Session 5 Agenda

Readings

1. William Landes Foster, Peter Kim, and Barbara Christiansen, “Ten Nonprofit Funding Models,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009.
2. “Glossary of Not-For-Profit Financial and Accounting Terms,” Jacobson Jarvis & Co. PLLC.
3. Elizabeth Schaffer and Jeanne Peters, “Chapter 1: Defining Financial Leadership,” in Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives: Guiding Your Organization to Long-Term Success, (Saint Paul: Fieldstone Alliance, 2005), 7-17.
4. Elizabeth Schaffer and Jeanne Peters, “Chapter 2: Getting Financial Data You Can Trust,” in Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives: Guiding Your Organization to Long-Term Success, (Saint Paul: Fieldstone Alliance, 2005), 19-36.
5. “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: It’s time to liberate activists from the nonprofit industrial complex,” in The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, edited by INCITE!, (Cambridge: South End press, 2007).
6. Catherine R. Albiston and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Funding the Cause: How Public Interest Law Organizations Fund Their Activities and Why It Matters for Social Change,” Law & Social Inquiry 39, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 62-95.
7. Peter Kim, Gail Perreault, and William Foster, “Finding Your Funding Model: A Practical Approach to Nonprofit Sustainability,” The Bridgespan Group, 2011.

Handouts

• Grant Common Application Form
• Financial Benchmark Worksheet
• Sources of Funding Chart
• Stanford Social Innovation Review – Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
• Youth for Justice Sample Budget
• Scenario: Non Profit Org Profiles and Exercise
• Scenario: Individual Donor and Community Foundation Descriptions