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Civil society organizations need financial strength to thrive. How can you build greater financial resilience and health?
SPRING’s FIRE program is internationally renowned and teaches the fundamentals of financial resilience. It includes the latest approaches in innovative financing models, transformative partnerships with funders, changing funding and investment landscape, resource development and diversification, strategic finance, external communications and leadership practice.
You will be able to:
- Put new tools to work and build a customized action plan
- Anticipate and respond to changes in the financial landscape
- Evaluate opportunities for diversification
- Use new prospecting techniques and knowledge for shaping relationships with various types of donors and funders
- Develop a budgeting strategy that projects and captures income, costs and recovery of costs
- Monitor progress with a user-friendly dashboard of key financial health indicators
- Create messaging for complex work, shape powerful engagement and action, and build support through any communication channel
- Access an international community of Financial Resilience graduates working for social and climate justice
Our FIRE Programs
FIRE 1.0 - Individuals
A 3-day workshop covering fundamentals and individual and cross-learning. Intensives are offered at least twice a year, in different parts of the world.
Registration for our next FIRE Intensive is now open!
FIRE 2.0 - Organizations and Networks or Foundations and Donors
A 6-month long program with a cohort of 15 organizations, a 4-day customized workshop, FIRE diagnostics per organization and team and cohort level online support.
FIRE 3.0 - Foundations and Donors
An 8-month long program with a cohort of 15 organizations, a 4-day workshop, FIRE diagnostics per organisation and customized team and cohort level online and in-person support. Strengthening of national level FIRE infrastructure by identifying in-country consultants, a "train the trainers" program and co-creation and co-delivery of the program. FIRE 3.0 is highly customized and can be delivered in multiple languages.
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Impact Stories
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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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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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Stella Lutalo and PELUM Uganda come back to Spring
Building on Financial Resilience towards a more powerful future
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“It teaches you about more than finance – communication, humanity, leadership.”
“This course will completely change your views and feelings on money and relationships with donors.”
“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.”