Raising Funds, Sustaining Your Center

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Date: Thursday, August 9, 2007
Time: 3:00 — 5:30 p.m.

This intensive training session offers a comprehensive approach to understanding and engaging in the fundraising process. In this session, participants assess their current fundraising capabilities, and learn how to build or enhance their current fundraising efforts. Through hands-on exercises, participants create an assets inventory, an organizational goal statement, and a fundraising plan.

Materials:
Raising Funds Presentation 1
Raising Funds Presentation 2

Moderator/Presenter:
Ron Butler
Principal
The NYMIA Group

Ron Butler has extensive experience in: nonprofit and small business development, planning and implementing real estate development projects, leading large strategic planning processes, developing and managing national community development initiatives, and developing comprehensive resource development campaigns. Additionally, he has experience with managing nonprofit and for–profit organizations, and providing technical assistance and training for community based organizations. As a private consultant, Butler provides training, strategic planning, organizational development, and technical assistance services to public and private organizations. Butler’s areas of expertise include: planning and implementing real estate development projects, conducting community assessments and providing technical assistance to business enterprises and community-based technology centers in urban and rural communities. In addition, the firm provides strategic assistance to colleges and universities that are forming partnerships with their communities. Previously, Butler directed a national initiative in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that supports partnerships between institutions of higher education and public and private organizations to revitalize economically distressed communities. He also managed the startup of a multi-million dollar, 30-member consortium of private sector funders comprised of local and national banks, foundations, and corporations, which provided multi-year operating grants, technical assistance, and training to nonprofit community development organizations. Butler earned a master’s degree in public administration and policy analysis from the University of Illinois, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Delaware.

Presenter:

Anita Plotinsky
Director
The Foundation Center

Anita H. Plotinsky is the director of the Washington, D.C., office of the Foundation Center. A national nonprofit service organization, the Foundation Center is dedicated to strengthening the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy. Prior to joining the Foundation Center, Plotinsky served as executive director of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), an international membership association of scholars and nonprofit organization professionals that fosters the creation, application, and dissemination of research about nonprofit organizations, voluntary action, and philanthropy. Plotinsky has also been assistant director for academic programs at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, and an associate faculty member in the university’s graduate programs in nonprofit management and philanthropic studies. Plotinsky holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, and received her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the City University of New York.