The Nuts & Bolts of Fundraising: How to Identify and Engage your Supporters

Your organization does great work, has a strong mission and works on issues that people care about.  So why don’t more people seem to be committing their dollars to your cause?  It may be that there are areas and ways of asking that can take your organization’s financial health from good to great. 

Andy Robinson’s workshop will cover a wide range of fundraising options & tactics to help you better support your mission.  Andy is a master fundraiser with over 25 years experience in the field, a strong publishing career & adviser to 100s of organizations in the U.S and in Canada, including recent trainings in Toronto and Halifax. 

This is an excellent building blocks fundraising course for those who want to expand & refine their skills, or who are taking on increased fundraising responsibility for their organization.  Course content will be relevant to Canadian non-profits.

At the conclusion of The Nuts & Bolts of Fundraising, participants will have introductory training in individual fundraising covering the basic principals of prospect identification, asking in person, asking by mail, and other tactics.

Combine your newly acquired skills from The Nuts & Bolts of Fundraising with Get that Grant!  Strategies for Grassroots Organizations.  Participants will have intermediate learning in how to design and market their projects to grantees, how to build relationships with funders, and how to differentiate their organization.  Participants who register for both courses will pay a reduced price of $250 for both. Limited scholarships are available.

About the Faculty:
For 25 years Andy Robinson worked with a variety of nonprofits as a fundraiser, publicist, grant writer, and community organizer.  Since starting his consulting practice in 1995, he’s provided support and training to thousands of nonprofit staff and volunteers in 42 U.S. states and Canada.

Andy specializes in the needs of organizations working for human rights, social justice, environmental conservation, and community development.  His own activist experience includes campaigns for nuclear disarmament, toxic waste reduction, community reinvestment, wilderness protection, utility rate reform, reproductive rights, and the protection and restoration of traditional culture and agriculture.  Andy has also been active in the arts as a writer, editor, presenter, and participant.

Andy has written a number of books on fundraising strategy including Grassroots Grants, Second Edition and Selling Social Change (Without Selling Out): Earned Income Strategies for Nonprofits, available from Jossey-Bass.  His latest books, Big Gifts for Small Groups and Great Boards for Small Groups, were recently published by Emerson & Church, the book division of Contributions magazine.  He is known for his common-sense style and sound advice that is always practical, achievable and on target for the challenges that social change organizations face.

Andy lives in Plainfield, Vermont with his spouse Jan, a woodlot filled with wildlife, and a garden that is completely out of control.