From AI to public funding challenges, we are all navigating an ever-changing world. Let’s explore how your fellow leaders have navigated opportunities and challenges with a focus on resilience and decision-making.
Topic: Raising Capital & Fundraising
Raising Capital & Fundraising Resources
This session will help you identify different types of revenue and capital sources based on your organization’s current needs and opportunities.
This session helps you refine a fundraising plan that works with the resources you already have. Rather than building a wish list of new technology or additional staff positions, we will focus on optimizing the tools, systems, and people currently at your disposal.
This session examines how to make strategic hiring decisions that strengthen your contributed revenue function. Using examples from several social enterprises at different stages of growth, we will review development team structures across a spectrum of revenue levels and organizational maturity.
This session will help you evaluate the effectiveness of your grant applications, major gift proposals, or investment pitches. You will learn the keys to writing effective proposals through real examples.
Designed to empower organizations with the knowledge and tools needed to excel in managing Federal grants, these engaging sessions cover critical topics, including Uniform Guidance essentials, Single Audit preparation, and best practices for compliance.
This session is designed to equip you to evaluate the viability of each strategy as if you were your own consultant: grants, major gifts, corporate sponsorships, events, and annual giving. You will consider each strategy through a matrix that ranks: sustainability, return on investment, return horizon, scalability, and needed infrastructure.
This session builds on the Government Funding & ESEs 101 session by going deeper into the impacts (both positive and negative) government funding can have on an ESE’s business model and impact goals. This session was part of the Fall 2023 Raising Capital & Increasing Revenue CE Week.
If you’re exploring financing options, or considering debt, this session will equip you with the knowledge to make strategic decisions about how to finance cash flow and working capital needs. This session was part of the Fall 2023 Raising Capital & Increasing Revenue CE Week.
In this workshop we’ll evaluate the effectiveness of current proposals and discuss the key features of effective proposals. We will also hear from ESEs who are working to strengthen their proposal writing. This session was part of the Fall 2023 Raising Capital & Increasing Revenue CE Week.