Building off our experience training thousands of organizations on building leadership capacity and financial health through programs such as Annenberg Alchemy, the Real Cost Project, Scaling What Works, the Neighborhood Builders Leadership Initiative and other capacity building efforts, Social Sector Partners has developed Think Money First! to help social sector leaders create a culture of sustainability for their organizations.

The Think Money First! program aims to change how social sector leaders think. We believe that if you can change your thinking, your can change your organizations, and then you can change the world. But we will not get there with the same scarcity mindset that promotes organizations spending 95 cents out of every dollar on programs – all while starving the organization and its necessary infrastructure. We will not get there if we continue to act as victims and believe there is nothing we can do about it.

Our role as social sector leaders, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and board members is to ensure that people continue to have access to the programs and services that are essential to creating a more just, equitable and sustainable world. To truly lead, we need to shift from a scarcity mindset that starts from a position of weakness and insignificance, to one that starts from a position of opportunity and strength.

Think Money First! is a project of Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a foundation dedicated to providing resources and support services for projects that address social justice and environmental issues.  To read more about SEE and the foundation’s mission, we invite you to visit their website at www.saveourplanet.org.