Join the Fundraising Party
Many experienced and effective Board members are intimidated when it comes to asking for money. What can be done?
In this engaging and entertaining program, attendees will learn techniques of fundraising and tips about how to become a successful fundraiser and never make an ask.
In this program, we will cover:
-What methodology will work for your organization? Grants? Events? Cause marketing, direct mail, and the list goes on...
-Fundraising challenges
-Fundraising techniques and tips
This event is for Nonprofit Board members only.
Registration is required. Please contact Amy Francis with questions at amy@cfaac.org
Presented by: Carol Weisman, President of Board Builders
Carol is an internationally known speaker, author, trainer, and consultant. She specializes in volunteerism, fundraising, and governance. She has worked with a wide range of clients like Sing Omaha, the National Council for Voluntary Organizations in London England, and the Bermuda Health Care Foundation. She has served on 39 Boards and has been President of 8.
Carol began her professional career working with gangs, a marvelous background for working with Boards. She found the gangs better organized, with clearer expectations and a solid leadership training program. Although she doesn't recommend any fundraising that would end in incarceration, the gangs certainly had some "creative" ideas.
Carol has published extensively on volunteerism, fundraising, and governance. Her 9th book is Transforming Ordinary People into Fundraising Superheroes...Even Those Who Hate To Ask. She is finishing her 10th and 11th books, Planned Giving Basics: The Why The Who and the How and Becoming One of the Grateful Dead: Where There is a Will, There's a Way. Raising Charitable Children, is in its third printing. It has been covered by The New York Times, People Magazine, Parents Magazine and was the cover story of Scholastic Parent and Child.
Carol won a Telly Award for her PBS special "Building a Board with a Passion for Mission."
Carol is currently on the faculty of Everyone Ready. She is a past faculty member of the Learning Institure for Nonprofit Organizations and was an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Carol has a Master's Degree in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. Carol was a pediatric oncology and hematology social worker at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital National Medical Center.