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Achieving NGO Financial Sustainability

Your mission matters too much to get off track because of changes in funding. This short course gives you the tools to help steer your organization through whatever challenges come up.

$449.00
Non-members $499.00 815 enrolled in this course
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Description

Full cost recovery. Bank reconciliation. Forecasting. Budgeting. Diversified funding. Partner assessments. Reserves.

Those are just some of the building blocks any nonprofit needs to keep its mission on track.

Whether you’re a financial professional, an executive, or a program leader, this short, practical training will give you proven tools to move from anxiety to answers for how to move forward.

Why take this course?

  • Be the one with answers: When funding suddenly gets pulled, be the leader who can walk through a risk matrix, propose a diversification plan, and keep stakeholder relationships strong.
  • Stop feeling like you’re guessing: You may be in a job that covers multiple roles, without a background in finance.  This course gives you specialist skills, without years of course work.
  • It’s a credential that sticks: The skills you gain here — financial risk assessment, stakeholder communications, cost recovery — will be useful in any role at any organization.
  • You’ll finally feel ahead of the problem, not behind it:  In 2026, many NGO professionals are in reactive mode. This course puts you on the other side, where you’re building reserves and diversifying income before the crisis hits.

What you will learn

By the end of this course, you will gain concrete skills to:

  • Diversify income for less dependency on donor income or external funding agencies
  • Manage options for cost recovery and unrestricted funding
  • Build financial reserves
  • Strengthen stakeholder relationships
  • Build a finance strategy that your whole team can use and understand

 

How you will learn

Format

Self-directed

Effort

3 hrs/per week

Duration

6 Weeks

Certificate

Digital

Humentum’s self-directed and focused trainings put the learner first. Connect and engage with peers from around the world, while learning through a series of engaging videos, assignments and readings. An expert facilitator will guide you.

The platform is open for a set number of weeks, and you can log-in to work at your own pace whenever convenient. You’ll find our learning platform easy to navigate, with clear guides and instructions.

Each week, the following module will become available.

We estimate this training requires 3 hours per module (5 modules in total), depending on your pace of learning, and previous experience.

Who should attend

  • Finance Professionals, including CFOs, this course will give you frameworks, like the Financing Mix Matrix, reserve-building strategies, and cost recovery tools, so you can lead your team with proven tools and provide other leaders with solid footing to move forward.
  • CEO/Presidents or Program Director, you don’t want to see programs shut down because of a funding shift. Learning to diversify income and develop a financing strategy everyone on the team can use (not just the finance team) means the mission doesn’t live or die by one donor relationship.
  • Manager supporting partners, this course will help you sit across from a partner organization and say (with confidence) “here’s how we assess financial risk, here’s how we build resilience” instead of handing over compliance checklists.

If you’re still not sure if this course is right for you, feel free to contact us and we can help!

Meet your facilitators

Hilda Hakiza

Associate Trainer/Consultant, Uganda

Rob Hayes

Associate Trainer/Consultant, UK

Sareta Thomas

Associate Trainer/Consultant, South Africa

Fanny Bervoets

Associate Trainer/Consultant, UAE

Lisa Mellon

Associate Trainer/Consultant, Canada

Walelign Wondye

Associate Trainer/Consultant, Ethiopia

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Pricing and Discounts

Type Discount

Humentum Member

 10%

Groups of 8 or more on the same course

 15%

It was genuinely an amazing course full of information and rich of different experiences. It provided us with totally new concepts with its suitable tools! Moreover, the provided references are a real treasure. I can't believe this course came to an end! I really enjoyed it so much to the extent that I cancelled/postponed many of my commitments in order to keep on track. It have me huge amounts of information, which were supported by learning practical tricks and instances from every single one of you all. I am so grateful for letting me join this course and for the experience you shared during these five weeks. And huge thanks to you ,the course facilitators, for the great efforts and support you provided.

Rami Kalazi

I now know where our organisation  financial sustainability is and what we can do to push it where we want it to be. The financial policy parts were very interesting and the overall course is a tool that our organisation will reference when running our projects and programmes.  Thank you to the course facilitator Sareta Thomas and Humentum for this wonderful opportunity.

Nditwani Kwinda Director, Autism Limpopo

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