Public Workshops

Want to strengthen your organizational finance skills in a way that’s aligned with your values?

Sign up for Cosmos workshops!

Financial Foundations Series

Start here! Financial foundations covers basic financial terms and the four core financial reports (budget, cash flow, profit & loss, balance sheet) as tools to support your group’s goals.

  • 4 weekly sessions; 2 hours per session
  • Upcoming series: November Mondays
  • For: All levels. Beginner-friendly.
  • Sliding scale tickets: $100-$1,920

Building Shared Futures: Planning with Budgets, Cash Flow, Reserves, and Savings

Text reads "Building Shared Futures: Planning with Budgets, Cash Flow, Savings and Reserves" against a purple, pink, and blue starry night sky with Cosmos flower logo.

We recommend taking this after Financial Foundations or if you already have some foundational finance knowledge and want to continue to build your skills!

  • 3 weekly sessions, 2 hours per session
  • Upcoming series: November Wednesdays
  • For: people who have taken Financial Foundations or have equivalent experience
  • Sliding scale tickets: $75-$1,140

Coaching Cohort: Crafting Engaging Financial Presentations

The program title "Coaching Cohort: Crafting Engaging Presentations" and the Cosmos logo is set against a background of purple and pink cosmos flowers.

Get support from ABC worker-owners and cohort peers through hands-on practice creating and presenting financial information for your organization.

  • 5 weekly sessions, 2.5 hours per session
  • Upcoming round: To Be Determined 2025
  • For: anyone who presents organizational financial information in any setting including non-profits, cooperatives, small businesses, group projects, and volunteer boards.
  • Sliding scale tickets: $850-$2,750

Speculative Budgeting: Resource Management In Times of Uncertainty

An illustrated splotchy dark purple background sprinkled with stylized stars and circular shapes suggestive of a starscape. In the center of the graphic are overlapping golden circles like a venn diagram framing grayscale images of the facilitators with their names in curved text, Autumn Brown and Alex Fischer. Autumn is looking to the side and is wearing a geometric patterned top with a hood with her hand placed over her heart. Fischer is smiling and looking at the top corner of the image. They are wearing a botanical printed button down top. Above the images is bold golden neon text that reads, "Speculative Budgeting, Resource Management in Times of Uncertainty; a virtual workshop presented by:". Under the facilitator images is attribution text with the name of their coops, "@AortaCoop" and "@ABookkeepingCooperative".

A special collaborative workshop with AORTA. A creative experiment in bringing seemingly disparate organizing practices together: the creative elements of envisioning change (speculative fiction) and the skill of mapping resource allocation (budgeting).

  • Single session, 2.5 hours
  • Monday Oct. 28th
  • For: anyone who wants to re-shape their relationship to budgeting and financial planning
  • Sliding scale tickets: $50-$675

Check out our upcoming Spanish-language workshops.