I provide supportive, practical, compassionate financial consulting & coaching to…
and funders & grantmakers in Northern California and beyond.
As an artist myself, I understand firsthand the financial challenges that face artists and arts organizations, and I focus on making financial concepts and processes as simple, flexible, accessible, and easeful as possible. Whether you’re an individual artist or a full-sized nonprofit, I’ll do my best to help you leverage your own knowledge and experience with personalized tools designed to make your life easier and leave you with more time to actually make your art.
The services I provide include:
Full-spectrum arts accounting support from system setup to end-of-year reporting, including customized Quickbooks installations, budget creation and oversight, support for fiscally sponsored projects, staff training, monthly and year-end close, temporarily restricted net asset accounting, audit preparation and support, how-to bookkeeping workshops, and more
Financial reporting support, including help with P&L and Balance Sheet reports for nonprofits and arts projects, 1099 preparation, DataArts financials, budget management, and grant reports for foundation and government grants
Individual coaching and group workshops for individual artists, arts workers, and organizational staff, designed to empower you to get the financial tools that are genuinely right for you and leverage them in support of your work. Learn Quickbooks, demystify financial concepts, build budgets that help you dream wild dreams, discover best practices for managing expenses and getting ready for tax time, learn to speak confidently about your finances, and more!
I provide services on a sliding scale based on budget size, and many of my coaching clients use CCI QuickGrants to cover working with me. I also offer discounted rates and some pro bono services to organizations that center the work of communities which have not historically been given equitable access to financial tools or support, especially Black and Indigenous-led organizations. If your project is beyond my bandwidth or capacity, I will always strive to recommend other respected local consultants.