Community-based organizations often struggle to recruit fundraisers with robust experience in major gift and/or planned gift fundraising. Perhaps instead of hiring someone, a better strategy is to train someone internally to focus on stewarding donors who can give more. This training is an overview, uniquely designed to turn your current staff, Board and volunteer team with a heart for your mission into a fundraising powerhouse you need to succeed. Topics of discussion include: Relationship-Building Techniques, Prospecting, Developing a Leads Generation Program, Rightsizing Your Portfolio, Truly Knowing Thy Donor, Making the (Right) Ask, and Realistic Expectations. Join us as we share real-life experience, success and insider knowledge to help you grow support for your cause.

 
Presenter:

Jennifer is the principal and lead consultant at Raise the Bar Consulting. The proud holder of an unanticipated 20-yr career, she has worked with more than 80 clients and raised more than $85M for charitable causes. Jennifer enjoys collaborating with leaders to transform organizations so that they grow and flourish, engaging in disruptive innovation when it’s needed, and working to make a meaningful difference in the world.

 
Skill Level:
Advanced/Master Level

Learning Path: 
Proposal Development/Communication Strategies

GPC Competencies:
Strategies for effective program and project design and development
How to research, identify, and match funding resources to meet specific needs
Organizational development as it pertains to grant seeking
Post-award grant management practices sufficient to inform effective grant design and development
Methods and strategies that cultivate and maintain relationships between fund-seeking and recipient organizations and funders