May 17 held Finance 101 training for 7 LGBTI+ organizations
07/12/2020 | 17 Mayıs
May 17 Association organized Finance 101 training for seven LGBTI+ organizations, one of the fundamental needs of the associations.
The second session of the training series covering administrative and financial issues, the 'Finance 101' held on December 6th, 2020. "Official Accounting and Legislation", the first session of the series was held on November 29.
The second session was held with 18 participants from 7 organizations including Ankara Rainbow Families Association, Akdeniz Antalya Families Group, Antalya BİZ Association, Hevi LGBTI+ Association, Young LGBTI+ Association, Mersin Muamma LGBTI+ Association, Bursa Free Colors Association.
Aysel Ergün, the facilitator of the session, started the workshop by explaining the basic principles of Financial Management such as transparency, accountability, prevention of corruption, prevention of conflict of interest, sustainability and compliance with the legislation in the training, which attracted great attention from the participants.
Later, Ergün conveyed what the income and expense items for associations are, and underlined that the expenditures should be documented and supporting documents should be kept in accordance with the legislation.
At the end of the training, all the steps to be followed in the Finance Management process were summarized in their respective order. The program was completed after the Q&A session.
May 17 trainings will continue!
In order to support the sustainability of LGBTI + organizations, the association provides support in areas such as fundraising, financial and administrative affairs, advocacy and digital security, provides expert support in different fields and holds workshops.
The association organized Social Media Management and Campaign and Project Cycle training in November.
The first training of the association was on institutional communications and social media campaigning on November 1st. Kaos GL Media and Communication Program Coordinator Yıldız Tar facilitated the training that was participated by Rainbow Families Association, Pink Life and Ünikuir from Ankara, BIZ Association from Antalya, Hêvî LGBTI + Association from İstanbul, Young LGBTI+ Association from İzmir and Muamma LGBTI+ Association from Mersin.
The second training of the association was on the project cycle management on November 15th. Ayça Bulut Bican gave project cycle management training in the workshop, which was attended by more than twenty people from Hevi LGBTI+, Young LGBTI+, Mersin Muamma LGBTI+, Rainbow Family Association, Unikuir and Akdeniz Families Group.
The first session of the training, which is planned to be held in two sessions as "Official Accounting and Legislation" and "Finance 101", which includes administrative and financial issues, was held on November 29th. The first session was held with 16 participants from 6 organizations, including the Rainbow Family Association, Akdeniz Antalya Families Group, Antalya BIZ Association, Hevi LGBTI+ Association, Young LGBTI+ Association, Bursa Free Colors Association.
The training program will continue with the project cycle management workshop in near future.
Translation: Yiğit E. Korkmaz