Community Finance Workshops • Enfoque Solidario Colombia

Participants in a community finance workshop session engaging with practical exercises

What to Expect

How our workshops are structured

Each workshop is a collaborative session, not a presentation. Participants work through real scenarios drawn from community leadership contexts.

Workshops are designed to be completed in a single day or spread across multiple shorter sessions depending on what works for the group. Content is the same. The pacing adapts. Facilitators adjust in real time based on what the group needs to spend more time on and what they already understand well.

Participants receive practical reference materials they can take back to their organizations. These are designed to be used, not filed away.

These programs are educational. They do not constitute financial advice, auditing services, or regulated financial guidance of any kind.

Program Modules

What each workshop covers

Our workshops are organized into focused modules. Organizations can work through all modules or select the ones most relevant to their current needs.

Understanding Collective Funds

What collective funds are, how they differ from personal finances, and the basic organizational principles for managing money that belongs to a group. Covers the conceptual foundations that everything else builds on.

Basic Record-Keeping for Communities

Simple, practical approaches to tracking income and expenditure within community organizations. Not accounting software. Not complex systems. Formats that work with the actual resources and time available to community leaders.

Preparing Community Financial Reports

How to organize financial information into reports that community members can understand and engage with. Covers structure, language, and the difference between information that informs and information that confuses.

Facilitating Financial Conversations

Techniques for leading community conversations about money, budgets, and resource priorities. How to create space for all voices while keeping discussions productive and focused on decisions that need to be made.

Principles of Solidarity Economics

The conceptual framework behind cooperative and solidarity-based economic models. How these principles apply to the specific context of Colombian community organizations and what they mean in practice.

Collective Decision-Making Processes

Structured methods for making economic decisions as a group. How to design decision-making processes that are participatory, transparent, and result in choices the whole community can understand and support.

Program Formats

Flexible formats for different community needs

Different community organizations have different schedules, resources, and learning contexts. Our programs adapt accordingly.

Full-Day Workshop

Intensive single-day session covering multiple modules with time for deep engagement and practical exercises.

Multi-Session Program

Content spread across several shorter sessions over days or weeks, allowing time for reflection and application between sessions.

Community Assembly Format

Adapted for larger community gatherings where broader participation is the primary goal. Focused on key concepts and participatory exercises.

Leadership Team Focus

Smaller, more intensive sessions designed specifically for the core leadership team of an organization. More depth, more specific application.

Getting Started

How to bring a workshop to your organization

The process begins with a conversation about your organization's specific context and needs.

We do not deliver identical programs to every group. Before any workshop, we learn about the organization: its structure, the challenges it faces, the financial knowledge already present in the group, and what it most needs to be able to do better. That understanding shapes what we bring.

Workshop facilitator engaging with community participants in an interactive learning session

Community finance workshops for real organizations