Please join us for one of our upcoming events!
Fiscal Responsibility & Reporting for Non-Profits – February 22, 2025
Are you ready to strengthen your non-profit’s financial foundation and enhance your organization’s impact? Join me at 934 Gallery for an informative event focused on the fundamentals of fiscal responsibility and reporting, designed to equip you with the tools and knowledge needed to confidently manage your organization’s finances.
Participants will learn how to navigate key financial statements, implement internal controls, and manage donor-restricted funds responsibly. Additionally, we’ll explore best practices for aligning your financial reporting with your mission to build trust with stakeholders and showcase your organization’s impact.
Whether you’re new to non-profit finance or looking to strengthen your understanding of fiscal responsibility, this session offers actionable insights and practical tools to help your organization thrive.
Speaker: Rachyl Kershaw, Founder & Consultant, Greater Columbus Consulting
Venue: 934 Gallery, a 100% volunteer-run arts space in Milo-Grogan, showcasing over 2,700 square feet of exhibition space. The gallery was born in the spirit of Milo Arts, a thriving artist community that aims to restore this historic neighborhood and its vibrant community. Featuring local, national and international artists, 934 focuses on bringing a fresh perspective on contemporary art through exciting and thought provoking exhibitions, installations, performances and public art.
Avoiding Startup Pitfalls: Equity Essentials – February 27, 2025
Startup equity can be complicated, but understanding the basics is essential for avoiding common pitfalls. In Avoiding Startup Pitfalls: Equity Essentials, we’ll cover foundational concepts like cap tables, preferred equity, and vesting schedules, sharing insights gained from real-world lessons in startup building. Whether you’re new to equity or looking to solidify your understanding, this session offers practical knowledge to help you navigate this critical aspect of your startup journey.
Speaker: Brandon Schmidt, Founder, FITIMI Labs, Co-Founder, Loop Returns
Brandon is a Co-Founder of Loop Returns, a startup that scaled from 4 to over 200 employees in 7 years. With 10 years of experience as a technology leader, he built Loop’s core product, secured early-stage funding, and guided the company through early stage technical growth.
Brandon led infrastructure, database design and security hardening while establishing hiring standards and building the engineering team. Passionate about helping startups succeed, Brandon now leads FITIMI Labs, a fractional CTO service for startups. They specialize in driving technical strategy, scaling teams, and delivering impactful solutions.
This is an online event.
Marketing Strategies for the Department of One – March 27, 2025
Whether you’re an entrepreneur who wears all the hats – or you’re flying solo as the person who’s responsible for accomplishing every marketing goal in your organization (or both), this workshop will give you the knowledge to prioritize and conquer your most high-value activities to create more value for your marketing, and for yourself as a leader.
Do you have a full plate, and no good way to tell which marketing activity should have top priority? Or – worse – are you stuck in the state of giving priority to whichever activity someone is screaming about the loudest on any given day? It’s time to get out of reactive mode!
Join us for this practical workshop and take control of your marketing destiny. First, we’ll give you a marketing strategy framework that will help you identify your highest-impact activities – and any activities you need to drop. Then we’ll cover AI and automation tools, tricks, and strategies that can help make your have-tos manageable. And then we’ll dive into a few marketing strategies that can spark serious growth for your organization, so you can increase your value by being the one who plans for a big future!
Bonus: we’ll cover a few strategies for generating revenue through marketing. Just one more way to grow your business while you increase your value as a marketing leader!
Register for this pro-level session and empower yourself with:
- Strategies for strengthening your brand and targeting your messaging for maximum effectiveness
- A method of understanding the most valuable activities for your goals
- Low-maintenance approaches to finding and nurturing prospects
- An overview of automation strategies and tools that can lighten your load
- Ideas for using marketing to create growth and revenue generation
- Understanding of how to delegate or outsource like a true boss
Speaker: Amee BellWanzo, Founder and Fractional CMO, SparkCMO
Amee BellWanzo is a creative marketer, sage-level strategist, culture connoisseur, AI/tech enthusiast, and the founder of SparkCMO. She’s here to share the marketing strategy wisdom that helped increase an org’s business by 300+%, pumped more than $500 million+ into sales pipelines, and generated a ton of cool-AF brand content and activations over 20+ years in marketing. As an innovative mixer of digital, traditional, and storytelling strategies, she’s built high-value brands and created industry thought leaders.
SparkCMO is a marketing strategy integrator. The CMO-as-a-Service model develops marketing strategies and provides implementation support to help companies and organizations with complex or intangible products accelerate and demonstrate results that spark revenue growth, contribute to their missions, and create lasting impact.
This is an online event.