Estimados Compañer@s, Bienvenidos al 5o Bienal Dinero para Nuestros Movimientos 2014: ¡Una Conferencia de Recaudación de fondos de Justicia Social! ¡Esta ocasión marca ocho años desde nuestra primera conferencia! Por primera vez, les traemos Dinero para Nuestros Movimientos a la costa Este. Estando en Baltimore, honramos y elevamos tanto la historia como el día actual organizando luchas de comunidades locales. Desde nuestra última conferencia en 2012, hubieron muchos triunfos del movimiento junto con reveses devastadores. Las comunidades marginadas siguen organizando alrededor de algunas áreas de cuestión claves: de la falta de asistencia médica a cierres escolares; de cierres del suministro de agua a la degradación ambiental; el aburguesamiento, encarcelamiento y la deportación; de la violencia de odio a la vigilancia aumentada y ataques contra el acceso abierto de Internet; del robo de salarios a los ataques de políticas de la justicia reproductiva. La lucha es real … e igual es nuestra propia resistencia. Celebramos el 50 aniversario del Verano de la Libertad de Mississippi, las noticias recientes de ciudades y condados que han abandonado el cumplimiento de detenciones de ICE (por sus siglas en inglés: El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos), la Associated Press y muchos otros importantes medios de comunicación que ya no usan la frase “ilegales,”manifestaciones conducidas por jóvenes para victoriosas campañas del cambio climático, ciudades que han aumentado el salario mínimo, y cobertura más positiva de comunidades LGBTQ y transgénero por los medios de comunicación. Algunas cuestiones que nos gustaría integrar al espacio y tratar en el transcurso del fin de semana son las siguientes: El Clima: ✰✰ ¿Cómo podemos sustentar nuestros esfuerzos de organizar y recaudar fondos dentro del clima político y de financiación, con la financiación reducida para el funcionamiento general y plurianual que proviene de fundaciones? ✰✰ ¿Cómo podemos compartir el conocimiento con recaudadores de fondos de justicia social y líderes emergentes?
✰✰ ¿Cómo podemos utilizar los medios sociales y las últimas tecnologías (que se dirigen a nuestras comunidades) para compartir nuestras historias y los impactos mientras a la vez engranamos con una amplia cantidad de personas? Movimientos de apoyo: ✰✰ ¿Cómo podrían los métodos más colaborativos y de redes a fin de recaudar fondos y compartir recursos, permitirnos a crecer y expandir nuestro alcance en una manera más coordinada y estratégica? ✰✰ ¿Cómo podemos cambiar la paradigma masiva de escasez a abundancia, buscando apoyo mutuo, para el éxito a corto plazo y sustentabilidad de largo plazo? No podemos tratar con estas cuestiones solos, nos necesitamos unos a otros para avanzar y sustentar nuestros esfuerzos de organizar y recaudar fondos. Nos congregamos este fin de semana para hablar sobre la recaudación de fondos y compartir recursos con aquellos que tienen interés en nuestro éxito a fin de crear un mundo donde se puedan satisfacer nuestras necesidades. Estamos aquí para aprender mutuamente, inspirar la creatividad y compartir en una manera significativa, igual que fortalecer nuestras relaciones mutuas. Estamos profundamente agradecidos por todo el apoyo que nos han brindado durante el proceso de planificación. Más de cien personas han donado su tiempo, dinero y otros recursos para hacer posible esta conferencia. No se hubiera realizado sin la ayuda de todos ustedes. Es por su presencia, participación y creencia en desarrollar nuestros recursos colectivos que se alimenta e inspira el trabajo de GIFT. Unidos podemos formar una base que luchará por y financiará su liberación colectiva – y celebraremos y nos reiremos a lo largo del camino! Gracias por formar parte de este encuentro. Para ganar más habilidades, más recursos, y más comunidad, Laurene Francois, Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Jennifer Emiko Boyden, and Nan Jessup GIFT
✰✰ ¿Cómo podemos crear condiciones de trabajo más sustentables para recaudadores de fondos y organizadores a fin de no acabar en agotamiento? El grado de Reacción: ✰✰ ¿Cómo podemos incrementar nuestros esfuerzos para crear un modelo de financiación sustentable con nuestra base a largo plazo?
] Laurene Francois, Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Jennifer Emiko Boyden, and Nan Jessup GIFT Staff To more skills, more resources and more community, Thank you for being part of this gathering. Together we can build a base that will fight for and fund its collective liberation—and celebrate and laugh along way! We are deeply grateful for all your support throughout the planning process. Over a hundred people have volunteered their time, money and other resources to make this conference possible. We could not have put this together without all of you. It is your presence, your participation and your belief in building our collective resources that fuels and inspires GIFT’s work. We can’t address these issues alone, and we need each other to advance and sustain our organizing and fundraising efforts. We come together this weekend to talk about fundraising and resource sharing with those who have a stake in our success so that we can create a world where all our needs are met. We are here to learn from each other, inspire creativity and meaningful engagement, and strengthen our relationships. ✰✰ How can we shift the paradigm of scarcity into abundance, by looking to one another for short term successes and long term sustainability?
✰✰ ¿Cómo podemos innovar nuestras estrategias de recaudación de fondos para tratar mejor con equidades económicas, ambientales y de salud mental que enfrentan la clase obrera y comunidades de color?
✰✰ How can we use social media and latest technologies (that speak to our communities) to share our stories while engaging the broadest amount of people? ✰✰ How can we innovate our fundraising strategies to better address the economic, environmental and mental health inequities that face working class and people of color communities? ✰✰ How can we grow our grassroots fundraising efforts to create a sustainable long-term funding model from our base? Responsiveness: ✰✰ How can we create more sustainable working conditions for fundraisers and organizers to avoid burning out? ✰✰ How can we share knowledge between long-time social justice fundraisers and emerging leaders? ✰✰ How can we sustain our organizing and fundraising efforts amidst the current political and funding climate, with less general operating and multi-year funding coming from foundations? Climate: Some questions we’d like to bring into the space and grapple with together over the course of the weekend include: Since our last conference in 2012, there have been many movement wins along with devastating setbacks. Marginalized communities continue to organize around some key issue areas: from lack of healthcare to school closures; from water shut-offs to environmental degradation; from gentrification to mass incarceration and deportation; from hate violence to increased surveillance and attacks on Open Internet access; from wage theft to policy attacks on reproductive justice. The struggles are real… and so is our resiliency. We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, recent news of cities and counties that have stopped enforcing ICE holds, the Associated Press and other major media outlets no longer using the phrase “illegal immigrant,” youth–led rallies and campaign wins for climate change, cities raising the minimum wage, and more positive media coverage of LGBTQ and transgender communities. For the first time we are bringing Money for Our Movements to the East Coast. Being in B’more, we honor and uplift both past and current day organizing struggles of local communities. Welcome to the 5th Biennial Money for Our Movements 2014: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference—this marks eight years since our very first conference!
✰✰ How might more collaborative and network based approaches to fundraising and resource sharing allow us to grow and expand our reach in more coordinated and strategic ways? Supporting movements:
Dear Friends,
About
The Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) is a multiracial organization that promotes the connection between fundraising, social justice and movement-building. We believe that how groups are funded is as important to achieving their goals as how the money is spent, and that building community support is central to long-term social change. We provide analysis, training and resources to strengthen organizations, with an emphasis on those focused on social justice and based in communities of color.
Our Vision for Social Justice Fundraising • Social justice organizations are owned by the communities they serve. • Social justice organizations break down stereotypes about who can give and who can’t, and ask everyone in their community to become donors. • People of color committed to social justice values and with an understanding of structural oppression are in leadership positions in fundraising. • Social justice organizations have self-determination and are accountable to the communities they come from, regardless of their funding sources. • Fundraising, program, and organizing are interconnected and interdependent. • A culture of sustainability is prioritized within social justice organizations. To read more about our vision and framework, please visit grassrootsfundraising.org/why-gift/political-framework
Our Strategies 1. Develop fundraising leaders of colors who are fundraising for social justice and can teach it to others 2. Support community-based organizations to change their fundraising cultures and practices to support social justice fundraising 3. Influence and inspire social justice movements to see fundraising as going hand-in-hand with political goals
Our Programs We provide analysis, training, and resources to thousands of groups each year. Our programs include: • Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference • Grassroots Fundraising Journal, a bimonthly magazine • Supporting fundraisers of color through the Fundraising Academy for Communities of Color (in partnership with CompassPoint Nonprofit Services & Community Partners) • Training for Trainers to increase the number of progressive fundraising trainers of color • Training and consulting services, including webinars • Print, online and video resources For more information about each program area, as well as how to sign-up and get involved, please visit grassrootsfundraising.org.
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Thank you to all the volunteers who made this conference possible! *Organizations listed for identification purposes only
Fundraising & Resourcing Committee
Program Advisory Committee Yee Won Chong Western States Center
Natalia Lopez Consultant
Jennifer Emiko Boyden GIFT
Ryan Li Dahlstrom GIFT
Pam Pompey Consultant
Amadee Braxton Dragonfly Partners
Ellen Gurzinsky Window Box Consulting
Uma Rao Technology Access Foundation
Helen Ho Consultant
Alfonso Wenker Minnesota Council on Foundations
Rory Brown Consultant
Sadia Kalam Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Ari Wohlfeiler Jewish Voice for Peace
Braeden Lentz Urban Justice Center
Host Committee
Ife Kilimanjaro East Michigan Environmental Action Council Sophia Kizilbash Native Youth Leadership Alliance Tanya Mote Su Teatro
Allison Budschalow Media Mobilizing Project
Christa Orth Wingo, Inc.
Marjorie Fine Consultant
Adriana Rocha CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Laurene Francois GIFT
Stephanie Roth Klein & Roth Consulting
Rachael Coleman Gibson Mosaica
Brigette Rouson Diverse City Fund
Priscilla Hung Community Partners
Jose Dominguez Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Tricia Rubacky Open Society Institute-Baltimore
Accessibility Committee
Mazi Mutafa Words, Beats & Life
Adwoa Spencer CASA de Maryland
Jennifer Pelton Public Justice Center
Jed Weeks Open Society Institute-Baltimore
GIFT Board of Directors Adriana Rocha (Chair), CompassPoint Nonprofit Services Adwoa Spencer, CASA de Maryland
Robin Carton, Consultant Sha Grogan-Brown, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Ife Kilimanjaro, EMEAC
Sophia Kizilbash, Native Youth Leadership Alliance
Jose Dominguez, Pyramid Atlantic
Sophia Kim, JumpStart for Young Children
Mazi Mutafa, Words, Beats & Life
Yee Won Chong, Consultant
Michael Robin, Consultant
Conference Production Graphic Design Aliana Grace Bailey alianagracebailey.com
Cover Art & Design Nadia Khastagir Design Action
Videography Luce Lincoln
Exhibitors & Advertisers
Tamar Jackson Nelson ConsiderIt Communications
Rachel Bass Consultant
Kriston Pumphrey Consultant
Nan Jessup GIFT
Viviana Rennella Consultant
Alex Nelson ConsiderIt Communications
Jonathan McMillan Consultant
Additional Volunteers Betty Robinson Chandler Gaines China Martens Christina Gracia Favianna Rodriguez Harriet Moon Smith Hayley Chronister
Translation & Interpretation
Group Attendee Sponsors
Anonymous Blue Print North Carolina Ford Foundation Four Freedoms Fund Fund for Democratic Communities Klein & Roth Consulting National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Open Society Institute-Baltimore Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Unbound Philanthropy
Allied Media Projects Association of Fundraising ProfessionalsMaryland Andy Robinson Consulting Building Movement Project Carma’s Cafe CiviCRM CompassPoint Nonprofit Services DesignAction Collective Emerson & Church Publishers Foundation Center
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Marta Alvarado Consultant
Alex Jackson Nelson* Amy Lanasa Angela Childers Caitlan Smith Claire Klossner Dani Hunt David Bruce Gary Thomas Jaime Whitbread Jonathan McMillan Kara-renee Pepin Kelsey Mitchell Kevin Dyles
Grass Roots Press ioby Natalia Lopez Consulting National Radio Project Management Assistance Group Maryland Nonprofits Meaningful Evidence Movement Strategy Center National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Janine Macbeth Julie Little Lucas Hartog Monica Hernandez Nadia Khastagir Sha Grogan-Brown
Kirsi Grigg Langdon Liliana Herrera* Luis Larin Meghan Shannon Mike Demeo Roberto Tijerina Samira Jemmoua SB Morgaine Sergio Espana Stephanie Sforza Tamar Jackson Nelson* Viviana Rennella* *Coordinators
Red Emma’s RoadMap Consulting San Francisco Women Against Rape School of Unity & Liberation SuperPrint USA The Greenlining Institute WellCard Health Windowbox Consulting & Coaching Wingo, Inc. NeonCRM by Z2 Systems, Inc.
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Con g rat u l ations G r a s s r o o t s I n s t i t u t e f o r F u n d r a i s i n g Tr a i n i n g
A warm congratulations to the GIFT staff, board and community on the fifth Money for Our Movement Conference. Our sincere thanks for your leadership in building support for social change.
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Thank you to all of our Sponsors
We are deeply grateful to all of our sponsors who made this conference possible. (List current as of 7/24/14. We apologize for any omissions or errors.
Resourcing Our Movements: $10,000+
Increasing Access: $500-$1,999
Annie E. Casey Foundation Anonymous Haas Jr. Foundation The California Wellness Foundation The Fund for Change
Adriana Rocha Bread & Roses Community Foundation Klein & Roth Consulting Marion Sweeney National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Paul Saunders Priscilla Hung Resource Generation Steve Lew Susan Corcoran
Wellness & Sustainability: $2,000-$4,999 Fund for Democratic Communities Marguerite Casey Foundation
Supporting Social Justice Fundraisers: $1-$499 Abel Martinez Adrian Madsen Allison Budschalow Amadee Braxton Ana Maria Mahiri ASL Trivia Team DC: Jason Almendarez, Kriston Pumphrey, Stephanie Sforza, & Aaron Potts Avi Cummings Ayoka Turner Becky Valcarce Bianca Escalante Bob Norris Bob Untiedt Charity J Tubalado Chauniqua Young Christa Orth Cristina Gonzalez Crystal Middlestadt Danielle Geong Danielle Sigwalt Dara Burwell Deborah Moss-West Debra Brown Debra Sue Stevens
Diana Onley-Campbell Elaine Lew Emily Keaney Erik Schnabel Gloria Leyba Irma Bajar J. Moon Vazquez James Abernathy James Hubbard Janine Macbeth Jeanne Bell Jennifer Emiko Boyden Jesse Yedinak Jessica Cler John Bartlett John Trinkl Jon Barad & Associates Jordan Garcia Joshua Schare Jose Dominguez Jovida Ross Judy Hatcher Julie Doherty Karen & Tom Boyden Karen Blumenthal
Kathleen Mahoney-Norris Kelly Costello Kristen Cashmore Laura Simpkins Laurene Francois Leyna Bernstein Linda Meric Linda Wiggins Lisa Rudman Marjorie Fine Mark Toney Martin & Jane Schwartz Mary P Foran Meg Johnson Merry Demarest Michael McKee Michael Robin & Anna Couey Michael Stein Miya Yoshitani Monica Hernandez & Tony del Porto Nan Jessup Nancy Sampson Native Youth Leadership Alliance Nitika Raj Pam Pompey
Rachel Piercey Rebecca Shea Regina Demis Robby Rodriguez Rodrigo Lehtinen Rory Brown Rosie & Gerad McCormick Ryan Li Dahlstrom Sarah Shikes Shaun Grogan-Brown Silissa Uriarte Smith Sonia Plata Sophia Kizilbash Stacy Kono Stan Yogi Tanya Mote Tanya Mayo Tim Sarrantonio Tomoaki Hayashi Tricia Rubacky Uma Rao Victor Quintana Voula O’Grady Wendy Jackson Yee Won Chong
“Share the Gifts” Consultant Sponsors
We are pleased to sponsor Money for Our Movements 2014, together with our fellow consultants. We are working together so that we can “share the gifts” of fundraising skills, wisdom and courage that we acquired over the years by fundraising in the social justice community, reading and utilizing the Grassroots Fundraising Journal, and learning from each other. Vici Nagel Academy for Grassroots Organizations academygo.org Andy Robinson Andy Robinson Consulting andyrobinsononline.com Judy Levine Cause Effective causeeffective.org Laurence Pagnoni LAPA Fundraising lapafundraising.com
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Bernadette Wright Meaningful Evidence meaningfulevidence.com
Elsa Ríos Social Change Strategies strategiesforsocialchange.com
Michael Allison Michael Allison Consulting maconsulting.org
Susan Fox Susan Fox Consulting susanfoxcfre.com
Natalia López Natalia López Consulting lopez186@sbcglobal.net
Heather Denkmire Third Space Studio thirdspacestudio.com
Emily Goldfarb & Elsa A. Ríos RoadMap Consulting roadmapconsulting.org
Karen Topakian Topakian Communications topakian.com
Tina Cincotti Funding Change Training & Consulting fundingchangeconsulting.com Ellen Gurzinsky Windowbox Coaching & Consulting windowboxconsulting.com Doug Wingo Wingo, Inc. dougwingo.com
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Our commitment to multilingual access GIFT recognizes that multilingual capacity building (such as translation and interpretation) is an organizing issue. The task of incorporating the multiple languages within our movement is not simply a logistical question - communication between diverse groups is integral to successful movement building for social justice. In order to truly enable everyone’s full participation and draw from everyone’s wealth of knowledge and experiences, we must address the multiple and often invisible ways that language can perpetuate and aggravate differences in gender, race/ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, class, age, ability, and capacity to access funding resources. The capacity to maintain conversations in various languages at the same time facilitates communication and also strengthens the leadership of our communities by promoting the centrality of all
the languages we speak and the wisdom and knowledge that is communicated therein. In building our multilingual capacity, we create multilingual spaces where language is used democratically and as a tool of empowerment. We also strengthen cross-cultural alliances by providing the tools and resources necessary for bridging communication across language. To achieve a truly multilingual movement for social justice, we must transform the power of language so that it can no longer divide us but rather will unite us and make us stronger. GIFT commits to incorporating multilingual access at Money for Our Movements 2014 in the following ways: it will support three languages, Spanish, English and American Sign Language (ASL). It will provide simultaneous interpretation during plenaries and keynote speeches. For each workshop block, there will be one workshop offered in Spanish and at least one workshop interpreted simultaneously in English and Spanish.
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Liberation is a Collective Process: Money for Our Movements Conference Statement and Policies on Access Modeled after policies written by planners of the United States Social Forum and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change conference.
A restroom is a place that everyone should be able to go without incident and without feeling intimidated. Regardless of what bathroom you use, please let everyone use the facilities in peace.
We believe in self-determination, self-expression, and in constituent-led organizing, meaning that the people directly affected by oppression are the most equipped to define their own liberation. We believe that the structures that oppress us reinforce and support each other; thus, working at their intersections, we can tear them down. We also believe that structures that oppress one part of our community affect our entire community, and that it is our collective responsibility to tear them down.
Child-Friendly Space
We have worked hard in the planning of this conference to try to embody these beliefs. We need your help as participants at this conference to help create a space that is safer, more accessible, and that models the community and world we are working to build with each other. We are bound to make mistakes in our process and we need your help to develop better systems. Please visit us at the registration table or use your conference evaluation form if you have any questions, concerns, or feedback that can make our journey better.
Transgender Etiquette
Please do not assume anyone’s gender. A person’s appearance, voice, or mannerisms may not indicate their internal gender identity. We consider it polite to ask: “What pronoun do you prefer?” or “How do you identify?” before using pronouns or gendered words. If you are unsure of someone’s gender identity, try using that person’s name or gender-neutral terms instead.
Restroom Policy
In solidarity with our trans* participants (including: transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, and other gender non-conforming people), wherever possible, we have designated all-gender restrooms in our space. Many transgender and gender nonconforming people have been harassed, beaten, ridiculed, and arrested in both men and women’s restrooms. We have adopted this policy to stand in opposition to the above acts and in solidarity with this community. We know that this is not simply a language or labeling issue: the initiative to create allgender restrooms is not driven by an avoidance of the angst of choosing an icon for one’s gender identity. It is, rather, centered on the hostility and intimidation that actually occur when some members of our community make either one of the available choices.
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We believe that limiting the participation of those with children holds our movements back, and we welcome babies and children at the conference. We understand that it is difficult to find highquality affordable childcare and that people may have other reasons for bringing their children with them. For example, the presence of babies and children is common in organizing spaces rooted in many cultural traditions. We strive to create a welcoming intergenerational space throughout the conference. Local childcare providers who have provided kids space at a number of movement building gatherings (like the Allied Media Conference and Facing Race Conference) will be providing kids space on site. For those bringing babies or children who would like a separate space anytime during the conference, please see the GIFT ‘Solution Station’ for details.
Scent-Free Space
Scented products are harmful to the health of sensitive individuals, including those with allergies, chemical or environmental sensitivity, chronic heart or lung disease, and those with other chronic illnesses caused by environmental racism and other factors. We strive to provide a healthy and welcoming environment for all participants. As much as possible, please refrain from wearing cologne, perfume, and fragrances. As much as possible, please choose scent-free lotions, creams, shampoo and hair products, and deodorants. If scents and chemicals present a barrier for you, please know that Money for Our Movements is not yet a scent-free conference. (To learn more see peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html)
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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Please see the conference schedule for specific times and locations
Emcees
Cara Page is a Black queer feminist cultural worker & organizer. She comes from a long ancestral legacy of organizers and cultural workers from the Southeast to the Northeast. For the past 20 plus years she has worked within the queer and trans liberation movement, reproductive justice movement, the racial and economic justice movements, and the National People’s Movement Assembly.
Adrienne Maree Brown was the executive director of The Ruckus Society from 2006-2010, and sat on their board through 2012. She was also a National Co-Coordinator for the 2010 US Social Forum. She facilitates the development of organizations throughout the movement (most recently Chorus Foundation, Correctional Association of NY, Young Women United, Positive Women’s Network, Black Mesa Water Coalition, INCITE!, the Young Women’s Empowerment Project in Chicago, New Orleans Parents Organizing Network, ColorofChange.org and Detroit Summer).
Manish Vaidya is an activist coach, former co-coordinator of ASATA and the founding artistic director of social justice arts organization Peacock Rebellion. A former GIFT fellow and staffer, he served on the core organizing team of Save Lyon-Martin, which raised $500,000 in 12 weeks to save a community health clinic.
These 30-minute sessions offer participants the chance to receive free personalized assistance from experienced fundraisers on a particular topic. Available in English and Spanish. Sign-ups were managed online before the conference.
Jezebel Delilah X is a queer, fat, Black femme performance artist, writer, filmmaker, educator, and Faerie Queen Mermaid Gangsta for the revolution. She’s Director of Training at social justice arts organization Peacock Rebellion, senior editor for Black Girl Dangerous, co-founder of Deviant Type Press, and a member of storytelling troupe Griot Noir.
Opening Plenary: Strategies for Funding Revolutionary Work Plenary Speakers
Jenny Lee is the executive director of Allied Media Projects. In 2009 she led the process of founding the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition and securing $1.8 million in federal funding for Detroit through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This led to the creation of the Detroit Future programs, which have trained several thousand Detroiters to use media and technology for creative community transformation efforts in schools and neighborhoods across the city. Shira Hassan has lived and worked in Chicago and NYC helping young people start their own nonprofits and lead social justice work. Formerly with Young Women’s Empowerment Project, Shira now offers program development & design, grassroots fundraising, participatory evaluation/action research & creating sustainable, healing centered and trauma-informed environments for staff through intensive partnering with organizational leaders.
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Consulting Café
Sample topics:
• Board Development • Capital Campaigns • Direct Mail • Earned Income Strategies • Endowments • Fundraising Databases • Fundraising Planning • Grant-writing • Major Gifts • Online Fundraising • Planned/Legacy Giving • Special Events
DEBATE Boards: A Vital Resource or Historic Relic?
Come see four people with more than a century of experience among them debate the future of the board of directors. Our debaters have seen it all, and been it all—board members, executive directors, development directors, and consultants. They will tackle one of the most pressing and endemic issues for social justice nonprofits—can a board be effective? Or is the structure itself an artifact of a different time, which cannot be renovated, but must be scrapped? Or does it insure that paid staff don’t mimic the colossal hubris of corporate CEOs? Is the board a vital form of democracy, or a wet blanket on innovation and forward movement? Listen to the range of arguments our excellent debaters put forward and then make up your own mind.
2014 Money for Our Movements Debate Resolution
Whereas: • The voluntary Board of Directors as the governance structure for nonprofit organizations was codified in the 1950s and 60s to govern the small number of existing nonprofits, 50,000- 250,000, which were mostly run by volunteers; • Today the nonprofit sector encompasses 1.7 million nonprofits and represents a much larger sector (10% of the workforce, 4% of the GDP and a $1.5 trillion industry);
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• At the time the law was codified, many families could live on one income, freeing up a second family member to volunteer; • Today most families need at least two incomes to survive, and many other families are headed by one person; • The primary complaint of both board and staff about their organizations is the failure of board members to exercise fiduciary oversight and leverage adequate resources to address community needs; • Both board members and staff rarely find the board/staff relationship worthwhile; • Common sense dictates that the idea that busy and uncompensated volunteers should oversee the increasingly complex workings of professionally staffed nonprofits, and that the volunteers should carry the responsibility of hiring (or firing) leaders of these organizations is fraught with problems; • The health and well being of social justice nonprofits is not served by the current structure and our ability to build movements for change is often hindered by the brakes put to our work by well-meaning but overcommitted and untrained board members; • The existing structure is untenable and is hindering our ability to create radical, long lasting change; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that • The current structure of the Board of Directors be recognized as a historic relic and be dissolved; • Fiduciary responsibilities for nonprofits be carried out by paid organizational leadership.
Debaters Brigette Rouson has over 25 years’ experience building nonprofit
capacity toward a just society. She raised $500,000 for Alliance for Nonprofit Management, trains on cultural competency in fundraising, co-founded Diverse City Fund led sessions at grantmaker conferences, and raised $2.4 million of a $4 million Ms. Foundation for Women collaborative fund. Brigette has her own practice and is a RoadMap consultant, and graduate of Howard (B.A.), Georgetown (J.D.), and Penn (M.A.).
Mike Roque is president of Adobe Consulting. Mike was founding director of the Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships as a political appointee of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. He was executive director of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) and executive director of the Chinook Fund, a radical community foundation located in Denver. Tova Perlmutter has 25 years experience in fundraising and communications. From 2006 to 2012, she ran Sugar Law Center, a Detroit-based nonprofit advocating workers’ rights and racial justice. Current clients of her consulting firm Engine of Progress include Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, Restaurant Opportunities Center, and National Lawyers Guild. After almost 8 years of engaging with the network as a volunteer, Trish Tchume is proud to be serving as the first-ever Director of YNPN National. Prior to joining YNPN, Trish served as Director of Civic Engagement for the Building Movement Project, and a Campus Organizer, a Community Outreach Manager, and the Director of Training for Idealist.org.
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Debate Moderator
Sean Thomas-Breitfeld co-directs the Building Movement Project, with a special focus on BMP’s work on service and social change. Prior to joining the BMP staff, Sean spent a decade working in various roles at the Center for Community Change, and he also worked as a Policy Analyst at the National Council of La Raza, where he focused on employment and income security issues.
Closing Plenary: Funding Social Justice Past, Present & Future: An Intergenerational Dialogue Closing Speakers
Ife Kilimanjaro, Ph.D. serves as co-director of EMEAC. She has worked to strengthen organizations, institutions and efforts by and for black and brown people for the past 20 years. Ife has supported grassroots work and movement building in the areas of social and environmental justice through her work with the USSF, GGJ, CJA and other national and local formations. Karen Toering is a Project Manager at Social Justice Fund NW. With a background as a grassroots organizer, cultural worker and consultant for non-profit arts and social justice organizations, her work includes base-building and collaboration on media justice and media policy initiatives. She lives in Seattle, WA. Krystal Portalatin co-founded FIERCE in 2000 as a response to increased police violence and gentrification in New York City, and its impact on LGBTQ youth. She rejoined staff in 2008, and as a testament to FIERCE’s leadership development model for members and staff, held several staff roles before becoming CoDirector in 2011. She successfully completed Rockwood: The Art of Leadership training and other leadership programs. Krystal is committed to her community in NYC, where she was born and raised. Stephanie Roth is a consultant and trainer with a focus on fundraising, board development and meeting facilitation. Stephanie has written widely on the topic of fundraising and organizational development, and is the co-author of The Accidental Fundraiser: A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Money for Your Cause. She was a co-founder of GIFT, and editor of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal for 11 years. Yasmeen Perez is the development director of Right To The City Alliance, a national alliance of grassroots organizations fighting gentrification and working to build democratic, just, and sustainable 21st century cities. Originally from Seattle, Yasmeen has been a community organizer, educator, and resource organizer for over 12 years in racial justice, youth liberation, and LGBTQ left movements. Yasmeen is a co-author of “Resource Organizing: A Toolkit on Member Led CommunityBased Grassroots Fundraising” a publication of FIERCE (www. fiercenyc.org)
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AT A GLANCE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 2nd 7:00 – 8:30 8:30 – 10:00
Breakfast, Registration, Exhibitors: Shriver Hall | Yoga in Sherwood Room in Levering Hall Welcome and Opening Plenary: Shriver Auditorium, “Strategies for Funding Revolutionary Work” featuring Jenny Lee, Shira Hassan and Adrienne Maree Brown fundraising skills & strategies Authenticity & Major Donor Relationships Tanya Mote, Location: Shaffer 302 Planned Giving Made Easy Stan Yogi, Location: Shaffer 303
Workshop Designing for Change: Visual Session 1 Communications for the Left Nadia Khastagir & Sarah Reilly, 10:15 - 12:15 Location: Krieger 308
history, politics & new models
BOARDS & TEAMS
Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
Collective Resiliency, Sustainability, Donor Organizing & Grassroots Giving Cara Page & Theo Yang Copley, Location: Shaffer 100
Let’s Stay Together: Create & Sustain Dynamic Fundraising Teams with the Circle Process Sophia Kizilbash, Ryan Dennison & Johnny Buck, Location: Shaffer 2
Hi-Tech Tools for Fundraising and Communication Made Simple Yee Won Chong, Location: Shaffer 101
People of Color & Fundraising Mike Roque, Location: Shaffer 300 The Exchange Collaborative Fundraising & Resource Sharing Model Roxanne Anderson, Location: Shaffer 304
YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT 22 Years on a Shoestring: Reflections & Hopes for Youth Centered Grassroots Fundraising Yecelica Jaime Valdivia, Location: Shaffer 202 12:30-1:45
Wellness & Sustainability Fundraising as Self Development Beth Raps, Location: Maryland 109
Meeting Your Goals by Meeting Your Donors Mary Grace Wolf & Arturo Clark, Location: Shaffer 2 How to Raise $50,000 in Six Weeks Stephanie Roth & Nancy Otto, Location: Shaffer 303 Nuts and Bolts of Finance in Organizing, Part 1 Shira Hassan & Karla Mejia, Location: Shaffer 304 Off Limits? How Can Government Funding Support Your Social Justice Work and Not Compromise Your Mission? Jenny Freedman, Location: Shaffer101 fundraising skills & strategies Savvy and Sustainable Fundraising Strategies for Movement Organizations Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz & Arika Kern, Location: Shaffer 100 Workshop Session 3 4:15 - 6:15
Caucus or Facilitated Discussion Fundraising & Organizing for Prison Abolition Ellen Barry, Location: Barton 117 Funder Caucus & Networking Space, Part 1 Lorraine Ramirez, Location: Ames 234
Spanish Matching the Right Team with the Right Fundraising Strategy Miguel Gavaldon, Location: Maryland 201
Lunch, Exhibitors & Consulting Sessions fundraising skills & strategies
Workshop Session 2 2:00 - 4:00
Moving Towards an Integrated Grassroots Fundraising Culture: Data, Tools & Practices, Part 1 Tomás Aguilar & Alice Aguilar, Location: Latrobe 120
Four Cornerstones of Major Gifts Fundraising Paul Jolly, Location: Krieger 304 Writing Proposals, Understanding Program Officers and Getting Grants: Everything You Wanted to Ask & Were Afraid to Ask Marjorie Fine, Location: Shaffer 303 Nuts & Bolts of Finance in Organizing, Part 2 Shira Hassan & Karla Mejia, Location: Shaffer 304
History, Politics & New Models
Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
People of Color Traditions, Strategies & Stories for Our Collective Survival Cara Page & Naa Hammond, Location: Shaffer 100
Messaging for Fundraising and Movement-Building Tova Perlmutter & Kim Hunter, Location: Barton 117 Measuring Your Social Media Efforts Chris Tuttle, Location: Krieger 308 Moving Towards an Integrated Grassroots Fundraising Culture: Data, Tools & Practices, Part 2 Tomás Aguilar and Alice Aguilar, Location: Latrobe 120 Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising Joleen Ong, Location: Ames 234
Shared Leadership Models: Sharing Power, Decision-Making, & Building Sustainability for the Long-Haul Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Ife Kilimanjaro, Jack Aponte, Sarah Reilly, Joyce Wagner, Location: Maryland 109 History, Politics & New Models White People and Fundraising as Racial Justice Braeden Lentz, Location: Shaffer 302 Take Back Agen(c)y: Performing Fundraising Dreams and Disasters Manish Vaidya & Jezebel Delilah X, Location: Latrobe 120 Grassroots Fundraising & Movement Building: Lessons from Our Practice Dylan Cooke, Alia Trindle & Eboni Taggart Location: Maryland 109
Online fundraising, Social Media & Communications Designing Your Crowdfunding Campaign Erin Barnes & Brandon Whitney, Location: Shaffer 101 Crafting Stories that Shape Movements (and Raise Money) Yee Won Chong, Location: Krieger 308
Boards & Teams Overcoming Fundraising Complacency on LongStanding Boards of Directors Greg Cohen & Sadia Kalam, Location: Krieger 304 Giving & Philanthropy Donor Organizing Through Giving Circles: Social Justice Fund’s Story Karen Toering & Yecelica Valdivia, Location Shaffer 302 FUNDRAISING SYSTEMS Understanding Constituent Relationship Management Systems Rebecca Johnson, Location: Maryland 201 YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT We Tweet, We Like & We Raise Money: How Youth & Young Adults Fundraise and (re)Imagine Our Resources Laurene Francois, Location: Shaffer 300 Giving & Philanthropy Collective Dollars, Collective sense: Giving Circles and Models of Cross-Class Philanthropy Jessie Spector, Sha Grogan Brown, Ellen Barry, Becca Wisotsky, Location: Shaffer 2 Spanish Fundraising Practices in Immigrant Communities Viviana Rennella, Location: Shaffer 202 caucuses Youth and Young Adult Caucus Laurene Francois, Location: Shaffer 300 People of Color Caucus Location: Maryland 201 fundraising systems Creating an Annual Fundraising Plan Priscilla Hung Location: Ames 234
6:30 - 7:30
Dinner on your own & Consulting Café
7:30 - 9:30
Reception: Celebrating Our Movments! Mattin Center
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Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
At a Glance: SUNDAY, AUGUST 3RD 7:30 - 9:00 am 9:00 – 10:30 am
Breakfast & Registration: Shriver Lobby | Yoga in Sherwood Room in Levering Hall Debate: Shriver Auditorium, “Boards: A Vital Resource or Historic Relic?” featuring Brigette Rouson, Mike Roque, Tova Perlmutter, Trish Tchume, and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld Caucus or Facilitated Discussion
History, Politics & New Models
People-Powered Organizations: Building Successful Monthly Sustainer Programs Kristin Campbell & Allison Budschalow, Location: Shaffer 101
QTPOC Artist Space Roxanne Anderson, Location: Shaffer 302
Membership is Powerful: Building Power & Sustainability Through Dues-Paying Membership Beth Rayfield, Location: Shaffer 303
Giving in Communities of Color Ace Portis, Location: Shaffer 300
Allied Media Projects: Shared Services & Network Building Jenny Lee & Mike Medow, Location: Maryland 201
fundraising skills & strategies
10:45–12:15 am Workshop Block IV
Almost There: 10 Strategies for Year-End Fundraising Ari Wohlfeiler & Avi Cummings, Location: Barton 117 Giving & Philanthropy Breaking the Isolation Bubble-How to Talk Back to Foundations Jeanné Insler and Lisa Ranghelli, Location: Shaffer 304 Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications Visual Communication: Create Pictures, Videos & Presentations Quickly, Easily & Affordably Yee Won Chong, Nadia Khastagir, Joleen Ong, Tomás Aguilar, Chris Tuttle Location: Maryland 110
12:15–1:45pm
Funder Caucus & Networking Space, Part 2 Lorraine Ramirez, Location: Maryland 217 GrantSpace.org Demo Pat Pasqual, Location: Latrobe 120
Party On! Throwing Awesome House Party Fundraisers Jeff Pinzino, Location: Shaffer 100 How We Made Friends Before Facebook Jackie Kaplan-Perkins, Location: Shaffer 303
Wellness & Sustainability Courageous Conversations for Fundraisers Miguel Gavaldón, Location: Maryland 201
Making Stronger and Smarter “Asks”: How to Write to be More Influential Randall Quan, Location: Shaffer 300 Youth & Young Adult Dolla Dolla Bill Y’all: Building Power as Youth Fundraisers Naa Hammond, Fred Ginyard, Location: Shaffer 302
3:45–4:45pm
Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money Andy Robinson, Location: Shaffer 2
fundraising systems Implementing Donor Management Software Jack Aponte & Jon Goldberg, Location: Shaffer 100
Lunch, Exhibitors & Consulting fundRaising skills & strategies
2:00–3:30 pm Workshop Block V
Individual Donor Benchmarks Report Heather Yandow, Location: Maryland 109
Boards & Teams
Caucus or Facilitated Discussion Moving Maryland Forward Network Chris Casey, Location: Shaffer 2 Rural Fundraisers Caucus Location: Maryland 217 Immigrant Organzing Caucus Location: Shaffer 304
Boards & Teams Leading Stellar Trainings for Volunteer Fundraisers Christa Orth, Location: Maryland 109 Pump Up Your Board for Fundraising: Getting Your Board Engaged & Energized Christina Yoon, Location: Shaffer 101
LGBTQ Caucus Location: Krieger 308
Closing Plenary & iPad Drawing: Shriver Auditorium, “Funding Social Justice Past, Present & Future: An Intergenerational Dialogue” featuring Karen Toering, Krystal Portalatin, Stephanie Roth, and Yasmeen Perez.
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SATURDAY morning Workshop block I
10:15am–12:15pm People of Color and Fundraising
The percentage of people of color who are fundraisers is very small yet fundraising is often the stepping stone to becoming an effective Executive Director. This presentation and panel discussion will cover issues including why there are few people of color in fundraising, what training exists for people of color, and what organizations can do the change this dynamic. Presenter
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Mike Roque
History, Politics, New Models
Shaffer 300
Let’s Stay Together: Create and Sustain Dynamic Fundraising Teams with the Circle Process Strong, dynamic teams are at the heart of reaching our fundraising goals. Dynamic teams are also diverse teams, each member with unique leadership styles, perspectives and cultures. Mix in the pressures of our communities’ needs, and we could find ourselves creating a recipe for group conflict where we do not reach our true potential. In this session, NYLA is honored to share a circle process we have integrated into our collective leadership model. Our time will be hands on, and you will learn by experiencing the process first-hand. Please join us!
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Sophia Kizilbash, Ryan Dennison & Johnny Buck
Boards & Teams
Shaffer 2
Matching the Right Team with the Right Fundraising Strategy (en Español) Matching the right team with the right fundraising strategy is critical. We will begin by identifying the roles team members typically play in each of the following fundraising strategies: foundations, government, major donors, grassroots donors, and events. Each participant will be invited to focus on one fundraising strategy and draft a recruitment plan for their team. For those who already have the right team recruited, they will focus on how to strengthen that team. We will end with discussing tools with which to evaluate the fundraising team’s success. Presenter
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Miguel Gavaldón
Boards & Teams
Maryland 201
Authenticity & Major Donor Relationships Fundraising is both art and science: it is concrete and formulaic: when you follow the steps in the right way, the law of percentages will determine your results...and guarantee your success. But successful fundraising also requires you to build authentic, organic relationships with like-minded people (indeed, it is an important component of movement building). In this workshop, you will learn how to build your major donor program, and how to keep it going. Presenter
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Tanya Mote
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 302
The Exchange Collaborative Fundraising & Resource Sharing Model The Exchange is an LGBTQ community and movement building space based in Minneapolis, MN that houses several different community based organizations and projects, a coffee shop, and a community garden that brings together art, activism, leadership development, and authentic youth-adult partnerships. Join a discussion to learn more about how this space provides not only vital community building space but also is model for resource sharing, collaboration, and creating sustainability across various communities and projects. Presenter
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Roxanne Anderson
History, Politics & New Models
Shaffer 304
Hi-Tech Tools for Fundraising & Communication Made Simple Overwhelmed by technology tools? Learn the functions of essential tools. Discover how they work together. Find out best practices to prevent from losing sight of your program, communication and fundraising goals. Get the technology big picture whether you plan to do it yourself or hire a consultant. Presenter
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Yee Won Chong
Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
Shaffer 101
Collective Resiliency, Sustainability, Donor Organizing & Grassroots Giving In this workshop, we will learn from models that build on resiliency and survival traditions of LGBTSTGNC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans & Gender Non Conforming) People of Color & Allies who have given to and resourced our own communities. We will present tools for planning individual/communal giving within the context of economic and racial justice and the traditions of “cultures of giving” within communities of color. As well as and look at historical and contemporary practices of collective giving as a tool and strategy for collective resiliency and sustainability.
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Cara Page & Theo Yang Copley
History, Politics & New Models
Shaffer 100
Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
22 Years on a Shoestring: Reflections & Hopes for Youth Centered Grassroots Fundraising Seattle Young People’s Project (SYPP) is a youth-led adult supported social justice organization in the Pacific Northwest. In this session we’ll introduce SYPP’s youth-led model and our approach to grassroots fundraising along with reflections, challenges, and hopes. Even after 22 years we still don’t have things figured out and want to normalize these feelings! We hope comrades leave feeling affirmed and hopeful. We hope to offer useful reflections in this work and meaningful conversations around sustainability and youth-led and centered grassroots fundraising among other conversations. Presenter
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Yecelica Jaime Valdivia
Youth and Young Adult track
Shaffer 202
Planned Giving Made Easy Do you dream of a donor leaving your organization her million dollar estate? Chances of that happening are slim if you aren’t encouraging your supporters to remember your organization in their estate plans. Join us for a practical session on planned gifts - what they are, how you can develop a planned giving program, and how to secure planned gifts. This session is intended for organizations with an established donor base. Presenter
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Stan Yogi
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 303
Fundraising as Self Development If you had to design a self-development program, it might look very much like the crucible you step into everyday working for social justice, whether as staff, volunteer, or board. This workshop helps you work with the challenges you experience in your work (paid or un-) to deepen your self-development and your service, using a very simple “applied mindfulness” practice, visualization, and examples developed by participants to practice together. Presenter
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Beth Raps
Wellness & Sustainability
Maryland 109
Designing for Change: Visual Communications for the Left Design Action Collective will present examples and case studies of effective visual communications for grassroots fundraising. We will engage in discussion on how best to collaborate on projects with graphic designers and best practices for creating useful materials, while staying within budget. Workshop participants will be encouraged to think about how to tell the story of their work and their organization and how to use design to help that story resonate with their community and funding base. The session will focus on print and web mediums. PresenterS
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Nadia Khastagir & Sarah Reilly
Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
Krieger 308
Moving Towards an Integrated Grassroots Fundraising Culture: Data, Tools & Practices, Part I This workshop will help groups explore what it takes to integrate their grassroots fundraising with on-going organizing and communications activities with a multichannel approach. We will emphasize how successful fundraising campaigns are fundamentally dependent on four core components: a well designed fundraising plan, good information (data), powerful communications skills, and the technical infrastructure and skills to make it all work. This session is applicable to all skill levels and organizational roles. Presenters
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Tomás Aguilar & Alice Aguilar
Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
Latrobe 120
Fundraising & Organizing for Prison Abolition The Criminal Justice Initiative Donor Activist Funding Circle is a donor-activist Giving Circle that has operated for the past 14 years, distributing over 1.4 Million dollars to over 100 small grassroots organizations challenging the growth of the prison system in the US. Members of the CJI Circle, including a donor, an activist and CJI staff, will describe the development of the Circle, the lessons that we have learned and the ways in which the Circle can be a model for the establishment of other circles. Presenter
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Ellen Barry
Facilitated Discussion
Barton 117
Funder Caucus & Convening Space, Part I facilitator
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Lorraine Ramirez
Caucus
Ames 234
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SATURDAY afternoon Workshop block II
2:00pm–4:00pm
Off Limits? How Can Government Funding Support Your Social Justice Work & Not Compromise Your Mission? It’s a common perception among social justice organizations that receiving government funding somehow prevents us from conducting campaigns that lobby elected officials. This workshop explains how your 501c3 organization can receive government funds and still lobby, what you need to know to manage the funds, and the secret weapon – how government funding can directly support your campaigns and make your organization stronger. Presenter
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Jennifer Freedman
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 101
Overcoming Fundraising Complacency on Long-Standing Boards of Directors Rekindle the spirit of fundraising among your board, including adding new fundraising enthusiasts and losing the fundraising-shy “old-guard” without losing friends. Learn how to assess your board’s fundraising strengths and weaknesses, and dramatically shift its fundraising culture. Even if your board has gone years without embracing its fundraising duties, with the right strategies you can raise their sights and boost their abilities to enthusiastically turn friends and fans into year round supporters.
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Greg Cohen & Sadia Kalam
Boards & Teams
Krieger 304
Donor Organizing through Giving Circles: Social Justice Fund’s Story In this workshop we will share our story of developing our Giving Project model, our process for organizing Giving Projects, and our lessons learned so far. We will engage workshop participants in a dialogue about how to apply this model to other grassroots organizations and bring volunteer supporters into donor organizing to sustain our movements. Attendees will leave with new ideas and tools to bring back to their organizations. This is not a fundraising training; attendees should have some familiarity with grassroots fundraising, but no particular level of experience is required. Presenters
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Karen Toering & Yecelica Valdivia
Giving & Philanthropy
Shaffer 302
Meeting Your Goals by Meeting Your Donors This workshop will get you off on the right foot to build/expand a mid-level donor program for your organization. We’ll review the plan to kick-off your first donor drive, familiarize ourselves with the materials, and squeeze in some practice as well. This session is great for anyone who is looking to take their supporters to the next giving level. Presenters
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Mary Grace Wolf & Arturo Clark
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 2
People of Color Traditions, Strategies & Stories for Our Collective Survival This workshop is for people of color only. What are our experiences and relationships to giving and fundraising as people of color within the conditions of white supremacy? How can we engage our own communities and build effective alliances with allies to resource our collective survival and liberation? Join us for an intergenerational discussion, storytelling, and games as we map our traditions of giving, share current strategies, and lessons learned within our communities and movements. PresenterS
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Cara Page & Naa Hammond
History, Politics, & New Models
Shaffer 100
Understanding Constituent Relationship Management Systems Communications, organizing and fundraising are dependent on effectively managing constituent information. Organizations are successful at fundraising to the extent that they have meaningful relationships with all the constituents of the organization. Workshop participants will gain increased comfort with CRM/ DRM systems, have increased facility in describing their function in organizational communications and fundraising and take home tools that will assist them in decision-making about purchases of these important tools. Presenter
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Rebecca Johnson
Fundraising Systems
Maryland 201
Messaging for Fundraising & Movement-Building This workshop addresses developing multi-pronged communications that support both fundraising and movement-building, while linking them effectively. We’ll discuss how to craft clear, consistent core messages for a variety of contexts and audiences, and provide examples from Detroit of effective social justice messaging done at minimal cost by low-income people and activists of color. Reviewing principles of communications and drawing out participants’ experiences, the workshop will use interactive exercises for honing and delivering messages.
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Tova Perlmutter & Kim Hunter
Online Fundraising, Social Media, and Communications
Barton 117
Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
How to Raise $50,000 in Six Weeks Whether you need to raise $5,000, $50,000 or $500,000, a time-limited campaign format is a great way to organize your individual donor fundraising efforts. It provides a way to engage board, staff and volunteers in asking for money, with enough structure to make it more likely you’ll meet your goals. You’ll leave this workshop with great tools, tips, and a plan of action for carrying out a fall (or any season!) fundraising campaign. Presenters
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Stephanie Roth & Nancy Otto
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 303
Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising Email is not dead; it’s one of the most powerful, low-cost tools that nonprofits can use to communicate with their donors. Nonprofits often make the mistake of waiting until the end of the year to ask for support, but there’s a lot they can be doing year-round to ensure “the ask” is not a cold one. Learn how to leverage email marketing for fundraising, recent nonprofit benchmarks, and how to get started in your organization. Presenter
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Joleen Ong
Online Fundraising, Social Media, and Communications
Ames 234
Measuring Your Social Media Efforts You have a Facebook page, a blog, a Twitter account, and a YouTube channel. Are they working? Is it worth the time you’re putting in? How do you know? We’ll walk through a framework -- including Views, Followers, Engagement, and Conversion -- and the tools that can help you gather the data, to allow you to analyze your strategy, strengthen what works and change what doesn’t. Presenter
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Chris Tuttle, Idealware
Online Fundraising, Social Media, and Communications
Krieger 308
Nuts & Bolts of Finance in Organizing, Part I How does certain political work affect our funding prospects? This workshop will lay out some basics on how to handle monies and resources in an organization or collective. We will go over the different options you have such as getting a fiscal agent, basic bookkeeping, what are your resources, and the culture of how we spend and talk about monies. We will wrap up with a dialogue of what are the financial risks of doing, or being in solidarity with, certain types of political work. PresenterS
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Shira Hassan & Karla Mejia
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 304
Organizar por Medio de la Recaudación de Fondos (en Español) Culturalmente, siempre hemos tenido un poco de miedo al salir a recaudar fondos, sin saber que en muchos casos ya hemos sobrepasado/conquistado la mitad de la batalla. Aquí hablaremos de las barreras que nos evitan organizar con éxito, y recaudar con éxito. Cómo sobrepasar las barreras de recaudación de fondos. Presentadoras
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Laura Isiordia y Lorena Manzo
Destrezas y Estrategias de Recaudación de Fondos
Shaffer 202
Shared Leadership Models: Sharing Power, Decision-Making, and Building Sustainability for the Long-Haul Many groups are finding it more and more challenging to not only fund the work but also sustain themselves in doing this work for the long-haul. Please join us for a discussion about shared leadership and organizational structures. We’ll share what we’ve learned, why we function as we do, questions we’re grappling with, and ideas we have for sustaining ourselves and the work. Please bring your questions, ideas, and experiences to share as well! PresenterS
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Ife Kilimanjaro, Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Jack Aponte, Sarah Reilly, Joyce Wagner
History, Politics, and New Models
Maryland 109
Moving Towards an Integrated Grassroots Fundraising Culture: Data, Tools & Practices, Part II This workshop will help groups explore what it takes to integrate their grassroots fundraising with on-going organizing and communications activities with a multichannel approach. We will emphasize how successful fundraising campaigns are fundamentally dependent on four core components: a well designed fundraising plan, good information (data), powerful communications skills, and the technical infrastructure and skills to make it all work. This session is applicable to all skill levels and organizational roles. PresenterS
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Tomás Aguilar & Alice Aguilar
Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
Latrobe 120
We Tweet, We Like & We Raise Money: How Youth & Young Adults Fundraise & (re)Imagine Our Resources Youth and young adults people play a necessary role in resourcing movements and causes, calling people to action, and sparking dialogue. We are resourceful, resilient and thoughtful generations connecting online and off. In this participatory training, participants will build confidence to ask peers for money, understand why it is important to ask now, learn strategies to make fundraising fun, and smash stereotypes about who gives and who receives money in the U.S. Presenter
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Laurene Francois
Youth & Young Adult
Shaffer 300
Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
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SATURDAY afternoon Workshop block Iii
4:15pm–6:15pm
Savvy and Sustainable Fundraising Strategies for Movement Organizations There is nothing like rebuilding a 40 year old organization from the ground up to teach you a thing or two about understanding the financial, fiscal and fundraising health of your movement organization! At the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, we are committed to sharing what we have learned during our rebuilding process with other movement organizations. Regardless of whether your movement organization is rebuilding or not, we know that the work of creating sustainable strategies and systems is key to supporting all of our movement building work for the long haul. Come join us for this interactive, skill building and strategy session! Presenters
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Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz & Arika Kern
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 100
White People & Fundraising as Racial Justice This session is designed for white people. How do we as white people understand and experience money, asking and giving in a culture and economy of white privilege and supremacy? Let’s deepen our collective commitment to fundraising and organizing for social justice organizations as a form of transformative racial justice work. How can we strengthen the anti-racist agenda we bring to our work, whether in settings of mostly white people or mostly people of color? What are the opportunities in fundraising to organize our other white people toward supporting racial justice struggles? Bring your insights, stories, and commitment to collective liberation!
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Braeden Lentz
History, Politics, New Models
Shaffer 302
Collective Dollars, Collective Sense: Giving Circles & Models of Cross-Class Philanthropy What can we do to strengthen cross-class solidarity in our movement via funding practices? How do we leverage our collective resources to take work to scale? How do we push institutional philanthropy to practice the tenant of centering the leadership and voices of communities most affected by injustices, and at the same time create our own sustainable sources of income for movements? Through story-telling of success and failure, we hope to discuss and answer some of these questions as we share several innovative models of funding that go beyond the traditional practice and power dynamic of funder vs. fundraiser. Presenters
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Jessie Spector, Sha Grogan-Brown, Ellen Barry, Becca Wisotsky
Giving & Philanthropy
Shaffer 2
Grassroots Fundraising & Movement Building: Lessons from Our Practice We know foundation funding isn’t the answer. We know our organizations need deeper roots in our communities and networks to achieve our goals. And many of us are experimenting with grassroots fundraising as a powerful component of our organizing. This interactive discussion will draw upon the experience in the room to draw lessons from our practice. We will explore how we are or could approach fundraising from a movement building perspective to help achieve our political goals and raise the resources we need. Presenters
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Dylan Cooke, Alia Trindle & Eboni Taggart
History, Politics & New Models
Maryland 109
Take Back Agen(c)y: Performing Fundraising Dreams and Disasters Is your social justice longing buried somewhere under that overdue grant report? You dream bigger than this. But what does life look like after the nonprofit industrial complex? Come see (and be!) fundraisers exploring nightmares and dreams of life beyond the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC). Get time to dream, write and (if you’d like) perform your own nonprofit industrial complex dreams and nightmares and your amazing visions of movements that resource and sustain everyone. PresenterS
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Manish Vaidya & Jezebel Delilah X
History, Politics & New Models
Latrobe 120
Fundraising practices in immigrant communities (en Español) The lives and experiences of immigrant communities are constantly rendered invisible in the mainstream consciousness of US society. The language barrier, fear due to status, and cultural differences are some of the obstacles that are recreated in the funding world as immigrant-led organizations find no access to mainstream foundations. In this vacuum, they have developed fundraising practices that maintain cultural unity while harnessing the power of the most marginalized communities in the US. Presenter
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Viviana Rennella
History, Politics & New Models
Shaffer 202
Designing Your Crowdfunding Campaign Crowdfunding is not a magic bullet, but it is an important new online fundraising tool that, when planned well and integrated into your development strategy, can result in a 30% donor acquisition, deeper engagement from your base and press and attention from outside your community. Learn the best practices in crowdfunding from the founders of ioby, using real case studies that have raised $78 - $78,000 for important community-based, social justice projects. You’ll walk away with a draft campaign timeline and plan, strategies for engagement and communications and a toolkit to take back to your team.
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Erin Barnes & Brandon Whitney
Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
Shaffer 101
Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
Creating an Annual Fundraising Plan Is your organization raising money without a plan? Do you wish your fundraising goals and timelines were more realistic? Have a basic fundraising plan but suspect there are ways to take it to the next level? Curious how donor pyramids, gift range charts, and budgets can improve your fundraising plan? Come to this hands-on workshop where we will cover how to create an informed, manageable, and useful individual donor fundraising plan, step-by-step. Presenter
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Priscilla Hung
Fundraising Systems
Ames 234
Four Cornerstones of Major Gifts Fundraising Do you have donors who you suspect could give more than they are giving? Do you have board members or other supporters who could introduce you to potential major supporters? This workshop will prepare you to confidently solicit large gifts in a way that is compatible with your mission and values. Presenter
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Paul Jolly
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Krieger 304
Writing Proposals, Understanding Program Officers & Getting Grants: Everything You Wanted to Ask & Were Afraid to Ask Join Marjorie Fine, former grantmaker and current fundraising trainer and coach, and your colleagues for some learning, sharing, discussion, and cheerleading on finding the enjoyment in fundraising from foundations. We will explore writing winning proposals, understanding program officers, conducting funder meetings, building relationships, and sharing stories-good, bad and ugly. Come with your questions, come ready to laugh, come ready to share and let your hair down but most of all…come! Presenter
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Marjorie Fine
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 303
Nuts & Bolts of Finance in Organizing, Part II How does certain political work affect our funding prospects? This workshop will lay out some basics on how to handle monies and resources in an organization or collective. We will go over the different options you have such as getting a fiscal agent, basic bookkeeping, what are your resources, and the culture of how we spend and talk about monies. We will wrap up with a dialogue of what are the financial risks of doing, or being in solidarity with, certain types of political work. PresenterS
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Shira Hassan & Karla Mejia
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
Shaffer 304
Crafting Stories that Shape Movements (& Raise Money) As storytellers we provide the motivation needed to propel our organizations toward the fulfillment of our missions. Stories that engage people’s “heads, hearts & hands” ignite the power needed to advance our movements. Data (head) provides information, emotions (heart) drive motivation and actions (hands) create change. Come learn how to be active change agents through your personal and community story. Presenter
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Yee Won Chong
Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
Krieger 308
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Caucus
Maryland 201
facilitator
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Laurene Francois
Caucus
Shaffer 300
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Visual Communication: Create Pictures, Videos & Presentations Quickly, Easily & Affordably Why limit your message to 140 characters when a picture is worth a thousand words? Tap into the power of visual communication with a panel of tech-savvy communicators and designers. Learn about their favorite online visual tools and ways to use them effectively. These tools will help you to easily spiff up your presentation slides, design images for social networking and capture compelling videos. Presenters
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Online Fundraising, Social Media & Communications
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Breaking the Isolation Bubble: How to Talk Back to Foundations Rarely do nonprofit leaders get the chance to give foundations unvarnished feedback. In this session, we will share early findings and trends from Philamplify, a new initiative which combines comprehensive assessments of major foundations with an interactive website where anyone can comment on our findings and join the debate. Workshop participants will explore how their organizations can join the movement to transform philanthropy and talk back to foundation leaders. Presenters
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Jeanné Isler & Lisa Ranghelli
Giving & Philanthropy
Shaffer 304
People-Powered Organizations: Building Successful Monthly Sustainer Programs Two founders of Media Mobilizing Project’s sustainer program will tell the story of building MMP’s successful monthly sustainer program over three years. The program was launched with the understanding that our work depends on a consistent, broad base of donors who care deeply about our mission. Our grassroots fundraising model taps into our greatest resource: our people’s commitment to a more just world. This session will share nuts and bolts of creating the program and the vision and strategy that it was founded on. Presenters
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Kristin Campbell & Allison Budschalow
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
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Allied Media Projects: Shared Services & Network Building Allied Media Projects has developed a “Sponsored Projects” model that offers fiscal management, project planning, fundraising support, communications strategy, and other shared services to media projects working for a just, creative, and collaborative world. These “allied media projects” are autonomous and interdependent, working to grow their own capacity and the capacity of our network as a whole. We will share AMP’s “Sponsored Projects” model and welcome dialogue with others who are interested in this model. Presenters
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Jenny Lee & Mike Medow
History, Politics & New Models
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Implementing Donor Management Software In the last few years, the options for low-cost donor management software have grown. Choosing software and knowing how to best adapt it to the needs of grassroots fundraising can be a daunting process. In this workshop, we will discuss tools for managing and organizing your data. We’ll also discuss the unique challenges of implementation within the social justice community, such as limited funds and police harassment. PresenterS
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Membership is Powerful: Building Power & Sustainability Through Dues-Paying Membership Do you have a mobilized base of activists that are committed to your organization? If you are looking to increase financial sustainability and build power for your movement, developing a dues-paying membership model could be an important part of your diversified fundraising strategy. This training will help you to develop a vision for membership, assess your organization’s capacity for membership growth, integrate membership into your existing organizational work and culture, and develop a long-term plan to build a dues-paying membership base. Presenter
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Beth Rayfield
Fundraising Skills & Strategies
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Almost There: 10 Strategies for Year-End Fundraising Now is time to start planning for the most successful, least stressful December you’ve ever had! Year-end fundraising campaigns are the biggest opportunity of the year to bring in money, build donor relationships, and explain what your organization’s work is all about. Come with your questions (and expertise) to make sure you really have something to celebrate on New Year’s eve!
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Train Your Board (& Everyone Else) to Raise Money Fundraising is a teachable skill—and we need more teachers! If you want to better engage your colleagues—board, staff, and volunteers—in fundraising, join us for an interactive train-the-trainer session. We will try out a variety of exercises designed to reduce fear, build confidence, and teach the nuts and bolts of meeting with donors and asking for gifts. The workshop is based on a new book, Train Your Board (And Everyone Else) to Raise Money. Presenter
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Individual Donor Benchmarks Report Join us for a discussion of the 2013 Individual Donor Benchmark Report, which looks at individual donor fundraising results for small and mighty nonprofit organizations—those with budgets under $2 million. facilitator
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Heather Yandow
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Funder Caucus & Networking Space, Part II facilitator
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Lorraine Ramirez
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GrantSpace Demonstration Discover the many valuable resources available to you for free at grantspace.org! Facilitator
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SunDAY afternoon Workshop block v
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Leading Stellar Trainings for Volunteer Fundraisers This participatory workshop teaches leaders how to transform an ordinary group of volunteers into superstar fundraisers! You’ll learn how to plan a fun training that will result in more money for your organization, and a deeper commitment from volunteers and community members. We’ll focus on how to transmit fundraising information in a meaningful way, address fears about asking for money, and how to motivate your volunteers to be accountable in reaching their goals. Presenter
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Boards & Teams
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Party On! Throwing Awesome House Party Fundraisers House parties are a useful technique for engaging volunteers, building your list of supporters, and raising money fast. Learn how to be the life of the party with tested tips and tricks to boost fundraising and add donors to your organization. Funky party hat optional.
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Fundraising Skills & Strategies
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Courageous Conversations for Fundraisers We do not talk enough about, much less work to improve our skills with the interpersonal dimensions of being a fundraiser. We will begin by naming several interpersonal scenarios that often challenge fundraisers, for example, “Telling your executive director that the fundraising plan is unrealistic.” Specific communications tools will be presented and participants will be invited to share their own tools. And finally, participants will have the opportunity to practice new tools and receive feedback. Presenter
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Wellness & Sustainability
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Moving Maryland Forward Network facilitator
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Maryland 109
Making Stronger & Smarter “Asks”: How to Write to be More Influential Essentially, one half of fundraising is about building relationships and the other half is about asking. This session focuses on the latter—that being successful involves asking more, asking better, and asking smarter. The session will help participants understand how to make a better and smarter “ask” in ways that influence others. While the primary perspective is on writing grant proposals, the concepts and tools are also applicable to writing appeal letters and other paper “asks. Presenter
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Rural Fundraisers Caucus facilitator
Come on up to the Clipper Room in Shriver Hall to check out fundraising tools and resources offered by our exhibitors! Coffee, tea and treats available for sale from Red Emma’s and Carma’s Café Donate to GIFT to receive tickets for our iPad drawing and/or a silk screened T-shirt by movement artists Favianna Rodriguez, Janine Macbeth, Monica Hernandez, Nadia Khastagir and Sha Grogan-Brown Start or renew your Grassroots Fundraising Journal subscription for just $20 (and receive a complimentary iPad drawing ticket)! 20
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Dolla Dolla Bill Y’all: Building Power as Youth Fundraisers Calling all youth leaders! Does fundraising baffle you? Seem too scary? Ever faced ageism as a young fundraiser? Do you want more young folks in leadership around fundraising for your organization? If you answered yes, then perhaps this workshop will help. Join FIERCE for an interactive 101 workshop on developing a youth-led grassroots fundraising program! This workshop is for youth (ages 24 and under) who are fundraising newbies and/or need tools and best practices for developing a fabulous grassroots fundraising program structure that’s led by and accessible to young folks! Adult allies (over age 24) are welcome but will be asked to step back and prioritize youth voices. PresenterS
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How We Made Friends Before Facebook How much of your time is spent talking to or meeting with prospective donors? As fundraisers, we know that the most important part of our job is to develop relationships, yet many of us spend our days writing emails and updating our organization’s Facebook status. This session will focus on how to get back to the basics of developing networks and deepening relationships on behalf of our organizations. Presenter
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Pump Up Your Board for Fundraising: Getting Your Board Engaged & Energized What can you do to engage your board in building community support for your mission? How can you take the fear out of fundraising? Let’s explore root causes for the lack of board engagement. Learn specific ways to turn around the situation at your organization. Find out what you can do to help board members get involved with fundraising and enjoy it too! This interactive workshop will emphasize practical methods for small shops. Presenter
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Presenter Bios Adrienne Maree Brown was the executive director of The Ruckus Society from 2006-2010, and sat on their board through 2012. She was also a National Co-Coordinator for the 2010 US Social Forum. She facilitates the development of organizations throughout the movement (most recently Chorus Foundation, Correctional Association of NY, Young Women United, Positive Women’s Network, Black Mesa Water Coalition, INCITE!, the Young Women’s Empowerment Project in Chicago, New Orleans Parents Organizing Network, ColorofChange.org and Detroit Summer).
Avi Cummings is the Director of Grassroots Fundraising at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. SRLP is a collective organization that provides free legal services, organizes for policy change, and builds community with low-income transgender people and transgender people of color in New York City.
Alia Trindle is a Philly-based organizer with Put People First! PA.
Beth Raps created RAISING CLARITY as safe space for a certain brand of practical wisdom in activism, fundraising, nonprofit/ solopreneurial development, and subtler forms of worldchanging, out of 30 years fundraising and organizing, a few years moneycoaching, interspiritual wisdom practices, and a life saved by all of the above.
Alicia Sanchez Gill works to dismantle violent systems that harm folks of color, focusing her work on gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. She believes in the beauty of building connections, art as healing and story-telling, transformation, justice and snacks. She loves supporting grassroots work in DC through the Diverse City Fund.
Beth Rayfield is the director of development at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) where she leads CHIRLA’s dues-paying membership program. Beth has 10 years’ experience fundraising for grassroots social justice organizations. She is a former union organizer, and was president of an 11,000 member statewide union.
Alice Aguilar, PTP’s executive director, has worn many hats while working with and within community organizing groups for over 20 years. Alice is deeply committed to helping groups integrate their organizing, fundraising, communications work and leveraging appropriate uses of technology to maximize their efforts to WIN.
Braeden Lentz manages individual and institutional fundraising for the Street Vendor, Sex Worker, and Peter Cicchino Youth Projects at the Urban Justice Center. He worked in grantmaking at the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock and serves on the boards of Resource Generation, New Yorkers for Social Justice PAC, and the Brooklyn Movement Center.
Allison Budschalow is a mama of color in constant pursuit of a just world that thrives of, by, and for the whole community, Allison is constantly looking for ways that organizers, activists, and change agents--especially those from low-income and communities of color--can make it on the long road to justice.
Brandon Whitney is co-founder and chief operating officer of ioby. Brandon has worked for the Center for Humans and Nature, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation and the Urban Resources Initiative. He holds undergraduate degrees from NC State University.
Andy Robinson (www.andyrobinsononline.com) provides training and consulting in fundraising, board development, marketing, earned income, planning, leadership development, and facilitation. Over the past sixteen years, he’s worked with organizations in 47 US states and Canada. Andy is the author of six books, including Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money, www.trainyourboard.com. Arika Kern is Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice’s development manager. She is a recent graduate of George Mason University with a degree in Government and International Politics and minor in Women and Gender Studies. She has also studied abroad at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy where she conducted independent research related to the intersection of Italian feminist movements and legislative initiatives while participating in a media, culture and cinema program. Ari Wohlfeiler is the development director at Jewish Voice for Peace. Previously, he worked at Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex. He is also on the fundraising teams for Californians United for a Responsible Budget and the Catalyst Project.
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Brigette Rouson has over 25 years’ experience building nonprofit capacity toward a just society. She raised $500,000 for Alliance for Nonprofit Management, trains on cultural competency in fundraising, co-founded Diverse City Fund led sessions at grantmaker conferences, and raised $2.4 million of a $4 million Ms. Foundation for Women collaborative fund. Brigette has her own practice and is a RoadMap consultant, and graduate of Howard (B.A.), Georgetown (J.D.), and Penn (M.A.). Cara Page is a Black queer feminist cultural worker & organizer. She comes from a long ancestral legacy of organizers and cultural workers from the Southeast to the Northeast. For the past 20 plus years she has worked within the queer and trans liberation movement, reproductive justice movement, the racial and economic justice movements, and the National People’s Movement Assembly. Chris Tuttle provides online engagement strategies for nonprofit charity organizations. Combining his experience as a community organizer with a background in technology and website development, Tuttle provides a unique expertise combining constituent relationship building, marketing and online technologies. With over 15 years experience Tuttle has worked 23
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certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University and is a trained facilitator.
Christa Orth is a consultant with Wingo, Inc. in New York City. She’s specializes in working with arts, media and LGBTQ organizations. Follow her on Twitter @christamaeorth.
Ife Kilimanjaro, Ph.D. serves as co-director of EMEAC. She has worked to strengthen organizations, institutions and efforts by and for black and brown people for the past 20 years. Ife has supported grassroots work and movement building in the areas of social and environmental justice through her work with the USSF, GGJ, CJA and other national and local formations.
Christina Yoon, PhD, has more than ten years experience in nonprofit management and specializes in fund development, board development and strategic planning. She is passionate about developing and expanding the capacity of her clients, particularly small shops in communities of color, and helping them achieve their missions. Dylan Cooke works at Communities United Against Violence (CUAV), an LGBTQ anti-violence organization, building power with queer and trans communities of color to transform the root causes of violence; and is also staff at Catalyst Project, a center committed to anti-racist work with mostly white sections of social movements to deepen anti-racist commitment in white communities and build multiracial movements for liberation. Ellen Barry is the executive director of Insight Prison Project and an activist member of the Criminal Justice Initiative Funding Circle; Aleah Bacque Vaughn is the Project Coordinator of CJI; Charlene Allen is the Consulting Supervisor of CJI; there will also be a donor member of the CJI Funding Circle on the panel, to be announced. Erin Barnes is co-founder and executive director of ioby. She has undergraduate degrees from the University of Virginia. Erin serves on the board of EcoDistricts, Resource Media, the Steering Committee for EPIP-NYC, and as an advisor to Philanthrogeek, the Social Innovators Collective, Shared Squared and Charity Sub. Fred Ginyard was a former youth organizer at Youth United for Change in Philadelphia and joined FIERCE as the National Program Coordinator in 2013. FIERCE is a member-led organization dedicated to building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color. Fred coordinates FIERCE’s national program for LGBTQ youth of color committed to social justice and movement building. Gregory Cohen is a senior associate at Cause Effective. He provides coaching and training to the board and staff of hundreds of clients, primarily in the areas of fundraising planning, individual donor development and governance. Over his 30-year career in nonprofits, he has led 6 nonprofit start-ups. Greg loves dogs and hails from Brooklyn, NY. Heather Yandow brings more than a decade of experience as a fundraiser, facilitator, outreach coordinator, and project manager. Her most recent position was as the director of development and communications with the NC Conservation Network. She holds a 24
Jack Aponte is a gender/queer Boricua living in Oakland, CA. Jack has been involved in activism and organizing for many years, working primarily with LGBTQ and people of color organizations and communities. Jack’s roles at Palante include site builder, project manager, and trainer on a wide range of topics from social media to privacy and security. Jackie Kaplan-Perkins has worked with organizations committed to social justice for the past 25 years. In 1999, she began LeaderShift Consulting to build the knowledge and network of non-profits and their leaders by fostering the power and practice of relationship building. Based in Chicago, Jackie works with clients throughout the country. Jeanné Isler is NCRP’s field director, and has over 10 years experience addressing systems change in the non-profit and public sectors. She ensures NCRP maintains deep partnerships throughout the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors and leads signature initiatives such as the NCRP Impact Awards and Philanthropy’s Promise. Jeff Pinzino is the senior director of development and external relations for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. He is an organizer, fundraiser, funder, and social entrepreneur who has worked with National People’s Action, Woods Fund of Chicago, and Fresh Moves Mobile Produce Market. Jennifer Freedman is the senior director for development & finance at CASA de Maryland, the largest Latino and immigrant o organization in the DC region. In her 11 years at CASA, she has helped grow the organization from $2.6M to a $9.4M budget, securing support from government, foundations, individuals, businesses, and organized labor. Jenny Lee is the executive director of Allied Media Projects. In 2009 she led the process of founding the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition and securing $1.8 million in federal funding for Detroit through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This led to the creation of the Detroit Future programs, which have trained several thousand Detroiters to use media and technology for creative community transformation efforts in schools and neighborhoods across the city.
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Jessie Spector is the executive director of Resource Generation, a national non-profit by and for young people with wealth and class privilege who are becoming transformative leaders working towards a world in which land, wealth, and power are equitably distributed. Jessie is passionate about organizing “her people” for justice. When she can un-glue from the computer, Jessie loves nothing more than a good dance party.
Kristin Campbell is field director of Media Mobilizing Project. She builds a movement media distribution network that is rooted in and resourced by the working people who are part of it. She’s created the systems that have paved the way for 300 people to sign on as monthly sustainers of MMP.
Jezebel Delilah X is a queer, fat, Black femme performance artist, writer, filmmaker, educator, and Faerie Queen Mermaid Gangsta for the revolution. She’s Director of Training at social justice arts organization Peacock Rebellion, senior editor for Black Girl Dangerous, co-founder of Deviant Type Press, and a member of storytelling troupe Griot Noir.
Laura Isiordia was born and raised in Mexico. Laura immigrated to Oregon in 1985. During her early years in Oregon, Laura worked as farm worker. In 1994, she was recruited to work as a Lay Health Promoter where she obtained various health certifications and led outreach efforts in farmworker communities. In 1999 Laura began working with FHDC as the Social Service Coordinator. She then became FHDC’s Community Leadership Director for the properties in three cities.
Johnny Buck is a co-founder of Native Youth Leadership Alliance and is from the Wanapum Tribe and Yakama Nation. He is deeply rooted in his culture and actively organizes on issues related to Treaty Rights. Johnny lives on his homelands on the Columbia River in central Washington and is a student at Northwest Indian College.
Laurene Francois is the training director at GIFT. She develops curriculum for social justice organizations rooted in a popular education model and a fundraiser-organizer lens. Francois is committed to supporting grassroots leaders and groups build community resources and power. She is also a proud board member of San Francisco Women Against Rape.
Joleen Ong is the marketing and publications director at NTEN, where she works to help its community of over 50,000 nonprofit professionals meet their mission through technology. At NTEN, she edits the NTEN: Change Journal, and previously edited two award-winning short documentaries. Joleen earned her M.S. in Nonprofit Management from the New School.
Lisa Ranghelli is NCRP’s director of foundation assessment, and has over 20 years of experience promoting advocacy in the non-profit and public sectors. Her work at NCRP has focused on increasing resources for strategies that include policy solutions, and developing a methodology for measuring the impacts of systemic change interventions.
Jon Goldberg works for Palante Tech as a database implementer. A former community organizer living in Brooklyn, NY, Jon founded Palante Technology with Jack to offer affordable technology services to grassroots community groups.
Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz is the vice president of programs and development for RCRC. She is the founder of intersections/ intersecciones consulting and has worked in several movements for social justice with a particular emphasis on building grassroots political power across movements, issues, identities and communities. As a capacity builder, movement builder, cultural worker and writer she has dedicated much of her organizing life to challenging oppression at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability.
Karen Toering is a project manager at Social Justice Fund NW. With a background as a grassroots organizer, cultural worker and consultant for non-profit arts and social justice organizations, her work includes base-building and collaboration on media justice and media policy initiatives. She lives in Seattle, WA. Karla Mejia is a qpoc activist from LA. Being a bookkeeper in her family business in the profit world along with being the finance person for different non-profit orgs/collectives over the past decade has helped her build a foundation on getting to know the ins & outs of handling monies. An INCITE! member and board member of Gender Justice LA. Kim Hunter—poet, activist and lifelong Detroiter—provides communications support for advocates of voter rights, reform of the adult and juvenile justice systems, community benefits, and immigration reform. Kim’s decades of experience include leading a three-state team educating residents about the value of participating in the US Census.
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Lorena Manzo came to the U.S. from Mexico, arriving in California at the age of 15, as a farm worker. In 1997, she migrated to Oregon and in 2001 became a member of a progressive women’s group. In 2004, through this affiliation, she joined CAPACES’s efforts, thus igniting an interest in social justice movements and becoming a volunteer with one of its affiliates, CAUSA. She joined CAUSA’s staff in 2006 and has since, worked as an organizer. Manish Vaidya is an activist coach, former co-coordinator of ASATA and the founding Artistic Director of social justice arts organization Peacock Rebellion. A former GIFT fellow and staffer, he served on the core organizing team of Save LyonMartin, which raised $500,000 in 12 weeks to save a community health clinic.
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Presenter Bios continued Marjorie Fine is a coach, trainer and consultant for community organizing organizations and grant makers on social justice philanthropy and fundraising. Marjorie served as executive director for both the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock and the North Star Fund. She believes fundraisers are the unsung heroes of organizing. Mary Grace Wolf is a professional fundraiser, specializing in individual gifts. She has years of experience as a Canvass Director and Donor Associate, working with organizations like the Sierra Club, Human Rights Campaign, Environment America, and Save the Children. She has raised over $1.5 million—exclusively through grassroots fundraising. Miguel Gavaldón is a coach, trainer and consultant. Before launching his independent practice, he served as an executive director and development director for several organizations from 1999 to 2011. Before his management experience, he served as a program staff member for various organizations in the 1990s. Mike Medow is the director of communications and finance for Allied Media Projects (AMP). He led the process of bringing the annual Allied Media Conference to a new permanent home in Detroit, Michigan in 2007, and in the years following growing conference attendance to several thousand artists, technologists, community organizers, and educators from across the U.S. and beyond. Mike Roque is president of Adobe Consulting. Mike was founding director of the Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships as a political appointee of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. He was executive director of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) and executive director of the Chinook Fund, a radical community foundation located in Denver. Naa Hammond is the development director of FIERCE, a member-led organization dedicated to building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color ages 13 – 24 in New York City. FIERCE has been developing a youth-led grassroots fundraising program that engages LGBTQ youth of color including an annual Bowl-athon Extravaganza and Major Donor Campaign. Nadia Khastagir is part of Design Action, a graphic design and web development cooperative which has served the movement for social justice for over 10 years. Each member has brought their activist experiences to Design Action to further their dedication of strategic creative communications for the Left. Design Action is majority woman-identified, people of color, worker-owned cooperative. Nancy Otto is an individual donor fundraising consultant. She has been on nonprofit boards and staff for more than twentyfive years, including over ten years at the ACLU of Northern
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California. She has served on the boards of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, PFLAG National, and Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic. Paul Jolly worked as a fundraiser, mostly in one-person development offices, for 20 years before launching Jump Start Growth Inc. in 2008. He helps small organizations build major gifts programs without losing their soul or sense of humor. His clients are in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the SF Bay Area. Priscilla Hung is a program director at Community Partners. She provides capacity-building, peer learning, and knowledge sharing for strategic initiatives, partnerships with grantmakers, and our fiscally-sponsored projects. Priscilla is a former executive director of GIFT and continues to serve as a senior trainer and on the editorial board of the Journal. Priscilla is on the board of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Randall Quan has nearly 25 years of experience in and around the nonprofit/NGO sector, with roles as a program staff, funder, management consultant, and trainer. Currently, he serves as the managing director of Community Resource Exchange, a nonprofit consulting group that helps nonprofits in New York City nonprofits fight poverty and promote social justice. Rebecca O. Johnson brings her over 30 years of experience as a writer, fundraising organizer and popular educator to help grassroots social and environmental justice organizations build successful grassroots fundraising programs. Rebecca is a core consultant with the RoadMap Consulting team and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Roxanne Anderson is a community activist who’s been working in social service for 20+ years. Roxanne is the Program Director for the Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN), co-founder of Rare Productions (queer artists of color company), and co-owner of Café SouthSide. They also run the shot clinic and needle exchange program for the MN Trans Health Coalition. Ryan Li Dahlstrom has worked at the intersections of LGBTQ, youth, and anti-violence movements for over a decade as a fundraiser, organizer, and facilitator. He’s currently a collective staff member at GIFT. He is also on the board of Community United Against Violence (CUAV) and Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Sadia Kalam works as a program associate at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her background is in project management, program development, grantmaking, marketing and community youth organizing. She serves on the steering committee for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) and is an alumnus of Sadie Nash Leadership Project (SNLP) and South Asian Youth Action (SAYA). She loves food and will eat anything Kosher
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Sarah Reilly is a web developer with Design Action Collective. Working in Wordpress and Joomla content management systems, Sarah specializes in information architecture and site building. She works with an emphasis on collaborative processes to create vibrant websites for social justice organizations. Shaun (Sha) Grogan-Brown, development & communications coordinator for Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ), and proud long-time “plumber for the movement,” ensuring the infrastructure necessary for grassroots organizing. In his free time, Sha creates and sells original screen print artwork through “Sha’s Community Supported T-shirts” (also known as “Art By Sha”). Sha is an anti-racist white queer transman based in Philadelphia. Shira Hassan has lived and worked in Chicago and NYC helping young people start their own nonprofits and lead social justice work. Formerly with Young Women’s Empowerment Project, Shira now offers program development & design, grassroots fundraising, participatory evaluation/action research & creating sustainable, healing centered and trauma-informed environments for staff through intensive partnering with organizational leaders. Sophia Kizilbash is a co-founder and co-director of the Native Youth Leadership Alliance (NYLA). NYLA invests in young Native American leaders to create culturally based community change. She is also a certified life and leadership coach and passionate about the power of coaching for personal and community transformation. She is a proud board member of GIFT. Stan Yogi has more than 25 years experience with non-profit organizations in fundraising and grantmaking. For nearly 14 years, he was Director of Planned Giving at the ACLU of Northern California, where he was also responsible for securing foundation grants and raising major annual gifts.
Theo Yang Copley is an associate trainer for Class Action and a blogger, facilitator and fundraising consultant. She does trainings on income inequality, the racial wealth divide and philanthropy in communities of color. Tomás Aguilar, PTP’s PowerBase trainer, is an educator, organizer, communicator, and self-taught technologist and is driven by a passion for social change. Tomás has worked at the intersection of technology and organizing for workers’ and immigrants’ rights and safety, as well as racial and environmental justice. Tova Perlmutter has 25 years experience in fundraising and communications. From 2006 to 2012, she ran Sugar Law Center, a Detroit-based nonprofit advocating workers’ rights and racial justice. Current clients of her consulting firm Engine of Progress include Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, Restaurant Opportunities Center, and National Lawyers Guild. Yecelica Jaime Valdivia is a mixed race, genderqueer, fat brown boi based in Seattle, WA. They’ve been doing work at the intersections of personal and social transformation and is one of the Co-Directors of Seattle Young People’s Project (SYPP), a youth-led social justice organization that builds youth power through community organizing. Yee Won Chong is a trainer and strategist for social justice causes. He has led development and communication work at Western States Center, United for a Fair Economy and Haymarket People’s Fund. His TEDx talk, Beyond the Gender Binary, which highlighted gender, race and immigration issues, was viewed by 25,000 people.
Stephanie Roth is a consultant and trainer with a focus on fundraising, board development and meeting facilitation. Stephanie has written widely on the topic of fundraising and organizational development, and is the co-author of The Accidental Fundraiser: A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Money for Your Cause. She was a co-founder of GIFT, and editor of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal for 11 years. Tanya Mote has been grassroots fundraising since 1999 in her role as development director, and now, associate director at Su Teatro, a multidisciplinary Latino arts organization. She teaches classes in cultural participation and other arts related topics and works on issues of cultural engagement and equity in Denver, CO.
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exhibitors Once this conference ends, Association of Fundraising Professionals - Maryland (AFP-MD) is your source for ongoing professional development. More than 400 members and other development professionals meet frequently to participate in a range of chapter offerings and take advantage of AFPInternational’s resources. Regular programs and events provide fundraisers at all levels of experience with a wide range of education, training and networking opportunities. Roundtables – including one for Small Shop fundraisers -- help connect peers around topics of interest and relevance. Mentoring brings experienced professionals together with those new to fundraising or who want to grow in their careers. AFP-MD also offers a local Job Bank for job seekers, support for candidates who intend to earn their CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive) credential, an annual Fundraising Day conference and National Philanthropy Day celebration. Learn more at www.afpmaryland. org or by calling (443)640-1047. Ask about scholarships and affordable pricing options for young fundraising professionals or small organizations. Not from Maryland? AFP is an international association with 30,000 members from 235 chapters around the globe. CiviCRM is web-based, open-source constituent relationship management (CRM) software for nonprofit organizations. CiviCRM understands that building a movement is about more than collecting and tracking donor and event data: it’s about sustaining relationships and mobilizing supporters over time. CiviCRM is designed to meet organizations’ highest expectations right out-of-the-box: easy-to-build online donation pages and event registration forms; quick entry and search of contact and interaction data; simple integration with Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress websites; and a wide range of reports. Integrated mass e-mail, petitions and walklists, peer-to-peer fundraising, and membership tracking help you engage supporters in a smart, responsive way. Unlike proprietary software, each new release of this open-source software reflects the real needs of its users as enhancements are continually given back to the community. With CiviCRM, there is no vendor lock-in: change your payment processor, bulk email, or SMS providers without disrupting your site, and choose from a wide range of hosts and implementors. Volunteers from four CiviCRM partners are at the booth: WebAccess, Progressive Technology Project, Palante Technology Cooperative, and AGH Strategies. Learn more at http://civicrm. org or by emailing info@civicrm.org DesignAction is a mission-driven organization serving movements for social change with high quality yet affordable graphic design, visual communications, and web development services. Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
We work to amplify organizations’ messages through strategic visual communications, which inspire people to take action. We do this under the leadership and vision of our “clients” — activists and organizers leading the fight for a better world. We are a worker-owned cooperative based in Oakland, CA and are proud members of Communication Workers of America Local 39521, AFL-CIO, Grassroots Global Justice, the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives and the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Nadia Khastagir | 510-452-1912 | nadia@ designaction.org designaction.org Foundation Center Established in 1956, the Foundation Center is the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Through data, analysis, and training, it connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to succeed. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grantmakers and their grants — a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It also operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance knowledge of philanthropy at every level. Thousands of people visit the Center’s web site each day and are served in its five regional library/learning centers and its network of more than 470 Funding Information Network sites located in public libraries, community foundations, and educational institutions nationwide and around the world. For more information, please visit foundationcenter.org or call (212) 620-4230. Visit our new website, and grantseeker portal, Grantspace.org for a list of trainings, events, and information and resources that will help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to find funding, manage your nonprofit, and improve your community. Contact: (415) 3970902 The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) promotes philanthropy that serves the public good, is responsive to people and communities with the least wealkth and opportunity, and is held accountable to the highest standards of integrity and openness. NCRP is the only watchdog organization in philanthropy, representing the voices and needs of nonprofits to grantmaking institutions. We have important and helpful intiatives, including Philanthorpy’s Promise and PhilAMPLIFY. 1331 H Street NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20005 202387-9177x26 | Jeanné Isler | jisler@ncrp.org |ncrp.org philanthropyspromise.org | philamplify.org Pyramid Atlantic is a 501(c)(3) non-profit contemporary arts center based in Silver Spring, MD that was founded in 1981 by noted artist and teacher Helen C. Frederick to provide a setting for artistic collaboration and dialogue. Since then, Pyramid has played a critical role in the art world by: -hosting hundreds of artists in residence -developing outreach programs for students and the community -offering classes for artists of all levels 29
exhibitors Continued -producing and publishing numerous print and artist book editions -conserving and collecting works on paper -curating exhibitions both locally and throughout the world -providing professional development programs for teachers We believe that prints, handmade paper, and artist books are a source of inspiration; that experimentation leads to discovery; that collaboration leads to accessibility; that creativity is the cornerstone of the learning process. The Standards for Excellence Institute is a national initiative to promote the highest standards of ethics, effectiveness, and accountability in nonprofit governance, management, and operations and to help all nonprofit organizations meet these high benchmarks. Get Recognized: Nonprofit organizations can apply for and receive the “Seal of Excellence,” which is a trusted, third-party accreditation that their organization meets the Standards. The Standards for Excellence Institute provides training, model policies and procedures, and benchmarks for your board and staff to apply best practices. Raise More Money: Research has shown that organizations that receive the Seal of Excellence raise more money and grow their overall budgets in the year following accreditation compared to a control group of similarly situated organizations that did not get accredited. Replicate the Program: Organizations with chapters or organizations that have nonprofits as members can become Replication Partners with the Standards for Excellence Institute and utilize these resources to assist their chapters and members in strengthening their capacity. Contact Us! For more information, visit standardsforexcellenceinstitute.org or contact Amy Coates Madsen, acmadsen@standardsforexcellenceinstitute.org, (443)438-2314.
order pharmacies. We know that health care support reaches beyond provider visits, and WellCard Health provides additional valuable services for members, such as 24-hour telephone access to physicians, patient advocacy and assistance, and savings on specialty products and services for chronic diseases such as diabetes. WellCard provides affordable access to vital medications and health care services for the uninsured, underinsured and insured. All Cloud. All in One. All Yours. The NeonCRM by Z2 Systems, Inc. allows your organization to raise money faster and more efficiently. The all-in-one, connected database is chalk full of amazing features that benefit Fundraising and Membership organizations with results driven success. NeonCRM integrates easily with any website platform and enables organizations to have one universal database containing all of your organization’s most important information accessible from any internet connection. Why not leverage the most powerful tools and technology to allow your staff to work smarter and more efficiently? Maximize the value of every donation and membership to your mission by implementing a platform that allows multiple staffers to easily access and enter important information from anywhere: iPad/ tablets, Smartphones, Macs or PCs. Specialties Include: Web Based Database Management, Integrated Custom Website Forms, Donor & Gift Management, Membership Tracking, Social Fundraising, Event Registrations, eCommunications, integrated “Snail Mail” communications, QuickBooks Integration, Online Product & Digital Sales, Integrated Payment Processing/Auto Recurring Payments, and an Open API for Developers. Since 2004, the NeonCRM was created to be the most comprehensive, secure, user-friendly, cloud based CRM database for fundraising and membership organizations. For a 30-day free trial or a 30-minute consultation, please go to www.z2systems.com today!
WellCard Health is a health and wellness discount program that provides members with valuable savings on prescription medications and a wide range of health care services. With WellCard Health, members are eligible to receive discounts of up to 65% off prescription medications, as well as discounts on doctor visits, dental services, vision care, hearing care, lab and imaging services and more. The WellCard Health discount card is free, available to everyone and can be used by the entire family. The card has no limits, no expiration dates, and members can begin using the card immediately. WellCard Health is currently accepted by over 450,000 health care providers and 59,000 retail pharmacies throughout the United States, including major chain, community and mail 30
Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
_____________________________________________________ The Management Assistance Group strengthens visionary social justice organizations, leaders, and networks to create a more just world.
Crowdfunding for Social Change ioby is the only fundraising platform that blends fundamental tenets of grassroots fundraising and crowd funding. On ioby, anyone with a great idea for change in the neighborhood can raise funds, find volunteers and promote the project. We’re a mission-driven nonprofit organization dedicated to making your fundraising goals a success and enriching your donors’ experience throughout your crowd funding campaign.
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Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
We provide comprehensive organizational development services to social justice leaders, organizations, and networks. These include: Managing Transition & Change Developing & Adapt Strategy Restructuring Organizations Developing Leaders & Boards Strengthening Networks & Movements Increasing Philanthropic Impact Visit our website for resources and publications on movement networks, leadership, strategic planning, board development, and more! ____________________________________________ managementassistance.org | networkleadership.org
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Imagine the impact on our communities when foundations get feedback they need to do better. Join the conversation on #Philamplify, or better yet, start your own.
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Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 2014
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