Financial Sustainability Certificate Program

Description

Financial Sustainability Certificate Program (FSCP)

Dates: Monday, September 22nd-Wednesday, September 24th

Location: Salida Steam Plant Theater

220 W Sackett Ave, Salida, CO 81201

WHAT is the Financial Sustainability Certification Program?

The Financial Sustainability Certification Program is designed to enhance and accelerate career growth for park and recreation professionals. This intensive program will address complex issues including the pressing need to practice financial discipline and acknowledge the responsibility park and recreation professionals have as stewards of taxpayer dollars.

As park and recreation professionals, we are privileged to be the stewards of taxpayer dollars. Each and every day we get to spend their money. What a responsibility! We hold in our hands the power to impact communities by how we manage these resources. How we spend, how we generate revenues, and how we work to create a financially sustainable future for our organizations and for the field of parks and recreation.

Approximately 15 hours of course content will be provided to participating professionals affording them the opportunity to acquire 1.5 continuing education units (CEUs).

Program Format = 18 contact hours including 15 hours of content (1.5 CEUs)

Day 1 (Sept. 22nd): 8:30 am – Check-in begins; 9 am – 4 pm (includes lunch and two, 15 minute breaks)

Day 2 (Sept. 23rd): 8:30am – Light breakfast; 9 am – 4 pm (includes lunch and two, 15 minute breaks)

Day 3 (Sept. 24th): 8:30am – Light breakfast; 9 am – 12 pm (includes two, 15 minute breaks)

Who is the Financial Sustainability Certificate Program for?

Anyone who wants to increase their financial literacy and learn how to create a sustainable financial future for their organization! Ready to make real change?  Bring all your key team players, take full advantage of this curriculum, and build a foundation together!

What does the Financial Sustainability Certificate Program cover?

Over two and a half days, this program will address complex issues including the pressing need to practice financial discipline and acknowledge the responsibility park and recreation professionals have as stewards of taxpayer dollars. Below is a list of some of the main topics covered throughout the program:

• Terms and definitions creating a common language and understanding of finance-centric terminology.
• Review and discussion of current economic, social, and environmental conditions and realities and their influence on decision-making.
• Economic principles and how they align with operations and service delivery.
• Accounting practices commonly used and how they affect understanding an organization’s financial conditions.
• Understanding that budgeting is not an end game.
• Tools and methods for designing relevant and effective financial sustainability strategy for today’s organizations.
• Pricing strategies and considerations.
• Inherent conflicts between ethics and investment/spending choices.
• Economic, social, and environmental theories and how they have and continue to affect today’s investment/spending choices.

Learn more about the Financial Sustainability Certificate Program HERE!

Thank you to Supporting Host Sponsors:

• 110 Percent
• Landscape Structures

Program Instructor: Jamie Sabbach

Jamie has spent her entire adult life serving the public park and recreation profession. Afforded opportunities few will ever have, she has been a practitioner, an educator, and consultant. She speaks from a place of experience, realism, and observation.

Jamie has taught hundreds of professional development and training programs across North America and Europe and has had the privilege of testifying in front of the United States Congress on the critical importance of public lands and recreation.

She currently works alongside organizations from coast to coast assisting them in creating financially sustainable service models for their communities. She also teaches financial management at Indiana University in the School of Public Health’s masters program.