Feb 13-15, 2009
Last year, individuals contributed over $250 billion to nonprofits. Is your organization getting what it needs to survive? Understanding the ins and outs of fundraising is essential to your continued success. You can raise what you need without compromising who you are and what you stand for. Find the people who support what you are doing and ask them to pay you to do it. Don’t assume that people will say no. It can’t happen if you don’t ask.
We will teach you how to choose a fundraising strategy, diversify your funding sources,and manage your fundraising tasks.Strategies will include soliciting major gifts, direct mail and on-line appeals, special events planning, identifying prospects, motivating boards, and getting donors to give more money each year.
Raising money can be easy. Learn how to tap into the biggest source of donations: individuals who give regular, repeated, and increasingly larger gifts. Afraid to just come right out and ask? We will dismantle fears associated with asking for money through confidence building practice sessions.
Successful fundraising hinges on having a group of supporters who are willing and able to ask for money. You can move your board toward acceptance, excitement, and success in fundraising. Some problems that seem to be about money are really about staffing or an inactive board. Clarify what is a fundraising problem and what isn’t.
The philosophy underlying Kim Klein’s work is a long-term commitment to social justice. Sustain your work for the long haul and have fun in the process. Kim is a great stand-up comic and learning from her is great fun. If board members and staff attend together, your results will increase exponentially.
Kim Klein is the founder and publisher emerita of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal, now celebrating 27 years of publication. She has taught fundraising in 50 states and 21 countries and wrote Fundraising for Social Change, Fundraising for the Long Haul, Raise More Money, (edited with her partner, Stephanie Roth), and Fundraising in Times of Crisis. She is a Project Team member of the Building Movement Project and an adjunct faculty member at the Haas School of Business at the University of California. Most recently she has been working for issues of fair taxation and restoring the commons. Find more information at www.grassrootsfundraising.org.