LitNYS Special Session: Building Strategic Capacity through Clarity, Strategy, and Impact
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
10:00am-11:30am (via zoom)
Free with Registration Required
Presented by LitNYS Colleague: Bruce Morrow
How do you grow a sustainable literary arts organization when so often “mission-rich and cash-poor”? This interactive workshop focuses on the building blocks of strategic capacity: clear budgeting, aligned fundraising, and storytelling that moves funders and communities alike. Designed for nonprofit literary leaders, the session walks participants through the process of creating a dream budget, analyzing revenue streams, and crafting a project-based fundraising plan that reflects values and vision.
Please be prepared to share:
What’s your biggest capacity-building challenge?
What would it take (people, money, time) to solve it?
What are your organizational budget top 3 priorities?
Through practical exercises, group discussion, and real-world examples, participants will leave with tools to turn ambition into action—and to grow with clarity, strategy, and impact.
Register now - limited to 30 participants
ABOUT BRUCE MORROW
Bruce Morrow is a writer, visual artist, and nonprofit leader. His first short film, IN DREAMS BEGIN..., won Best LGBTQ Jury and Audience Awards at the 2023 Paris Short Film Festival. He is a former fiction editor at Callaloo and co-editor of Shade: An Anthology of Short Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent. As a nonprofit leader, he has worked with the Misty Copeland Foundation, The Trevor Project, GLAAD, and Bank Street College of Education. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and recently attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ragdale Residency, and Kimbilio Retreat.