Fundraising Mastery for Nonprofit Professionals

In this lesson, we'll look at the key skills related to skills that build your staff fundraising capacity. 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!

In this lesson, we'll bring together our learning on why staff fundraising capacity matters and the skills needed to work effectively in this capacity. We'll answer the question "What does effective staff fundraising look like?" and also consider how we measure some of the key indicators of staff fundraising capacity success.

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

Now that we know what effective staff fundraising might look like, let's take a look at how we can measure it in action.

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Welcome to the silver badge series on How to Build Your Staff Fundraising Abilities! Here's a quick overview of what you can expect in this lesson.

We’ve now taken a look at what staff fundraising is and what it includes, including leadership and management aspects. We’ve also taken an initial glance at the skills you can build to enhance your own capacity in this area, even if you aren’t officially a fundraiser!

Now let’s turn our attention to how we build up our staff fundraising capacity. In this series of lessons we’ll look at how we can create an action plan surrounding our team’s fundraising growth, how to gather information from the team to improve their effectiveness, and how we can set goals for ourselves and our organization regarding staff fundraising.

Let’s get started in learning about how to make great fundraising a reality for our nonprofits!

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In this lesson, we'll jump get ready to do some action planning around how to build your own staff fundraising abilities, 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 action planning, let's think about how we can apply this to your organization.

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In this lesson, we'll look at what types of information can be gathered, shared, analyzed, and used to improve an organization's work in staff fundraising.

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We've talked about action planning and information sharing, but what about reaching success? Goals are a means of knowing whether you have made the change you wanted (or missed the mark), and defining them about organizational capacity means we will continually strive to improve.

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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 goals to advance your fundraising skills can be successful both at the individual and team levels.

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We’ve covered a lot of ground! In our first two series of lessons on staff fundraising capacity, we’ve learned what staff fundraising is and what it includes, the leadership and management aspects of its effective use, and the skills you’ll use to enhance your own capacity in this area, whether you work in development or not! We’ve also learned how to build up staff fundraising capacity by action planning, input gathering, and goal setting for ourselves and our nonprofit.

In this final series of lessons on staff fundraising capacity, we’ll talk about the motivation needed to build this capacity in yourself and your nonprofit, and you’ll have the opportunity to complete a personal learning plan for yourself to determine what you want to accomplish and how you want to grow in your own fundraising abilities!

Let’s jump in!

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In this lesson, we'll look at how you can generate momentum and motivation around staff fundraising 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.

Motivation doesn't always have to be a serious subject: let's look now at a few ways to have fun keeping your energy up and building up the team spirit to improve generating momentum and motivation around staff fundraising.

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In this final teaching lesson on how everyone can participate in improving their own and their organization's capacity to raise funds for the organization, we're bringing together all our learning into a capstone video on how we can grow from everything we've covered thus far!

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