Self-Paced Fundraising Courses
These courses do a deep dive into individual fundraising topics to improve your understanding and application of the topic quickly.
Cost: Free
Lessons: 12
Run Time: 44 minutes
This course breaks down the principles of Henri Nouwen's "A Spirituality of Fundraising" and explains how you can apply them to your fundraising efforts.
Topics include:
- Your personal relationship with money
- The concept of fundraising as ministry
- How to practice fundraising as ministry
Perfect For: Anybody who is new to nonprofit fundraising in the ministry world.
Cost: $59
Lessons: 17
Run Time: 57 minutes
This course provides a comprehensive guide to planning, executing, and sustaining a successful Giving Day. It covers essential strategies for:
- Pre-soliciting leadership gifts
- Engaging peer-to-peer fundraising
- Maximizing day-of communication, and
- Implementing effective follow-up to build long-term donor support.
Perfect For: Organizations that plan to participate in a giving day, such as Giving Tuesday and #iGiveCatholic, or for those who plan to hold their own standalone day of giving.
Cost: $15
Lessons: 6
Run Time: 36 minutes
This course provides a comprehensive guide to how Catholic parishes manage their finances, including:
- Understanding the Church’s financial structure
- Key sources of parish income
- Best practices for managing parish expenses, budgeting, and financial reporting
- The role and execution of capital campaigns to fund major parish projects
Perfect For: Parish staff, finance council members, clergy, and engaged parishioners who want to better understand how their church operates financially
Cohort-Based Fundraising Courses
These comprehensive, multi-week courses help you to understand and install systems into your development program that will drive significant long-term fundraising revenue.
These courses include:
- Great breadth and depth of information
- Regular live virtual cohort sessions with other participants led by a fundraising coach to help you understand and implement the course material, and
- Actionable recommendations for applying the best practices in your own nonprofit
Cost: $1,500
Lessons: 50+
Length: 10 Weeks
Basic Online Advancement Training, or BOAT, is the foundational blueprint for a development program.
After BOAT, you will know:
- What your nonprofit needs to communicate to prospects
- Who to communicate with
- How to communicate with them
- How to qualify prospects for major gift efforts
You will walk away from BOAT with a plan for your next year of fundraising efforts, including:
- A case for support for your nonprofit
- A communications plan
- A development plan
Perfect For: Organizations just starting out with fundraising, or new fundraising staff in an established office
COMING SOON
Major Gifts Masterclass: A Step-by-Step Guide to Success with Major Donors"
Anticipated Spring 2025
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