Odiaka Gonzalez Shares a Smarter Approach to Nonprofit Budgeting
In today’s unpredictable funding landscape, nonprofit leaders are under growing pressure to make every dollar count. Yet budgets often begin with what organizations hope to accomplish rather than the revenue they can realistically expect to generate.
In a new article for The Helia Collective, Tilting Futures Chief Operating Officer Odiaka Gonzalez, co-written with Libby Fischer, explores why starting with revenue, not expenses, can help organizations make more strategic decisions, better align resources with their mission, and build greater long-term resilience.
Rather than treating budgeting as a numbers exercise, the piece offers a practical framework for grounding financial planning in reality while creating space for sustainable growth and impact.
As Tilting Futures continues to champion thoughtful leadership and organizational excellence, we’re proud to see Odiaka contributing to conversations that help mission-driven organizations strengthen their operations and navigate an increasingly complex funding environment.
Read the full article from The Helia Collective.
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Tilting Futures prepares young people to lead change in a complex world by developing the capacities that make connection across difference possible. Since 2010, the organization has served more than 3,000 students. Its flagship program, Take Action Lab, is an accredited, semester-length program built on an evidence-backed curriculum that develops the durable skills employers, higher education, and civic institutions increasingly recognize as foundational, including agency, self-awareness, perspective-taking, communication across difference, sense of belonging, and the orientation toward purposeful action. Alongside its direct program work, Tilting Futures’ systems change work is focused on making this kind of intentional capacity development a standard feature of how we prepare young people for adulthood, in their communities, in college, and in career. Tilting Futures is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
