Convening: Scenario Planning Workshop with Nonprofit Finance Fund
Scenario Planning Workshop with Nonprofit Finance Fund
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Effectively planning for the future requires nonprofit leaders to imagine possible scenarios and determine how their organizations might best respond. In this hands-on workshop presented by Meadow Didier and Sarah Stricklin of Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), nonprofit leaders will explore various methods and tools for scenario planning, empowering their team and board to understand budget implications for various “what-ifs” and creating plans of action as they manage uncertainty. NFF will help leaders quantify responses to possible futures, identify key financial levers to pull, and assess revenue and expense variability. Leaders are encouraged to bring current scenarios they’re facing to use as real-time practice cases for applying what they learn during the workshop.
This session will be recorded and shared with registrants.
REGISTERFollow-up Group Coaching Sessions
ArtsFund is pleased to host follow-up, 60-minute, drop-in zoom coaching sessions, facilitated by the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). These sessions are intended to be unstructured conversations, guided by your questions and individual scenarios. Attend to ask your specific questions and learn from NFF and your peers. Please note that attendance at the Scenario Planning workshop is not required to join this unstructured conversation.
When?
▪ Group Coaching Session 1: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.
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▪ Group Coaching Session 2: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.
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There is space on the registration form to indicate any accessibility features needed to participate. You can also email Programs Coordinator Naunica Hull (naunicahull@artsfund.org) for additional needs.
Presenters
Meadow Didier
As a member of the Consulting team at NFF, I support nonprofit leaders in creating the space they need to think strategically about financial issues, with the goal of strengthening their ability to deliver impact. Nonprofit organizations are the ones on the front lines fighting for justice and vital social change, and I’ve spent my career wading through the weeds of nonprofit finance to make those jobs easier. When I’m not wearing my finance hat, I’m volunteering with my local community, reading through precariously balanced piles of books, and exploring the outdoors.
Sarah Stricklin
Sarah Stricklin (they/them) is an enthusiastic Manager on the consulting team, eager to serve the nonprofit sector alongside the kind and noble-minded people at Nonprofit Finance Fund. Sarah is an arts administrator, focused for the last 15 years on producing and managing nonprofit arts and culture. Their expertise includes leading mission and board formation, process and program development, strategic planning, and financial management. In 2020, they founded the Center for Cultural Community, which continues to build and cultivate support for creative people in Central Arkansas. They are a professional vocalist and musician and an arts evangelist taking any opportunity to advocate the immense potential of our creative community. They hold a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and serve on multiple boards.
About the Nonprofit Finance Fund
For over 40 years, the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) has been working to connect money to mission, providing nonprofits with strategic financial management consulting services, access to capital, and thought leadership and advocacy.
NFF has always asserted that creating a strong, well-capitalized, and durable nonprofit sector is crucial to delivering mission-driven programs and services. Organizations using clear, accurate, and relevant financial data in decision-making can better understand their ability to handle risk and pursue opportunities; therefore, they are better able to create sustainable and successful business models that deliver effectively and meaningfully on mission. NFF’s methodology centers on ensuring that nonprofits not only have financial data that accurately reflects their true operating performance, but also have the tools and understanding to use this information.
About ArtsFund
ArtsFund supports the arts through leadership, advocacy, and grantmaking in order to build a healthy, equitable, and creative Washington. Over its grantmaking history, ArtsFund has supported more than 650 arts organizations with more than $115 million in grants and championed leadership and advocacy for the cultural sector through programs such as Board Leadership Training, the Cultural Partners Network, and Building for the Arts capital funding. Join us and learn more at www.artsfund.org.
