Fundraising

Activating Your Leadership to Disrupt the Status Quo (Abolition, Reform, Expansion – Session 2)

This session will identify ways that you can be a change agent within your nonprofit (with your colleagues as well as with your Board) by helping to build a mindset and culture that achieves the twin goals of resource development and equitable practices.

Creating Successful Individual and Major Donor Campaigns

Individual and major donor campaigns are the cornerstone of fundraising, never falling below 70% of all philanthropy.

Designing a Virtual or Hybrid Event

The pandemic forced the move from in-person to fully virtual events.  Now, we must continue to perfect our virtual events to stand alone, and learn how to design them to work in tandem with in-person components.

Michael Schweisheimer, who has been helping nonprofits make this very pivot, along with his colleague David Smith, will take you through the ins and outs in this 2 hour online class, which will address both the strategy and tactics in the evolving world of events with an online component.

Effective Gift Stewardship + Donor Management = Successful Fundraising

Learn Procedures for accepting, acknowledging and stewarding gifts, to improve donor cultivation, including legal and ethical compliance.

Equity in Philanthropy: Abolition, Reform, Expansion

We invite fundraisers at all career stages to join us as we explore the past, present, and future of the philanthropic ecosystem and the threads of inequities that continue to plague it. This series includes three distinct yet interconnected sessions that will take you on an exploration of equitable philanthropy.

From Root to Ritual: A Conversation about the systemic & historical characteristics of inequity in Philanthropy (Abolition, Reform, Expansion – Session 1)

This session will unearth the systems that root philanthropy and fundraising by grappling with history, intention, and impact.

Fundamentals of Successful Fundraising

This class introduces the fundamental fundraising concepts, providing a snapshot of tools available to you and what it takes to implement them.