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FREE LIVE WEBINAR WITH CATHI HIGHT
Changing Funding Expectations — Navigating Through Disruptions and Anticipated Volatility
PLEASE NOTE: Registration closes at 5:00 pm CDT the day before the webinar.
September
25
- Thursday, September 25th
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
- 9:00 am - 10:00 am PDT
When evaluating risk for your organization:
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- How can you forecast revenue when member engagement and support are influenced by economic uncertainty?
- How do you adjust planning during periods when members and stakeholders are tightening their belts?
- What’s the impact of changing economic conditions and consumer confidence on your organization’s financial future?
Learn How to Rely More on Future Expectations and Less on Past Budget Performance
In today’s shifting economic landscape, revenue streams such as events, sponsorships, grants, and membership dues are increasingly vulnerable.
Simply relying on last year’s budget isn’t enough to ensure the stability and growth of your organization. You need to move beyond traditional reports and learn how to utilize a dynamic financial pipeline planning tool to empower your team to be nimble in forecasting revenue and realistic in anticipating funding for critical initiatives.
Participants will walk away with a practical tool — the funding pipeline spreadsheet — to help you build a sustainable financial model for years to come.
Are you ready to plan for unexpected funding scenarios?
DURING THIS LIVE WEBINAR, YOU WILL:
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Create real-time documentation for funding changes.
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Explore the range of anticipated funding scenarios.
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Increase your confidence in assessing funding sources.
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Assess funding for future year budgets during periods of funding volatility.
Join Cathi Hight and Mike Gellman to learn how to mitigate risk and future-proof your organization’s funding.
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Mike Gellman
Guest Speaker:
A. Michael Gellman, CPA, CGMA, Nonprofit Strategist
Mike is an independent fiscal and financial strategist for nonprofit organizations and a co-founding principal partner of Fiscal Strategies 4 Nonprofits, LLC (FS4N) and co-founder of Sustainability Education 4 Nonprofits, LLC (SE4N). Before starting FS4N, Mike had over 20 years Public Accounting Firm experience as a Partner managing not-for-profit business, fiscal and financial services consulting specialty group. He has been designing strategies and teaching budget and projection-based systems and fiscal and financial management enhancement strategies for over 30 years.
Mike has conducted numerous seminars and has written articles on budgeting, operating reserve and investment policies, financial management, fiscal sustainability, leading economic indicators for nonprofits, and the impact on governance and transparency and accountability. He teaches courses and has made presentations for Georgetown University, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Institute for Organization Management (IOM), American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), many State CPA Societies, the Center for Nonprofit Advancement, and for national nonprofit organizations such as the National Urban League, Volunteers of America, United Way Agencies and many other nonprofit organizations.
Cathi Hight
A Promoter of “Good Change”
Cathi is President of Hight Performance Group and a trusted advisor to chambers of commerce and associations across the U.S. and Canada. Known as The Strategic Whisperer, Cathi helps member-based organizations turn challenges into crystal-clear solutions.
Her work focuses on building bold strategic plans, developing value-based membership models, and transforming Boards into engaged, high-performing teams. Through data-driven insights and practical strategies, Cathi equips leaders to align around purpose and deliver real results. Whether leading a retreat, presenting a keynote, or facilitating a strategy session, Cathi brings clarity, candor, and a deep commitment to helping organizations do more with meaning.
Cathi is recognized nationally for her work and is the author of The Member Retention Kit and A New Approach to Tiered Membership, and developer of the Work Smarter, Not Harder program. She provides resources to help organizations stay relevant, effectively communicate the value of membership, and increase their bottom line.
She has presented at many state and national conferences for associations and chambers of commerce and has been an instructor for Institute for Organization Management (IOM) since 2004.
