Financial Literacy for Activism

I. Background on Warren B Kanders and the Whitney Museum of American Art

A. Activist groups (Decolonize This Place, W.A.G.E.)

B. Timeline and writing ("The Tear Gas Biennial")

II. Board governance

A. brief overview

B. Core tenets

III. Approach to radical transparency

A. Available financials / sourcing information

1. Non-profit institutions (Guidestar)

2. For-profit institutions (EDGAR, Crunchbase, and other)

IV. Economic investigation: The Whitney

A. Interactive and guided reading of the Whitney Museum Form-990

B. Small group discussion

C. Large group brainstorm

D. Distillation of principles of board representation

E. Overview of institutional economic need and financing

V. Economic investigation: Armor Holdings

A. Interactive and guided reading of the AH 10-K (annual report filed to SEC)

B. Small group discussion

C. Large group discussion

D. Distillation of principles of corporate source of wealth ethics

VI. Brainstorm of core tenets

The group does not need to, by any means, agree on one set of ideas.

The conclusion of the workshop will be distillation of questions one would apply to other Forms-990 and other SEC filings.

The discussion mode of the workshop will borrow tools from Augusto Boal (Games for Actors and Non-Actors).

Notes from the group will, with group members' permission, be shared back as a working document.