Funder Webinar: Best Practices for Funding Power-Building Work
Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 12noon EST
Learn how foundations and donor advisors who fund civic engagement can be bold and compliant while supporting the fast-growing field of multi-entity power-building work. Gain a better understanding of the needs of multi-entity organizations and action steps for exploring improved multi-entity funding practices in your own institutions. Don't miss out on this important conversation about New Left Accelerator's new report.
Facilitated by FMC Founder Melissa Johnson Hewitt.
The Future of Roe: How Social Workers Engage in the Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice Space
Thursday, April 21, 2022, 3-4:00pm EST
Communicating in a time of Narrative Change
March, 10, 2022, 2-3:00pm EST
Shake up your nonprofit's narrative to be more equitable while being authentic
- What are the stories that are embedded in what you are communicating?
- What narrative do these stories create?
- What is the setting, the characters?
- As the chief narrator, whose point of view is being centered in these stories?
- Are you in the business of narrative change in your organization?
- And, if so, what is the impetus for and goal of the narrative change?
Get building blocks to narrate the story of your nonprofit to be more equitable while being authentic.
Consultants Advancing Racial Equity: Lessons and Strategies from the Field
March, 24, 2021, 2-3:30pm EST
Forward Movement Consulting has built a network of over 75 consultants who are intentionally focused on strengthening the ways in which they can deepen their own lens of racial equity and apply that lens to their coaching and consulting practices. This webinar is a follow-up from the two cohorts of consultants who shared stories and strategies by engaging in a four-part webinar series in 2020. Join this conversation to hear from participants in the webinar series and how they have incorporated lessons and practical strategies into their consulting practice.
- How have you worked to better define and communicate your values around racial equity in your consulting work?
- Has there been any shift in how you think of your role in advancing racial equity?
- How have you navigated difficult conversations with clients around racial equity?
- What are some ways in which you have identified some ethical questions in consultancy practice to determine when the work is aligned with your skills and values or not?
Join this conversation to hear lessons learned and practical strategies for advancing racial equity as a nonprofit consultant.
Marching Orders: Taking Action to Center Black Women’s Leadership
March 19, 2021, 2-3:30pm EST
More than 300 members of the arts education community have signed on in support of the list of demands for centering Black Women’s Leadership but signing your name is only the first step. Ensuring that the demands are implemented, and Black women have equal access and opportunity to lead requires strategic action at every level from the Executive to the Programmatic. In this interactive session, practitioners at the forefront working to advance racial equity will offer best practices and strategies for advocating for and developing pathways toward meeting the demands within your institution.
Read the full list of demands here and sign your name.
https://nycaieroundtable.org/centering-black-women-list-of-demands/
Consultants Grappling with Racial Equity
Summer 2020 Learning Series
August 4, August 18, September 1, and September 15, 2-3:30pm EST.
Our changing world is demanding that nonprofit organizations examine their organizational culture, rightfully evaluating how race and privilege are woven into every facet of their work. This shift is impacting their expectations around contracted work with consultants - whether around fundraising, board development, strategic planning, or other issues, requiring more attention to and integration of a race equity lens into the collaborative process.
If you are a consultant, coach, or other expert who wants to build your skills for engaging with clients on issues of race, privilege, equity and justice, join us for a 4-session learning series.
In this training series, we will workshop and role play through questions like:
- How do I bring my anti-racist practice into my consultancy work?
- What role can I play in advancing racial equity with my nonprofit clients?
- How can I assess an organization's readiness to engage in racial equity work as part of my project with them?
- What are ways I can incorporate racial equity into my work with clients?
- How can I skillfully intervene when encountering issues of racism, privilege, or white fragility?
The series comprises four 90-minute conversations led by Melissa Johnson Hewitt, a nationally-recognized facilitator, coach, and strategist with a focus on social justice. Melissa is Founder and Principal of Forward Movement Consulting, a consulting firm that activates leaders and organizations within social justice movements to be bolder, clearer, and more authentic in their fight to amplify the voices and power of communities of color.
This learning series is for nonprofit consultants, coaches, and other experts who have some experience with integrating racial equity concepts into their work. These conversations are designed for those who are not racial equity experts, but are committed to bringing their anti-racist practice to their strategic planning, fundraising, board development, or other nonprofit work.
This learning series is capped at 50 participants.
What's To Come? Scenario Planning for a Post-COVID World
March 14, 2020, 3-4:30pm EST
Join your host, TopNonprofits' Amy DeVita and Moderator, Nonprofitist's, Heather Yandow in this virtual roundtable discussion with an expert panel: Melissa Johnson Hewitt (Forward Movement Consulting), Gail Perry (Gail Perry Associates Philanthropy Consultants), and Chris Tuttle (TuttleCo).
We'll discuss potential Best Case- to Worst Case- Scenarios for Nonprofits in a Post-COVID world from the perspectives of Fundraising, Board Engagement, and Leadership.
Come ready to participate in the discussion: Chat will be enabled and we'll save some time for Q+A!