Consulting

Expertise Rooted in Experience

Alternatives for Girls

NFF helps nonprofits and funders connect money to mission, building capacity, financial management capabilities, and sustainable financial futures.

What We Offer

Group Trainings: Financial Workshops and Convenings

Leaders discover and share experiences with new partners, learn financial best practices together, and receive practical tools and approaches for their organizations, all backed by NFF’s expert facilitators.

Practical, customized tools and models to help leaders explore important financial decisions and advocate for their organizational needs.

One-on-one short- and long-term engagements that support, guide, and inform nonprofit leaders on how to use financial management and planning tools to respond and adapt to change.

Peers learn and grow together over time, find new opportunities, solve financial problems, develop sustainable business models, and collectively build power.

Service providers, philanthropists, bankers, government officials, and researchers collaborate with NFF to strengthen the financial resilience of the social sector and boost collective impact. Together, we advocate for organizations, their communities, and the social sector.

We help nonprofit leaders:

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Build robust budgets and resilient business models

  • Budget and advocate for the full cost to deliver on mission.
  • Understand their organization’s existing business model and identify ways to increase resilience and adaptability.

Focus on financial story and strategy

  • Align financial strategy with mission, program goals, and results.
  • Build strategic alignment across the leadership team and board.
  • Confidently share the organization’s financial story with funders and other supporters.
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Address new and ongoing challenges

  • Anticipate and plan for challenging financial and operational scenarios.
  • Use financial data to prioritize options and make decisions with confidence.
  • Navigate common financial challenges resulting from the inequitable funding systems in which nonprofits operate.

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Nonprofits

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Funders

Let’s discuss how we can work together to strengthen  nonprofits, grantee cohorts, and community-led initiatives.

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Full Cost

Full Cost Framework

NFF’s Full Cost Framework helps nonprofits identify their total financial needs and informs funding decisions that create a more equitable social sector.

About the Framework
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Insights

Insights
Our organization would not have achieved its current position without the invaluable support of our partners at NFF. In addition to their generous financial assistance, NFF has provided significant ongoing technical support and training.
Matthew Tecle
Executive Director, Safe Parking LA
I am definitely better equipped to lead viable discussions about the financial health and future direction of the organization. I interact on a regular basis with funders, donors, and foundations, and NFF’s training has really inspired me to feel more confident in my abilities to lead financial conversations.
Laura Larson
Vice President of Development, STRIDE Community Health Center Administration
We are the CEOs and frontline workers. When NFF showed us how much we saved by not jumping into a brick and mortar, and showed us how much we saved by not bringing in employees quickly, we saw we should keep it simple for now to focus on impacting the community.
Akeiff Staples
Co-Founder of FathersRead365

Resources

Resources

Highlights