Fund Development

Fund Development is one of eight day-long Fundamentals courses offered annually, teaching practical knowledge and skills in core competencies that every nonprofit leader needs to know.

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Course Description

Do you want to strengthen your organization's fund development?  This course will provide important information to address in your organization's fundraising.

Learning Objectives:

Topics include

• Fundraising trends and approaches-the big picture for our fund development work;
• Methods for successful fundraising-key strategies and tactics;
• Fundraising Plan-creating a useful plan to guide your fundraising efforts;
• Engaging your volunteers-recommendations for board and other volunteer involvement in your organization's fundraising; and
• Monitoring fundraising effectiveness-what to measure to understand donor behavior and fundraising results.

You'll also get an overview of the Nonprofit Lifecycle, Four Core Capacities, and Organization Culture - a proven model for effectiveness based on the success of hundreds of other nonprofits;

This interactive course provides specific steps to develop immediate actions back at the office as well as strategies and fundraising processes to discuss with your Board, committees, or other staff members.

Follow-up Support

After the completion of the course, attendees can access coaching from the instructor in order to help apply what's been learned to the needs of their organizations.  (You must be affiliated with a WNC nonprofit in order to access this support.)

Who should take Fundamentals - Fund Development?

This workshop is for beginner to intermediate-level development professionals, as well as interested board members or other staff -- for organizations of any size that want to improve their fundraising process.

Instructor: Angela Kemper, MA, CFRE, is a successful fundraiser, trainer, and consultant with expertise in strategic communication that has generated results in nonprofit and corporate organizations for over 20 years.  In 1999, she co-founded HunterKemper Consulting, which provides fundraising and organization development counsel.