The Resourced Nonprofit: The Fundamental Attributes of a Sustainable Community Organization
Event Details
This series is offered in partnership with the Nonprofit Association of Washington
The advancement of every nonprofit’s mission is dependent on leveraging a strong foundation of diverse and sustainable resources to do the work. Thriving nonprofits are typically not the result of a dependence on one-time funding and short-term partnerships. Sustainability is the result of cultivating long-term buy-in and loyalty from growing numbers of people and organizations, building significant reputation equity, and demonstrating impact.
In this workshop series, “The Resourced Nonprofit,” we will explore the cultivation and leveraging of sustainable equity from key relationships that advance an organization’s mission through the following questions:
- What is a resourced nonprofit, and how does my organization compare?
- How does a nonprofit organization leverage its resources into a sustainable community impact business model?
- What are the critical “resourcing” questions nonprofits should be asking themselves today?
- What are the strategic options that arise from the answers to those questions?
Session 1: The Essential Elements of a Resourced Nonprofit
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm
The first session lays the groundwork for establishing a baseline of definitions and concepts about the attributes of a “resourced” nonprofit. Participants will be asked to consider the levels to which their organizations are moving towards having sustainable diverse resources.
Session 2: Community Reputation and Goodwill in a Resourced Nonprofit
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Every community impact organization relies on the sustainable goodwill of society and the people who benefit from the tireless work of the cause. Most nonprofits relied on the leveraged goodwill of the community prior to even opening their doors. This session reflects on how community goodwill is essential for a truly “resourced nonprofit” and provides methods to leverage that goodwill into additional sources of sustainable resources for the organization’s future.
Session 3: Board Stewardship in a Resourced Nonprofit
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm
How a nonprofit board views itself as a resource to an organization’s long-term sustainability is a shared understanding that must be discussed often. Future generations of board members inherit a board culture that either positions the board, itself, as a long-term leveraged resource or an on-going liability that inhibits sustainability. This session will challenge participants to consider the roles of governance and board members in a community cause to assure it is being adequately resourced to be of benefit to society.
Session 4: Staff and Volunteer Loyalty in a Resourced Nonprofit
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Unique to the nonprofit sector, human talent and drive are the largest sources of initial capital investment required to get missions mobilized. Hands, heads, and hearts are the adhesives that hold a resourced nonprofit together. In this session, participants will be challenged to consider how the treatment of people, the cultivation of loyalty, the succession of talent, and celebrations of achievement form an unstoppable workforce of paid and unpaid people as the “secret sauce” behind the resourced nonprofit organization.
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Accessibility
- Captioning: We will have automated captioning enabled.
- Interpretation: Please indicate during registration if you have an interpretation request. Typically, we need at least two weeks in order to schedule an interpreter.
- Visual Descriptions: Presenters will include visual descriptions of themselves and the slides to give a person who is low-vision, blind, or calling in without video a sense of space and place.
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About the Presenter
This series will feature speakers from Interim Executives Academy. More details to come!