idea to advancing community-centered solutions through formal policy change. How to translate culturally specific perspectives for white audiences, while staying authentic to our own communities and cultures.
Read MoreExplore making appropriate and generative connections with media members. Ensuring your story is expressed in ways that promotes your mission and affirm your community. Exposing pitfalls and traps to avoid. Recording, press kit template and presentation slides available.
Read MoreBuilding intercommunity coalitions. How to be in solidarity with those communities under most threat, even when not your own. Starting and maintaining alliances during COVID-19. Workshop featuring guest speaker Colleen Echohawk-Hayashi.
Read MoreWho tells your story? Who maps your community? Who owns the data? What knowledge is valid?
This 3-Part introductory series on Participatory Action Research hosted by the Highlander Research and Education Center, Southwest Folklife Alliance and the Othering & Belonging Institute focuses on how Participatory Action Research can be used by artists and organizers to advance racial justice.
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