Fundraising
People to People Fundraising (NY08)
Presenter: Ted Hart, CEO, Hart Philanthropic Services
Meet the Grantmakers: How to Approach a Foundation (NY08)
Moderator: Ivy Fairchild, Chief Development Officer, Urban Health Plan
Panelist: Fred Fields, Senior Director, The United Way
Panelist: Aida Rodriguez, Professor of Professional Practice, and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Non Profit Management Program, Milano
Panelist: Michael Seltzer, President, The Foundation Center
Introduction to Fundraising Planning (NY08)
Presenter: Luz Rodriguez, Training Coordinator, The Foundation Center
Grassroots Fundraising for Social Change (SF07)
Moderator: Manish Vaidya, Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT)
Presenters: Rona Fernandez, Californians for Justice; Dolores Garay, Fundraising Consultant; Development Executives Roundtable (DER); Janet Upadhye, San Francisco Women Against Rape; Community United Against Violence
Dynamic and seasoned grassroots fundraisers described the strategies they've used to help organizations transform into thriving, sustainable, more accountable advocates of the communities they serve. Panelists shared some of the key lessons that have surfaced from successes and doing it “the hard way.” Participants had the opportunity to participate in exercises to examine current fundraising and how to fundraise better.
Reality Grantmaking (SF07)
Moderator: Susan Fox, Consultant, Author & Trainer
Panelists: Christopher Herrera, Tides Foundation; Lorne Needle, United Way of the Bay Area; Anne Valley, The James Irvine Foundation
Craigslist Foundation’s take on American Idol! helps develop your fundraising skills and learn how to craft a winning proposal. Nonprofit Boot Camp registrants were invited to apply for a “Reality Grantmaking” mini-grant. Applicants were screened by the session moderators to ensure diversity of causes and proposal styles, then eight finalists were selected. In this session, their proposals were reviewed and scored by an expert panel of real-world funders. The top three finishers will be awarded cash prizes ($1000, $500, $250).
Workshop III: Introduction to Fundraising Planning (SF07)
Presenter: Scott Ullman, The Foundation Center
This workshop showed how to analyze your organization’s situation and develop a fundraising plan that will include a variety of revenue sources. This session provided an overview of the strategic process and components of a fundraising plan. Participants learned how to: conduct an assets inventory, develop a case statement, identify fundraising partners, and prepare a fundraising plan and calendar.
Introduction to Fundraising (NY07)
Presenters: Greg Cohen & Judy Levine, Cause Effective
This workshop covered why people give and why, in particular, they might contribute to your organization or cause. What makes someone a good potential donor? How can you affect that and build their interest? How can you influence the odds so that it’s more than likely that you’ll get a “yes”?
Download Podcast or use streaming playerGrant-Seeking Basics (NY07)
Presenter: Luz Rodriguez, The Foundation Center
For those seeking grants from foundations, corporations and grantmaking public charities for their nonprofits, learn what funders are looking for, the different types of grantmaking institutions, and the fundamentals of the funding research and application process.Traversing the Grantor/Grantee Divide (NY07)
Moderator: Michael Seltzer, NYRAG
Presenter: Charles Lai, Museum of Chinese in the Americas; Yvonne Moore, Daphne Foundation; Kevin Ryan, New York Foundation
Funders and nonprofit organizations cannot exist without the other.To carry out their respective missions, foundations and corporations need nonprofits as partners, and nonprofits need donors’ financial resources and advice. Too often internal and external factors undercut the development of a spirit of cooperation between grantors and grantees. This panel of seasoned grantmakers and grantseekers discussed what can be done to create win-win relationships?
Download Podcast or use streaming playerReality Grantmaking (SF06)
Panelists: Christopher Herrera, Tides Foundation; Karen Topakian, Agape Fund for Social Change; Carole Watson, United Way of the Bay Area
Moderator: Cheryl Clarke & Susan Fox, Fundraising Consultants
Grant Proposals:
Community Water Center
Edgewood Center for Children and Families
Green-WiFi.org
Operation Access
Options Recovery Services
P2P Rescue
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
West Los Angeles Police Activities League
Attendee Notes: Wiki
Craigslist Foundation's take on American Idol! Develop your fundraising skills and learn how to craft a winning proposal. Nonprofit Boot Camp registrants were invited to apply for a Reality Grantmaking mini-grant. Applicants were screened by the session moderators to ensure diversity of causes and proposal styles, and eight finalists were selected. Watch as their proposals are reviewed and scored by an expert panel of real-world funders. The top finishers will be awarded cash prizes and gifts. Nonprofit leaders of all levels will benefit from this dynamic and insightful session.
Introduction to Fundraising Planning (SF06)
Speaker: Scott Ullman, Foundation Center
Podcast: Part I | Part II
Podcast Transcript: Part I web | Part I txt | Part I rtf
Attendee Notes: Wiki
Introduction to Fundraising Planning will show you how to analyze your organization's situation and develop a fundraising plan that will include a variety of revenue sources. This session will provide an overview of the strategic process of thinking through the components of a fundraising plan. You'll learn how to: conduct an assets inventory; develop a case statement; identify fundraising partners; and prepare a fundraising plan and calendar.
Fostering Effective Nonprofit-Corporate Relationships (SF06)
Speakers: Susan Rae Ross - Moderator; Randy Chun, Wells Fargo; Jim Pitofsky, Hands On Bay Area
Course Materials: Powerpoint
Attendee Notes: Wiki
Podcast
Podcast Transcript: web | txt | rtf
This session provides an overview of the various types of partnerships that can be formed between nonprofits and corporations, their benefits and challenges, and lessons learned in the field. Field experts talk shop and use their experiences to identify pointers for creating effective and beneficial partnerships.
Elevator Pitch (SF06)
Speaker: Lisa Hoffman, Fundraising Consultant
Course Materials: Elevator Speech Worksheet
Attendee Notes: Wiki
You step into an elevator with Bill Gates. Can you succinctly express your mission and sell you organization? Learn how to deliver an "elevator speech" about your nonprofit in this interactive workshop. You will develop and practice a compelling and inspiring pitch that you can communicate in 60 seconds.
Diversity in Fundraising (SF06)
Speakers: Gerald Richards, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Moderator, Dee Dee Nguyen, East Meets West Foundation Podcast
The landscape of wealth is changing and money is being distributed among an increasingly diverse population. How do you ensure that your development efforts fully embrace both donor and staff diversity? Fundraising experts will review strategies and resources that can help you communicate with a diverse audience and achieve inclusiveness in the fundraising process.
Tapping the Online Marketplace to Identify New Funding Streams (SF06)
Speakers: Kathleen Goodwin, cMarket.com
With the number of nonprofits growing and the donor pool shrinking, the nonprofit landscape is becoming increasingly competitive, particularly as it relates to fundraising. Now more than ever, nonprofits need to tap the online marketplace to identify new funding streams. This presentation will help attendees learn how to: gain easy and low-risk entry to the e-commerce arena; widen their circle of supporters and create new opportunities for fundraising; and aggregate passionate and enduring communities of like-minded donors, individuals and corporate sponsors who act as benefactors and supporters.
Reality Grantmaking (NY06)
Moderators:Paul Spivey, Cause Effective; Michael Seltzer, NYRAG
Judges:Laura Cronin, Toshiba Foundation; Ana Oliviera, New York Women's Foundation; Kevin Ryan, New York Foundation
Craigslist Foundation's take on American Idol! Develop your fundraising skills and learn how to craft a winning proposal. Nonprofit Boot Camp registrants were invited to apply for a Reality Grantmaking mini-grant. Applicants were screened by the session moderators to ensure diversity of causes and proposal styles, and eight finalists were selected. Watch as their proposals are reviewed and scored by an expert panel of real-world funders. The top finishers will be awarded cash prizes and gifts. Nonprofit leaders of all levels will benefit from this dynamic and insightful session.
Help! We Need Money! (NY06)
Speaker:Patricia Moran, CFRE, Fordham University & AFP-GNYC
You step into an elevator with Melinda Gates. Can you succinctly express your mission and sell your organization? This session is for those initiating fundraising in support of their mission. Where do I begin? What are the elements of effective fundraising? How do I prospect funders, anticipate donors' expectations, make use of existing resources and determine the best income sources? We will start/end the session with the "elevator exercise" and everyone will leave ready to "sell and express" their mission.
Before You Seek A Grant: A checklist for New Nonprofit Organizations (NY06)
Speaker:Luz Rodriguez, Foundation Center
This session employs a step-by-step checklist approach to help community groups or new nonprofits to determine their readiness to fundraise from foundations and other institutional donors. The course will address such questions as: What are the steps to incorporating as a nonprofit and where can I get some help with the process? What is a public charity and does my organization need to be one? What other characteristics does my organization need to demonstrate to be a good investment from a funders' perspective?
Raising Big Bucks With E-Mail (SF05)
Speaker: Nick Allen, Donordigital
Raising money online. What’s the best way to raise money online -- and what’s realistic for your organization? Nick talks about what’s working and what’s not, presenting case studies of large and small groups, and providing a 10-point checklist on starting up -- or souping up -- your online fundraising program.
Boards That Love Fundraising (SF05)
Speaker: Bob Zimmerman, Zimmerman Lehman
It is the rare nonprofit Board of Directors that is doing enough when it comes to fundraising. The fault lies not with the Board Members but with organizational cultures that do not alert board members to their fundraising responsibilities or train them to be effective solicitors. In this workshop, Bob Zimmerman alerts participants to the four fundraising responsibilities of Board Members. He also demonstrates how to move Board Members past their fears of fundraising and how to equip them with the information that they will need to raise money happily and successfully.
Reality Grantmaking (SF05)
Speakers: Adeeba Deterville, Citibank; Catherine Pike, William Randolph Hearst Foundations; Chris Herrera, Tides Family of Organizations; Frances Phillips, Walter and Elise Haas Fund & Creative Word Fund, Cheryl Clarke & Susan Fox (M)
Welcome to Craigslist Foundation’s take on American Idol! Registrants to this year’s Nonprofit Boot Camp were invited to participate in our Reality Grantmaking session. Applicants were screened by the session moderators to ensure diversity of causes and proposal styles, after which eight finalists were selected. The finalists had their proposals reviewed and scored by an expert panel of real-world funders and the top three finishers were awarded cash prizes, in addition to some lovely gifts, including 100 tickets to the famed Pickle Family Circus, courtesy of Circus Center. Learn what works and what doesn’t- what funders are looking to see and what to avoid- in this insightful session.
How to Get Individual Donors to Increase Gifts (SF05)
Speaker: Suzanne-Irwin Wells
This fast-paced session includes techniques on how to get people who already like your organization to love it, open up their wallets and give you more money more often. The presenter offers tips from her 36 years in the field, including suggestions for increased Board involvement in fundraising, making your case for support more compelling, how to really understand what makes your donors tick, and how to cultivate lasting relationships with your donors.
Producing Successful Fundraisers
Speaker: Elisabeth Loeffler, Academy of Friends
Reviews the do’s and don’ts of producing and marketing fundraising events.
Fundraising 101
Speaker: Bob Zimmerman, Zimmerman-Lehman
This presentation provides an overview of the world of nonprofit fundraising, including: concepts that ensure successful appeals; the kinds of fundraising campaigns available to nonprofits; and the respective roles of the Board members, staff and volunteers. Bob pays particular attention to the importance of building campaigns to attract gifts from individuals.
Podcasts of 2006 and 2007 San Francisco Nonprofit Boot Camp events are funded by the ZeroDivide, helping underserved communities secure social justice, access and equality through the application of information and communications technologies.
Podcasts of 2006 New York Nonprofit Boot Camp events are funded by eBay.
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