90 Minute Interactive Workshop
Fundraising is Hard. Anyone who says differently is selling something. But for the nonprofit leader who wears 10,000 different hats every day, how on earth are you supposed to find time to work on donor relationships and manage the unreasonable expectations of board members and executive directors who have little to no fundraising experience yet seem to be full of awesome ideas like “Just call Oprah” or “host a bake sale!”?
A fundraising framework that helps you move the needle forward a little bit every day, that’s how. In this session, you’ll learn a tangible, achievable, and dare I say simple way to ensure that you spend invaluable time working on building better relationships with your supporters with better planning, execution, and documentation – all while carving out random acts of celebrating and appreciating.
Key Takeaways:
- Create your own working fundraising framework to use the very next day.
- Understand the importance of asking better questions to donors, documenting those answers, and dramatically differentiating yourself from other nonprofits.
- Remembering that fundraising is supposed to be a joy, rather than a drag.
Speaker
Patrick Kirby
Founder, Do Good Better Consulting
Patrick Kirby is the Founder of Do Good Better Consulting, author of the Amazon best seller Fundraise Awesomer! A Practical Guide to Staying Sane While Doing Good, host of The Official Do Good Better Podcast, and a believer that “we’ve always done it this way” is the most dangerous phrase in the English language.
Patrick has spent nearly fifteen years working as a fundraiser in the nonprofit industry, for organizations of all shapes and sizes, and strives to ‘Do Good Better’ every day. From organizing $10,000 cure walks to $1 million galas, Patrick’s passion lies in creating creative solutions to make fundraising less boring.
He cut his donor relations/fundraising teeth as the Alumni Coordinator at the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield, MN, before trying his hand as a manufacturing sales rep to companies such as Target and Best Buy. Tired of being yelled at for uncontrollable international shipping issues in both English and Chinese, Patrick re-joined the world of nonprofit work as the Sr. Development Director at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation MN/Dakotas Chapter before taking the Chief Development Officer position at the Anne Carlsen Center.