Technical Assistance Session: Customized Risk & Readiness Support

The Nonprofit Professionals of Color Collective, sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Grunin Foundation, focuses on the unique needs of nonprofit leaders of color.

Join the Nonprofit Professionals of Color Collective for "Technical Assistance Session: Customized Risk & Readiness Support with Paulina Goldman." Participation in the previous workshop is not required to attend this session. This series is designed to allow drop in participation throughout.

This personalized session provides targeted guidance to help nonprofits apply the infrastructure checklist to their own risk management and capacity-building needs. Whether navigating board liabilities, tightening internal controls, or upgrading data systems, participants will receive support to turn assessments into tangible action. The session offers space to refine policies, troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and prioritize risk mitigation efforts tailored to organizational realities.

Register now to secure your spot!

Friday, November 7

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EST

COST:

Free for Paid Members; To join The Collective, click here: https://www.nppoccollective.org/membership

$25.00 for Non-paid members

Advance registration is required for all.

*Paid members are able to access this worshop for free using a promo code. If you do not know your code please contact Stella Gonzalez at stella@nppoccollective.org for assistance.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Paulina Alvarado-Goldman

Ms. Alvarado-Goldman obtained her Masters in Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2000. She is a nonprofit and public policy executive who has held leadership positions in various nonprofits, associations, advocacy groups, and policy institutes. She is also currently an Adjunct Professor in the Rider University Political Science Department and has directed research on nonprofit best practices, infrastructure, and anti-corruption practices.

She has presented various papers at international conferences and has published a chapter in “Corruption and Governmental Legitimacy: A Twenty-First Century Perspective” on the perception of nonprofits on corruption in government contracting and funding.

She published another chapter in 2019 in the book, “Political Corruption in a World in Transition”, where she presented a new way of conceptualizing how nonprofits balance their missions with the financial realities of their organization.

Currently, she is actively engaged in identifying quantifiable approaches to operationalizing solutions to problems that individuals need collective action to solve and conducts research on governance, community sustainability, equity and inclusion, nonprofit funding, and accountability measures in the nonprofit field.

In 2007, Ms. Alvarado-Goldman founded Capacity Building and Policy Experts, LLC, and is currently serving as the Founder and CEO. She has worked with various nonprofits, academic institutions, and associations on capacity building, operationalizing ideas, organizational restructuring, crisis management, government and public affairs, public policy development, academic research, and development. She has also created customized nonprofit evaluation tools and conducted program impact evaluations. Ms. Alvarado-Goldman also provides realignment services and facilitates transitions as an Interim Executive Director for numerous nonprofit organizations with budgets ranging from $400,000-$12,000,000. Within this capacity, she has increased revenues, developed innovative programming, reduced costs, and increased efficiencies. In addition, she has worked with leading universities and nonprofit associations to provide professional development training on nonprofit infrastructure development, change management, and advocacy.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Black, Indigenous, other People Of Color, and their allies, working in all levels of service in the nonprofit sector. This includes Executives, Directors, Direct Service Staff, Entry Level Staff, Board Members, and more.

Borrowing from language from the Facebook group NPOCunicorns - People of Color Nonprofit Professionals, we define People of Color as: "Black/African-American/African descent/African, Latin/Latina/Latino/Latinx, First Nations/Native American/Indigenous, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Asian, Southwest Asian, North African/Arab, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Mixed-Race/Mixed-Ethnicity peoples.

Participation is geared to: "people of color, those who identify as, live their daily lives as, and understand themselves as people of color, and it includes white-passing and light-skinned people of color."

"We appreciate allies, advocates, and accomplices for justice." If you do not identify as a person of color, we ask you to honor and respect the sacredness of this space if you choose to enter it.