Plan for Success! Fundraising Planning for Nonprofits
What you'll learn
- 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
Requirements
- Working knowledge of the English language
- Understanding of, and experience in, nonprofit organizations
- Basic understanding of fundraising concepts
Description
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.
Who this course is for:
- 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
Course content
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Instructor
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Jessica R. Dreistadt is a creative and visionary leader, educator, and writer who is actively creating a more compassionate, just, sustainable, harmonious, joyous, and beautiful planet. She is the founding director of The Fruition Coalition and has worked toward creating positive, sustainable change in organizations and systems by connecting people, resources, and ideas for over 15 years. Jessica has a master's degrees in sociology from Lehigh University and in nonprofit management from Eastern University. Jessica has been a teacher for over 20 years and has taught in the business department of DeSales University since 2008. She is the author of ten books about leadership, wellness, and social change. In addition to blogging for Huffington Post, Jessica also inspires and provokes unique ideas through two blogs: The Activist's Muse and Whole Happy and Healthy.