Customized Training

Training tailored to your needs

The Fund Raising School creates customized trainings for individual non-profits, larger associations, regional organizations, and even countries that want to learn new techniques to advance fund raising.

Our process begins with conversations between your key stakeholders and our team to build a training program from the ground up. We’ll work together to identify and understand your fundraising training objectives and goals. From there, we’ll select the specific skills, strategies, and the appropriate delivery style to accomplish the objectives and develop the content. Potential topics include:

How to ask for gifts effectively
The role of board members in fundraising
Trends in giving and fundraising
Including volunteers in fundraising
The history, capacity, and motivations of women donors
Leadership and fundraising

We can bring our training programs to you in person or virtually.

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Sponsor our full courses

We work with local and national nonprofits, foundations, colleges and universities, associations, and other organizations that sponsor The Fund Raising School courses for fundraising staff, grantees, and members. This option allows organizations to provide fundraising professional development opportunities cost efficiently.

Thanks to these and the hundreds of other sponsors who have worked with The Fund Raising School:

Fundraising Managers of Austria
Girl Scouts of the USA
Habitat for Humanity Indiana
Independent Colleges of Indiana
Inyathelo: The South African Institute for Advancement
IU Indianapolis Division of Student Life
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America
North American Division of the Seventh Day Adventist Church
The Center for Nonprofit Resources
The National Salvation Army
The San Diego Foundation
United Way Worldwide
YMCA of the USA

Higher education training opportunities

Fundraising for Deans

The landscape of higher education fundraising is changing rapidly, and at The Fund Raising School—housed within the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy—we speak your language.

College and university fundraising no longer is a responsibility reserved only for the president and the development staff. More than ever before deans, chancellors and other top administrators need to be fully engaged for a fundraising campaign to enjoy success.

In our customized course for deans and other top administrators, your school’s top leaders will learn how to think strategically about fundraising, understand their unique roles and responsibilities in the fundraising process and identify how they effectively can manage and serve alongside their development staff in a comprehensive fundraising operation.

The higher education professionals at The Fund Raising School are available to deliver this customized course on your campus or retreat site.

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Looking for faith-based training?

The Lake Institute on Faith & Giving also offers courses, seminars, and customized training.

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