Hello folks
We hope this finds you well. It was great to see so many of you at our Marrying Money and Mission - Finding the Sweet Spot last week. We hope you found this - and all the other events that you attended in Small Charity Week - useful. Today we bring you a quick round up of the free resources we have created to support you with your financial resilience building.
Warmly,
The Embrace Finance Team
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Free financial resilience building resources
We know that finances can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to figure it out alone. We’re here to support you in building financial confidence, so you can lead with clarity and resilience.Here are free tools, resources, and events to support you:
Marrying Money and Mission Worksheet
Are you familiar with the Money Mission Matrix? This is a great tool for exploring activities through both a social impact and a financial impact lens. This is also a great tool for using as a team or with your board of Trustees when thinking through how to expand - or contract - in a financially resilient, mission centric way.
Free Financial Resilience Session – coming soon!
We’re hosting a live session to help you plan for uncertainty, strengthen reserves, and share real-life success stories from other small charity leaders who are on their own financial resilience building journey. Keep an eye on your inbox.
Financial Resilience Leadership Briefing
Our latest briefing shares our reflections from the past 6 years of resilience building and how financial resilience goes way beyond the numbers. The truth is financial resilience is a leadership skill. This is good news because what it requires is what small charity leaders have in spades.
Financial Resilience Slidedeck
For those of you wanting an overview of financial resilience, we share our popular slidedeck on what financial resilience actually is and the financial information that we need in order to develop it. Spoiler - a good reserves policy and a simple cashflow forecast can get us an awfully long way.
Open letter to grant-makers
And finally, we continue our series of open letters with one to all grant-makers with a plea to release the restrictions and support the financial resilience of small charities with unrestricted funding.
All available
here.
Small Charity Friendly Collective
We’re proud to be founding members of the Small Charity Friendly Collective, a self-organising, volunteer collective of small charity specialists committed to helping small charities thrive. As a small charity leader, you can tap into a wide range of free or low-cost support from our Collective members:
Lime Green Consulting
for a set of fundraising helpsheets and an 'ask us anything' feature for fundraising and strategy tips
The Olive Training and Consultancy Limited for strategy mentoring support
Michele Price at Gunnercooke for a free half hour consultation on all things charity law
Claris D'cruz
for wisdom on a range of small charity governance issues
Rapport Coaching
for coaching and support in your role as Chief Everything Officer.
Embrace Finance
for all things small charity finance.
So, that's all we have time for right now folks.
If you have any good news, questions or challenges you would like to share with us please do get in touch.
Otherwise, wishing you a peaceful week.
With solidarity and spreadsheets,
The Embrace Finance Team
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P.S. Want the Marrying Money and Mission worksheet now? Just click here.
