Transform Your Funding Strategy – Discover Sustainable Solutions with Our Free Virtual Workshop!
Funding Blueprint Strategies to Finance & Sustain Your Work
“Get off the hamster wheel” of chasing grants. – Stop chasing funding. Start building a strategy that attracts and sustains it.
The Funding Blueprint is a free virtual workshop designed to help nonprofit leaders, development professionals, and small business owners assess how they currently fund their work, identify potential gaps in their existing strategy, and determine where greater diversification may be needed.
The workshop challenges participants to think beyond grants as their primary, or only, funding source and introduces a more sustainable approach built around mixed revenue.
Participants are introduced to the Funding Blueprint Framework: Access • Structure • Positioning and use the framework to evaluate three areas of their current funding strategy:
Access: How easy is it for people to financially support the organization?
Structure: How is the organization's funding currently built, and is there enough diversification to reduce financial risk?
Positioning: How clearly and credibly does the organization communicate its work, impact, funding needs, and case for investment?
Monday, October 14, 2026 6 PM EST via Zoom
This virtual workshop is ideal for:
Nonprofit leaders (Executive Directors, Founders)
Small Business Owners
Nonprofit Board members
Project or Program managers
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
Assess the stability of their current funding model. Determine whether their organization is overly dependent on a limited number of funding sources and understand the potential risks associated with that dependence.
Identify gaps within their existing funding strategy. Evaluate their organization across Access, Structure, and Positioning to identify areas that may be limiting funding opportunities or long-term sustainability. Identify opportunities to diversify revenue.
Understand the role of direct giving, grants, sponsorships, earned income, events/campaigns, and other revenue streams within a mixed revenue strategy.Strengthen how they communicate their funding needs. Understand how data, outcomes, impact, and a clear organizational ask contribute to stronger funding positioning.
Identify immediate next steps. Leave the workshop with at least two actions to implement within the next 30–90 days to strengthen their funding strategy.
About the Facilitator
Sharika Comfort
Co-Founder & Principal Consultant, Educated Hoodlums Brand
Sharika Comfort is a nonprofit strategist, educator, and community engagement professional with more than a decade of experience helping organizations turn communication into action.
Her work sits at the intersection of communications, community-building, strategy, and data. Throughout her career, Sharika has developed strategies that help organizations identify the people they need to reach, build stronger relationships with their communities, and move people from awareness to participation and action.
As Principal Consultant of Educated Hoodlums Brand, Sharika works with nonprofits, small businesses, and institutions to develop and implement strategies for communications, community engagement, training, and organizational growth
Sharika brings real-world experience in:
Building & Engaging Communities: Developing community engagement strategies that connect organizations with residents, businesses, partners, and other stakeholders.
Turning Communication into Action: Using digital communications, storytelling, events, and outreach to move people from simply hearing a message to participating, supporting, and showing up.
Audience-Centered Strategy: Helping organizations understand who they are trying to reach and develop messaging and engagement strategies around the needs of those communities.
Data-Informed Communications: Using audience feedback, engagement data, and community insights to strengthen communications and make better strategic decisions.
Training & Education: Drawing on 13 years of experience in education to make complex strategies practical, accessible, and immediately useful.
Her approach to digital community-building is simple: the goal isn't just to get people to see your message. It's to build relationships strong enough to move people to action.