Deconstructing Development:
Financial Predictions and Perspectives on How Election Outcomes May Impact You,
Your Donors and Your Organization
Thursday, October 22, 2020
2:00 p.m.
WID Members: $15 | Non-Members: $20
Co-Hosted By:
Yolanda F. Johnson and Jill Slattery
Featured Guest:
Hope Goldstein and Tonia Papke, MBA
Deconstructing Development is a special series, developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to bring the fundraising community direct access to experts in areas important to achieving professional success. Each segment includes an introduction, followed by a 30-minute Q & A interview, allowing the WID community to write in with questions for our experts.
This episode of Deconstructing Development will cover projections and predictions for the financial markets and for nonprofits based upon election outcomes, including how organizations should plan to navigate the current volatility and what nonprofits can do to make best decisions about their finances and investments/endowments.
The conversation will feature best practices and a real nonprofit perspective on the financial planning process during this unprecedented pandemic election season. Guests will receive special articles/reports from two of WID's partner financial institutions following the presentation.
Featured Guest
Hope Goldstein - Co Partner in Charge, Nonprofit, Government & Healthcare Group, Marks Paneth LLP
Hope Goldstein, CPA, is the Co-Partner-in-Charge of the Nonprofit, Government & Healthcare Group at Marks Paneth LLP. Ms. Goldstein brings to her role the skills she has developed during more than 27 years of providing accounting and auditing services to her clients in the nonprofit, higher education, and public sector industries. She leads a team of more than 60 professionals who specialize in the nonprofit industry and focus on ensuring the accuracy and transparency of clients’ accounting records, audit documentation and tax filings.
Ms. Goldstein oversees and serves as a core committee member of the firm's LEADS initiative, which promotes the retention and professional development of women at Marks Paneth. Prior to joining Marks Paneth, Ms. Goldstein was a Director with Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she focused on accounting and auditing for many of their largest clients, including public charities, private foundations, colleges and universities, social services and membership organizations, and cultural institutions.
Her experience includes audit and attest engagements as well as projects involving mergers, initial bond offerings, governance structures, forecasts, internal control and systems studies, risk assessments, and assurance activities. She has led numerous training seminars for her clients and professional staff on various topics relating to new accounting standards, governance, compliance, and financial reporting. Click here to view Ms. Goldstein's full biography.
Tonia Papke, MBA, Nonprofit Financial Management and Reporting
Tonia Papke provides clients with more than thirty years of experience with domestic and internationl nonprofits in the areas of financial analysis and management, strategic and business planning, treasury management, and outsourced CFO services. She has worked with hundreds of businesses and non-profit organizations in the U.S., Latin America and Asia to organize financial and operational divisions and create and install accounting systems and procedures that enable rapid growth. She is a Certified Financial Planner and provides expertise in investment analysis, development of investment policies, treasury management, and retirement planning. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an MS in Urban Planning from the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Historic Preservation.
Ms. Papke is a strong business leader, having served on several committees of the New York Partnership. She won the Dewar's "Doer Award" for Business Excellence and Community Service Leadership and the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry Small Business Award. She served as a New York State Delegate to the White House Small Business Conference. She is a board member of Lennie Pierro Memorial Arts Foundation and Wings (a nonprofit organization that provides family planning services to women in rural Guatemala). She is a member of the Leadership Council of the Support Center for Nonprofit Management.
Co-Hosts
Yolanda F. Johnson - President, YFJ Consulting, LLC and President, Women In Development, NY
With more than two decades of experience in the non-profit sector Yolanda F. Johnson has successfully led fundraising operations for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, launching creative event, sponsorship and marketing initiatives that produced new streams of both contributed and earned income. Her fundraising expertise includes securing foundation, corporate, and government funding and cultivating a diverse major gifts portfolio. Yolanda is the President of Women In Development (WID), NY and the President of YFJ Consulting, LLC, which provides fundraising strategy and special event expertise for non-profit community. She is also the founder of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC) and Allies in Action Membership Network. Yolanda has had an outstanding career as a performing artist, as a composer, as a producer, as an educator, and she has used her background as a performer to become a sought-after fundraising expert. Yolanda was also recently appointed to the Chronicle of Philanthropy Advisory Committee of national leaders in the non-profit sector. Tying together her life as a successful performing artist and a non-profit leader, she developed All the World's A Stage, a special workshop using performance practice for getting what one wants out of fundraising, philanthropy and life. She presents All the World's A Stage to audiences across the country.
Jill Slattery - Director of Principal Gifts for the Americas, London School of Economics Foundation and Member, Women In Development, NY Board of Directors
With 25 years of experience in higher education fundraising Jill Slattery has contributed to major and principal gift programs at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a graduate of Hamilton College and the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. In addition to her dedication to the development profession Jill enjoys time spent with family, friends, and travel.
Sponsored by:
Allies in Action