Maximizing Your Nonprofit Board's Fundraising Impact

Welcome to the bronze badge lessons on board fundraising. Board fundraising is vital to the success of our nonprofits. But how do we understand the board’s role in revenue generation for our organization, and how it differs from the staff?

In the bronze badge, we’ll be looking at:

• What board fundraising is and why it matters.

• Skills that board members can use to improve their own fundraising capacity.

• What effective board fundraising looks like...and

• The three duties of every nonprofit board member, and how fundraising can help them fulfill each.

Active and willing board fundraising is a critical component of every organization that builds and maintains a culture of philanthropy. Let’s get started on learning how you can build up your board’s capacity in this important area.

Let’s dive in.

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll jump in on an overview of what board fundraising is.

Be sure to download the transcript to begin building your reference library, and also feel free to use the audio-only download below for on-the-go learning.

Now that you have some basics about board fundraising, let's take a look at why it matters.

Remember, you can download the transcript for this video below, and can also turn closed captions on and off for your convenience.

In this lesson, we'll look at the key skills related to board fundraising. Remember: skills can be learned, practiced, and developed over time, so if you feel that you have a little (or a lot of!) room for improvement, know that you're on the right track!

Be sure to download the transcript to not only review your learning but also to see the research references used in this lesson.

In this lesson, we'll bring together our learning on what effective board fundraising programs look like, and how can we measure them.

Effective board fundraising also helps board members fulfill the three basic duties of nonprofit board service.

In our silver badge lessons on board fundraising, we’re going to dive deep on how to support and activate our board’s fundraising capacity. We’ll do so by considering:

• How to activate our board’s fundraising capacity overall

• Measuring board fundraising efforts, and

• Setting board fundraising goals

When board members are effectively engaged with the fundraising activities of your nonprofit, some pretty amazing results can happen. But in order to make this a reality, we need to create an environment in which each board member can be successful.

Let’s now look at how activation, measurement, and goal-setting all support your board’s fundraising abilities.

*Remember that a transcript of all audio is available for download in the lessons to come, and you can always turn on closed-captions on the video settings above.

In this lesson, we'll jump get ready to do some action planning around board fundraising efforts, and look closely at how you can make (or support) a really great plan for positive change in your own nonprofit.

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Now that we have a little bit of foundation in your board fundraising efforts, let's think about how we can apply this to your organization.

Remember, you can download the transcript for this video below, and can also turn closed captions on and off for your convenience.

In this lesson, we'll look at how to put board fundraising efforts into practice with a look at how to build and measure it in your nonprofit.

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Anytime we talk about goals we have the opportunity to sketch out two types of goals: performance goals and development goals. Charting a course for effective board fundraising is no different.

Let’s look at how each can play out in our goal-setting for building this capacity.

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Goals can get us to new levels of functionality in many areas of our organization. We'll next consider how setting board fundraising goals for your nonprofit can be successful both at the individual and team levels.

Remember, you can download the transcript for this video below, and can also turn closed captions on and off for your convenience.

Welcome to your final series of lessons on board fundraising!

In the lessons to come, we’ll take a look through how to motivate and lead the effort to improve your board’s fundraising capacities. We’ll explore the concepts of servant leadership and introduce a useful tool for helping your board develop their own improvement plan.

After we review our learning on board fundraising, you’ll then have the opportunity to complete a personal learning plan on this topic.

Let’s go!

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll look at how motivation can be supported in building board fundraising efforts in your organization.

Be sure to download the transcript to not only review your learning but also to see the research references used in this lesson.

In this lesson, we're going to discuss how we can inspire others to get personally motivated about nonprofit board fundraising, especially those who may be resistant.

Remember, you can download the transcript for this video below, and can also turn closed captions on and off for your convenience.

In this final teaching lesson on board fundraising, we're bringing together all our learning into a capstone video on how we can grow from everything we've covered thus far!

Be sure to download the transcript to not only review your learning but also to see the research references used in this lesson.