Title: "Windfall" Gifts: What really happened in their immediate aftermath?
Date: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm ET
Summary
What you will learn:
The details on how hundreds of nonprofits have spent “windfall” grants of unexpected millions;
What do those findings reveal about any chronic issues in your nonprofit budgets;
What to do to address those chronic issues even without a “windfall” grant;
Why does the nonprofit sector need to stop looking at these grants as windfalls, and what must we do to fix our own expectations and funder behavior?
Presenting will be Cecilia Conrad of Lever for Change, which specializes in the processes behind making such large grants, John MacIntosh of Sea Change Capital Partners who is an astute observer of the impact such influxes of capital have on nonprofits, and Stanley Richards, CEO of the Fortune Society who will discuss how they finally spent a $10 million MacKenzie Scott grant, and Elisha Smith Arrillaga, Vice President of Research, Center for Effective Philanthropy.
