Building Reliable Financial Capacity in Times of Uncertainty: Seminar Series
Seminar #1
WHEN MONEY TIGHTENS, WHAT ACTUALLY HOLDS?
Restoring Financial Visibility When Decisions Can’t Wait
A live, virtual training seminar to foster financial wellbeing in the social purpose sector.
Seminar Overview
Nonprofit leaders across Canada are making high-stakes financial decisions under mounting pressure — funding cuts, rising reporting demands, stretched staff, and growing uncertainty. Yet the hardest part isn’t the pressure itself. It’s making those decisions without reliable financial information.
This interactive three-hour session reframes “financial crisis” not as a lack of money, but as a lack of visibility — and provides practical tools to restore it. Grounded in Humanity Financial’s Five Stages of Financial Wellness™ framework, participants will examine where financial information breaks down in their own organizations, identify their highest-risk blind spots, and leave with ready-to-use templates and a concrete action plan they can implement immediately.
This is not a lecture. Expect peer conversation, real-time diagnostic exercises, and tools designed to be ‘good enough to start’ — because visibility precedes strategy, and the organizations that see clearly are the ones that can act decisively.
Who should attend: Executive Directors, finance managers, senior leaders, and board members of nonprofit organizations and charities navigating funding uncertainty.
Seminar Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Reframe financial crisis as a visibility problem, not a funding problem.
Understand why the real risk in a financial crisis is not the absence of money but the absence of reliable information — and why this distinction changes what you do first.
2. Identify their organization’s highest-risk financial blind spots.
Use a structured diagnostic to locate where financial information breaks down, where decisions are being made without clarity, and where one person holds critical knowledge.
3. Apply practical tools that stabilize financial operations immediately.
Work with ready-to-use templates — including cashflow visibility, monthly reporting, compliance tracking, and budget frameworks — designed to be implemented this week, not after months of preparation.
4. Understand where financial crisis sits within a larger developmental journey.
Locate their organization within the Five Stages of Financial Wellness™ framework and understand why sequencing matters — why what you build first determines whether everything else holds.
5. Leave with a prioritized action plan and a resource toolkit.
Commit to one immediate action, identify one conversation they need to have, and take away a complete set of Stage 1 tools ready for use in their organization.
Presented By Humanity Financial Management
B Corp · Benefit Corporation · Bronze PAIR Certified
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Pamela Oliva, CEO, Humanity Financial Management Inc.Pamela Oliva is the CEO of Humanity Financial Management, dedicated to advancing financial wellness, governance capacity, and long-term sustainability for nonprofits, charities and First Nations organizations. As an FCPA (Aus) with nearly three decades of experience, Pamela works at the intersection of finance, governance, and community development. She challenges the notion that accounting is neutral, instead treating it as a system of meaning-making that shapes power, accountability, and decision-making. Before joining the firm in 2023, Pamela had worked internationally, in a cross cultural context, as CFO for nearly 20 years. She has also dedicated her time to serving on numerous nonprofit Boards in both Canada and Australia. Pamela is recognized for translating complex financial information into practical, values-aligned tools that build internal capacity and confidence. Her work emphasizes relational trust, ethical practice, and durable systems that support self-determination rather than dependency. Pamela is mother to three children and lives in Moh’kinstsis, the Blackfoot name for the area commonly known as Calgary. |
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Gordon Holley, Co-founder & Advisor, Humanity Financial Management Inc.Gordon Holley is a Co-founder and Advisor at Humanity Financial Management (HFM). HFM is a licensed, remote CPA firm, unique in the financial services sector, implementing strategies that facilitate improvements in the financial health and wellness of their social purpose clients, enabling them to better deliver on their unique and crucial missions. HFM works exclusively with organizations that are trying to make the world a better place. Gordon spends much of his time volunteering. He has over 50 years of cumulative board experience. He is currently Board Chair at Community Foundations of Canada, and also serves on the boards of AFOA BC, B Local Vancouver, Vantage Point and the Paypal Giving Fund Canada, in the Treasurer role. He is also on the audit and finance committee for AFOA Canada. Gordon and his wife Megan, started HFM to support the social purpose sector in Canada, recognizing that many social purpose organizations struggle with financial management and financial governance. HFM provides part-time controllers and consulting CFOs to supplement or build the capacity of internal finance departments. The team has grown to over 35 FTE, mostly licensed CPAs. HFM has developed a proprietary theory of change for their clients called the Five Stages of Financial Wellness for Social Purpose Organizations. The five stages are 1) Financial Crisis, 2) Financial Fragility, 3) Financial Stability, 4) Financial Strength, and 5) Financial Abundance. The firm works alongside its clients to help them progress through the five stages and work toward financial abundance so that they can better achieve their missions. Gordon lives in West Vancouver with his wife Megan and their dog, Rosie, and has two adult daughters. |
About the Seminar
Tickets are now on Sale for Session #1
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Where: VirtualWhen: May 20, 2026 |
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Time: 1 pm (EST)Length: 3 Hours |
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Important note: Organizations will be charged for additional participants in the event additional people join the seminar from the respective organization.
