Nonprofit consultation and education often focus on strategies to accelerate program and resource growth in an environment that supports it. But how can you continue to achieve success in a down economy, when traditional sources of funding often decline and demand for programs often increases?

In this session Dwayne Howell will share his knowledge of strategies and tactics that can enable a nonprofit to navigate an economic downturn successfully. In group discussion and exercises, participants will explore effective and ineffective steps for continued organizational and mission progress at a time of financial retrenchment.   Participants will examine how management of people, programs and financial resources must all contribute to success in hard times.    

Participants will:

1. Identify barriers to organizational success in the current economic downturn.
2. Explore approaches to managing people, program and financial performance that can help surmount the barriers.
3. Identify and tailor approaches to short-term retrenchment and long-term growth, based on their assessments of the current situation and the strengths and gaps of their organizations.