PENELOPE BURK understands donors and what they want more deeply than just about anyone in the business. In the last fifteen years, she and her innovative firm, Cygnus Applied Research, Inc., have conducted surveys and research studies with more than a quarter-million American donors. She has reached back into their lives to find out about…
Michelle Buchanan with Dini Spheris Consulting shared that High Performing Boards tie all decision making to the organization’s strategic plan. In an April workshop on Creating a High Functioning Fundraising Board, Buchanan suggested organizations can have the greatest success if they utilize their strategic plan to make all major decisions.
Debbie Douma, Pensacola State College’s dean of grants and federal programs, will share fundraising secrets during a PSC Nonprofit Center for Excellence and Philanthropy workshop. The workshop will be held 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 20, in Building 21, Room 2142, on the Pensacola campus. Registration is $75 per person. Nonprofit board members…
TOPICS COVERED:
Courageous and Transformative Boards
Partnerships — Cooperative Impact
Partnership Studies and Best Practices Panel
Transformational Grants and Infrastructure to Sustain
Grants Secured through Cooperative Impact
Donor-Centered Fundraising and Leadership
Donor-Centered Marketing (Utilizing Storytelling and Results)
Donor-Centered Leadership for Courageous Transformation
Marketing for Transformative Change
Gail Perry, Gail Perry Associates Philanthropy Consultants
• Determining organizational readiness for major gift fundraising
• Defining your major gift team
• Identifying potential major gift donors
• How to open the door to a donor without being pushy
• Qualifying donors to find out their potential
• The art of a successful donor meeting
• Creating an engagement plan for your donor prospects
• The easy conversational approach to a solicitation
• How your board can help
• How to ask and never get turned down
Dr. Debbie Douma, Pensacola State College
• The grantseeking world: what is the environment today?
• Barriers to grantseeking
• Building relationships with funders
• Basic grant considerations
• Determining a fundable project/program idea
• Sustainability using grant funds
• Grant management
How do you know if your nonprofit is making a difference?
Impact is the difference your nonprofit makes: There’s the work you do, and the results that flow from it. More and more nonprofits, grantmakers, and government partners, are focusing on outcomes, rather than “outputs.”
To create a high functioning fundraising board, a culture of philanthropy is paramount:
A philanthropic culture is one in which the organization values, treasures and promotes giving as intrinsic to its organizational mission. It is understood that philanthropic support is an outcome of its existence and mission delivery.