Understanding My Organization's Finances

"Learning in this space was so open, relaxing, warm, and educational. Not a typical environment when talking about finances." - workshop participant

2 hour online workshop using Zoom

We recommend taking this session alongside the others in the series: To register for other sessions, all Public Workshop dates are listed here.

In this workshop, we'll go over basic financial concepts and the four basic reports: Profit & Loss, Budget, Cash Flow Projection, and Balance Sheet.  We'll also share ways to use these tools to put your values front and center in your organizations.

This is an interactive workshop designed for people at all levels of comfort with organizational finances. Whether you feel totally fluent and are looking for ways to more clearly communicate around finances with others, or are an absolute beginner, you are welcome. 

A recording of this session will be shared with registrants afterwards for their personal reference only.

Facilitators: Alex Fischer & Lauryl Berger-Chun

About A Bookkeeping Cooperative: ABC is a worker-owned union cooperative providing bookkeeping, consulting, and financial education for a solidarity economy.

www.bookkeeping.coop

We invite you to select ticket levels using the guide below. The pricing guide is meant to serve as a reference and we recognize that some groups or individuals might have specific situations that do not fit neatly into a single category, so invite you to select based on your own assessment of your resource access.

There are a limited number of tickets available at each level. If your level is sold out, we encourage you to sign up for our mailing list here to get updates on future workshops.

If you are registering as an individual

Individuals

Questions:

1. At least one of the following describes me:

· people of color

· immigrants

· people with disabilities

· LGBTQIA2+ 

· working class

· poor 

2. I have not inherited wealth or property and do not expect to inherit in future.

3. I do not have savings and am unable to make payments on debts.

4. I have not had access to higher education (e.g. college, graduate school).

5. I struggle to meet my basic living expense needs.

6. My income supports people other than myself.

7. I have had difficulty accessing healthcare for myself and/or family.

If your answers are:

All Yes - Level 1 Solidarity: $10

More Yes than No - Level 2 Solidarity: $50

More No than Yes - Level 3 Full Cost: $125

All No - Level 4 Redistribution: $275

If your organization is paying for your participation

Redistribution Level 4: $450 for organizations with an annual budget of $1.5M and above

Full Cost Level 3: $350 for organizations with an annual budget of $500,000-1.5M

Solidarity Level 2: $250

Annual budget $200-500,000

Majority owned and/or governed by people who are at least one of the following:

· people of color

· immigrants

· people with disabilities

· LGBTQIA2+ 

· working class

· poor 

Organization fits one of the following descriptions:

· Focus on solidarity economy work

· Focus on collective liberation work; including but not limited to:

· practice values of equity, solidarity, and cooperation

· community-based: leaders/members are a part of the communities in which they work

· work to defend people from the harms of systems of oppression

· work to transform oppressive systems

Solidarity Level 1: $150

Annual budget below $200,000

Majority owned and/or governed by people who are at least one of the following:

· people of color

· immigrants

· people with disabilities

· LGBTQIA2+ 

· working class

· poor 

Organization fits one of the following descriptions:

· Focus on solidarity economy work

· Focus on collective liberation work; including but not limited to:

· practice values of equity, solidarity, and cooperation

· community-based: leaders/members are a part of the communities in which they work

· work to defend people from the harms of systems of oppression

· work to transform oppressive systems