Fundraising in the One Person Department (In Person or Online)

When you are the only Development staff, your day-to-day can feel overwhelming.  The key to fundraising in a small department is organization: set priorities and know where to find information quickly and easily.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to successfully operate in a one person department
• Identify tools that will make life easier and more productive
• Understand how to use volunteers, including your Board

Description

Join us to learn how to structure your work to maximize results.  This workshop will provide you with information to streamline your work so you can focus on cultivating donors.

Available through live streaming--participate from your computer or mobile device.  Engage during the training by emailing comments and questions.

Level

Introductory

Audience

Beginning fundraisers, volunteer fundraisers and Executive Directors of small nonprofits.

Presenter

Susan Simons has worked with and for nonprofits for over 25 years in fundraising, grant writing and event planning.  She has helped write bylaws and has filed requests for nonprofit status with the IRS.  She has worked in small organization as the sole employee or as the only person in the development office.  She now has her own consulting business, Simons Consulting Services. 

She volunteers on the New Mexico Association of Fundraising Professionals Board, St. Martin’s Hospitality Center and on the board of two animal protection organizations in her home town of Edgewood, New Mexico.

Susan has a Masters in Nonprofit Management and has been a Certified Fundraising Executive for 20 years.  She and her husband served with the Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa.