Nonprofits
Fundraising Training Initiative
Through the fundraising training, nonprofits learn that the primary key to sustaining funding is implementation of a major gifts funding program that focuses on donor interests rather than the organization’s need for dollars. Through several hours of expert consulting, nonprofit staff and board members are educated on how to understand their current donors, package the outcomes of their mission, and meet one-on-one to deliver face-to-face presentations with existing and new donors.
Training Overview
- Assessing the organization's fundraising capabilities
- Tracking and upgrading donors - the critical role of adequate software
- Identifying donors - name identification system
- Converting names to donors - donor identification system
- Understanding the importance of the second gift
- Stressing the critical spike-up gifts
- Building fundraising collaborative partners
- Consultant on-site visits to measure training effectiveness
- Present to various community groups
Ongoing technical support assists participating organizations in achieving optimum results.
Institute Fundraising Trainer
Jim Holdman is President and Senior Consultant of Integrated Financial Development Systems (IFDS), and has over 35 years of experience in development, development consulting, and financial services.
The IFDS System involves a series of sequential development strategies that integrate each program into an overall organizational development plan. Through this approach to fundraising, nonprofit organizations will: develop an efficient fundraising system, transition to a new operating level, raise awareness about their organizations, identify donors, secure sustained funding, learn how to work with major donors, and develop the capacity to handle major gifts.
Since 2005, Mr. Holdman has provided fundraising training and technical assistance to over 40 nonprofit organizations in collaboration with Impact Foundation and Dakota Medical Foundation.
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