Financial Innovation & Resilience

Where: Zoom

Intensive dates: September 16-17-18, 2025

Accompaniment dates: October 8, November 12, December 3, January 15

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Join a global cohort of leaders igniting powerful financial futures for social and climate justice work, and get hands-on practice with strategies to power your organization’s mission.

The work you do is complex, and the need to adequately resource it is ever-present. In this 4-month long, highly customized and comprehensive training for senior leaders, you’ll learn the fundamentals of financial resilience and explore new tools for responding to increasingly volatile political and funding landscapes. With support from Spring’s international finance and fundraising experts, and by exchanging ideas with the people in your cohort, you’ll unlock the confidence you need to spark new ideas and build greater mission-aligned financial strength.

You’ll leave the program with:

A new toolbox you can start using immediately.
A customized action plan informed by Spring’s experts
A budgeting strategy that projects and captures income, costs and full cost recovery.
Your own user-friendly dashboard of key financial health indicators that can be easily absorbed by your staff and board.
A creative, entrepreneurial communications approach to growing and strengthening your supporter base.
Invaluable knowledge for engaging with funders, so you can nurture both transactional and transformational relationships.
A fresh capacity to respond to changes in the funding and financing landscape.

What to expect

FIRE is a highly interactive and hands-on program. We put your mission and goals at the centre of your learning, and support you with new perspectives, strategies and tools to apply in your unique context.

Your program will begin with a 3-day virtual intensive, where you will explore four key areas crucial to building financial strength: funding landscapes, resource mobilization, strategic finance and purposeful communications. Through peer support and cross-learning, you will begin developing a FIRE action plan for your organization or network.

Following your 3-day virtual intensive, you will continue refining and implementing your action plan with four months of accompaniment comprising three thematic webinars, three cross-learning sessions with two or three other groups in your cohort, and a program completion session with the full cohort.

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Who is FIRE for?

Would you like to:

Bring the same energy and resilience you apply to your programs to your finances, too?
Use a creative, entrepreneurial approach to grow your base of supporters?
Gain new perspectives on money to inform your strategies?
Employ user-friendly financial health indicators in decision-making?

If the answer to any of the above questions is “Yes”, then FIRE is for you! Cohorts typically consist of executive directors, board members and senior staff who lead in the areas of finance, resource mobilization and strategic communications, as well as grantmakers providing financial support to these leaders.

We enthusiastically invite you to join FIRE as a team, since we’ve consistently observed that the organizations that sustain the most significant leaps in mission-driven fundraising and finances do it by working together from the start.

Details in brief

Language of instruction: English

Number of participants: Up to 36 participants

Group composition: Executive directors and senior staff who lead in the areas of finance, resource mobilization and strategic communications, as well as foundation staff providing financial support to these leaders.

14:00 - 15:30 UTC

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Sliding scale

We work to make our programs as accessible as we can and offer a sliding scale with three tiers of program payment rates.
When you register below, please choose the fee based on your circumstances.

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1. Redistribution Rate: US $2,250

This is for organizations based in the Global North or with an annual budget above US$2 million. It’s also designed for individuals with access to wealth or with an annual income over US$70,000. Payment at this rate covers the costs of the program and allows for a contribution to support the participation of organizations and individuals with less access to wealth.

2. Full Cost Rate: US $1,750

This is for organizations with an annual budget above US$1-2 million. It’s also designed for individuals with an annual income of US$50,000 - US$70,000.

3. Solidarity Rate: US $875

This is for organizations with an annual budget of under US$1 million. It’s also designed for individuals with an annual income of under US$50,000. Payment at this rate covers 50% of total costs.

Don’t see an affordable rate?

If the Solidarity Rate is not affordable to you, please get in touch with us to let us know and we can discuss what might be possible. View details on Spring's sliding scale.

Financial Innovation & Resilience

Join a global cohort of leaders igniting powerful financial futures for social and climate justice work, and get hands-on practice with strategies to power your organization’s mission.

You’ll leave the program with:

What to expect

Who is FIRE for?

Details in brief

Intensive

SEPTEMBER 16

SEPTEMBER 17

SEPTEMBER 18

Accompaniment

Strategic Finance

OCTOBER 8

Accompaniment

Purposeful Communications

NOVEMBER 12

Accompaniment

Capital Reserves

DECEMBER 3

Accompaniment

Keeping Momentum

JANUARY 15

Sliding scale

1. Redistribution Rate: US $2,250

2. Full Cost Rate: US $1,750

3. Solidarity Rate: US $875

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