Register for Our Fall 2024 Financial Health Workshop
The Montana Arts Council is excited to offer our state’s nonprofit cultural organizations a free 3-hour seminar in financial health. The workshop is online Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, from 12-3pm MT.
REGISTER HERE by November 4th. This workshop has a capacity of 90 participants so please register now.
The workshop is hosted by Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA), the nation’s only association of both public and private arts and culture funders in the US.
GIA defines capitalization as “the accumulation of the resources an organization needs to fulfill its mission over time,” specifically for its financial health. Since its launch in 2010, GIA has provided resources, conferences sessions, publications, and workshops on nonprofit capitalization. GIA’s Capitalization and Nonprofit Financial Health workshops are specialized workshops, held separately for funders and nonprofits, focusing on what each group can do to support the financial health of nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Some of the key themes of the workshop are outlined in a recent GIA blog post.
Workshop goals and objectives:
- Elevate the knowledge of capitalization and nonprofit financial health for nonprofits and their funders
- Provide shared vocabulary that grantmakers and grantees use to inform and transform grantmaking and nonprofit financial practices
- Provide insight into having effective dialogues between funders and grantees
- Create a greater sense of complementary practice and camaraderie for a stronger, healthier arts and culture ecosystem
Agenda
- What is capitalization?
- Historic undercapitalization of the cultural sector
- Impact of Covid-19 on the cultural sector
- How did we get here?
- What can be done?
o Reset resource priorities
- Final takeaways and questions
REGISTER HERE by November 4th. This workshop has a capacity of 90 participants so please register now. The zoom event will NOT be recorded, to encourage frank discussion. So if you register, please plan to attend.
Please plan to bring two representatives - either one senior staff member and one board member, or two senior staff members. You are welcome to forward this email to the most appropriate people at your organization.
If you have any questions about these workshops, feel free to contact Workshops@GIArts.org or Krys.Holmes@mt.gov.
