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Build your organization's financial confidence and management with FIRM
All nonprofits can benefit from this deep dive into understanding and strengthening your financial model, particularly now in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on programs and organizations.
As organizational leaders navigate dynamic changes and pressures to adapt how their organizations operate, understanding the role of financial leadership and strong fiduciary capacity becomes more critical to success and longer term sustainability.
FIRM provides tools, models, and frameworks that strengthen your ability to identify, manage, and assess the assets you put to work to achieve organizational outcomes.
Who should attend: Nonprofits attend as a team of up to four people including the Executive Director, Finance Director/CFO, Board Member, and Program Director.
Taken FIRM in the past? It's helpful to take FIRM again if:
The results: Better connection between your mission and internal structure, increased clarity on outcomes and the assets needed to support them; greater strategic budgeting and reporting process; and improved financial conversations across the organization (board and staff).
FIRM Schedule (all on Zoom):
FIRM will be four half days on Zoom with a mix of live instruction, interactive discussion, team conversations, and more.
FIRM 1 of 4: Thursday, October 14, 9:00am-12:30pm
FIRM 2 of 4: Tuesday, October 19, 9:00am-12:30pm
FIRM 3 of 4: Thursday, October 21, 9:00am-12:30pm
FIRM 4 of 4: Tuesday, October 26, 9:00am-12:30pm
Cost: $25 per Nonprofit Montgomery member organization (4 people), $525 for non-members
This is the only opportunity to take the complete version of FIRM offered in FY22. We will offer one day versions in the Spring of 2022; including FIRM for Program Directors and for Small and Emerging Nonprofits (budgets under $500,000.)