Creating a Successful Fundraising Culture: 12 Tools for Motivating Your Board
Why are so many volunteers and staff members reluctant to participate in approaching prospects and donors? How can board chairs, development committee members, nonprofit CEOs and professional fundraising staff lead their board teams to own -- and even enjoy -- the essential and ultimately rewarding work of major gifts fundraising? In this practical train-the-trainer session, topics address the needs of nonprofit leaders who want to increase volunteer and staff participation in approaching and engaging prospects and donors.
This workshop provides 12 tools and activities that board leadership and staff can use to:
1. Provide a framework for understanding prospect and donor needs
2. Increase the comfort level and confidence of staff and volunteers in approaching prospects and donors.
Presenter: Carole V. Rylander, CFRE is principal of Rylander Associates, a professional consulting firm serving not-for-profit organizations since 1998 in funds development, planning and governance. She has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than 23 years. Rylander was named the 2006 Outstanding Fundraising Executive of the Dallas Chapter of AFP. She is a past president of the AFP Dallas Chapter and is Chair of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel, a national association of consulting firms.
Support Center for Child Advocates Annual Benefit Reception and Silent Auction
Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts
This FREE course is geared towards individuals involved in the arts and looking to fund any type of arts-related project.
If you are an individual involved in the arts and looking for funding to complete a project, mount an exhibition, put on a performance, conduct research, or anything else arts-related, Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts will show you how to:
• Identify funders in the arts.
• Explore the option of fiscal sponsorship.
• Create a step-by-step plan to find funding for your needs as an individual grantseeker.
Development Roundtable: Advanced Strategies for Individual Giving
Once you have developed your traditional annual fund campaign, how do you take your individual fundraising to the next level? Topics include: continuing stewardship of your existing donors, and how other companies have moved donors upwards on their giving chart.
FREE for Theatre Alliance Members; $15 for non-members, which may be used toward a Theatre Alliance membership.
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