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Webinars*
"This is a terrific alternative to larger gatherings and seminars which are often out of town and require travel and expenses in order to participate."
~GIFT Webinar Participant
Throughout the year, GIFT offers interactive, web-based seminars on a variety of fundraising topics. This is a great way to get some quick training, have access to an experienced fundraiser, and get handouts to share with others. You can do this without having to travel anywhere, and more than one person from your organization can easily participate.
Unlike other webinars where you might be one of thousands of people on the line, GIFT webinars are small and truly interactive. You get live, personalized attention from our expert trainers!
About GIFT's Webinars
Each 60-minute session features:
- Top-notch training in the comfort of your home or office!
- A small group setting
- PowerPoint slides of the seminar
*A "webinar" is an interactive, web-based seminar with audio and video components. You'll be on a conference call with the trainer and other webinar participants while viewing PowerPoint slides of the presentation.
Upcoming Webinars
Flat is the New Up: Ending 2010 in the Black
featuring Kim Klein
September 21, 2010 10am PT/11am MT/12pm CT/1pm ET
Getting a head start on end-of-year fundraising is key to raising all the money you need to raise by Dec. 31, 2010. Don’t wait until November or December to get out your fundraising appeals or to approach your major donors. In this interactive webinar, Kim Klein will walk you through what you need to plan in September, and do in October, November and December to be able to say, “We had a great year end!”
Cost: $50-$150 per site*, depending on your group's budget size:
$150 for groups with budgets over $1 million
$100 for groups with budgets between $250,000 and $1 million
$50 for groups with budgets less than $250,000
*More than one participant per site is encouraged!
Upgrading: When, How and How Often
featuring Kim Klein
October 19, 2010 10am PT/11am MT/12pm CT/1pm ET
We’d all like to raise more money from our current donors and we all know that a basic principle of fundraising is that every so often you need to ask your current donors to increase the size of their gifts. But when exactly should you do that? And by how much? And how often can you ask for more before getting thrown out with the trash? And does upgrading even work in this economy? Kim Klein will answer all these questions and more in this interactive webinar. Get ready to raise more money from people who already give you money, and have them feeling good about their giving.
Cost: $50-$150 per site*, depending on your group's budget size:
$150 for groups with budgets over $1 million
$100 for groups with budgets between $250,000 and $1 million
$50 for groups with budgets less than $250,000
*More than one participant per site is encouraged!
Untapped: Developing & Deepening Relationships with Donors for Community Organizing
featuring Margie Fine
November 9, 2010 10am PT/11am MT/12pm CT/1pm ET
Having a hard time communicating the importance of community organizing to prospective donors and funders? Join Linchpin Campaign Director Margie Fine for tips on finding supporters of organizing efforts and conveying the power of community organizing that's easy to understand and motivates donors to give more. Good for organizers, fundraisers and activists!
Cost: $50-$150 per site*, depending on your group's budget size:
$150 for groups with budgets over $1 million
$100 for groups with budgets between $250,000 and $1 million
$50 for groups with budgets less than $250,000
*More than one participant per site is encouraged!
WEBINARS ON DEMAND
We're working as quickly as possible to expand the list of available webinar recordings. Sign up for our eNewsletter to be the first to know when new recordings become available.
How Small Groups Can Raise BIG Money: Have you ever thought, “If only we had our own building? Or, “If only we could create a reserve fund to get us through our lean times? Or “If only we had the money to build a health clinic or theater or new school?” You will be surprised at how much money you can raise, using the skills you already have, without a lot of front money. This workshop is for organizations with budgets under $750,000. Learn how a grassroots agency with a budget of $300,000 raised $1,000,000 for a building, or how an environmental group with a budget of $600,000 formed a coalition to raise $15 million to save a forest. You will learn how to plan and implement a capital campaign that works for your small organization. You will understand capital campaign concepts like feasibility studies, lead gifts, naming opportunities and how or whether they apply to your situation. You will know how to proceed and what to watch out for and how to recruit a fundraising team to help you. PDF of PowerPoint slides with mp3 Audio File $20
On Being a Consultant: In this webinar, Kim Klein shares secrets of her success as a consultant. Learn from what she does well, and mistakes that she made. Consulting is a wonderful way to make a living, and does not have to be so fraught with feast or famine. Kim discusses how to market yourself, how to set fair fees (to you and the clients), how much to do for free, and when to say no. PDF of PowerPoint slides with mp3 Audio File $20
Recruit 4 Great New Board Members in the Next 4 Months: A GIFT & Blue Avocado Webinar Featuring Jan Masaoka. Board recruitment discussions usually start with the tired question, "Who do we know?" Instead, Jan will show you how to start with your organization's "Critical Path" to get to a recruitment and action agenda for the board. You'll learn how to get names of the right people and how to approach them. We'll tackle some difficult questions such as whether and how to recruit people of different races or educational backgrounds, whether to have clients or parents (or other direct beneficiaries) on the board, and whether to have fundraising or donation requirements. We'll also go over some practical pieces such as what questions to ask possible recruits, accelerating the recruitment/approval process, and how to reject candidates. PDF of PowerPoint slides with mp3 Audio File $20
The Missing Middle: Building a Strong Mid-Level Donor Program with Stephanie Roth. Many organizations are able to maintain a strong direct mail, email and events-based fundraising program that brings in lots of small donations. They're also able to keep up with the relatively small number of donors giving much larger gifts-over $2,500 for example-with visits, calls and other personal attention. This webinar will address an often neglected group of donors and potential donors-those who can give between $250 and $2,500-why they're an important source of support, how to identify prospects in this range, and the best strategies for building those relationships. PDF of PowerPoint slides with mp3 Audio File $20
Successful Fundraising in Uncertain Times with Kim Klein: In this webinar, Kim Klein clarifys how the current state of the economy is affecting nonprofits, and provides you with a process for weathering any storm. You’ll learn how to: Set up and maintain a disciplined and systematic fundraising program that is predictable and manageable; maintain relationships with current donors; and find new donors without spending a fortune. Coming soon!
How to Work with Boards (Even Though Boards Don't Work) with Kim Klein: The most common complaint in all nonprofits is "Our board doesn't do fundraising." Each organization thinks that if they only did something differently, or recruited different people, the board would start doing fundraising. After 25 years of hearing this complaint over and over, Kim Klein thinks that the way boards are designed and structured is the source of this problem. However, there are a few ways to get the board on board. In this webinar, Kim will briefly discuss the problems inherent in the structure of boards, then offer several ideas for making your board do more fundraising and be more effective. These are not "Ten easy solutions." Getting a board on board takes work, but it is worth it. All are welcome to this webinar, but it is designed particularly for development staff. Coming soon!
Fundraising in Rural Communities: In this webinar, Kim looks at the challenges and opportunities present in small towns and rural communities. She talks about the many different kinds of rural communities and how they can raise money from people both inside and outside their geographic area. This webinar includes a number of interesting case studies. Coming soon!
About GIFT Webinar Trainers
"The slides were perfect. This was the first and only webinar that I have participated in that I was not bored to death and I hung on every word. Most webinars are sooo boring that I just tune out and start doing something else while "listening." Not so with t his presenter. It was as if she was in the room with us!"
~Andrea C. Arthur, Virginia Community Healthcare Association
Marjorie Fine directs The Linchpin Campaign, a project of the Center for Community Change, whose goal is to expand the resources available to community organizing efforts in the United States. She previously was executive director of the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, one of the nation’s largest institutional funders of community organizing. Before that she served as executive director of the North Star Fund, raising millions from individual donors for progressive social change organizations in New York. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from SUNY Buffalo and holds a master’s degree in social work with a concentration in community organizing and administration. She serves on the boards of National Committee for Reponsive Philanthropy and Interfaith Funders.Stephanie Roth is a consultant and trainer, with a focus on fundraising, board development and meeting facilitation, for grassroots, social justice organizations. She also worked on the Grassroots Fundraising Journal, a publication of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT), for 20 years before stepping down as editor-in-chief at the end of 2009. Stephanie is the co-author (with Mimi Ho) of The Accidental Fundraiser: A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Money for Your Cause (Jossey-Bass, 2005) and co-editor (with Kim Klein) of the anthology Raise More Money: The Best of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal (Jossey-Bass, 2001).
Prior work experience includes Director of the Long Island Technical Assistance Center, and Co-Director of New York Women Against Rape. Stephanie holds a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University. She lives in Berkeley, CA, and is an active member of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Kim Klein is internationally known as a fundraising trainer and consultant. She is a member of the Building Movement Project and leads workshops on tax policy and the importance of the "commons" for them as well as being a regular contributor to their website. She is the Chardon Press Series Editor at Jossey-Bass Publishers, which publishes and distributes materials that help to build a stronger nonprofit sector, and the founder of the bimonthly Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She is also the author of Fundraising for Social Change (now in its fifth edition, 2006), Fundraising for the Long Haul (2000), which explores the particular challenges of older grassroots organizations, and Ask and You Shall Receive: A Fundraising Training Program for Religious Organizations or Projects, Raise More Money (2001) which she edited with her partner, Stephanie Roth, and Fundraising in Times of Crisis (2004). Widely in demand as a speaker, Kim Klein has provided training and consultation in all 50 states and in 21 countries.
Jan Masaoka is the Director and Editor-in-Chief of Blue Avocado, and writes our Board Café column, which she originated 10 years ago at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. Jan was Executive Director of CompassPoint for 14 years, a consulting and training firm for nonprofits based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and which is a BlueAvocado charter partner. Jan authored The Best of the Board Café (Fieldstone Press) and All Hands on Board: The Board of Directors in All-Volunteer Organizations (BoardSource). Her research work includes studies on nonprofit leadership, women executive directors of color, all-volunteer organizations, and the nonprofit workforce. She is a frequent speaker and contributor to nonprofit journals.
What You Need For Webinars:
- a computer with an internet connection
- telephone for connecting to a live conference call
Other Information About Webinars
The webinars will be recorded. By registering for a webinar, you grant GIFT permission to record your voice during the session.
Cancellation Policy: If you have to cancel for any reason, please give us at least 24 hours notice (more if possible), and we will issue a credit to attend another GIFT webinar.
You will be sent an email 1-business day before the webinar, which will include login information for both the web-based and audio portions of the session.
For questions about webinars, please contact Jennifer Emiko Boyden at (510) 452-4520 x 302 or jennifer[at]grassrootsfundraising[dot]org.
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