What is Financial Resilience?

Our Financial Resilience program builds greater financial strength in civil society organizations and leaders, including innovative financing models and transformative partnerships with funders.

Since 2012, the Financial Resilience program has supported leadership teams from over 150 social and climate justice organizations in all corners of the globe. It is infused with experiences from organizations dealing with shrinking civic space as well as those working under more favourable circumstances, offering a rare opportunity to gain both global and local insights that can be applied in different contexts and organizations.

The program introduces the fundamentals of financial resilience. This includes the changing funding and investment landscape, resource development and diversification, strategic finance, external communications and leadership practice.   

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What you will take away
  • A new toolbox that you can apply to your work immediately.
  • A customized action plan informed by clinics and consultations on site.
  • A fresh capacity to respond to changes in the funding and financing landscape.
  • A budgeting strategy that projects and captures income, costs and recovery of costs.
  • A user-friendly dashboard of key financial health indicators.
  • A creative, entrepreneurial approach to external communications.
  • Invaluable knowledge for shaping engagement with funders.
  • New prospecting techniques, customized to various types of donors and funders.
  • Access to an international community of Financial Resilience graduates working for social and climate justice.
Our Financial Resilience Programs

For Individuals - Financial Resilience Intensive

This Financial Resilience program is a 3-day in-person Intensive designed for individuals and teams leading their organizations in the areas of finance, resource mobilization and strategic communications, a group of 20-30 individuals working on a range of different social and climate justice related topics. Financial Resilience Intensives take place a number of times a year in different locations around the world.

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For Organizations and Networks

Spring Financial Resilience programs can be developed for your entire organization, team or network. The custom program consists of an assessment, a 4-day workshop with staff, also involving the board, an action plan and post-workshop accompaniment. The total program runs for 8-12 months with high touch support, including coaching and webinars.

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For Foundations and Donors

Our Financial Resilience program can also be designed for funders who want to support their grantees in building greater financial health and strength. A cohort of grantees work together for the duration of 6 to 12 months. The stages of the program include assessments per organization, a 4 day workshop for a cohort of 8-10 organizations with up to four representatives each, cross learning and peer support as well as coaching and accompaniment post workshop.

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My Financial Innovation & Resilience Journey: Donna McSkimming

We interviewed Donna McSkimming in December 2018 when she was the Program Director at the International Women’s Development Agency. IWDA works to advance and protect the rights of women and girls, with the vision that one day gender equality will be achieved for all.

She attended Spring’s Financial Resilience Intensive in Bangkok, October 2018.

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My Financial Innovation & Resilience Journey: Htar Htar, Akhaya Women

Htar Htar is the founder of Akhaya Women in Myamar. Akhaya Women is at the forefront of women and gender work in Myanmar. Their work started as the formation of small mothers’ and women’s groups to learn about child development and sexuality and has evolved to include education programs about harassment and reproductive health.

Htar Htar attended Spring’s Financial Resilience Intensive in Bangkok, October 2018

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“This course will completely change your views and feelings on money and relationships with donors.”

“It teaches you about more than finance – communication, humanity, leadership.”

“This helped me to change my attitude and face fundraising.”

“Channel the power of financial resilience to drive purpose and create impact.”

“This will help us realize our mission of using social business models to change our country!”

“After this training, we dared to move forward with the initial steps of an individual donor initiative, in which we are now investing to implement permanently.”

“This helps us take the next step to diversifying income by building an authentic and powerful purpose.”

“Now our grantees see the connection between a good pitch and a good outcome - it means clarifying their vision and mission, articulating it, and laying out what they seek to do.”

“I learned that it’s OK to say no when the offer doesn’t meet with your organization’s goals.”

“Before anything related to money had a negative connotation. Now we have franker and more natural conversations about money.”