Staff Fundraising Courses

About this learning path...

The nonprofit capacity, "staff fundraising," focuses on a nonprofit team's knowledge, motivation, and skills to effectively secure the resources necessary to pursue their mission. This online training series looks at the top fundraising skills that every nonprofit fundraising professional needs.

Full participation in this certificate is applicable for 3 points in Category 1.B Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

What You Will Learn

The unique duties of staff in organizing and operationalizing nonprofit resource generation, and ensuring continuity across the seasons of a nonprofit's lifecycle.

Five means of managing nonprofit fundraising initiatives and activities, and four means of leading toward a culture of philanthropy.

Tangible and intangible resources that can be pursued to support your mission.

How staff "clusters" can activate their fundraising abilities in different strategic ways.

Ways to define nonprofit fundraising and resource generation in terms of both success and performance.

The differences between "information" and "input" in the context of fundraising data.

Quantitatively and qualitatively measuring nonprofit fundraising abilities and effectiveness in your organization.

How to gather both historical and current capacity data to understand our nonprofit team's fundraising abilities.

Setting nonprofit fundraising improvement goals that stand on the five key skills of revenue-generation.

The positives (and potential negatives) of the "flywheel effect" on our fundraising practices.

Who is this learning path for?

Nonprofit staff who are in, or work closely, with the development department will benefit from this fresh take on resource generation. Those who support or are interested in getting into fundraising will also enjoy this exploration of how to take action to get the funds and resources necessary for your nonprofit to be successful!

This learning path explores the following Korn Ferry competencies: