Financial Management in Difficult Times
Date: Thursday, October 29
Time: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Greenlights
Fee: $50 Greenlights Members ($85 Non-members)
Presenter: Matt Kouri, Executive Director, Greenlights for NonProfit Success
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The current economic recession and resulting decrease in charitable giving to many nonprofits has many nonprofit managers and board members wondering how best to manage their finances. Join us for this new course, developed by Greenlights’ Executive Director, Matt Kouri, to learn what you can do to survive and thrive in difficult times. You’ll learn about scenario-based budgeting, cost-cutting ideas and other useful, real-life strategies that have been successfully employed when money is tight and revenue is down. Join us for this essential course and discover not just how to survive, but thrive in a difficult economy.
As Executive Director for Greenlights, Matt Kouri leads the organization’s efforts to strengthen Central Texas through extraordinary nonprofit performance, consults directly with a number of nonprofits, and develops leading-edge research and best practices in nonprofit management. Matt joined Greenlights in 2007 after spending more than 11 years working to improve the public and nonprofit sectors in Austin and across the country. Matt most recently worked as a Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting’s Austin office. Prior to Deloitte, Matt worked on educational policy issues for the Chicago Public School System. Matt’s expertise spans a number of areas, including board governance, organizational assessment and improvement, strategic planning and execution, financial and operational management, human capital talent development, leadership development and coaching, technology adoption, and K-12 educational achievement. Matt holds an MBA and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree in economics from Oklahoma State University.