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Fundraising Bootcamp
February 21 @ 9:00 am - February 22 @ 5:00 pm
Five sessions, two full days; lunch is included both days.
Register here: https://bit.ly/44VEOzO
Most nonprofits are operating on shoestring budgets. They’re working hard to deliver impact for their communities—while also struggling to raise money and retain staff.
Sound familiar? If you want to increase your capacity and impact and learn best practices to kick your fundraising into high gear, this two-day bootcamp is for you!
For this two-day fundraising intensive, we’ve partnered with the top trainers from Funding For Good, headquartered in North Carolina. You will learn from instructors with years of experience in teaching nonprofits now to do effective fundraising. Whether you’re new to nonprofit work or you’re a seasoned veteran always looking to improve, Mandy and Marie will deliver laser-focused training. They focus on answering every question and leaving you with actionable ideas you can implement right away. You will learn long-lasting skills to get your whole team moving in the same direction.
We’ll gather in person in central Brevard County at the Center for Collaboration. Lunch is included.
You’ll participate in five interactive sessions:
Session 1: Effective Fundraising with Your Board
Does fundraising with your board feel like a never-ending “three-legged race?” Are you ready to get your board off the sidelines and moving in the same direction?
This workshop is ideal for nonprofit leaders who are ready to get back to the basics of fundraising. Join Funding for Good’s experts as we untangle the challenges that limit board engagement and equip your team with the tools to grow your capacity.
- Clarify the board’s role in resource development.
- Review current fundraising trends within the sector.
- Explore what every board member needs to know to fundraise successfully.
- Learn how to identify prospects with your board.
- Engage the board at all levels in the fundraising process (moves management).
- Access tips, tools, and timesaving templates to get your board started today.
Session 2 Sharing Impact in Ways that Generate Income and Interest
Do you struggle to collect, analyze and organize program data in a way that can be used for effective outreach? Would you benefit from tools that keep you on track throughout the year and allow you to easily generate compelling documents to share your impact? Learn to move beyond basic grant or donor reports and create interest and prospective donors through effective impact reporting. Create reporting that YOU would be interested in reading.
- Understand the difference between service and engagement.
- Learn simple ways to track services versus engagement.
- Hear examples from across the nonprofit sector of impact reports that generate income and learn how to model those for your programs and projects.
- Access tools that can be personalized for your organizational needs.
- These skills can be used in grant writing, personal asks, and marketing.
Session 3: Donor Relations That Build Donor Retention
As nonprofits engage in conversations and focus on increasing the levels of giving to their cause, they often leave out an essential part of fundraising… building relationships. Relationships, steps from meet to ask, follow-ups, thanking donors, maintaining relationships, and retention are elements of quality donor relations. Join us to discuss building donor relations that have a solid foundation, keep donors engaged, create interest, cause action on the part of a donor and ultimately result in donor retention. Get a look at donor relations through the eyes of your donor and take home nuggets you can implement right away to create more robust development departments and happier donors.
- Understand the role relationship-building plays in a nonprofit’s fundraising success.
- Practice strategies for productive interactions with donors and potential donors.
- Develop strategies to generate actions from your donor base.
- Identify methods for ongoing communication with your donors to build lasting relationships.
- Differentiate between retention and acquisition and learn the metrics you should measure around both.
- Take a look at your donors and learn segmenting best practices to target your development planning further.
Session 4: Budgeting to Fully Fund Your Overhead
This session will identify the building blocks of a strong budget and explain how nonprofits can easily raise the dollars needed to cover overhead costs. We will discuss how proper budgeting will propel grant proposals to success and how to use messaging to raise these much-needed funds. You’ll see how to accurately describe, budget, and properly package your programs and projects to effectively secure funds from diversified funding streams.
- How to write a realistic budget for your organization, programs, and projects.
- The 3 items most budgets are missing.
- Steps to diversifying your funding streams.
- How to express needs to prospective donors in ways that will ignite their passion to support your work.
- The top 3 metrics you should analyze regularly from your budget.
Session 5: Crafting a Compelling Ask
Are you passionate about your mission but get overwhelmed at the thought of asking for money? Do you struggle to craft a written appeal to local businesses, churches, or individuals in your community to ask them for support? Our experts guide participants through activities to shift the mindset around fundraising and craft a compelling ask that resonates with prospective supporters.
Join Funding For Good as we break down the different categories of nonprofit requests, highlight key charitable giving trends, and teach participants how to get in front of local businesses, individuals, and foundations with a compelling proposal.
- Understand the different types of written “asks” in the nonprofit world.
- Outline current charitable giving trends.
- Clarify organization needs and prospects.
- Understand what information donors want to know at first glance.
- Craft and deliver a compelling request for support.
Your Instructors
In 2009, Mandy Pearce founded her flagship company Funding for Good to equip organizations with all the skills and tools needed to become successful and sustainable. She continues to enjoy evolving this company to meet the changing demands of the nonprofit world. For over two decades, Mandy and her team of experts have shared their proficiency in fundraising through executive coaching, strategic and development planning, seminars and specialized consulting programs. Mandy’s dynamic teaching style has brought thousands of people to her presentations at conventions, training workshops and online platforms. Mandy established Funding for Good, Inc. upon the core values of honesty, efficiency, direct communication and bringing sustainable dollars to local communities.
Marie Palacios, lead consultant for Funding for Good, is an expert facilitator, certified by The Institute of Cultural Affairs in the USA in evidence-based facilitation practices known as the ToP Method. She combines proven facilitation methods and her passion for community to facilitate dynamic and productive meetings. Marie enjoys facilitating community organizing, advocacy, consensus building, and action planning workshops for diverse organizations across the nation. Over the past two decades, Marie has worn every hat imaginable in the nonprofit world: volunteer, board member, program director, executive director, and development consultant. Her nonprofit specialties include strategic planning facilitation, program design, board development, grant writing, and messaging.
Register here: https://bit.ly/44VEOzO
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