Plan for Success! Fundraising Planning for Nonprofits
- 1 hour on-demand video
- 13 downloadable resources
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- Certificate of Completion
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Try Udemy for Business- Create a strategic fundraising plan
- Raise more money for your nonprofit organization
- Identify your organization's fundraising resources, needs, and opportunities
- Create and achieve specific fundraising goals
- Working knowledge of the English language
- Understanding of, and experience in, nonprofit organizations
- Basic understanding of fundraising concepts
This course was designed to help nonprofit development staff and leaders develop a comprehensive, strategic annual plan to improve their organizations' capacity for fundraising. Plan for Success! Fundraising Planning for Nonprofits includes 12 brief but information-rich lectures that walk students through every step of the process. In addition, students receive more than 10 worksheets that can be used to organize information to be used in the plan.
After taking this class, students will be able to:
- cultivate more resources for your cause
- develop stronger and deeper relationships with donors
- create needs and resource assessments
- identify new funding opportunities
- develop a fundraising budget
- create strategic process and outcome goals
- coordinate the efforts of staff and volunteers
- create a detailed fundraising activity timeline
- articulate key messages
Plan for Success! Fundraising Planning for Nonprofits will strengthen all of your organization's development strategies.
- This course will help people who are responsible for raising money for nonprofit organizations, including development and grant writing staff, executive directors, and members of boards of directors develop and achieve strategic fundraising goals
- Professionals who are interested in launching a career in fund development will also benefit from this class by learning about the big picture of fundraising strategy
This brief introduction will summarize the goals of this course and provide an overview of its three sections:
- Introduction to Fundraising Planning
- The Fundraising Planning Process
- Putting it All Together
This class will introduce you to six the sections of a fundraising plan:
- Executive Summary
- Overview of the Organization
- Donors
- Fundraising Strategies
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Timeline
This lecture will explain all of the documents that need to be reviewed, and the information that should be extracted, before you proceed with the remainder of the fundraising plan process:
- Strategic plans and annual action plans
- Financial statements and 990s
- Budgets
- Campaign history
- Proposal history
- Donor history
- Marketing materials
Worksheets are provided to help you organize all of this information.
By the end of this lecture, you will know how to set both process and outcome goals for your campaigns, funds raised, donors, volunteers, engagement, reach, and return on investment.
This lecture will review and provide detailed information and suggestions for each section of the written fundraising plan:
- Executive Summary
- Overview of the Organization
- Donors
- Fundraising Strategies
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Timeline
You will also learn how to use charts and graphs, a table of contents, and other design features to enhance your written document.