Many organizations are facing unexpected funding crises during these uncertain times. Contingency planning can help weather this challenge. This interactive workshop will provide strategies and tools to engage in contingency planning so organizations can better prepare for and navigate challenges that impact your mission delivery.

Full participation in Preparing for the Unexpected: Building a Contingency Plan for Nonprofit Resilience  is applicable for 2 points in Category 1.B -Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification. 

Speakers

Renee Archawski, Senior Consultant & Director, Elevate NP, Schultz & Williams

Renee brings over 25 years of nonprofit leadership and fundraising experience to her role as a senior consultant. In this role, Renee provides strategic development support and leads ElevateNPTM, Schultz & Williams’ Institute for Nonprofit Excellence. Renee has a broad range of fundraising expertise across all revenue streams. She has experience in training and coaching development staff and board members, creating and implementing strategic development plans, annual campaigns, and managing development teams to achieve ambitious goals.

Renee’s past leadership experience includes serving as Executive Director of Greater Philadelphia Cares and Achieve Now, and Interim Executive Director of Teach for America (TFA)’s Atlanta regional office. Renee held a variety of roles at TFA, including Development Coach where she provided organization-wide training and one-on-one coaching to regional development professionals in her portfolio and Managing Director of Development for TFA’s Atlanta region.

As Director of Institutional Giving with Girls Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, Renee oversaw the organization’s 100th Anniversary Campaign, Take the Lead Events, and corporate and foundation partnerships. She led a $7M capital campaign while at FringeArts, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary performing arts organization. Renee spent 10 years working with Greater Philadelphia Cares, a volunteer management organization engaging thousands of volunteers each year across the Greater Philadelphia region. Most recently, Renee was Managing Director of Development at Caring for Friends.

Renee serves on the board of Today is a Good Day, an organization dedicated to providing support to parents experiencing the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Elizabeth Grant, Senior Consultant, Schultz & Williams

Elizabeth Grant brings more than 20 years’ experience in arts and culture nonprofit leadership to her role as a Senior Consultant. She has directed education, public programs, and exhibitions teams for leading museums and collections in Philadelphia, New York City, and London, and has a depth of experience in all aspects of program administration, including strategic planning, stakeholder engagement and audience development, marketing and communications, evaluation, and fundraising.

Elizabeth is an experienced program builder. As Chief Program Officer for the National Liberty Museum, she drove efforts to reposition the museum in Philadelphia’s Historic District. In under four years at NLM, she built a changing exhibition program, expanded learning opportunities to new and more diverse audiences, resulting in a 50% increase in program participation and over $450K in transformational funding to support new programming initiatives. As Head of Learning for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in the UK, she built a national learning program from the ground-up, devising the business model for a self-sustaining program of workshops, classes, and events for all ages and helped secure £300K to create a ground-breaking Clore Learning Centre for Architecture in the RIBA’s London headquarters.

Elizabeth believes that museums and cultural institutions play an essential role in community building, and she is most proud of her work to launch the Citizenship Initiative, a free program that utilizes the collections and galleries at the Museum of the American Revolution to prepare Green Card holders to pass the USCIS citizenship test.

Elizabeth serves on the boards of the National Council for History Education, an organization dedicated to championing history education and educators, and of Artblog, a community dedicated to creating and fostering dialogue about art, power, value and truth to promote a better future for all.