Nonprofit Fundraising 101
Practical tools, templates, and trainings for professional fundraisers
Nonprofit Fundraising 101 free download
Practical tools, templates, and trainings for professional fundraisers
This first-of-its-kind fundraising course, taught by a NYC-based fundraising expert, ditches the purely theoretical and teaches nonprofit fundraising as it was meant to be taught: through practical application. This course utilizes tools and templates to teach core concepts and illustrate best practices. You will create real-life work products you can use every day. Our unique approach to learning will get your fundraising career off the ground or to its next destination with Nonprofit Fundraising 101. Your work throughout the course will culminate in a 12-month Fundraising Plan: Create the perfect plan, no matter what you need to raise.
Our comprehensive coursework will walk you through an analysis of your fundraising function and brainstorming for your revenue lines so you can develop the strategies, tactics, benchmarks, and pivots to set yourself up for success all year long. Learn:
How to set goals, strategies, and tactics
How to analyze your fundraising department
How to pivot to ensure success
Sample course topic: Scrap your stale language
Banish the blank page panic and keep your team on brand, on message, and on point.
Tired of digging through old grants to find the language you need for a new application? Not finding inspiration for your new campaign by staring at a blank document? Need good sound bites for your Board to use? With the Boilerplate Language Developer, you'll always have somewhere to start.
This Word document walks you through each section of a boilerplate document, helping you to create your own organizational stock language that you can use, tweak, revise, and update for grants, appeals, reports, and more – over and over again.
What You'll Get
A step-by-step guide to creating stock language that can be used by you, your team, your staff, and your Board. You’ll always have a starting place.
What You'll Learn
How to effectively distill your work into a single overview
The most common topics that funders ask for
What funders are looking for when they ask certain questions
