Nonprofit Finance 201: Gathering Insights from Audited Financial Statements
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Event Description
Learn a step-by-step approach to identifying and interpreting useful information from nonprofit audited financial statements. Using a straightforward set of audited financial statements from a real nonprofit organization, this session will provide:
Guidance for understanding the business model and capital structure of a nonprofit
Recommended approaches to using financial information in your grantmaking practice
Tips for communicating with grantees about finance
The virtual 201 session can be experienced as a continuation of the earlier session on Nonprofit Finance 101: The Building Blocks or joined as a standalone session by those who already have an understanding of nonprofit financial statements.
Facilitator
Claire Knowlton
SCG Member
Founder & Principal Consultant, Claire Knowlton Consulting LLC
Claire Knowlton is the founder and principal consultant at Claire Knowlton Consulting, LLC, where she provides financial consulting to nonprofits and foundations. Her work focuses on helping her clients align their financial strategy to their organizational values. She previously served as Director of Advisory Services for Nonprofit Finance Fund where she helped lead a national practice of 43 consultants and provided consulting services to hundreds of nonprofits and funders. While there, she designed and led a range of initiatives, including change capital projects for equity-centered arts organizations; long-term efforts to improve government contracting with nonprofits; and the Full Cost Project. She has worked in the nonprofit sector since 2005 in multiple roles, including as the Executive Director of a community-based art center, as an auditor and tax-preparer, and as co-founder and board chair for a nonprofit working to end extreme global poverty.
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This series is made possible by the generous support of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in partnership with evolve, SCG's suite of programming championing transformational leadership.