The Dollars and Sense of Sheltering: A Tool for Financially Evaluating Your Shelter's Programs, presented by Dr. Nicole Olynk Widmar, will take place Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Dr. Widmar has developed a shelter financial management tool that can be used to analyze financial outcomes for shelter programs under different management strategies.
Information presented by Dr. Widmar will include:
- An introduction to shelter economics
- Review of basics including fixed and variable costs/expenses and revenue/income streams
- The ins and outs of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
- How to identify and understand risk and manage its financial aspects
- Management decisions illustrated with shelter financial tool
To register for this webcast, click here.
About Maddie's Fund®:
Maddie's Fund® is a family foundation endowed by the founder of Workday® and PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl. Maddie's Fund® is helping to achieve and sustain a no-kill nation by providing solutions to the most challenging issues facing the urban animal community through the combined efforts of Maddie's® Grant Giving, Maddies Center and Maddie's Institute.
About Nicole Olynk Widmar, PhD:
Dr. Nicole Olynk Widmar is an agricultural economist specializing in farm business management and decision-making. In addition to her focus on agriculture, she has worked to adapt economic and management concepts for use in shelters, ranging from managing flow-through to assessing how alternative practices impact overall shelter performance. Dr. Widmar's research program includes assessments of people's affinity for, and beliefs about the treatment of, companion animals, livestock and wildlife.
Dr. Nicole Olynk Widmar is an agricultural economist specializing in farm business management and decision-making. In addition to her focus on agriculture, she has worked to adapt economic and management concepts for use in shelters, ranging from managing flow-through to assessing how alternative practices impact overall shelter performance. Dr. Widmar's research program includes assessments of people's affinity for, and beliefs about the treatment of, companion animals, livestock and wildlife.
She received her A.A.S. from Alfred State College in Animal Science, B.S. from Cornell University in Animal Science, and M.S. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Agricultural Economics.
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