Most nonprofit leaders didn't start out planning to master grant compliance or board bylaws — they started because they cared about something and figured out the paperwork along the way. This workshop exists for exactly that person: the executive director learning on the job, the new board chair who just inherited a budget spreadsheet nobody explained to them, the volunteer coordinator trying to keep good people from burning out. Led by a consultant who has spent two decades in the trenches of regional nonprofit work, the day moves through the real, unglamorous mechanics of governance, fundraising, and volunteer management — the stuff that determines whether a mission survives its first five years or quietly runs out of steam. You'll leave with a working lunch in you, a binder full of tools you'll actually use, and a room full of new peers who understand exactly what your Monday mornings look like.