My full-time work affords me the opportunity to regularly speak to churches and non-profit groups on the topic of generous giving, generous lifestyles, and philanthropy. If you would like to me to visit with and speak to your group, please contact me @ jasonlewis@thefrankgroup.us
Fundraising Workshops
Fundraising in a Google-World
To be presented at the upcoming Emerging Philanthropy Conference in March 2010.
Google has been described as an entirely new way of thinking. Having already defined a generation and a worldview, Google represents fundamental changes that will affect charitable giving and the fundraising profession both on and off-line. Without a hint of social media hype, participants will be encouraged to see the world through a new Google lens.
The Three Functions of a Development Office
Consistently successful fundraising eludes many organizations. Leaders assume poorly attended events, low response rates, and high turnover are causes of their misfortunate. These assumptions lead organizations astray as their problem-solving focuses on symptoms rather than causes. Symptomatic solutions tend to overcomplicate and misdirect leaders away from fundraising’s primary functions. When a root cause is identified, solutions are typically limited to current knowledge and skills, and constrained to process improvements and incremental changes.
Participants are introduced to the three functions of a fundraising plan and the three dysfunctions that limit the plans progress. In addition, leaders learn how increase their problem solving capacities by using root cause analysis and how to distinguish between first and second-order change. By combining the functions/dysfunctions framework with these two problem solving techniques, leaders learn how to create strategic solutions that will increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their fundraising plan.
These and other available workshops can be organized to accomadate a small group (i.e. boards) or larger groups (i.e. conference breakout sessions) If you are is interested in learning more about this and other fundraising workshops, please contact jasonlewis@thefrankgroup.us.
