4 Session Workshop Series: Loss of Primary Source of Funding

When a major grant ends or a key funding stream dries up, organizations often find themselves at a crossroads. Do you responsibly wind down, build a bridge to new funding, or scale back to sustain what’s essential? Each of these paths demands clarity, courage, and careful planning.

These moments can feel isolating: leaders under pressure, staff unsure about the future, and communities left wondering what comes next. But they can also be turning points, i.e., chances to reassess, reimagine, and chart a new path toward sustainability or closure with integrity and care.

This first offering in Educopia’s Transitions Series equips organizations facing funding loss with structured tools, peer support, and expert facilitation to move through uncertainty with clarity instead of panic. Participants leave with a grounded understanding of their options, practical next steps, and the reassurance that they’re not navigating these challenges alone, all while protecting their mission, people, and legacy.

Workshop Series Structure

• Format: 4-session series, each 2 hours (including breaks), blending guided facilitation, applied exercises, and real-world examples.
• Tailored for Your Context: Intake surveys help facilitators adapt tools to your organization’s runway, goals, and readiness.
• Peer Learning & Optional Consulting: Workshops foster mutual exchange, with the option for add-on hours of one-on-one consulting to translate tools into actionable outputs like fundraising plans, contingency budgets, or sunsetting blueprints.

Session-by-Session Breakdown

[Jan 26, 2026] Session 1: Framing & Runway Assessment
Clarify your financial position, map key stakeholders, and explore viable options for pivoting, scaling back, or winding down. Tools include the funding runway calculator and community mapping exercises.

[Feb 2, 2026] Session 2: Pivoting to Sustainability
Explore ways to stabilize or reimagine your work by mapping current and potential revenue streams. Develop a “good enough to try, safe enough to fail” proposal and assessment plan using the funder prospecting guide, funding timeline tool, and case-for-support template.

[Feb 9, 2026] Session 3: Responsible Wind Down / Contingency Planning
Prepare for an orderly, values-aligned transition with structured tools and guidance. Examine the financial, policy, emotional, and temporal dimensions of wind-downs while applying templates for budgets, asset disposition, and transition team planning.

[Feb 16, 2026] Session 4: Communications & Legacy
Focus on transparent messaging, meaning-making, and closure. Use the communications sequencing tool and legacy guidance to craft messages for stakeholders, plan documentation to inform the field, and carry forward next steps with clarity and care.

We hope you'll leave these sessions with:

• A clear understanding of your organization’s financial position and viable options (pivot, scale back, or wind down).
• Practical tools to assess runway, map assets, and identify new funding opportunities.
• A realistic, values-aligned fundraising or contingency plan tailored to your current conditions.
• Guidance on communications sequencing and legacy planning.
• Increased alignment and confidence among staff and leadership to navigate uncertainty.

Participation Expectations

We’ll be meeting via Zoom, using the screen share and chat functions throughout the sessions. Please ensure you have access to a computer and stable internet.

Each two-hour session includes scheduled breaks, but we’ll ask for your focused attention in between so we can dive deeply into the material. You can expect breakout room discussions with peers and periodic prompts in the chat for reflection and sharing.

Between sessions, participants will receive asynchronous assignments to complete during the week. These short activities are designed to help you apply the tools and frameworks to your organization’s unique context and come prepared to build on that work in the following session.

Each session will be recorded, and materials will be shared with all registrants afterward.

How pricing works

Educopia’s Fee: $525.00
Eventbrite Service Fee: 3.70% + $1.79 per ticket = $21.22
Processing Fee: 2.90% per order = $15.84
Total Cost per Participant: $562.06

Solidarity Rates

We expect to offer a small number of solidarity-rate spots. If cost may prevent your participation, please reach out to us at communications@educopia.org to discuss options.

Additional Opportunity: Free 30-minute Office Hour sessions

We’re offering free 30-minute Office Hours with members of our consulting team from November 3 to 14, 2025. Select a consultant to work with and sign up here: https://calendly.com/educopia-consulting-team

Educopia’s AI Bot Policy

In order to maintain an inclusive and equitable environment for all participants, we kindly ask that AI assistants or bots not be used during the workshop. If an AI assistant is present, we will be forced to remove the AI assistant from the space. You will receive a full recording of the workshop, along with a transcript and other materials, to support your learning.

Registration Data Privacy Policy

Visitors to educopia.org and related pages on third-party web tools (e.g., Eventbrite) may choose to engage with Educopia programs or projects in ways that involve sharing personally identifying information, such as through event registrations.

For this event, we are requesting registration information to help us better understand participants’ contexts and ensure that the workshop is responsive to your needs. The intake form will include questions organized under the following categories:

• Organizational Context: Basic information about your organization’s structure, size, and scope of work.
• Funding Landscape: Details about the funding source that has been lost or is at risk, and any actions or strategies your organization has already taken.
• Organizational Readiness & Priorities: Your current stage of transition, and the key areas where you are seeking clarity or support.
• Learning Goals & Capacity: What you most hope to gain from the workshop and how your team plans to engage in the sessions.
• Optional Follow-Up Support: Your interest in individualized consulting or office hours following the series.

Educopia gathers only the amount and type of information necessary to meet the objectives of the event. We do not share personally identifying information beyond specific, documented circumstances to which you explicitly agree (for example, opting in to share your name, title, and organization with other attendees).

A post-event survey will also be distributed to all registered participants to help us evaluate the workshop’s impact. Survey data will not be shared publicly and will only be used for internal assessment and improvement purposes.