Professional development resources for fundraisers: a few links

[Cameron Meyer Shorb 🔸]

Here are a few free online resources from Candid Learning that might be useful to other people trying to become better fundraisers.

I haven’t vetted them yet, but they look much more promising than everything else I’ve found so far (specifically AFP and Nonprofit Ready, which were 90% fluff).

I hope to follow up later with a properly curated list.

Preliminary list of resources

• Planning and management

  • The Makings of a Great Development Director

  • Where can I learn more about fundraising planning?

  • Where can I learn about ethics in fundraising?

  • What is a fundraising audit? Why should I conduct one?

  • Put Your Donor Data to Work: Five Frameworks to Develop Your Top KPIs

  • Bitcoin for Good: Digital Currencies and Blockchain for Nonprofits

• Grants

  • Introduction to Proposal Writing

  • Guide to Proposal Writing Audiobook

• Major gifts

  • A Day in the Life of a Major Gifts Officer

  • Where can I find information on planned giving?

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion

  • Steps You Can Take Immediately to Diversify Your Board and Major Donor Base

  • Muslim Philanthropy: An Act of Faith

• Messaging

  • What is a case statement? Where can I learn more about it?

  • Messaging What Matters: Making Meaning to Make a Difference

  • Storytelling for Fundraising Success

  • How to Connect Your Work to the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Video Strategy for Do-Gooders

• eBooks

  • How can I access Candid’s eBook collection?

  • Guide to Proposal Writing Audiobook

[Jamie_Harris]

Cool list! Here’s a list I made, as part of Animal Advocacy Careers’ skills profile on fundraising. Like you, I haven’t vetted many of them, but several were recommended by more experienced fundraisers.

(I know you’ve seen this now, but for the benefit of any other readers)

[Henri Thunberg 🔸]

Is there any experience with the fundraising think-tank Rogare? Seemingly some interesting publications regarding fundraising as a profession, the ethics around it, and more.

(When searching for Rogare on the forum I am only met with first-person narrators, dragons, and cosmoses performing various kinds of ‘roaring’.)