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Thinking Beyond Nonprofit:
Strategies for Sustainability and Solidarity
In the face of funding cuts, rising threats to nonprofit status and heightened risks to vulnerable communities,
the time is now to reimagine nonprofit structures.
How do we protect assets and activities? Diversify revenue streams? Structure solidarity efforts?
This presentation offers prompts for the structural and cultural work of re-thinking
organizations and the field.
Content includes the different elements of organizational structure (entity, tax status, policies),
each of which are strategic levers. The presentation also covers hybrid entities, alternatives to the nonprofit entity,
joint ventures, and tips for increasing organizational nimbleness.
Contracts for Creatives
Contracts are opportunity to put our values into practice
and have important conversations.
If you are an artist, contract negotiation is an essential part of valuing your work.
This training offers practical tools for empowered contract creation and negotiation,
covers the essential elements of arts contracts,
and includes tips for equity-driven, artist-centered contracting.
Can be customized for different disciplines (performing arts, literary, etc).
Putting Shared Leadership into Action
Shared leadership is both structural and cultural work.
Based on Hope’s real-life experience transitioning the nonprofit she founded
to a model of shared leadership,
plus her many years of advising nonprofits,
this training breaks down the journey of democratizing an organization.
This practical, equity-minded training covers how to get started,
common pitfalls, resources, prompts for reflection, and Board considerations.
Get Your (Art) House in Order
Are you and your team ready to do the work?
In the face of funding cuts and rising threats to vulnerable communities,
now is the time to get your house in order.
This workshop offers prompts for self-assessment and
a checklist of action items and tips for best practices,
budgeting, compliance, data security, and good governance.