WINTER WEBINAR SERIES FROM GRANTSTATION: A Path to Funding Resilience: A New Year, A Stronger Foundation

(Bundle of six 45 minute webinars for $60)

This webinar series is sold as a bundle of six for $60. Sign up for the bundle and receive all links, materials and recordings to watch at your convenience.  You will receive a confirmation email with the links, and we’ll send reminders as well.

After a challenging 2025, nonprofit organizations are facing more pressure than ever. Reimagine and reinvigorate your efforts through this six-part TargetED series designed to broaden your revenue streams and build stability from the inside out.

This series, led by Alice Ruhnke of GrantStation and Sarah Barton of Nonprofit411, will help you build a balanced portfolio that protects your mission, your team, and your community, no matter what the external landscape looks like. You’ll learn how to reset, realign, and build a stronger financial foundation, one grounded in clarity, diversification, and values-aligned strategy.

Each session includes practical guidance, tools, templates, and examples you can use to carve your unique path in 2026.

By the end of the series, you will have:

• a clear understanding of your current funding landscape;
• a focused set of priorities for strengthening your revenue mix;
• strategies for growing individual, foundation, government, corporate, and earned income streams;
• tools you can customize and put into action immediately; and,
• a pathway toward greater predictability, resilience, and long-term sustainability

Now is the moment to pause, reassess, and chart a steady course forward so you can create a funding foundation that supports your mission in every season.

Each webinar session is 45 minutes long and begins at 2 PM ET.

Series Topics & Dates (scroll below for full descriptions)

• 1.12.26-Assess Your Funding: Diversification and Strategy Overview
• 1.26.26-Individual Giving: Building Loyal, Sustained Supporters
• 2.2.26-Foundation Giving: Family, Independent and Community Foundations
• 2.23.26-Government Grants: Navigating Opportunities at All Levels
• 3.9.26-Corporate Giving: Beyond Sponsorships
• 3.23.26-Earned Income: Creating Mission-Aligned Revenue Streams

Who should attend:

This series is ideal for nonprofit leaders and development staff ready to strengthen their funding strategy with clarity, confidence, and a more resilient approach to long-term revenue.  Each session includes 30 minutes of practical teaching and 15 minutes of Q&A. When you purchase your bundle of 6 webinars, you can participate live or view a recorded version of each session after the fact. More than one person from your organization can attend each webinar. All sessions run from 2-2:45 PM ET.

After each webinar, you’ll receive:

• slides and handouts; and,a link to the webinar recording.

Note:  NPC members get a deep discount on GrantStation’s grant database. Click here to subscribe for only $139.

Presenters Sarah Barton and Alice Ruhnke

Sarah Barton is a nonprofit consultant with 25 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising, grant writing, and donor management. Sarah has served a diverse range of organizations, from small grassroots initiatives to large established entities, helping each one develop and implement effective fundraising strategies that elevate their impact and sustainability.

Sarah’s expertise lies in her ability to tailor her approach to meet the unique needs of each organization she works with. She excels in guiding nonprofits through the intricacies of planning and executing comprehensive fundraising campaigns, ensuring they have the tools and strategies necessary to reach their financial goals and advance their missions.

Alice Ruhnke is the President of GrantStation. Having raised over $45 million from federal, state, and private grantmakers, she knows what it takes to get funded. As a former nonprofit program coordinator and director, and Founder of The Grant Advantage, Alice has a deep understanding of the challenges that nonprofits face. Over the last 20 years she’s worked in the trenches with hundreds of nonprofit organizations to improve their capacity to raise funds. Alice is an author and educator with a passion to share her expertise. Her insightful trainings on grant proposal writing and development, community change models, service projects, and measuring outcomes have helped over 4,000 individuals positively impact their communities. Alice earned the Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credential in 2025, a distinguished certification that recognizes expertise in grantsmanship through a rigorous, experience-based examination.