NCCLF: Consulting & Training

Consulting & Training

NCCLF's Consulting & Training Programs provide consultations, workshops, and advice through our Fiscal Fitness and Facility Fitness programs. These services enable nonprofits to put their financial houses in order, make the most of their resources, and build their capacity to take on debt or purchase a facility.

Fiscal Fitness
NCCLF’s Fiscal Fitness program strengthens nonprofits by providing technical assistance in financial management, with an emphasis on budgeting, financial reporting, and accounting controls. Through workshops and customized one-on-one consulting engagements, Fiscal Fitness helps community groups understand their financial position and come to grips with specific managerial challenges.

Facility Fitness
Launched with funding from the San Francisco Foundation and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Community Development, Facility Fitness is a new NCCLF program that offers technical assistance to nonprofits seeking permanent space to house their programs. Facility Fitness’s consultations and workshops emphasize facility planning, project financing, the construction process, and property management.

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Fiscal Fitness in Action

	Youth Empowerment Center

	Popular media tend to depict young people as indifferent to the world around them. However, one West Oakland group, the Youth Empowerment Center (YEC), is turning this stereotype on its head. With a youth-run staff, YEC is working hard to enhance the capacity of youth leaders and organizations fighting for social change. The organization provides leadership development training, event organizing, coalition building and fiscal sponsorship to low-income youth and youth of color. NCCLF worked with YEC to institute an organization-wide budget process and financial reporting system. Over a four-month period NCCLF provided two workshops on budgeting and cash flow management to the entire staff and worked individually with managers to create a comprehensive budget. NCCLF continues to provide on-going support to YEC around on audit preparation, financial statement analysis and fundraising.