Financial Leadership

This workshop provides a framework for understanding financial leadership and how to apply it within an organization. The course focuses on how to read and understand key financial statements and gives participants hands-on practice with using those statements to assess an organization’s overall financial health. These are critical skills for all nonprofit executives.  

All participants will receive a copy of Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives: Guiding Your Organization to Long-Term Success.
 

Who should attend?

This workshop is for nonprofit leaders at all levels of an organization who want to better understand the financial position and health of their organization. Participants may be in an advanced finance role in their nonprofit, or hold management roles outside of finance. Executive directors, board members, program managers and fundraising staff can all benefit from this course.

All attendees should have some familiarity with nonprofit financial statements..  See our course listings for the next Introduction to Nonprofit Finance workshops here.  

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Assess their capacity for financial leadership and identify areas of improvement.
• Use core nonprofit financial statements to evaluate an organization’s financial health and participate in informed programmatic and infrastructure decision-making.
• Understand how to use financial information to communicate an organization’s progress toward its mission.