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MODULES:

Week 1:
Introduction

Week 2, Module 1:
Grant Research

Week 3, Module 2:
Proposal Writing

Week 4, Module 3:
Capital Campaigns

Week 5, Module 4:
Major Donors

Week 6:
Planning for
Fundraising

Module 5:
Annual & Direct
Appeals

Module 6:
Special Events

Module 7:
Planned Giving

Module 8:
Corporate
Partnerships

Module 9:
Social Enterprise

Module 10: Online
Donations

Blackboard

Fundraising Principles and Practices
Module 11: The Board's Role in Fundraising

Required Readings:
  • Seltzer, Chapter 3

Required online readings:

  • How to Get Your Board to Raise Money - Plan X, by Kim Klein, Grassroots Fundraising Journal, April 2000. On Blackboard, Course Documents: The Board's Role in Fundraising folder.
  • The Board and Fundraising, by Kim Klein, in The Board of Directors, edited by Stephanie Roth and Kim Klein, Chardon Press, 2000. On Blackboard, Course Documents: The Board's Role in Fundraising folder.
  • The Statement of Agreement, by Kim Klein, in The Board of Directors, edited by Stephanie Roth and Kim Klein, Chardon Press, 2000. On Blackboard, Course Documents: The Board's Role in Fundraising folder.
  • Fifty-Five Ways for Board Members to Raise $500, by Kim Klein, in The Board of Directors, edited by Stephanie Roth and Kim Klein, Chardon Press, 2000. On Blackboard, Course Documents: The Board's Role in Fundraising folder.
  • How Does Your Board Measure Up?, by Stephanie Roth, The Board of Directors: Grassroots Fundraising Journal Reprint Collection (1999-2000). On Blackboard, Course Documents: The Board's Role in Fundraising folder.
  • Board Members Doing More Giving And Getting Now, by Todd Cohen, The NonProfit Times, April 1, 2005.

Optional readings:

Competencies:

  • define the role of the nonprofit board in organizational fundraising, including the respective roles of a fundraising committee and individual board members
  • explain how to recruit and orient appropriate board members to the organization
  • develop a plan for training and supporting board members in fundraising
  • describe the role of the board in ensuring the organization complies with all applicable local, state and national laws regulating fundraising

    Demonstration of Competencies:

  • develop a plan for a selected nonprofit organization or NGO for recruiting, orienting, training, and supporting board members, with special attention to their fundraising responsibilities (three-to-five pages).
    OR
  • interview a nonprofit board member about their role in fundraising; you should ask how they define their responsibilities, how the board structures and organizes its fundraising efforts, and how its efforts are evaluated. If you can, attend a board meeting discussing fundraising. Report the interview and/or discussion in a three-to-five-page paper.
    AND, with either assignment,
  • find and summarize one local, state or national law regulating fundraising, other than one listed in the Seltzer book (one page or less).
    AND
  • complete an online exam for this module.

    Useful Links:

    Board Cafe (e-mail newsletter) (BoardSense, formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards)

    BOARD-SENSE (listserv) (Andrew Swanson)
    To subscribe you send an e-mail to board-sense@listserv.azstarnet.com
    Leave the subject line blank.
    In the message type subscribe board-sense your e-mail address
    The command is "subscribe", the name of the list is board-sense and the last item is your own E-Mail address.

    Charity Governance (a blog)





    Bibliography:

  • George, G. Worth, Fearless Fund-Raising, National Center for Nonprofit Boards: Washington, DC 1996.
  • Greenfield, James, Fund-Raising Cost-Effectiveness: A Self-Assessment Workbook, Wiley: New York 1996.
  • Greenfield, James, ed., Financial Practices for Effective Fundraising, New Directions in Philanthropic Fundraising (Jossey-Bass: San Francisco), Spring 1994.
  • Hopkins, Bruce, The First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers, Wiley: New York 2000.
  • Hopkins, Bruce, The Second Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers, Wiley: New York 2000.
  • Hopkins, Bruce, The Law of Fund-Raising, Second Edition, Wiley: New York
  • Hopkins, Bruce, The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Second Edition, Wiley: New York 2000.
  • Howe, Fisher, The Board Member's Guide to Fundraising, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco 1991.
  • Howe, Fisher, Fund-Raising and the Nonprofit Board, Revised Edition, National Center for Nonprofit Boards: Washington, DC 1998.
  • Lansdowne, David, Fund Raising Realities Every Board Member Must Face, Emerson & Church: Medfield, MA 1997.
  • Perlman, Seth & Betsy Hills Bush, Fund-Raising Regulation: A State-by-State Handbook of Registration Forms, Requirements, and Procedures, Wiley: New York
  • Tempel, Eugene, The Development Committee, National Center for Nonprofit Boards: Washington, DC 1996.
  • Zimmerman, Robert and Ann Lehman Boards That Love Fundraising: A How-To Guide for Your Board, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 2004.




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