No Begging: Run Your Nonprofit Like a Business

Learn how to easily sustain and grow your organization. (1.5 hour workshop) They may be charities, but they shouldn't be charity cases. No begging! Run your nonprofit like a business because that's what it is. You can only beg, borrow and steal goods and services for your nonprofit organization for so long. Learn how to treat your organization like a small business and not only will it appear as a much more professional organization, it will be able to sustain itself more easily, and grow. Jennifer E. Goldman, an established community relations specialist, GMU School of Management graduate, business owner and certified nonprofit manager, will share her business savvy and teach nonprofit leaders how to makes plans and implement them so that charities run just like 'business as usual.' Workshop attendees will learn how to: - Budget properly - Develop human assets - Create a diverse set of income streams - Track and report - Pitch