Broaden Your Fundraising Program to Include More Lucrative Money-making Methods.
Let me ask you some tough questions:
Do you spend too much time with special events, to the detriment of other, more lucrative forms of fundraising? Are your events losing participants, but your board doesn’t want to give them up? After you take into account total costs, including labor, are your events generating enough net revenue (“profit”) to make them worth it? Are you discouraged that your hard work is not paying off the way you want? If your nonprofit is “addicted” to special events, I can help. The 12-Step Cure to Event Addiction can help you get out of your rut.
Just be warned. I do not pull punches. We’ll take a good, hard look at the real costs of special events. (Better send the children out of the room.)
I am not advocating doing away with events. I am advocating, though, that you carefully choose the right events for your agency and that you design them to be a springboard to more cost-effective, less stressful, and more productive types of fundraising.
And, true to its title, we’ll follow a carefully designed 12-step path to grow your development program beyond events.
Are you ready to get more — way more — for all that hard work? Sign up today, and let’s get started.
Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE Linda is one of slightly more one hundred professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation. In her thirty-plus years in the development field, she has managed capital campaigns; helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and has trained more than 50,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, Bermuda, and most of the fifty United States. Linda is a graduate of Alvernia College in Reading, PA with majors in Banking and Finance; Communications; and Theology/Philosophy. She is a graduate of AFP’s Faculty Training Academy and has received two AFP research grants. She is also a prolific writer, having written or contributed to more than two dozen books. Linda has received the Outstanding Fundraising Executive award from the Eastern PA, Las Vegas, and Sierra (NV) chapters of AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals) was recognized internationally with the Barbara Marion Award for Outstanding Service to AFP. She was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Las Vegas Chapter of AFP.
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