● In short - what do we need to build stable income streams (in a disrupted world)?
● Why digitalization?
● How do you digititalize funding?
● What does it mean to digititalize funding?
● 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
Change drivers
1. Disruption in the operating environment
2. Localisation & power shift to global south is a priority
3. Businesses push into sustainability
4. Grant funding is inconsistent and insufficient
5. Poverty is on the rise, again
The most protracted, complex and pressing problems we have in the world today need innovative solutions, sustained over time. That does not match a donor template. Most organisations tackling these problems need a better business model.
- Committed to deliver admits disruption
- Agile is buzzword. Here‘s what it comes down to
- Five lessons from agile transformations in 2020
- Action recommendations
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award. This webinar will also offer an opportunity to discuss your proposal with members of our team.
Change drivers
1. Disruption in the operating environment
2. Localisation & power shift to global south is a priority
3. Businesses push into sustainability
4. Grant funding is inconsistent and insufficient
5. Poverty is on the rise, again
The most protracted, complex and pressing problems we have in the world today need innovative solutions, sustained over time. That does not match a donor template. Most organisations tackling these problems need a better business model.
- Committed to deliver admits disruption
- Agile is buzzword. Here‘s what it comes down to
- Five lessons from agile transformations in 2020
- Action recommendations
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award. This webinar will also offer an opportunity to discuss your proposal with members of our team.
How do we develop & action a strategy in times of rapid change, constant disruption and uncertainty?
Is it even important to have a strategy when everything changes all the time?
How do I build uncertainty into my strategy?
How do I prepare my organisation for this?
BETTER FUNDING MODELS THROUGH & BEYOND THE COVID-19 CRISISMzN International
Joint MzN and CONCORD Seminar:
Funding is not the No.1 priority.
Delivering your mandate is!
Funding should be mandate driven – not the other way around!
Funds-flow dictate de-facto strategy.
We therefore need to strategise your funds flow!
This is difficult at any time, but especially
during this crisis. But we can use crises to get
funding right in the “NEW NORMAL”!
The future NGO is agile, entrepreneurial and digitalMzN International
How we deliver impact in a disrupted world
- Committed to deliver amidst disruption
- Agile is a buzzword: Here‘s what it comes down to
- Digital and entrepreneurial - essential to becoming agile
- Five lessons from agile transformations in 2020
- Action recommendations
Digitalization acceleration: Why it matters for institutional funding and gr...MzN International
- In short - what do we need to build stable income streams (in a
disrupted world)?
- Why digitalization?
- How do you digitalize funding?
- What does it mean to digitalize funding?
- 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
Why an agile, distributed organisation makes sense and how to build it.
- Change is the NEW NORMAL
- How to change
- „Check & action“ over „See & mend“
- Remote is not distributed (a warning)
- Action recommendations
- Challenges to proposal writing
- What do funders look for?
- 10 questions every proposal should answer
- How to get to submitting successful proposals
INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING AND FUNDING MODELS DURING & AFTER COVID-19MzN International
Broad update on Institutional Funding Opportunities
What are their priorities and strategies?
What does that mean for funding strategies?
What to do now?
Digitization acceleration - Why it matter for institutional funding and grantsMzN International
Talking points:
- Think before we act on digitalisation
- Stay alert - but calm!
- Be Proactive - but not too much!
- Adapt in a way that suits you - not the tech.
- 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
The Future NGO is Agile, digital and entrepreneurial.pptx.pdfMzN International
We reflect on 10 years of building better NGOs and International Organisations. What are the factors that successful organizations have in common? What does the non-profit of the future look like?
How do we develop & action a strategy in times of rapid change, constant disruption and uncertainty?
Is it even important to have a strategy when everything changes all the time?
How do I build uncertainty into my strategy?
How do I prepare my organisation for this?
BETTER FUNDING MODELS THROUGH & BEYOND THE COVID-19 CRISISMzN International
Joint MzN and CONCORD Seminar:
Funding is not the No.1 priority.
Delivering your mandate is!
Funding should be mandate driven – not the other way around!
Funds-flow dictate de-facto strategy.
We therefore need to strategise your funds flow!
This is difficult at any time, but especially
during this crisis. But we can use crises to get
funding right in the “NEW NORMAL”!
The future NGO is agile, entrepreneurial and digitalMzN International
How we deliver impact in a disrupted world
- Committed to deliver amidst disruption
- Agile is a buzzword: Here‘s what it comes down to
- Digital and entrepreneurial - essential to becoming agile
- Five lessons from agile transformations in 2020
- Action recommendations
Digitalization acceleration: Why it matters for institutional funding and gr...MzN International
- In short - what do we need to build stable income streams (in a
disrupted world)?
- Why digitalization?
- How do you digitalize funding?
- What does it mean to digitalize funding?
- 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
Why an agile, distributed organisation makes sense and how to build it.
- Change is the NEW NORMAL
- How to change
- „Check & action“ over „See & mend“
- Remote is not distributed (a warning)
- Action recommendations
- Challenges to proposal writing
- What do funders look for?
- 10 questions every proposal should answer
- How to get to submitting successful proposals
INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING AND FUNDING MODELS DURING & AFTER COVID-19MzN International
Broad update on Institutional Funding Opportunities
What are their priorities and strategies?
What does that mean for funding strategies?
What to do now?
Digitization acceleration - Why it matter for institutional funding and grantsMzN International
Talking points:
- Think before we act on digitalisation
- Stay alert - but calm!
- Be Proactive - but not too much!
- Adapt in a way that suits you - not the tech.
- 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
The Future NGO is Agile, digital and entrepreneurial.pptx.pdfMzN International
We reflect on 10 years of building better NGOs and International Organisations. What are the factors that successful organizations have in common? What does the non-profit of the future look like?
For NGOs and international organisations to thrive, we need to change the way we are funded and improve the way we work. We need to manage our organizations better, be more agile, and need to diversify funding to make them more robust.
In this webinar, we will:
- Reflect on 10 years of transforming non-profits into agile and better-funded changemakers
- Identify five essential attributes that have made some MzN partners successful and thrive through the COVID-19 crisis
- Look ahead to see what leaders can do now to create organizations that deliver profound impact and advance in a disrupted world
The session is relevant for CEOs and non-profit leaders in organisational development, strategy, and change who want to build the NGO of the future.
Bizagi and Stone Coast Fund Services: How Centers of Excellence Speed Up Digi...Bizagi
The Stone Coast Story – Digital Transformation Webinar Series
Right now digital leaders are using Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to speed up digital change in the enterprise. According to Gartner, “Centers of excellence accelerate the uptake of new technologies and optimize core capabilities with higher efficiency and lower costs.”
In this interactive session you’ll hear the story of hedge fund administration and consulting firm Stone Coast, currently building their CoE team to provide digital leadership, best practices and training in order to embed a culture of process digitization.
View this presentation to explore:
•When a CoE is the right strategy for accelerating progress
•Four practical steps in building your Center of Excellence
•Why Stone Coast Fund Services chose to build its CoE
•Your questions about how to create your own CoE
What Can be Done on 9/11 Day? Unlocking the Potential of Pro Bono "Done-in-a-...Yvonne Turner
As we approach the anniversary of September 11, how will you observe the 9/11 National Day of Service? More than 35 million people observed this day last year by helping others, and this year we can inspire even more good by leveraging the full power of pro bono. On July 31, A Billion + Change and our partner at the 9/11 Day of Service held a webinar to share high-impact ways you can engage your employees and give back to nonprofits through pro bono "Done-in-a-Day" marathon sessions.
Canterbury Tech July 2022 - Digital Journey ideas.pdfDouglas Talbot
Talk on digital maturity and complexity with a framework to consider the interrelatedness of organisational functions. Given at Canterbury Tech meetup July 2022.
Includes some digital bad habits and dysfunctions and a reading list for inspiration.
Using Cost of Delay to de-scale your organisation through decentralised decis...Michael Fagan
It isn’t enough to break down our portfolio into small pieces and execute them in isolation from one another. We must acknowledge that variance in knowledge work is a fact of life, specialists are scarce, people find new jobs, life happens. Rather than think of an organisation as individual parts to be managed, think of it as a living organism which adapts and responds as a whole.
By empowering people to take decisions based on objective data linked to a shared vision people are not simply playing a game according to a set of rules, they are responsible for the game.
Don Reinertsen in his seminal book "The Principles of Product Development Flow" states:
"If you only quantify one thing, quantify the Cost of Delay. "
In this talk I will present how the Cost of Delay can be derived from data your organisation has lying around how you can super charge decision making speed and consequently the flow of value.
2014 strategic execution conference ensuring tangible business outcomes thr...Jon Hughes
Presentation from the 2014 Strategic Execution Conference in Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Covers: the changing nature of strategy; how successful strategic execution is; reasons for 22% of businesses losing $28M on $100m of spend on stategic execution projects, eight essential items to get right and how success in strategic executiob can be gamechanging.
It’s not a secret that the need to modernize traditional finance operations and evolve into a “Digital Finance” organization has become a key priority for finance leaders.
In this video recap of the webinar held on 12/11/ 2019; Raul Vega, Auxis CEO, discussed the key risks and challenges organizations typically face as part of their transformation journey, and how to develop and execute a strategy that provides the business case and outcomes you expect based on your specific company size and needs.
What was covered:
- What does Modern Finance really mean?
- Digitization as a Key Element of the Modern Finance Organization
- Most Common Tools you should be implementing as part of your Digital Finance journey
- What’s driving RPA’s growth?
- Implementation Strategies & Alternatives
- How Outsourcing can help finance executives self-fund their Digital Finance Strategy and drive faster outcomes
Managing ICT well is no different to managing organisations or teams. You need to take care of people, money, physical resources and services and set the right environment and tone.
If you don’t, you won’t get the benefits (and if you don’t when time are tough – then organisations will fail)
How to Disrupt Digital Product Cultures by LearnVest VP of ProductProduct School
A big part of product management success is bringing various cultures together from people, process, and innovation. Vivek Bedi from LearnVest hosted the product and technology digital teams from Northwestern Mutual and LearnVest as they discussed over the past two years how they have brought two cultures together to come up with a bold, brave, yet balanced "third" culture.
The new culture is one of taking risks, being ok with failing, and focused on innovation while keeping focus on being at the center of clients' financial lives.
How to Bring About Finance Transformation on Your Own TermsWorkday, Inc.
In this deck, experts from PwC and Workday explain how finance leaders can use automation, artificial intelligence, and analytical skills to help their teams adapt to rapid change.
Building a Data Strategy Your C-Suite Will SupportReid Colson
Being a data leader in any industry is an advantage that creates measurable financial benefits. Many studies have shown this – I’ve seen them from Bain, McKinsey, MIT and more. Since most firms are measured on profit, getting good at making data driven decisions is a key to being competitive. You can't get there without a plan. That is where a data strategy comes in.
In speaking with ~300 firms who indicated that their organizations were effective in using data and analytics, McKinsey found that construction of a data strategy was the number one contributing factor to their success. Being good at using data to drive decisions creates a meaningful profit advantage and those who are leaders indicated that the number one driver of their success was their data strategy.
This presentation will cover what a data strategy is, how to construct one, and how to get buy in from your executive team. The author is a former Fortune 500 Chief Data Officer and has held senior data roles at Capital One and Markel.
Here are a few helpful links for your data journey:
Free Data Investment ROI Template:
https://www.udig.com/digging-in/roi-calculator-for-it-projects/
Real world data use cases:
https://www.udig.com/our-work/?category=data
Contact Me:
https://www.udig.com/contact/
TPP Finance Seminar 2019 - Embracing Digital ChangeTPP Recruitment
Our guest speakers Jon Curry & Nicolas Raynaud, WaterAid discuss:
- Context – digital transformation
- Opportunities and impact
- WaterAid experience to date – changes to the IT and Finance functions, achieved and envisaged
Non-Profit Financial Planning for Uncertain Times.pptx.pdfMzN International
In uncertain times, financial scenario planning is a game-changer. In this webinar, we share how we use financial scenario planning to help our NGO partners navigate disruptive times. We will explore how financial forecasting, when done well, can be a deciding factor in impact generation.
Donor mapping is one of the most important tools in the fundraising process and getting it right determines the success or failure of your NGO. We review what a good donor map looks like, dive into the top five sections to focus on and share lessons learned from creating over 200 donor maps.
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award.
For our NGOs and International Organizations to not only survive but thrive, we need to change the way we are funded and improve the way we work. We need to manage our organizations better, be more agile, and need to diversify funding to make them more robust.
In this webinar, we reflect on 10 years of transforming non-profits into agile and better-funded changemakers. We identify five essential attributes that have made some MzN partners successful and thrive through times of crisis. We look ahead to see what leaders can do now to create organizations that deliver profound impact and advance in a disrupted world.
The budget is the centerpiece of a successful proposal. Over half of the proposal failures for USAID, EU and other major institutional donors are due to insufficient or incoherent budgets. We take an in-depth look at common mistakes, how to avoid them and what donors expect to see in a budget.
We have assisted non-profits with mergers and acquisitions, alliance structures, and joint ventures for over 10 years. We reflect on which mergers worked, what they cost, and why merging may not always be the answer.
Get an update on this quarter’s new funding streams. Our team will share donor trends, upcoming new funding streams, and programs from USAID, the EU, GIZ, Nordic donors, and the United Nations.
Donor mapping is one of the most important tools in the fundraising process and getting it right determines the success or failure of your NGO. We review what a good donor map looks like, dive into the top five sections to focus on.
In this webinar, we look at our turnaround experience helping financially distressed NGOs over the past 10 years. Hear about past and current case studies (with permission of our clients) and learn about the top three factors that make a turnaround successful.
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
3. Talking points
● In short - what do we need to build stable income streams (in a disrupted
world)?
● Why digitalization?
● How do you digititalize funding?
● What does it mean to digititalize funding?
● 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
Presentation with about 7 slides followed by Q&A and discussion. Content is free
to share.
4. We are in the midst of disruption
1. Covid-19 / 21 / 23
2. Digitalization 2.0 accelerated
3. Impact due in 2030 (SDGs)
4. Climate change adaptation & reduction
5. Funders & donors change drastically
6. Recession ahead & new philanthropists rise
7. Work force & donors generational change
8. Things we don’t know > knowledge
Disruption is the new normal
5. 10 Steps to build stable income streams
1. Got a funding source that works?
Intensify and optimise it for efficiency
2. Overly dependant on a few funding sources?
Diversify funding and revenue streams
3. Pursue all leads in your strategy, even if you cannot
Add surge capacity to your proposal writing team
4. Establish a digital workflow for collaboration
5. Have a system to find and assess opportunities
6. 10 Steps to build stable income streams
6. Match the funding streams you choose to your mission, not the other way
around
7. Be prepared to participate flexibly - from lead to sub to associate all options can
add value
8. Work on partnerships with larger/established partners
9. Add surge capacity to your proposal writing team
10. Income development as a key part of business as usual not something to be done
ad hoc
7. Make collaboration easy
Opp Identification & Assessment
Scoping - Bidding strategy -
Partnership building -
Proposal building
Context analysis - Value for Money
proposition - Partner engagement
Contracting & Project Support
Negotiation - Project planning pre
contract - legal
Launch
Programme
staff
Business Development
Scoping Team
Advisors Donor
Business Development
Project Dev Team
Subject
Specialist
Project Finance
Specialist
Consortia
Lead
Value for Money
Advisors
Leadership
Team
Org Finance
Specialist
Donor
inception
team
8. Want funding? Digitalize the work
• Less office - more work! - move to virtual and digital
• Interact across time zones and teams - fast turnaround times
• Lift more! Ability to have a larger and faster moving pipeline
• Increase transparency across the organisation
• No dependency on individuals in the organisation - “the one
person who knows everything and has all the relationships”
• Easier collaboration with experts/ key people across the globe
• Digitizing funding can often have the effect to kick-start
digitalization across the organisation
9. To digitalize funding work means...
Systems:
● Digital transformation in funding can bring
exponential growth
● Introduction of platform based systems and
processes
● All work processes are performed in virtual
spaces & asynchronous
● Each opp-data is available at the press of a
button
Culture:
● Shifting the organizational or
departmental culture to more
transparency, accountability and trust
● More flexible ways of working
● Speed of proposal writing increases
10. How to digitalize funding
● Design a simple pathway
● Analyse each aspect of your funding
operations
● Make a decisions about platforms and
tools
● Allocate time and resources, in each step
● Don’t reinvent the wheel
● Keep it simple
11. 5 Steps to a digitalized funding operation
1. Assess & analyze
Know where and how you can
increase efficiencies by
looking at past performances,
successes and failures
2. Develop a
digitalisation plan
Decide on tools, timelines and
human resources ideally in
phases
3. Get buy-in from
funding team and
leadership
Create ownership and have
champions
4. Get started
Kick-start the process to
showcase and create
momentum
5. Create a feedback
loop
Implement your plan in phases
to learn, assess and most
importantly to show small
successes
12. Thank you!
Carolin Gomulia
carolin@mzninternational.com
Sarah Fernandes
sarah@mzninternational.com
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