Development plans for the non-grant-ready

A hands-on, step-by-step guide covering every aspect of a non-profit’s roadmap for success. Carolyn personally steers your non-profit through every phase of building a plan with buy-in from all stakeholders. Taught weekly over six weeks. Get ready: there’s homework! Come away with a clear direction for your non-profit’s marketing, fundraising, and communication strategy! Includes multiple handouts.

Perfect for non-profit boards, development committees, or small or start-up non-profit staff. Call 614.218.5440 for pricing and to schedule your private in-person sessions.

Students will:

• Assess their organization’s current and potential infrastructure
• Assess their organization’s current donor relations, communications, fundraising activities, constituencies, and fundraising methods and build upon them
• Identify current and prospective constituencies for cultivation
• Develop research techniques to locate those constituencies
• Research donor database software to track activities with these constituencies
• Develop a gift acceptance policy
• Develop a marketing plan
• Develop a calendar of activities (events, solicitations, etc.)

In a deeper dive, students will

• Identify strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations for
  • organization structure and operation,
  • governance,
  • development office,
  • development results and cost ratios,
  • annual giving,
  • special events,
  • prospect identification and cultivation,
  • planned giving,
  • capital campaigns,
  • donor recognition, and
  • public relations and communications