Recent Webinar

Financial Fitness for Nonprofits

Build confidence in your organization’s financial communications, from internal budgeting to public reporting.

Part 1: Start Within– Strengthen your organization’s financial foundation with practical strategies for budgeting, communicating with your board and funders, and supporting sound decision-making. Led by nonprofit finance expert Hilda Zacarias.

Part 2: Strengthen Your Financial Story – Learn how your organization’s financial story is reflected through annual reports, grant reports, IRS Form 990s, and Candid/GuideStar profiles, and how strong financial reporting can build credibility and support fundraising. Led by multi-organization CFO Michael Williams.

Past Webinars

State of Nonprofits in Santa Barbara County​​

June 4, 2025

How Nonprofits Can Create and Communicate Clear Community Guidelines to Protect Their Constituents​

March 19, 2026

 

NPRN Grant Webinar & Funder Panel: Grant Funding in Unpredictable Times

December 4, 2025

Watch an overview of NPRN’s Grant Center, followed by a candid conversation with local funders.

State of Nonprofits in Santa Barbara County

September 25, 2023

Tarek Azzam and Natalie Jones from the UCSB Center for Evaluation & Assessment introduce key findings in the latest State of the Nonprofits report.

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Grant Center “Ask Me Anything” Webinar

November 9, 2022

Presented by the Nonprofit Resource Network and the Write Team.

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Measuring Success: Evaluation to Support Your Mission

September 27, 2022

Presented by the Nonprofit Resource Network featuring Tarek Azzam, Director at UCSB Center for Evaluation & Assessment and Professor for Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

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Working Together for Transformative Change: Part 2

August 31, 2022

Presented by The Fund for Santa Barbara and Nonprofit Resource Network

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Executive Director Roundtable: Competitive Compensation Strategies in a “Take this Job and Shove it” Economy

October 29, 2021

Designing a Remote Workspace (COVID-19)

March 19, 2020

Presented by Julia Stewart Lowndes PhD
Partner at Buynak, Fauver, Archbald & Spray LLP

Navigating New Contractor Laws: Exploring the impact on the nonprofit sector

Dec 13, 2019

Presented by Trevor D. Large
Partner at Buynak, Fauver, Archbald & Spray LLP

Google Analytics

April 10, 2019

Disaster Recovery: Looking Back & Looking Forward

April 10, 2019

Presented by Michele Drum & Rachel Walsh

Secret Sauce In A Good Grant Proposal? Program Budgets

December 6, 2018

Presented by Michelle Howard
The Write Team

Planning for the Future – Succession Management

Nov 28, 2018

Presented by Steve Ortiz
President and CEO
United Way of Santa Barbara County

Diversity, Inclusion & Equity & the Philanthropic Sector

Aug 30, 2018

Jarrod Schwartz
Executive Director
ust Communities

Take Your Powerpoint from Mess to Success

Aug 30, 2018

Presented by Lisa Braithwaite
Public Speaking Coach,
Trainer and Author

Getting Board Members to Ask For Money

June 13, 2018

Presented by Kathy Wertheim
CFRE, Fundraising Consultant

How to Find Board Members That Will Ask For Money

May 31, 2018

Presented by Kathy Wertheim, CFRE,
Fundraising Consultant

How To Find & Tell Irresistible Stories About Your Organization

April 19, 2018

Presented by Starshine Roshell,
Journalist, Author, and Writing Coach

Write Great Letters of Intent (LOI)

October 26, 2017

Presented by Michelle Howard,
The Write Team

Partnership for Excellence 2022 Recording

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Partnership for Excellence 2021 Recordings

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Re-imagining the Nonprofit Funder Dynamic

with Em Johnson | Executive Director, Blue Sky Center and Patricia Solorio | Associate Director, The Fund for Santa Barbara

Activating Equity: Building Countywide Partnerships with Latinx Indigenous Migrant Covid-19 Response Task Force (LIMCRTF)

Timothy Watts | Health Equity Coordinator, Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and Ana Huynh | Program Director, Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)

State of the Sector

Presentation of initial findings on the current state of Santa Barbara County’s nonprofit sector, from the perspective of its leaders with Laura Deitrick, Ph.D., Associate Director and Tessa Tinkler, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, The Nonprofit Institute University of San Diego

Let’s Talk Mental Health – Pathways & Stories for Collective Healing

with Jina Carvalho | Executive Director and Alejandra Cortes MA, AMFT, Responder | Santa Barbara Response Network, and Jennifer Bruell | Community Grants Program Manager, Santa Barbara Foundation

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