GET IN WHERE YOU FIT IN: AN INTRODUCTION TO CCF FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Date Options:
September 27, 2022 12:30pm - 3pm CT
November 16, 29022 5:30pm - 8pm CT
What’s the hype about Community-Centric Fundraising anyway? And why is our development team ready to reimagine how we raise money? Will joining this movement ensure my organization is resourced?
Since the start of the Community-Centric Fundraising movement in the summer of 2020, questions like these have popped up across our sector. The movement has garnered many followers and many skeptics. How can shifts to your existing resource development activities get you closer to your organization's mission and vision? This workshop, tailored specifically to those who are not staff fundraisers, will provide an introduction to community-centric fundraising and an opportunity to reimagine one’s role in organizational resource development. The goal of this workshop is to support organizational decision-makers + influencers in aligning your team, Board of Directors, funders, and community together to solve ongoing social issues and integrate CCF into your organization.
This workshop will provide actionable tools and strategies for Executive Directors and CEOs as you incorporate CCF Principles into your organization.
Workshop participants will:
Learn about the history of US philanthropy and how policy shapes our nonprofit work
Understand the principles of Community Centric Fundraising
Begin to reimagine resources development strategy
Document a set of priorities to consider in 2023 Development Planning
Facilitator: Rachel D’Souza Siebert (read more from Rachel on CCF here)
Cost: $350 per participant or $1500 per organization (up to 6 participants)
Interested in other learning opportunities? Check them out here.
ALL THINGS GRANTS: READY OR NOT
Date: July 21, 2022 - 10:30 pm-2:00 pm CT
The goal of this workshop is to prepare Executive Directors, development professionals, grantwriters and consultants to feel confident in pursuing funds from aligned grantmakers.
This workshop will share tips and advice for grantwriting and research and each participant will develop a personalized grant ready assessment for their organization.
Workshop participants will:
Learn how to develop their internal capacity to seek and manage grant funds through an equity lens.
Find and develop relationships with institutional funders who are aligned with their mission and values.
Facilitator: Sheleia Phillips
Cost: $350 per participant or $1500 per organization (up to 6 participants)
Interested in other learning opportunities? Check them out here.
SPECIAL CAMPAIGNS BRING IN SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS
Date: August 18, 2022 - 10:30 am-2:00 pm CT
The goal of this workshop is to create space for Executive Directors, development professionals, and consultants to consider the role of special campaigns in their fund development efforts and consider how to ensure that these campaigns align with CCF principles.
This workshop will share campaign tools, templates, and tips for relationship building through a community centric lens.
Workshop Participants will:
Consider the history and goals of special campaigns
Build the muscles to use special campaigns as an opportunity to connect with the community you serve
Receive and practice with a campaign planning worksheet
Facilitator: Gabrielle Cole
Cost: $350 per participant or $1500 per organization (up to 6 participants)
Interested in other learning opportunities? Check them out here.
Fall 2022: BIPOC-Identifying Peer Learning Cohort
Timeline: Cohort will meet virtually, 10 weeks for varying lengths of time (between one and three hours at a time agreed by all) between October 5 and December 7, 2022.
The goal of the Gladiator Peer Learning Cohort is to hold space for development professionals who identify as BIPOC to practice healing, learning/unlearning, and reimagining what’s possible.
The objective of this CCF cohort is for development professionals to learn the core principles of Community-Centric Fundraising, develop an actionable plan, and implement these principles within their organizations.
Participants Will:
Explore paths to changemaking in a facilitated and confidential environment;
Confront fears of and roadblocks to systems-change thinking and implementation;
Take action on current priorities;
Develop keen peer-to-peer learning skills based on active listening and co-created solutions;
Cultivate intimate, cooperative relationships founded on trust and accountability; and
Act as thought partners & advocates to industry peers.
Participants Should Be Ready To:
Be brave. You will share your lived experiences & wisdom.
Be vulnerable. To be a changemaker, you must expose your truth.
Be uncomfortable. If you aren’t uncomfortable, you aren’t doing the work.
Be a failure. It’s the path to discovery.
Be a champion. Your peers need you.
Do the work. You will leave this experience with a new or updated, personalized CCF-oriented development plan for your organization.
Program Details & Commitments:
We seek development professionals at small to mid-sized organizations who are curious about and committed to dismantling inequity in the nonprofit sector.
Cohort will be 9-15 participants each.
The curricula will be facilitated in a peer-led workshop style with the Cohort and facilitators centering each individual participant’s specific concerns and questions in rotating order.
Cost: $1500
Participants are required to commit for the full duration of the Cohort. Discounts for large groups and scholarships are available. Please contact Gabrielle Cole, gabrielle@gladiatorrds.com to learn more.
Interested in other learning opportunities? Check them out here.
Spring 2023: Peer Learning Cohort
Timeline: Cohort will meet virtually, 10 weeks for varying lengths of time (between one and three hours at a time agreed by all) between March 6 and May 12, 2023.
The goal of the Gladiator Peer Learning Cohort is to hold space for learning, unlearning and reimagining what’s possible.
The objective of this CCF cohort is for development professionals to learn the core principles of Community-Centric Fundraising, develop an actionable plan, and implement these principles within their organizations.
Participants Will:
Explore paths to changemaking in a facilitated and confidential environment;
Confront fears of and roadblocks to systems-change thinking and implementation;
Take action on current priorities;
Develop keen peer-to-peer learning skills based on active listening and co-created solutions;
Cultivate intimate, cooperative relationships founded on trust and accountability; and
Act as thought partners & advocates to industry peers.
Participants Should Be Ready To:
Be brave. You will share your lived experiences & wisdom.
Be vulnerable. To be a changemaker, you must expose your truth.
Be uncomfortable. If you aren’t uncomfortable, you aren’t doing the work.
Be a failure. It’s the path to discovery.
Be a champion. Your peers need you.
Do the work. You will leave this experience with a new or updated, personalized CCF-oriented development plan for your organization.
Program Details & Commitments:
We seek development professionals at small to mid-sized organizations who are curious about and committed to dismantling inequity in the nonprofit sector.
Cohort will be 9-15 participants each.
The curricula will be facilitated in a peer-led workshop style with the Cohort and facilitators centering each individual participant’s specific concerns and questions in rotating order.
Cost: $1500
Participants are required to commit for the full duration of the Cohort. Discounts for large groups and scholarships are available. Please contact Gabrielle Cole, gabrielle@gladiatorrds.com to learn more.
Interested in other learning opportunities? Check them out here.