Emerging Topics: Fundraising and Programming
For this week’s call, we offered participants 4 emergent topics, to be explored in small groups for 45 minutes:
Fundraising, Donors, and Revenue
Boards and Governance
Management and Supervision
Programming and Presenters
We asked participants to share their current priorities in these discussion topics, and chose Fundraising and Programming as our topics of the day. Some highlights from our notes are collected below.
Click the video above to watch the last 10 minutes of our large group conversation.
Fundraising, Donors, and Revenue
Relationships: Become sponsored by another entity
Relationships: Become blended with business enterprises
Start with a program, and find the right grant?
Don’t want mission drift for funders
Writing grants for capacity building funding
If you come out of it with data, it’s a successful project
You’re in a relationship role, hearing “no” is a great opportunity
Look at local, regional, and national, what can be used for seed/pilot grants
Narrow your search focus to find things that match interest and needs
How do you continue this funding?
We have the data and story telling to seek other grants
Generating new work, letting go of old
Balancing capacity and priority
What are you telling as your story?
Start with the why - Simon Sinek
Naming tensions: Do we seek grant funding for new ideas, or continue existing programs that already have data?
Naming tensions: What do we hold on to, what do we let go of in terms of physical program designs that were our mainstays pre-COVID?
Programming and Presenters
Program collaboration across retreat centers
Interest in creating a collaboration hub at RCC with programming as a focus
Communities of empowerment
Excitement about a variety of ways for collaboration
Learn from the lessons of being virtual, become stronger
Facilitators:
Maureen Connors, Franciscan Center Tampa
Justine Johnson, RCC and Kirkridge
More notes, visuals, and an audio recording of this session are available at the link below.