BEYOND LUCK & CRISIS

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 Even if we're doing important work, our funding ends up feeling stuck, reactive, confusing, and unsustainable. And working harder, brainstorming fundraisers, and responding to crises isn't getting us back on track.

This isn’t just about effort or skill or finding the perfect idea.

It’s about the pattern we get pulled into: reacting to urgency, relying on limited options, and trying to make strategic decisions without a clear structure.

That combination makes it almost impossible to get out of “stuck and scrambling,” no matter how hard you're working.

It's also cyclical. The more we pursue funding in a way that is reactive, limited, and unstructured, the more we are pushed to continue that approach.

But you don’t have to stay stuck. Once you can see the pattern clearly, you can start to address it in a much more intentional way.

I've worked with people who have excellent grant-writing skills, killer fundraising ideas, and even entire lists of warm leads for major gifts, sponsorships, and partnerships—who were all still hitting walls in their funding strategy.

In this workshop, we’re going to step back from individual tactics and look at resource development as a whole—how it’s currently functioning, and what’s missing.

This includes:

• • What resource development can and should include (beyond just hopeful grant-writing and urgent fundraisers)
  • What is making it so difficult, especially right now
  • How to re-orient with clarity, structure, and balance

We’ll also get into topics like funding stream diversification, predictability versus flexibility, capacity and current reality constraints, and how to align funding with mission, values, and programs (instead of the other way around).

The goal here isn’t to cover every aspect of nonprofit funding.

It’s to make the overall structure of resource development more visible, so you can start making more intentional decisions within it.

With only 2 hours together, we’re not going to build a full resource development plan.

What I can do is help you get much clearer on what’s happening for your organization—and what kinds of changes would actually make a difference.

That typically looks like:

• • Understanding why your current approach has felt difficult or unsustainable
  • Being able to name your organization’s specific patterns (not just “we’re stuck”)
  • Having a more strategic lens for evaluating funding decisions
  • And identifying a small number of next steps that make sense for your situation

For a lot of people I work with, the biggest shift is moving from “we need to work harder” and "we need more ideas" to “we need to approach this differently.”

About the Facilitator

Serin Bond-Yancey, MSW (they/any) is an integrative human-systems practitioner with 20+ years of experience supporting nonprofits, small businesses, and neurodivergent leaders, creators, and practitioners through coaching, consulting, and cohort-based labs.

Their work focuses on designing resource development systems that help organizations move out of reactive funding cycles and into more stable, sustainable funding over time—especially in high-pressure and rapidly shifting funding environments.

Serin’s approach integrates strategy, systems thinking, and real-world constraints like capacity, burnout, and organizational dynamics, rather than treating funding as a purely technical or tactical problem.

All of my webinars are designed with accessibility in mind.

Built-in access options include:

• • Closed captions on by default
  • Recordings automatically shared in a follow-up email
  • Key materials available after the session

Flexible participation options include:

• • Cameras on or off welcome
  • Participation via chat, Q&A, or listening only
  • No requirement to speak or engage in real time

If you have any questions or something that would make this space more accessible for you, please email: serin@anserinae.com.