The Not For Profit SiG meetings the third Tuesday of every month at 7PM ET

Topic for this meeting:   Changes in Washington and the NFP industry

We got Sean to confirm he can join this roundtable 

Sean Hale has served a variety of nonprofits professionally since 1999.

In 2020, he founded Nonprofit CFOs now a 12-person team that helps small and medium-sized nonprofits ensure they have strong, effective financial management.  Services include interim staffing, fractional CFO, and indirect cost rate calculations.

Roundtable discussion with Raji Kalra about the issues facing not-for-profits who have substantial Federal Funding. Tim Domini will discuss impacts on the small consultant buisness  and we plan to bring in other folks on the potential impact in other not-for-profit fields. 

Raji has a diverse range of experiences. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a consultant for Accenture, then as Sr. Project Manager at a niche consulting firm. After graduate school, Ms. Kalra made the switch to nonprofit after a bridge job, a year at American Express. She worked for Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) as their 1st Director of Finance for 5 separate entities in NYC. Raji worked as a freelance consultant for educational nonprofits & start-up charter schools in New York, Pittsburgh, & New Orleans. As CFO/CAO, at Harlem RBI & DREAM Charter School, she had overall responsibility for the fiscal, facilities, HR, IT, legal & administrative functions of both organizations. At the Museum For African Art, Raji had fiscal responsibility for their operations as well as their $135M capital project. 

Currently, Ms. Kalra acts a consultant in roles from Interim CFO to Change Leader for several clients including Ascend Learning/Ascend Charter Schools, IRAP (International Refugee Assistance Project) and Global Outreach International. Prior to this, she was the CFO/CAO for the David Lynch Foundation. 

She is an alumni career coach to MBA students who are interested in social enterprise & serves as Chair of the Board of the Bronx River Alliance. She has a BA from Columbia College at Columbia Univ, an MA in International Development & Environment from Johns Hopkins SAIS & an MBA from Columbia Business School.