1. May 13, 2016

2. Work Your Networks for Funder and Donor Prospects
We will focus on the often overlooked sources of potential funders and donors: your staff, board, volunteers and donors and anyone who cares about your organization! Learn how to engage stakeholders in fundraising in low-key ways while increasing the size of your prospect pool.

3. Relationships: The Core of Fundraising

4. Circles of Influence

5. Who Loves Your Organization?
Staff
Board
Super volunteers
Donors
Clients
Members

6. Brainstorm: Your Top 10 Supporters

7. Ways to Engage Your Supporters
Ask for referrals to funders and / or donors
Ask to be introduced to prospective funders
Ask for feedback for on funding proposals, plans, appeals
Fundraising event hosts

8. Putting it All Together
Make time to strategize about how to gain access to new funder and donors
Engage your existing supporters
Make it an ongoing process
Thank supporters early and often

9. Rona Fernandez has worked with social justice nonprofits since 1996, always with fundraising as a key component of her work. She has raised money from individuals in several capacities — as a community organizer, house party coordinator, development director, executive director and board member. As a fundraising consultant with Klein & Roth Consulting, she has worked with dozens of nonprofits across the country over the past seven years.